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• 2024 Heroes and Goats: Emmanuel Clase, part 2, and Matthew Boyd

Photo by Lauren Leigh Bacho/MLB Photos via Getty Images Continuing our H&G look at the Cleveland closer, and also at the Cubs’ new starter acquisition. This offseason, I’ve been taking a look at some other teams through the lens of WPA and particular Heroes and Goats. I started out by examining the Dodgers and particularly the spectacular season had by Shohei Ohtani. For those who may hav...2024
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• Cubs acquire Matt Thaiss from the Angels for cash considerations

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images The Cubs have another catcher on the 40-man roster. The Cubs, since letting Christian Bethancourt go, had only one catcher on the 40-man roster. They added one today when they acquired Matt Thaiss from the Angels for cash considerations. To make room for Thaiss on the 40-man roster, the Cubs designated Trey Wingenter for assignment. Thaiss was the Ange...2024
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• Three offseason moves the Cubs need to make

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Here are some things that would absolutely, positively improve the team for 2025. I know, I know. The first thing many of you are going to say when you think of “three offseason moves the Cubs need to make” is “Sign Juan Soto.” It seems clear that’s not going to happen. So let’s look at some other things the Cubs might do to put them in a position where...2024
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• 2025-26 MLB Free Agents
The following players project to become free agents after the 2025 season. We’ve providing this list for those who would like to look ahead to the free agent market one year from now. For the list of current free agents, click here. Updated 11-7-24 Catchers Austin Barnes (36) Christian Bethancourt (34) Victor Caratini (32) Austin…...2024
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• A very early look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax

Photo by Mary Turner/Getty Images Here’s where the Cubs stand payroll-wise as the offseason begins. Coming up soon, I’m going to begin my usual “Cubs free agent target” series. In the meantime, it’s time for our usual look at the Cubs’ 2025 roster, payroll and luxury tax as they stand just a couple of days into the 2024-25 free agent season. Before we get to the Cubs numbers and analysis,...2024
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• Rob Zastryzny returns to the Cubs in a flurry of roster moves

Rob Zastryzny pitches for the Cubs at Wrigley Field in August 2016 | Photo by Jon Durr/Getty Images Today was the deadline for returning players on the 60-day injured list to the 40-man roster. Rob Zastryzny was the Cubs’ second-round pick in 2013 out of the University of Missouri. He pitched in 12 games (one start) for the team in 2016-17 — and thus picked up a World Series ring. Release...2024
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• Assessing Rays 2025 Catcher Targets

Catcher Danny Jansen, Boston Red Sox | Photo By Winslow Townson/Getty Images How will the Rays address this hole? The 2024 MLB season has reached its conclusion and the Rays have flipped their mindset into offseason mode. One of the top items on their wish list, it seems, is too improve upon the poor output they received from the catching position. Rays catchers posted a .562 OPS this seas...2024
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• Here’s the Cubs’ entire 40-man roster and what might happen with it this offseason

Photo by Griffin Quinn/MLB Photos via Getty Images The team has many decisions to make. Last week, I posted this article about the 14 (!) players the Cubs have who are arbitration-eligible for 2025. In the poll attached to that article, 57 percent of you said the Cubs would non-tender at least seven of those players, with some commenting that it might be as many as nine. So I thought I’d e...2024
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• The Cubs have 14 (!) arbitration-eligible players for 2025

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Many of these players will probably be non-tendered. MLB Trade Rumors posted Tuesday their annual estimates for arbitration salaries for next season. They’ve gotten pretty good at this. Most of their estimates are pretty close to what the players actually sign for, unless said player winds up with a multi-year deal. Sometime after the World S...2024
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• 2024 Cubs final season grades

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Obviously, we wish this year’s Cubs would have done better. But there were still some performances to celebrate. As they did in 2023, the Cubs dug themselves a deep hole early on this year, went on a pretty good run and were briefly in a wild-card spot, then couldn’t hold on to it in September. They did finish 83-79, the same record as last y...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 162

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The offense heads to the off-season one day early in a 3-0 loss. I love baseball. That’s the whole story really. Every now and then, that love will flicker. As I’ve moved through the years from someone who watched every inning he could through the season to someone who listened a lot to someone who monitors the game through apps and social media, my lov...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 159

