Randall Delgado

The Theo and Jed Show is on the clock, the trade deadline is ticking down and a clubhouse full of commodities are waiting to be unloaded. What will the Cubs do with starters Ryan Dempster and Matt Garza, and other veterans, to get the pitching...

The Cubs have been one of the more benevolent organizations in professional sports when it comes to the treatment of departing employees over the last year. They fired former general manager Jim Hendry on July 22, 2011, but let him stay on the job...

The more I read Theo Epstein’s alleged defense of Ryan Dempster’s killing the aborted Atlanta deal, the more I think the Cubs president comes back to blaming Dempster for the aborted Atlanta deal. Epstein, in fact, should've blamed Dempster....

LOS ANGELES — It may take a while to get used to the new normal on the North Side. Change is never easy, but a rebuild is what most Cubs fans pined for when Jim Hendry was general manager, and what Theo Epstein and the new regime was brought in...

Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer seem to have a problem. A big problem. The Cubs’ top two baseball wonks appear to have developed a hole where their credibility and integrity used to be. Understand, credibility and integrity rank pretty high in a...

With pitching so hard to acquire why do the Cubs insist on trading established pitchers like Ryan Dempster and Matt Garza for unproven players? Is pitching the name of the game? My idea is build around a good pitching staff. -- John Romano, Springfield,...

ATLANTA — After finishing the first half of their schedule with a 31-50 record following Wednesday's 5-1 victory over the Braves, the Cubs look forward to making improvements over the final 81 games. So what are their goals for the second half?...

This has been Orioles rookie Wei-Yin Chen's first foray into interleague play, where American League pitchers are forced to bat in National League parks, but the Taiwanese left-hander has already seen enough to know he's not a fan. “Not really,...