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• Ben Brown Named 5th Starter, Brad Keller Makes Roster
Sources confirmed to Cubs Insider that Brad Keller was informed on Tuesday that he had made the active roster. Keller was signed as a non-roster invitee in late January, giving him a chance to prove himself before the Tokyo Series rolled around. He traveled to Japan as part of the taxi squad, but the front … The post Ben Brown Named 5th Starter, Brad Keller Makes Roster appeared first on ....2025
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• Cubs To Select Brad Keller; Ben Brown To Be Fifth Starter
The Cubs have informed Brad Keller that he has made the Cubs’ roster for domestic Opening Day. Manager Craig Counsell passed the news along to Maddie Lee of the Chicago Sun-Times. The Cubs will have to make a corresponding move to get him onto the 40-man. Also, per Sahadev Sharma of The Athletic, Ben Brown…...2025
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• Braves 13, Cubs 4: Good thing these games don’t count

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs once again got embarrassed except that it just didn’t matter. The Cubs string of Spring Training futility continued today as they were throttled by the Atlanta Braves, 13-4 in front of 12.003 fans at Sloan Park this afternoon. The good news is that if all the wins the Cubs had at the start of Spring Training didn’t matter, then the...2025
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• Atlanta Braves go on Home Run barrage as they beat the Cubs

Jonathan Dyer-Imagn Images The Braves’ offense went into overdrive as they beat the Chicago Cubs 13-4 The Atlanta Braves took on the Chicago Cubs in Arizona for Spencer Schwellenbach’s last start of spring training. The Braves deployed a lineup that looks like it could potentially be the opening day lineup against Brad Keller, who is non-roster invitee. To start the game, it looked like ...2025
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• Cubs vs. Braves at Mesa preview, Monday 3/24, 3:05 CT

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Hey, look! An opponent from the NL East comes to Mesa. Monday notes... A BRAVE SPRING: The only previous time these teams have met in preseason exhibitions was in 1962. Details in this FanPost by BCB’s JohnW53. FORMER CUBS IN BRAVES CAMP: Garrett Cooper, Pierce Johnson and Hector Neris. Cooper and Johnson combined to play 13 games with th...2025
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• Cub Tracks returns to form

Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs dropped one at Sloan Park, thanks in part to Michael King’s good pitching and their quiet bats. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, ov...2025
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• Padres 5, Cubs 1: Mostly pointless

Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images Nico Hoerner returned to the field. Cade Horton pitched well. Moises Ballesteros homered. Other than that. . . . Now that the Cubs have returned from Japan, having lost two games that count, they now have to play five games that don’t count, because the schedule says so. But it’s hard to find much point to today’s game, which was a glorified minor le...2025
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• 2025 Cubs player profiles: Brad Keller

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Keller has seemingly made the team, against the odds, after reportedly picking up a couple of miles per hour on his heater. I didn’t know a thing about Brad Keller. Most of us didn’t. I knew the Cubs had him, but didn’t know he was a keeper {$} until some of the writers {$} starting insisting it was so, and saying why. Keller strikes out nin...2025
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• Giants 8, Cubs 6: The hits just kept on coming

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images The Cubs had a lot of hits Sunday... and also got hit. The Cubs sent several players onto the field for the second straight game Sunday afternoon, ramping up as the team gets ready to head to Japan. The starters put together a pretty good offense before departing, scoring in each of the first five innings. Unfortunately, non-roster in...2025
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• The Cubs’ coming bullpen crunch

Who will be the eight relievers Craig Counsell will have to choose from on Opening Day? | Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images Which relievers are going to make the Opening Day roster? One of the things that ruined the Cubs’ 2024 season was multiple bullpen meltdowns, particularly in the first couple of months. It’s not my purpose here to rehash those. Cubs President of Baseball Operations J...2025
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• Cub Tracks lets it ride

Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs won their third spring game and go for a fourth against Texas. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in wri...2025
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• 2024 Rule 5 draft preview

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Could the Royals find a gem to supplement their roster? On Wednesday, teams will conclude the Winter Meetings with the Rule 5 draft. The draft typically doesn’t yield high-impact players, but teams can find some gems, such as when the Royals selected Joakim Soria and Brad Keller in past drafts. Players are eligible if they are not on a...2024
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• Nate Eaton, Austin Cox head list of Royals minor league free agents

