Mark Jablonowski

Mark Jablonowski has been a health policy news editor for the better part of the past decade and a pretend sports GM for the better part of forever. A resident of Andersonville, he lives with his wonderful girlfriend and their very large cat and his alarm is set for bourbon o'clock.

Cubs News, Rumors & Analysis

Mark JablonowskiNovember 12, 2015

Unless They Win it All, The Cubs Can’t Win

It wasn’t that long ago when a cluster of sports writers in Chicago was aggressively dumbfounded by what the Cubs were…
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Cubs Minor League & Prospect News

Mark JablonowskiAugust 11, 2015

Albert Almora has Figured Out Double-A Pitching, and That’s a Big Deal

Remember Albert Almora? Well, alright, that’s probably an exaggeration. I don’t think anyone who even passively follows amateur Cubs…
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Mark JablonowskiMay 15, 2015

Anthony Rizzo Has Been Even Better Than You Think

There’s no debating who’s been the Cubs’ early offensive MVP. It’s Anthony Rizzo. Pick a category, and you’ll invariably find…
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Mark JablonowskiApril 24, 2015

All Your Base Are Belong to Cubs

I’ll get this out of the way quickly: If the title of this post didn’t make any sense to you,…
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Mark JablonowskiApril 15, 2015

The Cubs Are Practicing the Plate Patience They Preach

Don’t look now, but a week and a half into the 2015 season, the Cubs are leading the league in something…
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Mark JablonowskiApril 3, 2015

Sunday, a Cubs Game Will Matter Again

There’s something deeply numbing about baseball that doesn’t matter. It’s like driving down a straight, empty highway, your right foot sound…
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Mark JablonowskiMarch 19, 2015

Let’s Consolidate All Those Cubs Prospect Rankings

If there’s anything the Cubs have beaten to death, it’s that they’ve built up an elite farm system. Whether it’s…
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Mark JablonowskiMarch 6, 2015

The Cubs Still Have a Wide Gap to Close in Baseball’s Arms Race

There’s no secret as to how Theo Epstein and Co. catapulted the Cubs from one of the most depleted organizations…
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Mark JablonowskiFebruary 17, 2015

Acts of Regression: These Cubs Should See Statistical Corrections in 2015

The baseball season is a cold-blooded truth-teller. Over the course of 162 games, anomalies are smoothed out, slumps are reversed, bubbles…
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Mark JablonowskiJanuary 22, 2015

Some Prospects Will Be Traded, but Kyle Schwarber Won’t Be One of Them

An inevitability that Cubs fans understand is that, eventually, one of the team’s better prospects is going to be traded. The…
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