Geovany Soto News

Not sure if anyone read the latest foot-in-mouth interview from Chicago's North Side, but this time it isn't one of the usual suspects.

A year after Cubs catcher Geovany Soto won the National League Rookie of the Year Award in a landslide, the landscape is much different in 2009 as it is a wide-open race with no obvious favorite.

Pitcher Randy Wells may have been the biggest surprise of 2009, winning 12 games, but it wasn't enough to give the Cubs their second straight National League Rookie of the Year.

The National League Rookie of the Year Award winner will be announced Monday at 2 p.m. ET.

It's the middle of November, so there's a ton of speculation flying around the web about baseball players moving addresses before the 2010 season.

Curtis Granderson, the Detroit Tigers center fielder and 2009 All-Star, may be available in trades, according to Phil Rogers of the Chicago Tribune.

Though he faces misdemeanor charges in the state, it is unlikely he will receive any punishment from Major League Baseball.

All you need to know about Rudy Jaramillo is that he got Sammy Sosa to pick up the balls after a session in the batting cage.

Will Magglio Ordonez be a Cub in 2010? Browse more photos>> With a day off before game six of the ALCS -- and this series has the chance to go down in history as one of the better league championship series, having already produced at least three "instant classics", let's spend today looking toward next year.

Mike Fontenot, Starlin Castro, the city of Mesa, and Mark DeRosa are the topics in this week's Inbox.

When the Cubs decided to get more left-handed after their 2008 playoff collapse, they turned to Rangers' free agent Milton Bradley .

The Cubs could have a new hitting coach as soon as Wednesday. According to a report on ESPNChicago.com, the Cubs will hire former Rangers hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo.

Carney Lansford wasn't the problem with the Giants' hitting. It was a grim kaleidoscope of bad habits, poor judgment and, in some cases, just plain incompetence.

While the major league baseball playoffs unfold over the next few weeks, for fantasy owners the season is long over.

Albert Pujols probably will be a unanimous, deserving MVP winner. But take a look at the season Derrek Lee had -- the best of his career other than 2005, when he finished third in MVP voting.

Before the first pitch of the NLDS is thrown, here's one final look a Cubs position players for 2009 and include a nugget or two on their season.

Observations on the Cubs the day after it all ended: Don?t expect the Cubs to have their entire winter held hostage by Milton Bradley , as they did with Sammy Sosa in 2004-05. The situations are different.

Paul Beaty, AP / D-backs catcher Miguel Montero tags out Sam Fuld in a rundown between third and home in the third inning.

Milton Bradley's gone, and the Cubs only can hope he'll be forgotten by next spring.

Randy Wells made his best case for NL Rookie of the Year, firing seven shutout innings while fanning a career-high 10 in the Cubs' 5-0 blanking of the Arizona Diamondbacks at Wrigley Field.