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Nate Eaton and Austin Cox headline a list of thirteen Royals minor leaguers who became free agents this week. Minor league free agency is available to any player with six years in the minors who is not on the 40-man roster. Eaton played 72 games for the Royals from 2022-23 as a utility player with good speed and a great arm, but he hit just .201/.266/.283 in...2024
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• White Sox Minor League Update: May 20-21, 2024

Caden Connor starred at bat and in the field in Kanny’s win on Tuesday. | Tiffany Wintz/South Side Sox Sometimes, you fall asleep at 3 a.m. writing these and forget to publish Six games to write up tonight, and although that’s far from an Update record (nine, 10?), I’m about to lose my mind. Let’s get right to it. Nashville Sounds 10, Charlotte Knights 3 (Gameday box) (Statcast box)Curio...2024
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• White Sox blanked, 3-0

Hitting star of the game, Martín Maldonado. | Joe Puetz/Getty Images whatever, nevermind The exercise in caution for a paper-over year and cautionary tale for any and all future rebuilds 2024 Chicago White Sox again stumbled deep into the recesses of fan hearts and dismissively pooped on Friday night, dropping a 3-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals that was both forgettable and depressing....2024
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 11, 2024

Danny Mendick continues to slug in Triple-A. | Laura Wolff/Charlotte Knights Danny Mendick powers the Knights to a victory while the rest of the farm battles inclement weather Charlotte Knights 6, Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp 2 (Gameday Score) (Statcast Box)Charlotte scores a rare win with a four-run victory over the Marlins-affiliated Jumbo Shrimp. The JSs were able to string together no fe...2024
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"Then Brad Keller had a scoreless seventh with two strikeouts, allowing a hit, Cleveland’s first baserunner since the third."

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"Royals Opening Day starters: Wally Bunker 1969-1970 Dick Drago 1971-1972 Steve Busby 1973, 1975 Paul Splittorff 1974, 1976-1977 Dennis Leonard 1978-1980, 1982 Larry Gura 1981, 1983 Bud Black 1984-1986 Danny Jackson 1987 Bret Saberhagen 1988, 1990-1991 Mark Gubicza 1989 Kevin Appier 1992-1997, 1999 Tim Belcher 1998 Jeff Suppan 2000-2002 Runelvys Hernandez 2003 Brian Anderson 2004 Jose Lima 2005 Scott Elarton 2006 Gil Meche 2007-2009 Zack Greinke 2010, 2022 Luke Hochevar 2011 Bruce Chen 2012 James Shields 2013-2014 Yordano Ventura 2015 Edinson Volquez 2016 Danny Duffy 2017-2018, 2020 Brad Keller 2019, 2021 Cole Ragans 2023"

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"Brad Keller was solid for over five innings, and Royals pitchers held the Giants to just five hits."

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"The Royals finalized their season-opening rotation yesterday, with manager Mike Matheny telling reporters (including Alec Lewis of the Athletic) that southpaw Daniel Lynch will claim the final spot behind Zack Greinke, Brad Keller, Kris Bubic and Carlos Hernández."

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"Kansas City moved fellow righties Brad Keller and Wade Davis from the 10-day IL to the 60-day IL in a pair of corresponding 40-man roster moves."

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"Royals starter Brad Keller will make his season debut Thursday against the Cubs, manager Mike Matheny announced (via Jeffrey Flanagan of MLB."

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" MLB suspends White Sox's Tim Anderson, Royals' Brad Keller following bat toss-fueled scuffle "

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"After a rocky outing by starter Jason Hammel, the Royals' bullpen was able to right the ship, as Tim Hill, Burch Smith and Brad Keller stymied the Tribe's offense."

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"The Royals announced that they’ve acquired right-handers Brad Keller and Burch Smith in trades with the Reds and Mets following today’s Rule 5 Draft."

