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• BCB After Dark: Horton or Flexen?

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if Cade Horton or Chris Flexen should make the next start when Imanaga’s turn comes up. Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and sit with us for a while. There’s no cover charge. There are still a few ta...2025
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• Cubs roster move: Shōta Imanaga to injured list, Gavin Hollowell recalled

Michael McLoone-Imagn Images The Cubs will replace Imanaga with a reliever, for the time being. You all know about Shōta Imanaga’s injury, suffered in the sixth inning Sunday in Milwaukee. Monday, it was revealed that the injury is a left hamstring strain, and the Cubs placed Imanaga on the 15-day injured list. It's not known how long he will be out. Imanaga’s turn in the rotation will not...2025
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• Three up, three down: An update on the Cubs, May 5 edition

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images The Cubs had a good week, but that was tempered by the likely loss of Shōta Imanaga for a while. We don’t yet know what will happen with Shōta Imanaga, who will have an MRI today to determine the damage to his left hamstring. At that point we’ll know more about how long the Cubs will miss him. You know, this team does have some depth. When they lost Justin...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 35

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Another frustrating Sunday, the Cubs lose 4-0. When does something arbitrary become something significant? If you haven’t been keeping track, the Cubs are now just 1-5 on Sundays. I don’t particularly think it is a getaway day issue. They are 3-3 in midweek series-enders. So it is at least a passing thought that there is something with Sundays. It sure w...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 33

Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images The Cubs explode in the the second and coast to a 10-0 victory. Friday night in Milwaukee, the Cubs scored two in the first to set the tone early, then lowered the boom with a seven-run second, featuring a Michael Busch grand slam. For those of you who aren’t longtime WPA guys, a quick summation. When the game gets lopsided early and stays that way th...2025
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• Cubs 10, Brewers 0: Scoring early and often

Photo by Kylie Bridenhagen/MLB Photos via Getty Images Michael Busch and Pete Crow-Armstrong led the way with home runs. It wasn’t until the 33rd game of the 2025 MLB season that the Cubs met their divisional rivals, the Milwaukee Brewers. And in that 33rd game, the Cubs made a strong statement that they want to take the NL Central crown away from the Brewers, who took it three of the last...2025
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• Cubs roster move: Shōta Imanaga to injured list, Gavin Hollowell recalled
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• Minor League Wrap: Pitching, Owen Caissie lead I-Cubs past St. Paul 1-0

Owen Caissie | Cody Scanlan/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Iowa rides strong pitching and Owen Caissie to a 1-0 win. The Smokies win on a walkoff single by BJ Murray. Some injury news. Smokies outfielder Felix Stevens went on the 60-day injured list. South Bend pitcher Jose Romero, who hasn’t pitched this season, went on the full-season injured list. Iowa Cubs The Iowa...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Replacement Steele

Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks who is the best long-term replacement for Justin Steele. It’s another week here at BCB After Dark: the hippest spot for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re glad you decided to stop by. Come on in and sit with us. There’s no cover charge. We still have a couple of good tables av...2025
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• Get to know the Iowa Cubs

Moises Ballesteros | Cody Scanlan/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK The Cubs Triple-A affiliate is loaded with prospects. The Iowa Cubs take the field tonight against the Omaha Storm Chasers at 7:08 Central Time at Principal Park in Des Moines. It’s the 45th season that Iowa will be the Cubs’ top farm team. The first thing to know about this Cubs team is that it is absolutely loaded with pr...2025
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• Cubs cut spring roster to 42 players

Ethan Roberts | Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images The Cubs didn’t play Friday, but they were still active. Once again, none of these cuts should surprise you. We’re getting to the point where the Tokyo Series roster (plus taxi squad) will be announced early next week. The Cubs today reduced the spring roster from 53 to 42 players. Right-handed pitcher Ethan Roberts an...2025
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• 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, AL Central

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images This is a division of haves and have-nots. Last year, three AL Central teams made the postseason and four finished over .500. This was largely because they all fattened up against the awful White Sox. The Twins, Tigers, Guardians and Royals went 42-10 against the White Sox. Wow. The Cubs, meanwhile, were 10-6 against the AL Central last year. So that...2025
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• The White Sox lost the game you waited 19.5 hours for

