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• A look at some relievers the Cubs might sign this offseason

Jeff Hoffman | Photo by Elsa/Getty Images The Cubs could use bullpen help. Who should they go after? The Cubs had some real bullpen issues in 2024, particularly in the first half of the sason. Things stabilized, to some extent, in the second half and it’s possible the Cubs might have identified a closer in Porter Hodge. Since the 2024 season ended, the following relievers have been subtrac...2024
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• Free agent swingman pitchers that could interest the Royals

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The Royals still need pitching depth. The Royals finished with the seventh-best ERA in baseball, in large part due to their two All-Star pitchers Seth Lugo and Cole Ragans, as well as strong performances from Michael Wacha and Brady Singer. They traded Singer away, but will still have some rotation depth with Kris Bubic expected to re-join the rotation after ...2024
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• 2024 Heroes and Goats: Biggest comebacks of the year

Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images Here’s the anatomy of a comeback. As we make our way through the offseason, I thought it would be fun to look at some of the biggest comebacks that occurred in the 2024 season. One of the unique qualities of baseball is that there is always time for a comeback. The odds of a comeback get steeper and steeper of course. But technically, unt...2024
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• An updated look at the free agent market

Reggie Hildred-Imagn Images The market is thinning, but there are still plenty of names out there The free agent market has been highly active as of late, between MLB Winter Meetings and a fairly active weekend leading up to it. With so many names off the board, let’s take a position by position look at the top names (anybody with positive WAR) remaining. Each player’s 2025 seasonal age an...2024
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• Not as easy as it used to be

Yeah, definitely something odd going on with Blogger's reading list. It's started dredging up posts from long-dead blogs that are five, eight, 10 years old. I've actually seen a couple of old Gint-A-Cuffs posts. I got excited for a second and thought Mark had reappeared and was reviving it for this year's A&G set!I admit I've clicked on a couple of those once-active blogs and read an o...2024
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• The Matthew Boyd signing by the numbers

David Dermer-Imagn Images If you liked Drew Smyly have I got a pitcher for you Yesterday the Cubs signed an interesting but oft-injured pitcher in Matthew Boyd. With the deal coming in at two years and $30 million it’s pretty clear they see him as a starter. The more research and time I spent processing this free agent signing the more I convinced myself that I’ve seen this movie before, b...2024
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• Cub Tracks saddles up

Dizzy Dean and other players pose as cowboys | Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Player movement, GM Meetings — the 2024-25 offseason is on the air. 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, overh...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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• 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 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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• Cub Tracks puts the fork in

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. This is a late season late season. “Wait ‘til next 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, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears,...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ batsman’s holiday

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week. The front office is being as opaque as usual while the Cubs welcome the Braves to the Friendly Confines. The bats have been on vacation for a minute. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground f...2024
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2024
"Drew Smyly threw two perfect innings to wrap things up, and I do think this sort of multi-inning relief role is the right one for Smyly."

2023
"Drew Smyly entered and ended the inning with a strikeout of Blackmon, but not before wild-pitching the runner to second."

2022
"Drew Smyly will start for the Cubs and Brandon Woodruff will get the call for the Brewers."

2021
"Jose Altuve's seventh-inning homer off Drew Smyly in the Astros’ 7-2 victory over Atlanta in World Series Game 2 on Wednesday night was the 22nd postseason home run of his career, tying him with Bernie Williams for second on the all-time list."

2020
"The Giants have signed left-hander Drew Smyly, as per an announcement on the team’s Twitter feed."

2019
"Texas added left-hander Drew Smyly in a trade at the outset of the offseason and has since signed Lance Lynn on a three-year contract and selected the contract of veteran righty Edinson Volquez, who was signed last offseason to a two-year minor league contract in the wake of August 2017 Tommy John surgery."

2018
"Drew Smyly wouldn't mind being reunited with Alex Cobb on the Cubs, and the rehabbing left-hander did a little recruiting on Friday."

2017
"The Cubs not only signed free-agent reliever Brandon Morrow, but they added an extra arm for the future in lefty Drew Smyly."

2016
"Left-hander Drew Smyly started for the Rays and allowed just six hits in 6 2/3 innings."

2015
"Adrian Beltre put the Rangers ahead of starter Drew Smyly and the Rays with the 406th home run of his career, and Texas completed a three-game sweep with a 5-3 victory on Sunday afternoon at Globe Life Park."