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• Royals 9, Cubs 3: Pete Crow-Armstrong continues his basepath chaos

Marquee Sports Network The Cubs center fielder has great baseball instincts. This game was weird for me, since I’ve attended almost every game at Sloan Park since it opened in 2014. Missing multiple games this spring, though, is for a good reason — my upcoming trip to Japan. Thus I watched Thursday’s 9-3 Cubs loss to the Royals from a hotel room in Joplin, Missouri, on my way driving back ...2025
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• Cubs vs. Padres at Peoria preview, Monday 2/24, 2:10 CT

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images The Cubs travel to the West Valley. Monday notes... RUN SCORING: The Cubs have scored 32 runs in their first four preseason games. They have scored more in their first four regular-season games only twice, in back-to-back years: 45, in 1954, then 38, in 1955. They went 2-2 the first year and 3-1 the second. They have scored 31 in th...2025
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• Cubs 12, Dodgers 4: Welcome to our robo-ump overlords

Major League Baseball MLB’s ABS challenge system test was used for the first time. The Cubs — or, more accurately, a bunch of miscellaneous guys wearing Cubs uniforms — defeated the Dodgers in the 2025 Spring Training opener 12-4 Thursday afternoon in Glendale, Arizona. That wasn’t the most important story of the game, as you surely know that Spring Training wins and losses are pretty well...2025
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• The Cubs invite 20 non-roster players to Spring Training

James Triantos at the 2024 All-Star Futures Game | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Here are the players who will help fill out the spring camp roster. Friday afternoon, the Cubs announced the 20 players who have received non-roster invitations to Spring Training at the Sloan Park complex in Mesa, Arizona. Of these 20, 10 played in the Cubs organization at some point in 2024...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for February 1, 2025

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Royals finally land their free agent. Craig Brown evaluates the Carlos Estévez signing. The question that must be asked is, was the 2024 season an outlier for Estévez? Can he, at 32 years old, replicate the successes of last year? Some of it looks sustainable to me. In the last two seasons, Estévez has been generally working ahea...2025
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• What will the Royals do at the Winter Meetings?

Lucas Peltier-USA TODAY Sports This could be the busiest week of the off-season. The Winter Meetings began on Sunday in Dallas, with teams meeting to work out trades, meet with agents about free agents, and conduct business like the draft lottery and Rule 5 draft. The Royals have already made some significant moves, re-signing Michael Wacha to a three-year, $51 million deal and acquiring s...2024
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• Nate Eaton, Austin Cox head list of Royals minor league free agents
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• Atlanta Braves go on Home Run barrage as they beat the Cubs
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• Cubs vs. Braves at Mesa preview, Monday 3/24, 3:05 CT
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• 2025 Cubs player profiles: Brad Keller
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• 2025 Cubs player profiles: A few final words

The 2025 player profiles are complet and the projections averaged. Thanks for taking the time to read and comment. We’ve covered the 40-man roster of the Chicago Cubs, as they stand as of this moment. Nico Hoerner is going to miss the opener Japan, but we have yet to attain wisdom as to his Stateside Opening Day status. That might or might not leave a temporary spot open, which would allow the Cub...2025
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• Cubs vs. Hanshin Tigers at Tokyo preview, Friday 3/14, 10 p.m. CT

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs square off against an NPB squad. Friday night (US time)/Saturday noon (Japan time) notes... HANSHIN TIGERS VS. MLB TEAMS: This will be the Hanshin Tigers’ eighth game against individual Major League teams, each against a different club, but their first against a National League opponent. They are 3-3-1 in the previous seven games. ...2025
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• Cubs vs. Giants at Mesa preview, Sunday 3/9, 3:05 CT

Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images Another sunny afternoon is forecast. Sunday notes... CUBS AND SLAMS AND OTHER HOMERS: Pete Crow-Armstrong hit a grand slam and a solo homer yesterday. Cubs batters have hit 332 slams in regular-season games since 1901. In 39 games, the same batter also hit another homer. The last to do so was Patrick Wisdom, on June 30, 2022, at home vs. the Reds. ...2025
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• Royals 9, Cubs 3: Pete Crow-Armstrong continues his basepath chaos
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• Cubs vs. Royals at Mesa preview, Thursday 3/6, 7:05 CT

Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images It’s the Cubs’ only home night game of spring 2025. Thursday notes... LOTS AND LOTS OF RUNS: The Cubs have scored at least 10 runs in four of their 14 spring games. They reached double digits in 12 of 162 during the regular season last year. They have scored 101 runs in their 14 games. In the regular season, since 1901, the Cubs have scored at least 101 runs in ...2025
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• Cubs vs. Padres at Mesa preview, Tuesday 3/4, 2:05 CT