19.5 hours later... The Rangers and the league’s worst pitcher by losses take one from the South Siders, 3-1 The 2024 White Sox remain anomalous on levels no one could have imagined. Today’s game was not the first game of a doubleheader, much to the confusion of many. It was, in fact, the shortest suspended game in MLB history, clocking in at 19.5 hours between pitches. This was the first...2024
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• Imagine being proud of beating the 2024 White Sox

Beautiful bastard Grady Sizemore is the new face of a (hopefully) new White Sox team. In a not-so-classic Crosstown, the South Siders still maintain a superior record overall against the Cubs Welcome to the second Crosstown Classic of the 2024 season, Chicago. You’ll find your respective sections of postgame coverage below, divided into sections for South Sider or North Sider. White Sox F...2024
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"Michael Busch hit a grand slam and Pete Crow-Armstrong homered twice, and the Cubs got strong pitching from Ben Brown and Chris Flexen in a 10-0 victory in front of a Milwaukee crowd that, the way it sounded on TV, lived up to its Wrigley North reputation."

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"The Royals were stymied by White Sox starter Chris Flexen after that until the seventh inning, however."

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"Javier Assad will start for the Cubs and Chris Flexen gets the start for Colorado."

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"Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times tweets that known trade candidate Chris Flexen is not a…"

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"Former Mets starter Chris Flexen will lead the Seattle Mariners past the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night."

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"The Mariners have agreed to a deal with right-hander Chris Flexen, reports Mike Mayer of MetsMerized (Twitter link)."

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"Right-hander Chris Flexen is set to join the Doosan Bears of the Korea Baseball Organization, reports Marc Carig of the Athletic (via Twitter)."

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"Starter Jason Vargas allowed five over three innings, while AJ Ramos and Chris Flexen allowed three earned runs apiece in relief."

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"Astros All-Star Carlos Correa will return to the lineup behind starter Mike Fiers for Sunday's series finale against Chris Flexen and the Mets at Minute Maid Park."

• BCB After Dark: Horton or Flexen?
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• Three up, three down: An update on the Cubs, May 5 edition
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• Cubs Promoting RHP Chris Flexen to Provide Depth
As first reported by ESPN’s Jesse Rogers, the Cubs are promoting righty Chris Flexen from Triple-A Iowa. Signed to a minor league deal just after the start of camp, the 30-year-old had to be added to the big league roster by Thursday or he would have become a free agent. We foreshadowed this move a … The post Cubs Promoting RHP Chris Flexen to Provide Depth appeared first on ....2025
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• Cubs To Select Chris Flexen
The Cubs are selecting the contract of veteran righty Chris Flexen from Triple-A Iowa, reports ESPN’s Jesse Rogers. He’s been excellent through his first five starts in Des Moines and would’ve been able to opt out of his minor league contract tomorrow if not added to the 40-man roster. Chicago has a full 40-man roster,…...2025
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• The White Sox WAH factor

The WAH when you first learn you’ve been born into a White Sox family. | tenor.com Some baseball teams rate a WOW factor. The South Siders would be better served by another measure: Wins Above Horrible Some baseball teams rate a WOW factor. The White Sox instead rate a WAH factor. WAH, a statistic reserved for teams with at least 121 losses, goes along with Baseball-Reference’s or FanGraph...2025
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• 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, AL Central
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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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• Iowa Cubs Wrap: Smart baserunning leads to a 2-1 I-Cubs win

James Triantos | Cody Scanlan/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK Iowa rallied for 2 runs in the top of the 9th to beat Indianapolis The Iowa Cubs rallied late to beat Indianapolis (Pirates), 2-1. Chris Flexen started for Iowa and was constantly pitching out of trouble. But for the most part he did. Flexen gave up seven hits and four walks over 4.2 innings, but allowed just one unearned run, ...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. Guardians at Mesa and Royals at Surprise preview, Saturday 3/1

Justin Turner | Steve Sher The Cubs split their squad and play two games Saturday. Saturday notes... DOING THE SPLITS: Today is the only Cubs split squad date of Spring Training 2025. All the info you’ll need for today is here, except for the lineups for the night game. Those will be found in the day game recap. ALL TIED UP: No Major League team ever has played three consecutive regular...2025
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 118