2014
"Finding hidden gems in trades of big-name players, such as Ben Zobrist in the 2006 Aubrey Huff trade, Matt Joyce in the 2008 Edwin Jackson trade or, more recently, Drew Smyly in this summer's David Price blockbuster."

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• The Matthew Boyd signing by the numbers
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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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• Cubs Decline Option On Drew Smyly
The Cubs have declined their end of a $10MM mutual option on left-hander Drew Smyly, reports Jon Heyman of the New York Post. He’ll be paid a $2.5MM buyout and return to the free agent market. Smyly, 35, pitched to a 3.84 ERA in 58 2/3 innings over 50 relief appearances with the Cubs this…...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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• Three up, three down: An update on the Cubs, September 23 edition

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs had some good games, and some bad ones, over the last week. The Cubs were mathematically eliminated from postseason contention Saturday, but they still have a chance to surpass last year’s 83-win total. To do so they’ll have to go 4-2 over the season’s final week against the Phillies and Reds. In the meantime, let’s have a look at wh...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 153
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 152

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Cubs’ bullpen woes resurface in a 5-3 loss to A’s. The transitive property doesn’t provide much value as part of analysis in baseball. That said, there isn’t a timing issue here. At least not much of one. You can quibble about where the three teams were in their respective rotations. But, the A’s came to Chicago and lost two of three to the White S...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ over and out

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. I think it’s close enough to call it a day, a week, a season. 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 writers’...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 148
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• Rockies 6, Cubs 5: This space intentionally left blank

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images The Cubs had this game won. And then, suddenly, they didn’t. As most of you know, I generally try to take the optimistic view of the Chicago Cubs. Even recently, when it seemed like any postseason chance was nearly impossible, I kept thinking, “Well, if they can just go on a run here...” But after Saturday’s 6-5, 10-inning loss to the Rockies, even I h...2024
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• Three up, three down: An update on the Cubs, September 16 edition

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images The Cubs split six games with NL West teams over the last week. Two weeks remain in the 2024 regular season. The Cubs are still mathematically alive for a postseason spot, but we are in “miracle” territory. For example: If the Cubs somehow won all 13 games remaining to finish with 89 wins, the Braves AND Mets would have to do no better than 7-6 over their rem...2024
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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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• 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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• BCB After Dark: Running back the bullpen

Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks which reliever you would most like to see return in 2025. Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Please come on in and join us. We’re saving a table for you. The dress code is casual. The show will start shortly. Bring your own beverag...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 135

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports One good inning was just enough for a 7-6 win. From the department of really specific and random baseball stats: The Cubs are the first team in MLB history with an eight-game stretch that includes 98 hits, 80 runs, 43 extra base hits, 18 steals, and 14 homers. The Cubs are 7-1 over this stretch and are playing some of their best baseball of the year. This...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ meatloaf plus

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. A comeback for the ages and the Cubs head to DC after feasting on the Pirates’ pitching. Maybe they are real. They’re certainly spectacular! WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, gro...2024
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• Beltre's 406th homer keys sweep of Rays
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• Jays take flight on 3 HRs, Pillar's slick catch
Left-hander Drew Smyly started for the Rays and allowed just six hits in 6 2/3 innings. Unfortunately for him and the Rays, three of those hits were home runs. Josh Thole and Josh Donaldson hit solo home runs and Michael Saunders added a two-run shot to lead the Blue Jays' offense and account for four of their first five runs....2016
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• Cubs agree to terms with Morrow, Smyly
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• Rays rip quartet of homers in rout of Blue Jays
Tampa Bay used the long ball and a solid pitching performance by Drew Smyly to put away Toronto 13-2 Monday night in the opening game of a three-game series at Rogers Centre....2016
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• Tigers' HRs aid Fulmer's K's in win vs. Rays
James McCann beat his old college teammate, Drew Smyly, for a go-ahead two-run home run in the seventh inning, sending his current Tigers teammate, Michael Fulmer, to a victory in Detroit's 5-4 win over Tampa Bay on Saturday at Comerica Park....2016
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• Tigers' HRs aid Fulmer's K's in win vs. Rays
James McCann beat his old college teammate, Drew Smyly, for a go-ahead two-run home run in the seventh inning, sending his current Tigers teammate, Michael Fulmer, to a victory in Detroit's 5-4 win over Tampa Bay on Saturday at Comerica Park....2016
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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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• Miller, Smyly strong vs. split Red Sox
Drew Smyly was strong over four innings and Brad Miller led the offense as the Rays topped the Red Sox, 4-3, in Grapefruit League play on Wednesday....2016
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep - March 7, 2024
Cub 3B Battle Christopher Morel Morel's light-tower power (and propensity for shedding clothing) is well-known. His sudden Spring Training slide to 3B was endorsed by Northside Counsell himself, who said the Cubs 3B situation is "not going to be solved in spring training" but he's been "pleased with Morel's defensive work." Here's what we know: his 26 HRs in only 429 plate appearances in '23 means...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Final results
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• Reds 3, Cubs 0: Here’s to next year, beginning in Tokyo