Steve Sher The Cubs return to Sloan Park. Tuesday notes... GOTTA GET THAT WORK IN BEFORE JAPAN: Only four Cubs have 20 at-bats so far this spring: Michael Busch, Ben Cowles, Christian Franklin and Gage Workman. Of those, only Busch is guaranteed to go to Tokyo. THE MOST INNINGS PITCHED BY A CUB THIS SPRING: Six, by Brad Keller and Caleb Kilian. RUN DIFFERENTIAL: After losses by four ru...2025
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• Cubs 7, Guardians 4: The wins just keep on coming

Steve Sher The Cubs remain undefeated after 10 spring outings. MESA, Arizona — The Cubs ended their tie streak at three Saturday afternoon with a convincing 7-4 win over the Guardians. That gives them seven wins to go with the three ties, and they haven’t lost yet this spring. Right. Spring wins and losses mean nothing. I know this. You know this. And yet... there’s just something that fee...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Where’s the best place to keep a Jaguar?

Photo by Chris Coduto/MLB Photos via Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if Kevin Alcántara would be better served in Iowa or Chicago. It’s Wednesday night here at BCB After Dark: the hippest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We so glad you decided to stop by. It’s been a long day, so let’s make it a memorable night. We s...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Does Brad Keller have staying power?

Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if Brad Keller will make the Opening Day roster. It’s Tuesday evening here at BCB After Dark: the grooviest get-together for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re so glad to see you this evening. Your name is on the guest list. We still have a few tables available, or you can sit with ...2025
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• Cubs 12, Dodgers 4: Welcome to our robo-ump overlords
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• White Sox Minor League Update: May 20-21, 2024
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• Yankees 6, White Sox 1: New York bombs Chicago in the Bronx

Brad Keller looks depressed after allowing Juan Soto to CRUSH a long ball to right-center field. | Mike Stobe/Getty Images Juan Soto and friends exploded for four long balls I hate to say, “I told you so,” but I did. Go ahead and look back at the gamethread. It was right there in black and white. Yep, Brad Keller stunk, and the Yankees, with their unstoppable power, clubbed their way to ...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: April 17

STICK TALK 1906 The world championship season began in Detroit with the White Sox beating the Tigers, 5-3. Frank Owen, who’d win 22 games that season, picked up the victory. Just three days short of six months later, the Sox would close out the Cubs, winning the only all-Chicago World Series, in six games. Frank Hemphill, who played all three outfield positions in the game, drove in two runs for t...2024
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• Road sweet road: Royals win 3-1 in San Francisco
Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images The Royals match their home win total on the road in one try. The Royals embarked on their first road trip of the year and doubled their win total on the first try, beating the Giants 3-1 in the home opener for San Francisco. Brad Keller was solid for over five innings, and Royals pitchers held the Giants to just five hits. Royals bats have gotten off to a s...2023
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• Fantastic first inning fuels fire, foes finished 9-1
Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Last night’s offensive struggles were quickly put in the past Kansas City’s offense roughed up Lance Lynn while the pitching shut down Chicago’s bats as the Royals cruised to a 9-1 victory over the White Sox. Brad Keller began his outing by walking Tim Anderson, who has a career 3.6% walk rate, and then walked Andrew Benintendi on fou...2023
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• Royals rapaciously rake, rout Rangers in 10-1 romp
Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports The bats came to life in emphatic fashion Kansas City took down Texas in a 10-1 victory tonight, averting a sweep in the first iteration of the Dayton Moore classic. It was a belligerent offensive showing accompanied by a strong start by Brad Keller. Some good things happened in the first inning. Bobby Witt Jr. laced a single at 104.3 mph and later stole secon...2023
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• Zack Greinke named Royals Opening Day starter
Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Daniel Lynch will also begin the season on the IL. Royals manager Matt Quatraro tabbed Zack Greinke to be his Opening Day starter for the season opener on March 30 against the Minnesota Twins. It will be the second year in a row that Greinke has started the opener, and third time overall that Greinke has started on Royals Opening Day. Pablo López will get the...2023
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• Royals officially sign Zack Greinke
Photo by George Kubas/Diamond Images via Getty Images Anthony Misiewicz is designated for assignment. The Royals officially announced the signing of pitcher Zack Greinke to a one-year deal on Friday. New York Post reporter Jon Heyman reports the deal is for $8.5 million with $7.5 million in incentives. To make room on the 40-man roster, the team designated pitcher Anthony Misiewicz for ass...2023
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• Royals to re-sign Zack Greinke, according to a report
Photo by George Kubas/Diamond Images via Getty Images Zack is back! The Royals have re-signed Zack Greinke, according to Bob Fescoe of 610 Sports. Royals have reached a deal to bring Zack Greinke back for one more year, per source. Deal will be officially announced tomorrow afternoon. #royals— Bob Fescoe (@bobfescoe) January 30, 2023 Last year, Greinke returned to the Royals on a one...2023
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• Royals to add Matt Duffy, Jackie Bradley Jr., Franmil Reyes to roster
Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images The team will have to open up some 40-man roster spots. The Royals will add veteran infielder Matt Duffy and outfielders Jackie Bradley Jr. and will likely add Franmil Reyes to their Opening Day roster, according to MLB.com reporter Anne Rogers. All three were signed to minor league deals, so they will need to be added to the 40-man roster. The Royals can ...2023
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• Royals win wild one, 3-2
Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images Neither team was exactly Hungry Like the Wolf for this one The Reflex of any Royals fan in the bottom of the ninth was probably to expect this game to end in a walk-off loss. Closer Scott Barlow came on, got an out, but allowed the next two runners to reach before facing off against Byron Buxton. Fortunately, he didn’t Come Undone and Buxton struck out looki...2023
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 19, 2024