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images Nico Hoerner homers twice in a 9-6 loss to the Phillies. The Cubs are playing out the string. Today they’ll have an off day and then they’ll have three more games against the Reds at Wrigley Field before packing it up for the season. They were mathematically eliminated last week and with that, there has been a little more variety in the lineup from day ...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 156

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs shut out the Nationals 5-0 and take three of four. You can only ever beat the team that is scheduled to play you. There is a pretty high amount of randomness in scheduling. I suspect the schedule did the Cubs no favors in 2024. There were a lot of subpar teams baked into the last half the season and particularly the last 40 games or so. When the...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 153

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Cubs overcome more bullpen woes in 7-6 win. The Cubs bullpen tried to carbon copy Sunday’s game. After the Cubs and Nationals matched a run each in the first and two each in the third, the Cubs took a 5-3 lead with two in the fifth. Shawn Armstrong started the sixth and it didn’t go well. He faced four hitters and allowed three hits. The only thing that k...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 148

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images The Cubs falter late, losing 6-5 to the Rockies. This feeling this morning, it’s different than it has been in a while. The beauty of an in-season vacation is that I was out of contact during the Cleveland series. Because of that, I’m having trouble remembering the last time that things were so frustrating that I’m looking for where the ride ends so th...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 117

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Cubs win 8-2 to take the series from the Twins. I mean no disrespect to the Twins, but when I was looking into them ahead of this series, I saw a team that has feasted on bad teams with an unusual fervor. On the one hand, all you can do is beat the team in the other dugout. This isn’t college football and you aren’t lining up cupcakes to boost your...2024
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"Christian Bethancourt had entered the game after the PH at-bat of Tauchman for Amaya."

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"With due respect to Barbaro Canizares, Ryan Church, Troy Glaus, Juan Fransisco, Joey Terdoslavich, Christian Bethancourt, Cameron Maybin, Tyler Flowers, Cristian Pache and Alex Dickerson, the final resting place for Jones’ number 25 will now be in the more appropriate company of Dale Murphy, Bobby Cox, Chipper Jones, Warren Spahn, John Smoltz, Greg Maddux, Phil Niekro, Hank Aaron and Tom Glavine whose numbers were retired specifically for their accomplishments with the Braves organization."

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"Christian Bethancourt said his goodbyes to his Oakland teammates today, per Matt Kawahara of the San Francisco Chronicle (via Twitter)."

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"The Pirates have signed catcher Christian Bethancourt to a minor league deal, according to Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Twitter link)."

2020
"The Philadelphia organization also formally confirmed its previously reported minor league signing of catcher Christian Bethancourt."

2019
"Christian Bethancourt, per Bob Nightengale of USA Today (via Twitter)."

2018
"The Brewers announced that they’ve signed catcher Christian Bethancourt to a minor league contract with an invitation to Major League Spring Training."

2017
"Christian Bethancourt will take the mound in game action for the first time since the Padres began their attempt to convert him into a pitcher-catcher hybrid."

2016
"Christian Bethancourt belted a solo home run to back Drew Pomeranz and lift San Diego to a 1-0 victory over Chicago in the second game of a split doubleheader on Wednesday night, handing the Cubs consecutive losses for the first time all season."

2015
"Christian Bethancourt stroked three hits, drove in two runs and threw out a basestealer to back a solid start from Shelby Miller as the Braves thumped the Red Sox, 11-3, on Tuesday afternoon at JetBlue Park."

2014
"A Christian Bethancourt throwing error scored the Pirates' first run in the fourth, Travis Snider took Alex Wood deep in the fifth and an RBI double from Starling Marte scored Andrew McCutchen in the sixth to put the Pirates ahead for good."