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Cubs and Reds matched zeroes for nine innings, but the Cubs couldn’t hold the visitors down in extras. The Cubs put a Spring Training split-squad lineup on the field Sunday at Wrigley against the Reds, and fought them to a 0-0 deadlock after nine innings. Then in the 10th inning, after Ethan Roberts picked off the placed runner — something I don’t t...2024
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• Three up, three down: An update on the Cubs, September 23 edition
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Washington Nationals preview, Sunday 9/22, 1:20 CT

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Cubs go for the series win. Rain today. Here's the local radar to keep handy. Sunday notes... NOT A RELIEF: The game-changing home run off Keegan Thompson yesterday was the 16th this season surrendered by a Cubs reliever to the first batter he has faced — more than one quarter of all 60 homers served up by Cubs relievers. Thompson became the 10th ...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 139
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• Cub Tracks’ ivy league

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. #Motorola Cubs drop one to St. Louis but can still take series, 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 writers’ tears, a...2024
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• BCB After Dark: ‘Twas the night before the trade deadline . . .

Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks how many Cubs will get traded away by the deadline It’s another week here at BCB After Dark, the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. I hope you all had a pleasant weekend. Not much happened around here. Why don’t you come in and get out of the heat. There are still a ...2024
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• Even with elite pitching, this Braves offense must improve

Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images Atlanta's pitching staff looks like it has what it takes to get deep into October. In order for that to actually happen, the offense absolutely must get better. Alright, time to take some basic inventory. We’ve reached the All-Star break and our Atlanta Braves are 53-42, eight-and-a-half games behind in the NL East and four games ahead of the Cardinals for...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 85

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images The Cubs weremauled in Milwaukee, 7-1. Nico Hoerner homered in the top of the first. Everything after that was horrific. The Cubs managed only one other hit the remainder of the game and drew three walks. Kyle Hendricks was battered for seven runs and didn’t escape the fourth inning. With the game well out of reach, three Cubs relievers combined for 4⅓ in...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 79

Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images Same old story, different day: The Cubs lose 5-4 in San Francisco. In a bit of delightful timing, I watched almost all of the Cubs game last night. I was dozing when Justin Steele allowed the first of two homers he allowed on the night. Then I was fighting off sleep at the end and unfortunately did a better job than the Cubs bullpen did of putting up a fig...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 63

Photo by Jeff Dean/Getty Images The Cubs fade away in an 8-4 loss in Cincinnati. I play a game called Out Of The Park baseball. I first read about it a couple of years ago in my email via an offer I received to play test the game for free in exchange for writing about the game. I didn’t take that offer, because you’re not here to read about my game play. That said, it sparked my curiosity...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 53

Photo by Joe Puetz/Getty Images The Cubs were done in by a couple of long balls in a 4-3 loss. Paul Goldschmidt has been destroying the hopes and dreams of opposing teams since 2012 when he played his first full season in the big leagues. He has a career wRC+ of 141 and has been at least 117 in every single season. First base is a rough position for the Hall of Fame, but he should at least...2024
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• Jordan Wicks Scratched, Christopher Morel Says He Feels ‘Good’ After Tumble
The injury bug hanging around the Cubs must be a mosquito because it just keeps coming back and buzzing in their collective ear even when it’s not biting. Justin Steele, Julian Merryweather, Kyle Hendricks, Drew Smyly, Seiya Suzuki, and Cody Bellinger are all currently on the IL and several active players have previously spent time … The post Jordan Wicks Scratched, Christopher Morel S...2024
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