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STREAKING 1. Ryan Dempster, P: The National League Player of the Week was 2-0 with a 0.00 ERA, and he allowed just seven hits in his two starts during 15 innings of work. The veteran starter, who can be a free agent at the end of the season, has...

Chicago Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro continues to be one of the main reasons to go to a ball game at Wrigley Field. Castro was named the NL player of the week for Aug. 1-7 after going 17-for-33 (.515) with a .758 slugging percentage and a .543 on...

Chicago Cubs third baseman Aramis Ramirez was named National League player of the week after hitting .393 with six home runs and 10 RBIs. Ramirez had struggled with home runs and RBIs until recently. His pinch-hit single in the ninth inning lifted...

SURPRISE, Ariz. -- With a little more than three weeks until Opening Day, Chicago Cubs manager Dale Sveum seems to spend as much time with the team training staff as he does with his coaches. Two of the Cubs' star players are injured and other pl...

CHICAGO -- The Chicago White Sox surprisingly lead the American League Centeral as the season reaches its final weeks. The team's standing is largely because it has arguably the three top candidates in the race for American League Comeback Player of ...

The question of how impactful one player can be may be answered over the coming weeks and months as Anthony Rizzo tries to establish himself as a big league performer. If Rizzo's first game with the Chicago Cubs is any barometer of things to come...

CHICAGO -- One Chicago Cubs player almost went into a full-blown Lee Elia-style meltdown when describing the Detroit Tiger fans' dominance of the Friendly Confines over this week's three-game series. "Boy it really (stinks) when your busting it i...

STREAKING 1. Paul Konerko, first base: The hottest hitter in baseball is coming off of a week that most big league players never have. Since getting hit in the face on May 18th and missing the next two games, Konerko has been on a 15-for-28 tear ...

STREAKING 1. Paul Konerko, first base: The hottest hitter in baseball is coming off of a week that most big league players never have. Since getting hit in the face on May 18th and missing the next two games, Konerko has been on a 15-for-28 tear ...

CINCINNATI - With two weeks left in the 2011 season, Cubs' manager Mike Quade said he would meet with most of his players and discuss what he'd like to see them work on in the offseason. "In my mind it's a pretty long list," Quade said of his und...

CHICAGO -- Chicago Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts made the unconventional move this week of giving a new four-year contract to the team's VP of player personnel, Oneri Fleita, without having a general manger in place, sources told ESPNChicago.com on Satu...

The Cubs have extend the deal of their VP of player personnel.

CHICAGO -- With the New York Yankees coming to town, it's only normal that some Chicago Cubs players will be under the microscope of baseball scouts and media with the trading deadline only six weeks away. The one name that keeps coming up in base...

LOS ANGELES -- After another loss on Friday, the players in the Cubs clubhouse became keenly aware of changes that may occur when general manager Jim Hendry begins going through trade offers over the next few weeks. Lefthanded starter Ted Lilly, w...

The Philadelphia Phillies are scouting the White Sox's Bobby Jenks and J.J. Putz.