This week on ITW, Paul Lo Duca has a great Joe West story. The AL East is shaping up to be an exciting race. We take a look back on Busch Stadium II. All that and the week that was for the Chicago Cubs.

This week on ITW, CC Sabathia hits a major milestone, more players are heading to Illinois (IL). The Cubs are accused of pressuring sportswriters to lay off Addison Russell, who heads to Triple A. Kyle Hendricks tosses a Greg Maddux.  All that and this week in the Chicago Cubs.

Today on ITW, Albert Pujols is mowing through the All-time RBI list. Vlad Guerrero Jr. finally makes his MLB debut and it's worth the wait. Cody Bellinger is off to a torrid start and Javier Baez does a deke for the ages.  All that and this week in the Chicago Cubs. 

This week on ITW, we remember a sports talk pioneer. Joey Votto finally does something for the first time after 6829 at bats. Carlos Zambrano tries another comeback.  All that and this week in the Chicago Cubs.  

This week on ITW: Trevor Rosenthal finally gets an out, and Chris Davis finally gets a hit. The Whit Merrifield hitting streak ends, Managers vs. Middle Managers, we’ll react to an article in The Athletic, and talk about all that as well as this week in the Chicago Cubs.  

This week on  ITW: The 2019 Championship Season is underway and we talk about what happened in the games that count. We will react to The Athletic’s poll of MLB players.  Leo goes looking for Henry Aaron.  All that and this week with the Chicago Cubs.   

This week  on ITW, we make our predictions as to who will win their respective divisions, we’ll also talk about this recent rash of contract extensions that has afflicted teams of late. Ichiro Suzuki has his final at bats in a Major League uniform.  The Toronto Blue Jays do something teams should have done a long time ago and as always we’ll react to the latest news about the Chicago Cubs.  

Today on ITW we talk about how MLB managers will have to submit their lineups to odds makers before the public sees them, the slowest base runner in baseball is about to join some very exclusive company, MLB announces rule changes for this year and the next, AJ Hinch and Angel Hernandez have “issues” all that and the latest with the Chicago Cubs. 

Today on ITW, we talk about testing labs in the Atlantic League and in the Cubs’ Spring Training facility.  Dodgers pitcher, Joe Kelly gets a strange injury, we’ll talk about Spring Training stories from seasons past and give you the latest this week from the Chicago Cubs. 

This week on the ITW, we will dive into some of the proposed rule changes for the upcoming MLB season; we cover off on the real reason the games are taking so long; Manny Machado and Bryce Harper finally sign; we’ll discuss some articles we read on 538.com and in The Athletic and we will pay our respects to the great Frank Robinson.     

· Travis Sawchuk from 538.com points out that an increase in foul balls is slowing baseball down. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/foul-balls-are-the-pace-of-play-problem-nobodys-talking-about/?fbclid=IwAR0wddpBXSh1QyQwPABaT5b99KoHBVk1EDKyxmvwHKT1mmO074_OW7a0aQw

· Kris Bryant speaks out on service time manipulation, Sahadev Sharma writes in the Athletic  https://theathletic.com/837222/2019/02/25/its-awful-kris-bryant-on-how-baseballs-service-time-rule-needs-to-change/?fbclid=IwAR0f3AciexeEHh-MWsyTT5y9BvwuRcadt2Gv8Hpsbk6JhhfZboI_yIiUck4