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty Images This was quite the WPA contest. Check out the leverage index for this game! Hi there! It’s your substitute Heroes and Goats writer. As noted in the last installment, Thomas Smith is away and will return for the final game of the Blue Jays series next weekend. In his stead, I’m just going to post the chart for the game, the three heroes and three goats, a...2024
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• A crosstown conversation before the Crosstown Classic concludes

Crosstown Classic Trophy Check out Visiting Dugout before the game The Cubs will head to the South Side of Chicago for the last two games of this year’s Crosstown Classic this weekend on Friday and Saturday. It will result in a rare Sunday off day for the North Siders. As I’ve done for a few seasons now, I sat down with our friends from the Sox Populi podcast for an edition of their series...2024
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• Brewers embarrassed by early Cubs offensive explosion

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images A deflating 10-0 loss opens this big three-game series Box Score In a game that was over almost before it started, the Chicago Cubs made a strong statement to the Milwaukee Brewers. The red-hot Cubs offense spat on Pat Murphy’s idea to use Tyler Alexander to open for Quinn Priester and jumped all over Brewers pitchers who looked unfit for the moment. After a second-...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Matt Chapman signs a Giant deal

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images The Giants lock up their third baseman. Alex Bregman should be happy. The Yankees don’t have a closer. The Guardians have the best closer. And other news from MLB. Good morning. The Cubs still haven’t allowed a hit since Tuesday. The Giants signed third baseman Matt Chapman to a six-year, $151 million extension. Chapman explained why he re-sign...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Just how bad are the White Sox?

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images So bad they’re dragging down the average of the entire AL Central division. Happy Wednesday, friends! Here we are in September, and there are some fun stories making the rounds, so here’s what you can look forward to in today’s links: the White Sox have been brutally bad, but just HOW bad? Shohei Ohtani reaches historical highs, and experts are starting...2024
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• Cub Tracks lets off steam

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs swept their Southside rivals for the third time and retain bragging rights for a year. 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, ...2024
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• Bird App Recap: Goose Eggs

Your 2024 Chicago White Sox, making baseball history with every shutout ... Hello friends, and welcome to another Bird App Recap! The last time I tweet-capped Pale Hose happenings on a baseball diamond, the plucky South Siders bravely faced major league competition for the very first time in the young 2024 season. Too bad the White Sox failed to field a major league-quality squad on Day one, and ...2024
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• South Side Sox Player of the Week (March 3-11): Eloy Jiménez

Mitch Ransdell/South Side Sox A rundown of our lifetime MVPs, at 86 and counting Given a second consecutive Player of the Week accolade plus the unlikelihood he’ll win a third straight (Eloy has not played since March 13, gulp), we’ll go a different direction with the essay this week. Perhaps for the first time, let’s break down the running total of MVPs, which we have been naming now alo...2024
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• Cubs 5, Rockies 4: The cardiac Cubs come back

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images A ninth-inning rally put this one in the win column. You asked for meaningful baseball in September and by gum, you have got it. Now let’s hope we all survive it. The Cubs fashioned an early lead, got good starting pitching, then the bullpen blew that lead. But then the team put together a stirring ninth-inning rally and held on — barely — for a 5-4 wi...2023
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• Cubs 6, Rockies 3: Javier Assad and the comeback Cubs do it again

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The team came from behind with some timely hitting, and got some excellent relief work. This afternoon started out weirdly when Marcus Stroman barely got through three innings and the Cubs went behind and looked pretty weak sauce against Chris Flexen, a guy who came into the game with an ERA north of 7. But the persistent Cubs scored single runs in the fi...2023
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• Cubs 6, Rockies 0: Takin’ care of business

