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One of baseball's top prospects Kris Bryant is set to make his major league debut as the Chicago Cubs call up the promising young slugger Friday, originally reported by ESPN's Jesse Rogers.
Mike Olt's move to the disabled list after a hairline fracture in his wrist paved the way for Bryant's move, Rogers said.
Most call-ups do not generate the same amount of buzz surrounding the 23-year-old third baseman's promotion. The news has Cubs fans anxious leading up to the team's day game against the San Diego Padres.
The University of San Diego product hit the ground running in 2014, earning Minor League ...
The legend has grown to such gargantuan proportions that maybe the best way to welcome the kid to Wrigley Field as he makes his major league debut this weekend, finally(!) summoned from Triple-A Iowa, is to begin by separating the Man from the Myth….
True Fact No. 1: Kris Bryant has been earning cash for home runs since he was in Little League.
Absolutely true story. The man who is about to rock the Chicago Cubs' world told it to me himself, a few days before the Cubs made him the second overall pick in the 2013 draft.
It started at home near ...
Good luck sleeping tonight, Chicago Cubs fans.
The day the entire North Side of Chicago has been breathlessly waiting for will arrive Friday, as the team will call up prospect Kris Bryant from Triple-A Iowa to join the Cubs at Wrigley Field against the San Diego Padres.
Jesse Rogers of ESPN Chicago broke the news Thursday night and also noted that Bryant will take third baseman Mike Olt’s spot on the roster because Olt is headed to the disabled list. Olt was hit on the wrist by a pitch Saturday and has taken just two at-bats since.
Bryant took to Twitter to announce ...
Get your “Lovable Losers” jokes in now, because the Chicago Cubs have an ace up their sleeve who could make them a contender in the National League Central for the 2015 season and years to come: slugging third baseman Kris Bryant.
Bryant is the next great hope on the North Side of Chicago, and for good reason.
Victor Mather of The New York Times passed along Bryant’s eye-popping numbers from the last couple of seasons:
In two years of minor league play for six teams at every level from rookie league to Class AAA, Bryant amassed 740 plate appearances, maybe 10 percent more ...
They say you only get one chance to make a first impression, but nobody says you can't recover from making a bad first impression.
That's what the Chicago Cubs must be telling themselves about Jon Lester's bad first impression, anyway. And fortunately for them, their $155 million man should allow them to breathe easy before long.
In fairness, the Cubs are in a pretty good place at the moment. Arismendy Alcantara's walk-off single in the 10th inning of Monday night's game against the Cincinnati Reds gave the Cubs a 7-6 victory and ran their record to 4-2. It's early yet, but they're ...
Expectations are extremely high for the Cubs this season and the regular season is finally underway. 2015 got off to a rocky start with the Cubs getting shut out at home to start the year, but there's plenty of season left to be played.
It's dangerous to read too much into a team's first three games, but based on some trends that are already emerging, here are the five biggest things fans can take away from the team's performance over the first few days of the season.
All stats used in this story are taken from Baseball-Reference.Begin Slideshow
The Chicago Cubs are having a rough start to the 2015 season, guys.
Thus far, they've applied the "Put a Bird on It" philosophy in masking unmet deadlines, converted the upper deck concourse into a pee-drizzled slip-and-slide and now, through no fault of their own, they are garnering sideways headlines due to a local news snafu.
Deadspin's Tom Ley spotted a series of egregiously bad Chyron fails that ran during ABC 7 Chicago's introduction to Wednesday night's game between the Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals.
The broadcast featured graphics with multiple spelling and geographic errors that may lead you to wonder if a well-meaning Labrador ...
Although the Chicago Cubs were shut out by the St. Louis Cardinals on Opening Night, the optimism of the Cubs faithful wasn't dampened by the lack of offense by their team.
Though the Cubs played poorly Sunday, fans are certain that the good times are yet to come. The Cubs have a wealth of talented prospects at the major league and Triple-A level who they hope will soon make a significant impact on the club.
While some players such as Kris Bryant are yet to make their major league debuts, others like Javier Baez have struggled in their time in the majors. ...
Jake Arrieta picked up right where he left off, and the Chicago Cubs bested the St. Louis Cardinals 2-0 on Wednesday afternoon in Chicago.
Arrieta (1-0), despite a lackluster offensive performance from his Chicago teammates, allowed three hits in seven innings of work. He was efficient, averaging just less than 15 pitches per inning, and accurate, throwing 65 of his 104 pitches for strikes.
Arrieta walked three batters, struck out seven and was replaced with the game’s final score already in place.
After the Cubs’ Anthony Rizzo was hit by a pitch to start the seventh inning, he advanced to second base ...
Opening Night could easily be labeled a failure for the Chicago Cubs organization, a team with a new manager and sky-high expectations. The Cubs' $155 million investment, Jon Lester, struggled throughout his first National League start, and the team was 0-for-13 with runners in scoring position.
No, those are not good numbers.
But a positive did come out of Sunday's 3-0 home loss to the St. Louis Cardinals: The bullpen looks like it will be a strength in 2015.
Lester was not able to make it out of the fifth inning and left the game with runners on second and third with one ...
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