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Stand back...Kap is doing something mathy or something! "Dat: You need to get a clue.

With things so quiet on the trade front, you have to assume that the winter meetings will start the momentum of the offseason going - someone will overpay for a reliever that had a career year or a position player that was great two years ago but has been injured since.

Cubs fans know how to wait, right? After more than a century between World Series victories, the Wrigley faithful shouldn't have trouble waiting for some of the talent in Chicago's farm system to arrive.

Chicago fared no better in baseball's Rookie of the Year award voting than it did on the diamond itself in 2009.

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.

As the Cubs look toward 2010, General Manager Jim Hendry has to be pleased with the quartet he has assembled atop his starting rotation.

Cubs pitcher Randy Wells finished sixth in the voting for the National League Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year Award, announced Monday by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

J.A. Happ already has been named the National League's top rookie by The Sporting News .

Along with the Rejuvenation of Derrek Lee, Randy Wells was the nicest surprise of 2009.

The Cubs have had success converting position players to pitchers, such as Randy Wells and Carlos Marmol, but Kyler Burke showed he was better left alone.

Cubs pitcher Randy Wells was one of the few pleasant surprises for the Cubs in 2009.

For Jeff Samardzija ,the future started on Thursday night. And then the future got rained on after three innings.

Overview Well ita s finally here. The end of the season. As tough as this season as been on some of us, Ia m personally not looking forward to the winter.

Count pitcher Randy Wells among the best chapters to a sad Cubs story. Brought up in May to fill in for the injured Carlos Zambrano, Wells outperformed all but one of his rotation counterparts, capping his 12-10 season Saturday in the Cubs' 5-0 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

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.

Full story > D-backs probable pitcher Daniel Cabrera #56 RHP Cabrera remains the likely starter for Saturday, although there is a chance Yusmeiro Petit has a chance to start depending on how things worked out in the bullpen in San Francisco.

Jeff Baker is 6-2, 210. Pablo Sandoval makes him look... tiny. Browse more photos>> Throughout this September, with the Cubs desperately clinging to hope of a postseason berth with a 16-9 start to the month, I kept thinking "stranger things have happened". From time to time, as you know, I'd cite various other late-season pennant collapses or ...

Milton Bradley got the most attention. Randy Wells opened the most eyes. Carlos Zambrano confounded and at times entertained the most.

The Cubs finished with a 37-44 road record in 2009 after a 5-1 loss to San Francisco on Sunday at AT&T Park .

The Giants have never been swept in four games at home by the Cubs since relocating to San Francisco.