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs need to win games... and here’s one they won in convincing fashion. With their recent skid, the Cubs have put themselves in a position where they pretty much have to win every single day the rest of the season, no matter how absurd that might seem. One day at a time is how they’ll have to take it, and Friday’s was a great effort pitching-wise, ...2023
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• Mariners To Acquire Teoscar Hernandez
9:52am: Seattle is sending right-handed reliever Erik Swanson and pitching prospect Adam Macko to the Blue Jays in the trade, Divish reports. 9:49am: TSN’s Scott Mitchell tweets that the Blue Jays will be getting bullpen help in return for Hernandez. Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times tweets that known trade candidate Chris Flexen is not a…...2022
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• Cubs 3, Mariners 2: Nico Hoerner walks it off
Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images The Cubs blew a ninth-inning lead, but won in extras. In their first foray into extra innings in 2023, the Cubs got themselves in trouble in the top of the 10th, got out of it, then won quickly in the bottom of the inning on a line-drive single by Nico Hoerner, defeating the visiting Mariners 3-2. It was the team’s first walkoff win since August 20, 2022. ...2023
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• Mets send Flexen for finale in Houston
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• Royals top White Sox 3-0 to go over .500 for the first time since the second game of 2022

MJ Melendez #1 of the Kansas City Royals celebrates hitting a two-run home run against the Chicago White Sox during the seventh inning at Kauffman Stadium on April 6, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images Michael Wacha was dominant and the Royals did just enough to win another one I could really get used to a Royals rotation that pitches like this one has so far...2024
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• Mets To Acquire Chris Flexen, Trevor Gott
The Mets are set to acquire right-handers Chris Flexen and Trevor Gott from the Mariners, reports Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. Lefty Zach Muckenhirn, whom the Mets designated for assignment earlier today, will go back to Seattle in the deal. Flexen was designated for assignment last week. Originally a Mets draftee back in 2012, Flexen…...2023
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• A Game of Groans

Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Much like the smash hit TV series about a quest for power, the 8th season of the White Sox rebuild is letting fans down. But even after a historically bad start, showrunner Jerry Reinsdorf appears keen to do nothing but watch it burn. Chaos is a Ladder Jerry Reinsdorf — the beleaguered owner of the Chicago White Sox — grimaced in disgust as he watched his team ...2024
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• FanDuel: Finally Get To Start Flexing
I don't know about you but it has been an interesting season to say the least. It's been a lot of fun writing these posts here for you on Monday morning for the day's slates and I hope you were able to plug in a few players that helped you take down a slate or two or played a pitcher you were on the fence that got you to the money in the end. The Monday slates are a little different in that they a...2021

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• Cub Tracks’ the meatloaf is likely to have a side of pierogi

Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs dropped a crucial game and may have to forfend the meatloaf. Paul Skenes will decide. 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, overheat...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Replacement Steele
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• Minor League Wrap: I-Cubs Flexen, Wicks combine to shut out Mud Hens, 2-0

Jordan Wicks | Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images Iowa and Knoxville show terrific pitching in wins. South Bend loses a slugfest. One day after going from South Bend to Iowa, lefty Chase Watkins went back down to South Bend. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs roasted the Toledo Mud Hens (Tigers), 2-0. Chris Flexen started and got the win with six innings, allowing just three hits. Flexen struck out fou...2025
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• Cole Ragans sharp, Jac Caglianone homers in 9-3 Royals win

Photo by Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images The Royals top the Cubs in a night game. Cole Ragans tossed three shutout innings and Jac Caglianone homered as the Royals pounded 12 hits in a 9-3 win over the Cubs Thursday night. Ragans had struggled through two spring training outings, but he was sharp tonight. He mowed down nine of the ten Cubs hitters he faced, many of which we...2025
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• Time to rearrange the deck chairs again

White Sox GM Chris Getz hated last year’s team. I can’t imagine he feels much better about this one. | Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports This year’s Chicago White Sox team is historically pathetic, even by Reinsdorfian standards. Something has to change While Rob Colletti’s analysis yesterday showed why (if you didn’t already know) the problem with the White Sox starts at the top with cha...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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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 145

Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs fumble the lead late, but bounce back to win 5-4. In the moment, I suspect Jordan Wicks would tell you that winning a game and the march towards the playoffs is what matters. That’s the right thing to say and is admirable. At the end of the day, it is a team sport. You win as a team and you win at a lose. It isn’t about individual accomplishments...2023
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• MLB rumors: Yankees have 'positive conversation' with Aaron Judge; Chris Flexen could be hot trade target

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