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It's almost been 20 years now for the suffering Bucs' and their few faithful fans. Last year they teased us, as they rose up with a 51-44 record while holding first place in the NL Central, only to tank in the second half of the season.

Maybe one of the biggest reasons they weren't able to keep up the steam is because they completely flopped at the trade deadline. The only notable player they ended up with was an extremely washed-up Derek Lee, who virtually did absolutely nothing ...

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Low A-Midwest League
(1-1 T-3rd Western)Peoria Chiefs 1 at (1-1 T-3rd Western)Beloit Snappers (MIN) 6
The Chiefs fall to 1-1 off of a 5 run seventh inning. The Chiefs bats were held mostly in check the whole evening managing only 6 hits total. The Chiefs struck out 11 times again, and no Chiefs batter had more than a single hit. The Chiefs only run came in the fifth inning off of a Eduardo Gonzalez double to drive in Wes Darvill. 2B Zeke DeVoss managed to go 1 for 3 with a BB, ...

Low A-Midwest League
(1-0 T-1st Western)Peoria Chiefs 5 at (0-1 T-5th Western)Beloit Snappers (MIN) 2
The Chiefs win their opener by roughing up Beloit's opening day starter Madison Boer. The Chiefs tagged the 22 year old righty for four runs in the third and another tally in the fifth. The bottom of the order accounted for 5 of the Chiefs 7 hits including the only extra base hit, a triple by CF Pin-Chieh Chen. The Chiefs were shut down after the fourth and struggled to make contact ...

Defense

The only thing worse than the Cubs pitching last season was the defense. Now defense isn’t unimportant, but the poor defense only magnified the flaws of this team. The flaws on defense didn’t create the mess that was the 2011 Cubs. However, Dale Sveum has shown an attention to detail, and much has been made about the various creative ways the staff has focused on fundamentals. Every Cubs manager has talked about fundamentals and accountability, but the keystone cops performance ...

Pitching

Pitching was the undoing of the Cubs last year. This is such an odd thing for me to write after having spent the better part of the past 15 years lamenting the lack of offense with the terrific pitching. However, the injuries to Cubs starting pitching derailed whatever slim hope the Cubs had that season. This year Theo and Jed made a focus on depth. The Cubs didn’t add any impact pitching. They didn’t add any impact players anyway, but that was the strategy. Again buy low on ...