Mike Fontenot News

For a team that preaches the importance of pitching, speed and defense, it's easy to see why the Marlins are so high on outfielder Cody Ross.

When a team identifies a weakness in their lineup, whether offensive or defensive, there are three avenues through which the club can attempt to augment their efficiency at that position.

The Cubs have eight players who are arbitration-eligible, but trimmed the number they have to give raises to by one on Thursday, trading Aaron Heilman to the Arizona Diamondbacks for two Minor League prospects.

Center field options, Mike Fontenot, Aramis Ramirez's shoulder and Spring Training are among the topics in this week's Inbox.

Yesterday Phil Rogers from the Chicago Tribune confirmed that the Cubs are indeed interested in trading for the Tigers outfielder Curtis Granderson .

Somewhere in the world, Mark Reynolds is fuming. The Arizona Diamondbacks slugger missed a spot on the list of Major League players with between two and three years of service time who will qualify for arbitration this off-season by one day.

Mike Fontenot filed for salary arbitration on Wednesday. Chicago Cubs infielder Mike Fontenot earned the last arbitration spot for players with between two and three years of major-league service, beating out Baltimore centre-fielder Adam Jones and Cincinnati pitcher Micah Owings on a tiebreaker.

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.

At 11 a.m. Friday, Tom Ricketts and his family will be introduced as the ninth owners of the Cubs.

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.

Milton Bradley and his contract didn't work out for the Chicago Cubs. Gee, who didn't see that coming? The Cubs want to get out from under Bradley's contract, and pick up something useful in return.

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

It was one pitch, one out of 27 that Neal Cotts threw on June 24 in a relief outing for Triple-A Iowa.

Ryne Sandberg, Jake Fox, Aaron Heilman and an update on the movie, "We Believe" are the topics in this week's Inbox.

The Pirates had two opportunities on Wednesday to snap their seven-game losing streak to the Cubs.

After the Dodgers swept the Cubs in last year's playoffs, manager Lou Piniella said his club needed a left-handed bat in the middle of the lineup for 2009.

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What? We have no tags for Jeff Baker&Andres Blanco? We need to rectify that, because they are here for the long haul.

Look, all you Cubs haters, there's not a Cubs fan out there who won't agree that the Milty signing turned out to stink.

Former first-round draft pick Tyler Colvin went 1-for-3 with an RBI on Monday in his major league debut.