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With the 2012 season finally over, Doug Padilla reviews the Cubs by position this week, beginning with the starting pitchers. CHICAGO -- For one month, anyway, the Chicago Cubs had their act together and it was the starting pitching that led the w...

PITTSBURGH -- It turns out that Chicago Cubs manager Dale Sveum was right about the call to go to his closer in the ninth inning Monday, but wrong about how it would be received in the clubhouse. Sveum made the unpopular move of removing Jeff Sama...

CHICAGO -- So far, the only changes coming with Chicago Cubs pitcher Ryan Dempster have to do with his next start, although on Wednesday afternoon it looked like it could be more than that. After Dempster was viewed in full uniform during early b...

CINCINNATI -- The Chicago Cubs' first game to be postponed this season won't have an affect on all the pitchers in the current series against the Cincinnati Reds. Jeff Samardzija, who was scheduled to pitch Tuesday's series opener, will now be mov...

The Chicago Cubs did more than put together a starting rotation this spring, they put Phase 1 of their reconstruction project front and center. Team president Theo Epstein and general manager Jed Hoyer went out this winter and grabbed some young a...

MESA, Ariz. -- Chicago Cubs manager Dale Sveum had strong words of praise for left-hander Paul Maholm on Tuesday, essentially setting three-fifths of the starting rotation with two weeks left in spring-training camp. Ryan Dempster and Matt Garza w...

MESA, Ariz. -- As of now, the Chicago Cubs have six legitimate candidates for their five rotation spots. Ryan Dempster and Matt Garza were always considered locks, and perhaps so was Paul Maholm, depending on who you asked. That seemed to create a...

MESA, Ariz. -- There is a ringer in the Chicago Cubs' bunt tournament, and it just happens to be the guy who invented the game. Cubs manager Dale Sveum pulled off the victory over one of the tournament favorites, Ryan Dempster, as the final 16 of ...