• 2024 Heroes and Goats: Emmanuel Clase, part 2, and Matthew Boyd
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• Cubs acquire Matt Thaiss from the Angels for cash considerations
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• Rob Zastryzny returns to the Cubs in a flurry of roster moves
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• The Cubs have some roster decisions to make by Monday

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Who will stay and who will go? Tomorrow, Monday, Nov. 4 at 4 p.m. CT, MLB teams are required to activate all players on the 60-day injured list and restore them to the 40-man roster. The Cubs have eight players on the 60-day: Yency Almonte, Adbert Alzolay, Colten Brewer, Ben Brown, Brennen Davis, Luke Little, Nick Madrigal and Julian Merrywea...2024
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• MLB’s 2024-25 offseason calendar: Free agents, awards, Rule 5 draft, non-tenders, arbitration, more

Getty Images Baseball doesn’t stop just because there are no games. Here’s a handy calendar of everything happening before next season begins. Congratulations to the Los Angeles Dodgers on winning the 2024 World Series, the eighth title in their franchise history. With that, baseball’s offseason commences. Here’s a handy calendar to help you fill your fall and winter until Opening Day 202...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Final results

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Shota Imanaga nabs the Rizzo Award for his rookie season. As the 2024 season is on a collision course with its conclusion, it is time to start looking back and closing the books on the season. Unfortunately, the Cubs season came to a close several weeks ago. The playoffs are the goal for every team, but certainly for a large market team with a rabid fan b...2024
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• Assessing Rays 2025 Catcher Targets
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• Here’s the Cubs’ entire 40-man roster and what might happen with it this offseason
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• 2024 Heroes and Goats: Emmanuel Clase, part 2, and Matthew Boyd
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• The Cubs have 14 (!) arbitration-eligible players for 2025
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 162
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 161

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images A magical sendoff for a Cubs legend in a 3-0 win. What a day. We all have so many memories of Kyle Hendricks. Obviously, he started some of the most significant games in modern Cubs history, a statement that can be made without even an ounce of hyperbole. He started the deciding games of both the NLCS and the World Series in 2016, dominating the Dodgers ...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 160

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs record their 82nd win in a 1-0 shutout. That game had to make Cubs fans of a certain age remember games of the 60’s and 70’s. The Reds got a complete game with one run allowed. That’s going to win a game, what, 90 percent of the time? Probably more. Five hits, no walks. Tough break, sir. He allowed one double and it cost him. At 34 years of ag...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 158

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images The Cubs bats lead the way to victory in Philadelphia, 10-4. The Cubs bats broke out in a big way Tuesday night and the Cubs scored an impressive win against the Phillies to reach the 81-win plateau and guarantee a .500 or better finish to the season despite all of their struggles. We can wonder what could have been, but we can also give some credit to ...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 157

Eric Hartline-Imagn Images The Cubs were overpowered in the opener in Philly and lose 6-2. The Cubs were roadkill in Philadelphia Monday night. This isn’t a giant surprise. With 53 wins, the Phillies have more wins at home than any other team. This is their final home series of the season and they’ve now clinched the National League East title. They are half a game behind the Dodgers for t...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 148
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 146

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images The Cubs lose a wild one, 10-8. It’s possible some of us are going to diverge on our impressions of this one. In my head, this team played itself out of contention before the trade deadline. The last road trip for this team did, at least for a moment, put the Cubs on the periphery of the playoff picture. But even then, they were facing a decent gap, t...2024
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• BCB After Dark: Is Amaya a keeper behind the plate?

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks how you would feel about Miguel Amaya returning as the Cubs’ starting catcher in 2025. Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the hippest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and sit with us for a while. New friends and old, everyone is welcome. There’s no cover ch...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 144

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images The Cubs were quite impressive in a 10-4 win over the Dodgers. Who doesn’t love a little pleasant surprise on a Monday? To say the Cubs had a tough matchup Monday night feels like a wild understatement. They were facing arguably the best team in baseball, were starting an aging starter behind whom they’ve had an abysmal record, and their offense had complet...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 139

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Cubs come up empty in a 5-0 loss. I sincerely hope not too many of my regular readers got overly carried away with the Cubs’ recent resurgence. It was a lot of fun, but it was always a quest in search of a miracle. More than anything, it was a front-loaded schedule with the Cubs playing the hardest parts of its schedule first. Off the top of my hea...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 136

Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images Cubs streak hits five with 5-3 win. Mission: Impossible continues for our beloved North Siders. It isn’t literally true that they can’t afford to lose another game. They aren’t going to have to finish the season on a 31-game winning streak to reach the postseason. Though, as I think about it, if they want to go ahead and do that anyway, I promise not t...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ son of meatloaf plus

Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs harvested the meatloaf for their fifth win in a row and try to double their pleasure today. Plus a selection of DC Punk for your possible musical enjoyment. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style bea...2024
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• Pomeranz leads Padres to DH sweep of Cubs
The Padres got all the offense they needed with one swing. Christian Bethancourt belted a solo home run to back Drew Pomeranz and lift San Diego to a 1-0 victory over Chicago in the second game of a split doubleheader on Wednesday night, handing the Cubs consecutive losses for the first time all season....2016
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• Buchholz strikes out six in outing vs. Braves
Christian Bethancourt stroked three hits, drove in two runs and threw out a basestealer to back a solid start from Shelby Miller as the Braves thumped the Red Sox, 11-3, on Tuesday afternoon at JetBlue Park. Clay Buchholz struck out six over four innings while Allen Craig connected on his first spring home run in the loss....2015
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• Bethancourt's homer highlights Braves' rally vs. Tigers
Christian Bethancourt hit a game-tying home run to spark a Braves' rally after Mike Foltynewicz made his case for a spot in the rotation during Monday's 4-2 Grapefruit League win over the Tigers....2015
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• Pirates Clinch 2014 Playoff Berth: Highlights, Twitter Reaction to Celebration
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• Source: Pierzynski agrees to 1-year deal with Braves
Pending a physical, A.J. Pierzynski will join the Braves to help mentor catching prospect Christian Bethancourt, who is expected to be the primary backstop in 2015....2014
• Celebrating Atlanta Braves legend Andruw Jones

At long last, Atlanta Braves legend Andruw Jones is having his number retired by the organization. Seven years after being inducted into the Braves Hall of Fame, Jones will finally see his number retired by the organization with which he became a generational defensive talent. At long last, the Atlanta Braves will be retiring the number Andruw Jones famously wore during his 12 seasons with...2023
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• Braves Catcher Christian Bethancourt Hits 1st Major League HR & It's a Walk-off
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• Cub Tracks’ Kansas City blues

Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs dropped another road game. The usual symptoms, the usual suspects., 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...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 141

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs come up empty in a 3-0 loss to Anthony Rizzo and the Yankees. The Cubs were so happy to see their old pal Anthony Rizzo that they rolled over and played dead to give his team a win. Not really, but it might as well have been true. It was a generally well played game and neither team was able to generate a whole lot of offense. Unfort...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 138

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs return home from a terrific trip with a disappointing 5-3 loss. Last night’s game was simultaneously totally predictable and a little shocking to me. After an 8-1 road trip, a letdown game was so completely foreseeable. I essentially wrote about it yesterday. It isn’t surprising and it isn’t per se the gambler’s paradox. A team isn’...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 137

Rafael Suanes-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs crush the Nats to conclude an 8-1 road trip. A strange thing is happening here in 2024. I’m fairly certain the doctor called time of death weeks ago. For a while now, the math has been so bad that it’s hard to actually draw up, even today, realistic scenarios that involve this Cubs team as one of the playoff teams. Here we are though. Mission Imposs...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, September 2

Happy birthday, Christian Bethancourt! | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Pappas throws a no-no and other stories. Happy birthday to Christian Bethancourt! On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseba...2024
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• Chicago Cubs Score and Recap (8/28/24): Cubs 14, Pirates 10 – Christian Bethancourt Game Secures Sweep
The Cubs entered the 7th inning of their game against the Pirates Wednesday afternoon trailing 10-3 and the prospects for a comeback did not look very good. Then Pittsburgh’s bullpen, which has been a major liability for them all season, had a total meltdown and Chicago scored 11 times to pull off a shocking victory … The post Chicago Cubs Score and Recap (8/28/24): Cubs 14, Pirates 10...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 127

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images The Cubs fall flat in an 8-2 loss to the Tigers. One thing that has gone well for the Cubs in 2024 has been waiver wire pickups. While that can often feel like you are just recycling washed up players or guys that just never quite made it, the Cubs have gotten real value off of the wire. Tyson Miller and Jorge López have been terrific out of the Cub...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 117
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