"With the 19th pick in the first round of the First Year Player's Draft of Major League Baseball, the Chicago Cubs select Andrew Cashner, right handed pitcher, Texas Christian."
-Bud Selig
I didn't think that there was any chance that TCU's superstar closer would last until the 19th pick, and was hoping that he would make it to 11 when the Texas Rangers picked, but when Justin Smoak (1B from S.Carolina) was amazingly still on the board, the Rangers made the consensus best pick of the first round, and I began to hope that possibly, Cashman would hang around for the Cubbies, and he did.
ESPN projects that the junior could join the Cubbies bullpen by the end of this year, which added to Marmol and Wood (and to a lesser extent Howry and Eyre) would make a strength for the Cubbies even stronger and almost unhittable!
The second that the TCU pitcher does make the big league club I can guarentee you that I will be getting his jersey!
After the old school Maddox performance helped to stop the Cubs winning streak at 9 (despite a hell of a game from Ted Lilly) the Cubs started a new one yesterday, although it got a little scary. The Cubs opened a 4-0 lead, but it became a tie game going into the 9th. In a battle of former Japenese superstars, Saito (on his bobble head night) gave up the go ahead run on a single to Fukudome (who had also homered in the game) and despite loading the bases in the bottom of the ninth, K Dub got his NL leading 17th save as the Cubbies won 5-4 to take the first game of the four game series in LA against the Dodgers and go to 3-1 on the road trip so far (and 10-1 in the last 11, go Cubs.)
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