Who's Your Top Favorite Cubs from Your Lifetime?

[sweetpeteman]

Sosa, Aramis, DLee, Bryant, Rizzo, Starlin, Javy, Arrieta, Z, and Hendricks

 

 

But in terms of weird choices, Todd Walker, Grudz, and Geovanny Soto

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Wood. We finally had an ace with elite stuff. It's criminal we didn't win one with him. And he was the first one I actually followed from the prospect lists and minor league stats to MLB success.

[Tim]

Coulda been Corey. :(

[David]

Maddux is number 1 by a mile. From the Hendry era obviously Lee and Ramirez are tops. Prior and Wood too.

Rich Harden weirdly stands out as well, his second half of 2008 was just the coolest.

 

From this era probably Willson, Javy, Dex, and Hendricks. Yu's probably my favorite right at this moment, but he needs to be produce for longer for him to be a guy I really look back on and think about.

 

i was so close to naming harden and felt stupid and didn't

[champaignchris]

1. Maddux

2. Hendricks

 

Yes, I have a “type.”

 

3. Javy

4. Aramis

5 and rising fast. Yu

 

So many others... Rick Reuschel - maybe the first Cub I remember, Jody, Lee Arthur Smith, Hawk, Sutcliffe, Kerry, GlenAllen Hill for the random monster bombs, Big Z, Bryzzo, Schwarbs, God-mode Jake, Wade Davis.

 

Random player I loved that wasn’t any good, but I loved him anyway: Steve Buechele, decent glove, no bat third baseman.

 

Ambiguous feels: Aroldis Chapman was one of my favorite non-Cubs and then the DV occurred and I put him on my “pay no mind” list, and then the Cubs acquired him and won the WS. I have mixed feeling about that, at best.

[NOLA]

Not one vote for Pedro Strop? I change my answer. He’s got to be in my top ten.

[Sosa21MVP]

Dawson

Grace

Maddux

Sosa

Aramis

Wood

Baez

Rizzo

Bryant

[Derwood]

Didn't become a Cubs fan until 1993, so Sosa was my first big favorite.

 

Also, INPO:

 

Zambrano

Wood

Aramis

Javy

Bryant

Rizzo

 

Some of you are NOT listing Castro, and you are liars

[Backtobanks]

Since I'm an old-timer:

 

Banks

Santo

Williams

Dawson

Sandberg

Maddux

Jenkins

Buckner

Ramirez

Wood

Sosa

Grace

Not a single player from the greatest stretch of Cubs baseball ever who was either developed or acquired under Theo.list>

 

Yep, checks out.

 

Most of these guys were the ones who made me a fan. Obviously, I have different favorites through the many decades that I have rooted for the Cubs. Right now, I really like Baez, Rizzo, and Bryant.

[UK]

My Top 10:

 

Maddux

Sosa

Baez

Wood

Sandberg

Sutcliffe

Bryant

Rizzo

Arrieta

Prior

 

Least fav:

Hundley

Danny Jackson

Alou

Morgan and Guzman for being Maddux replacements

A Gone

Estes

Maldonado

Bowa

 

Players I oddly liked:

Dernier (why I always wanted to wear #20 as a kid)

Kevin Foster

Jeff Pico

Kevin Roberson

Juan Cruz

 

Also, the Great Mark Bellhorn!

Edited April 21, 2020 by UK

[Irrelevant Dude]

1. Mark Grace

2. Javy Baez

3. Kerry Wood

4. Dave Martinez

5. Andre Dawson

6. Jody Davis

7. Ryne Sandberg

8. Greg Maddux

9. Kris Bryant

10. Anthony Rizzo

 

Honorable Mention: Kyle Hendricks, Ben Zobrist, Chico Walker

[NOLA]

Oh, we're doing a least favorite too? Awesome.

 

Todd Hundley

Moises Alou

Ryan Theriot

Julian Tavarez

Neifi Perez

Caesar Izturis

Jacque Jones

Jason Marquis

Ryan Dempster (granted, mostly for things post career)

[Derwood]

Least favorite:

 

Todd Hundley

Ryan Theriot

Aaron Miles

Neifi Perez

Jose Macias

Edwin Jackson

[NOLA]

RE Hundley: It really is something that the son of a key Cub from one of the greatest teams in the modern era was being booed at Wrigley mercilessly halfway through his first season in Chicago.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

On the topic of least favorite Cubs, I was looking for the one where Jeff Fassero played the role of Brooks from Shawshank Redemption, but I couldn't find it. Instead, you get these two:

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20110912023921/http://dugout.progressiveboink.com/archive/jon27.html

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20120414230734/http://dugout.progressiveboink.com/archive/dugout5-7-06.htm

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I find most of my least favorites are more from my adult years. In my childhood innocence, I liked them all.

 

My least favorites would probably be:

 

Neifi Perez

Dusty Baker (Can I count him?)

Jeff Samardzija

Steve Stone

[Hairyducked Idiot]

When I was a kid I hated the crap out of Damon Berryhill because he replaced my favorite, Jody Davis.

[Bote McBoteface]

Wood

Sosa

Prior

Ramirez

Z

[Andy]

If we're ignoring the Addison Russell category of personal scumbags, then there's only one guy that reigns supreme in the least-favorite category. I absolutely horsefeathering despised Aaron Miles. At that time my hatred for St. Louis was at an all-time high and I couldn't believe Hendry was dumb enough to sign a post-prime guy who wasn't even good when he was good just because he'd gotten a hold of the pixie dust for a year or two.

 

Edwin Jackson would be #2 on that list and LaTroy Hawkins #3.

Edited April 21, 2020 by Andy

[Thusly Boned]

Only counting players whose playing days I have strong memories of

 

1. Sosa

2. Baez

3. Dawson

4. Lee

5. Wood

6. Sandberg (as a kid he was easily #1, I was a HUGE fan, but my impression of him hasn't aged well)

7. Rizzo

8. ARam

9. Darvish

10. Soriano

 

Honorable mention: Big Z, Schwarber, Bryant, Marmol, Castro, Grace

[minnesotacubsfan]

1. Baez

2. Riz

3. Wood

4. Sosa

5. Dawson

6. ...too many qualify

 

it's not even fair to try and list, some great memories of guys like Sandberg, Bryant, Ricky Gutierrez, etc etc etc

[SpongeWorthy]

this thread is carlos zambrano erasure

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

this thread is carlos zambrano erasure

He erased a lot of his good will with me when he tried to erase the face of a well-liked teammate with his fists.

[CubinNY]

Big Z, Sammy, Dawson, Bryant, Rizzo, Baez, Greg.

 

Manager Don Zimmer

 

Least favorite: Bradley, Chapman,

 

Lest favorite manager: Dusty