Juan Carela pitched five innings of one-hit ball for Winston-Salem. | Salina Rae Silver/South Side Sox Danny Mendick cannot be stopped, Juan Carela’s offspeed baffles, and Ryan Galanie locks in Charlotte Knights 5, Syracuse Mets 1 (Gameday box) (Statcast box)For the second straight night, the Charlotte Knights posted five runs en route to a win against the Syracuse Mets. And for the fourt...2024
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• Atlanta Braves go on Home Run barrage as they beat the Cubs
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• Padres 5, Cubs 1: Mostly pointless
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• Cubs add Matt Shaw to roster; Keegan Thompson designated for assignment

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Matt Shaw will officially make his major-league debut in Japan. We’re less than six hours before the start of the season in Tokyo and the Cubs needed to make some roster moves before tonight’s game. Those moves are now complete as rookie infielder Matt Shaw has been added to the 40-man and 26-man rosters. To make room for Shaw on the 40-man r...2025
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• Giants 8, Cubs 6: The hits just kept on coming
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• Cub Tracks’ for Pete’s sake

Michael Sarrazin and Barbra Streisand In ‘For Pete’s Sake’. | Photo by Columbia Pictures/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The world is his oyster, and we just live in it. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, a...2025
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• Gamethread: Rays at White Sox

Celebrations from last night’s walk-off winner that had fans buzzing into today’s game. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Last night the White Sox had fun. Can they... sweep the Rays today? Last night we saw some much needed excitement from this team, and with the stands full the crowd got to enjoy it. It was the teams first win of the series, and their first time winning back-to-back games th...2024
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• A look at this year’s starting pitching free agent class

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Who wants some arms? The Royals will seek to improve on this year’s last place disaster, and the area they will most look to address is the pitching. The Royals got a 5.12 ERA from their starting pitchers, fourth-worst in baseball with the third-worst strikeout rate. General Manager J.J. Picollo has stated that he expects next year’s rotation to feature Cole...2023
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• Zack Greinke has played for some bad Royals teams - is this the worst?
Rhona Wise-USA TODAY Sports Royals fans have seen some bad baseball. Longtime Royals Review reader Roy from Omaha posed an interesting question last week: Ask Zach Greinke which team was the worst team he played on - the 2005 or the 2023 Royals, since he played for both. Great question! Let’s do a breakdown and see if we can make any sense of this. The 2005 Royals finished an all-time Roy...2023
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• What do we think of Matt Quatraro so far?
Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images The first-year skipper hasn’t produced many wins, but is that how he should be judged? After three losing seasons and a .430 winning percentage, the Royals dismissed manager Mike Matheny last season. There were whispers of a tense clubhouse vibe, and it was clear that owner John Sherman was frustrated with a failure of data analytics being absorbed by on-fie...2023
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• The Royals need to value playing time more
Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images The Royals are wasting precious playing time on placeholders. The 2023 season has not gone the way Royals fans would like, but the poor start is probably not too surprising for a team that lost 97 games last year and shed some of their best players without adding much this off-season. This was not expected to be a contending year for the young Royals, b...2023
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