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• The 5 best Cubs games of 2024

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images These were all fun, well-played, or both. Now that you’ve read yesterday’s recap of the five worst Cubs games of 2024, here are five that should make you smile. Walk-offs, of course, always generate big cheers and excitement, no matter how they happen. I’ve got some of those here, but there are also other entertaining wins that deserve recogn...2024
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• An updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax

Photo by Mary Turner/Getty Images Much has changed in only a few weeks. It was only about six weeks ago that I posted a “very early look” at the Cubs’ roster, payroll and luxury tax here. For anyone who thought, at that time, that President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer wasn’t going to do anything this winter, think again. Since that article appeared here Nov. 6, the Cubs have added the...2024
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• Juan Soto, an update on where the Cubs stand, and Winter Meetings open thread

Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images A potpourri of things for you on Monday morning. Juan Soto has signed with the Mets. That, you already know, and you can read more reaction in this morning’s Outside The Confines. You knew he wasn’t coming to the Cubs, right? I think we all knew that, or should have. Here’s the only thing I have to say about that. The Cubs have made it pretty clear that ...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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• 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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• 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 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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• Cubs 14, Nationals 1: Sweep!

Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images The Cubs just completed their best road trip in many years. You did not expect an 8-1 Cubs road trip. None of us did. And yet, the Cubs, playing their best baseball of the year, did it at exactly the time they needed to, completing a three-game sweep of the Nationals with a convincing 14-1 win. It’s their sixth win in a row, a season high. They’ve also w...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ doubly good

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs come up winners, the Earth does the wave, and other stories. 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’ t...2024
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• Reds 6, Cubs 3: Justin Steele just didn’t have it

Photo by Kirk Irwin/Getty Images Another day, another loss. The trade deadline came and passed Tuesday and the Cubs didn’t do much. You can read about that elsewhere, but after trading was done for the year the Cubs took the field against the Reds and lost 6-3. I guess I could finish there, but you come here for a game recap and yes indeedy, you will get one. This game was over early. TJ ...2024
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• 2024 Cubs midseason grades

Photo by Peter Joneleit/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images We’re at the All-Star break, so let’s look at how the Cubs are doing. The Cubs have had an up-and-down first “half” (really, 61 percent of the season has been completed at this point). They looked like world-beaters for a month, then awful for two months, and recently they’ve started to look pretty good again. Those break down to the...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Games 96 and 97

Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images A double dip defeat, the Cubs lose 11-3 and 5-4. On a wild Saturday, the Cubs played two games against the Cardinals and came up empty twice. If either of these games happened in a vacuum, I wouldn’t lose a lot of thought about them. With a quick turn around to the series finale, I’m not going to write a thousand words about them either. It was a frus...2024
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• Cubs 5, Cardinals 1: The Professor holds class, again

Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images And the Cubs put together another varied offense and defeated their arch-rivals. Just when the Cubs needed Kyle Hendricks to come through the most, he did that, in spectacular fashion. The Professor threw seven shutout innings, his best outing of the year, and the Cubs put together a number of good offensive rallies and won the first ...2024
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"[VIDEO] Ethan Roberts entered to throw the bottom of the inning."

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"Today was the deadline to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players and here’s what the Cubs did: The Cubs are non-tendering RHP Codi Heuer, RHP Ethan Roberts and LHP Brandon Hughes."

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"Steven Brault, Kervin Castro, Jesse Chavez, Narciso Crook, Matt Dermody, Scott Effross, Anderson Espinoza, Luke Farrell, Jackson Frazier, Mychal Givens, Robert Gsellman, Jason Heyward, Caleb Kilian, Brendon Little, Chris Martin, Conner Menez, Alec Mills, Sean Newcomb, Daniel Norris, Nicholas Padilla, Ethan Roberts, David Robertson, Frank Schwindel, Andrelton Simmons, Eric Stout, Locke St."

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"The Cubs announced that they have selected the contracts of outfielder Nelson Velazquez and right-handed pitcher Ethan Roberts."

• An updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax
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• Juan Soto, an update on where the Cubs stand, and Winter Meetings open thread
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Final results
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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 Cubs final season grades
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• Cubs 5, Nationals 0: Shōta Imanaga shines, and the Cubs bring out the long ball

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs got yet another dazzling performance from Shōta Imanaga, and turned on the power in this rain-delayed win. Sunday’s weather forecast in Chicago was pretty dire — rain for most of the day, and I’ll have some further thoughts later — but it ended mid-afternoon in time for the game to begin with a two hour, 20 minute delay. It was worth the wait to ...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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• Dodgers 10, Cubs 8: Just... not... quite... enough

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images The Cubs took a lead, blew it, came back to tie, but the bullpen then gave it away late. Dodger Stadium, oddly enough, is the MLB ballpark with the most total homers hit in the 2023 season. Entering this game there had been 199 home runs hit in the home of the Dodgers, two more than had been hit in Yankee Stadium. (Wrigley Field ranks 28th, with just 1...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 132

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports A little bit of pinball in Pittsburgh and the Cubs win 18-8. Pete Crow-Armstrong and the Cubs offense were a legitimate menace in Pittsburgh last night. Any time you start doing things that the organization hasn’t done in over 100 years is pretty impressive. Eight stolen bases in a game was definitely that. Then add in 18 runs? It was a long night for Pira...2024
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• The 5 best Cubs games of 2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 162
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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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• Cubs 14, Nationals 1: Sweep!
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• Cubs 14, Pirates 10: The Christian Bethancourt game

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs backup catcher drove in seven runs to lead the team’s comeback win of the year, and a sweep of the Pirates. So let’s say you hadn’t watched this game, hadn’t heard anything about it, had a news blackout this afternoon. And then I told you that Kyle Hendricks would have the shortest and worst start of his career, that Paul Skenes was on the mound f...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 132
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 125

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty Images The Cubs offense was held in check in a 1-0 loss. Back in the saddle again. I’ve returned from the Alaskan wilderness to retake my spot as the Heroes and Goats writer. A big thank you to Al for keeping things going in my extended absence. You get me back, but this is going to remain a little bit watered down. I’m going to imagine none of you out there a...2024
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• The 5 best Cubs games of 2024
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• Dodgers 10, Cubs 8: Just... not... quite... enough
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• Cubs 14, Pirates 10: The Christian Bethancourt game
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• Cubs 18, Pirates 8: The offense explodes!

Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images Now THAT was fun! One day after Cubs hitters struggled to put two runs on the board in Miami, they crushed baseballs for season highs of 21 hits and 18 runs and demolished the Pirates 18-8. Because baseball, of course. Lots to get to in this recap so let’s get right to it. In the first, the Cubs didn’t score, but Ian Happ stole second base, the first o...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Games 96 and 97
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• Cub Tracks’ Cardinals toast Cubs’ ravioli

Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. David Bote pitched in but the Cubs were routed by the Cardinals. There was also a negative side. 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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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 90

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs come up empty in a 7-0 loss. After a sustained winning streak, a team will sometimes have a clunker. And so it was that after the 2024 Cubs historically put together a (checks notes) two-game July winning streak, the Cubs had a rough game. And certainly that will happen when you play an elite team. So the Cubs lost 7-0 to nothing to the (checks ...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 86

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs drop the series opener to the Phillies, 6-4. While the Cubs and baseball have always been my first love, I’ve rotated through the Bears, Bulls and Blackhawks as each spent time as the best in its sports. Growing up in the Mike Ditka era, I join so many Chicago sports fans with an appreciation of “fire.” At times, a good temper tantrum get elev...2024
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• 2022 Cubs final season grades
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Let’s look at the players who were on the Cubs active roster at season’s end, plus a few others. Sixty-four men played for the Chicago Cubs this year, five short of the franchise (and MLB) record the team set last year. I am certain you don’t want, or need, to see grades for all 64 men who wore the blue pinstripes in 2022. So I’m limiting this to the 28 p...2022
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• The Cubs outright David Bote, Franmil Reyes, Alec Mills off the 40-man roster
Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images ... as well as make several other roster moves. As you know if you have read my 2022-23 MLB offseason calendar, the deadline for teams to add prospects to the 40-man roster to protect them from the Rule 5 Draft is next Tuesday, November 15. In advance of that, today the Cubs made several roster moves: David Bote, Franmil Reyes, Alec Mills, Brad Wieck ...2022
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• Cubs non-tender Codi Heuer, Ethan Roberts and Brandon Hughes; Patrick Wisdom signed

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images The injured pitchers could come back on minor-league deals. Today was the deadline to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players and here’s what the Cubs did: The Cubs are non-tendering RHP Codi Heuer, RHP Ethan Roberts and LHP Brandon Hughes. Additionally, Patrick Wisdom and the Cubs have agreed to terms on a contract, avoiding arbitration.— Andy...2023
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• Cubs 6, Rockies 2: Hooray for The Professor

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Kyle Hendricks threw one of his best games of the year. And Michael Busch had himself an afternoon. Kyle Hendricks has had a rough season. There have been a few good starts, but also games where he’s just got hit really hard. This might wind up being his last MLB season. This was one of the good ones, in fact, one of The Professor’s best of 2024 — and ...2024
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• Cubs 14, Nationals 1: Sweep!
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• Cubs 14, Marlins 2: Seiya Suzuki’s big day helps the Cubs back to .500

Photo by Rich Storry/Getty Images It’s been a long time since the Cubs were at break-even. Before Saturday, the Cubs were last at the .500 mark at 31-31, following a two-game sweep of the White Sox at Wrigley Field June 5. It took nearly three months, but their 14-2 win over the Marlins Saturday finally put them back at the break-even mark at 65-65, and they have a pair of homers and a tri...2024
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• Cubs 10, Dodgers 4: Michael Busch bites the hand that once fed him

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images The former Dodgers prospect had a huge night in his first game at Dodger Stadium as a Cub. Michael Busch, who the Cubs acquired over the winter from the Dodgers for prospects Jackson Ferris and Zyhir Hope, has been in a terrible slump over the last few weeks. Perhaps the desire to show the Dodgers what they gave up helped Busch break out of that. He homered,...2024
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• Cubs Sign Edwin Rios To Major League Deal
The Cubs have signed corner infielder Edwin Ríos to a big league contract, tweets Maddie Lee of the Chicago Sun-Times. Reliever Ethan Roberts was placed on the 60-day injured list to open a spot on the 40-man roster. Ríos, 28, has played in each of the last four MLB campaigns as a member of the Dodgers. He…...2023
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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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• Phillies 9, Cubs 6: Just too many home runs allowed

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images The Cubs finished the road portion of their 2024 schedule by giving up too many homers in a defeat. Nico Hoerner had himself a day, though. Nico Hoerner homered twice Wednesday in Philadelphia, the first multi-homer game of his career. Unfortunately, three Phillies (Trea Turner, Nick Castellanos and Kody Clemens) all went deep off Javier Assad, and that ...2024
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• Cubs 5, Nationals 0: Shōta Imanaga shines, and the Cubs bring out the long ball
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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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• A very early look at the 2024 Cubs roster and payroll

Photo by Mary Turner/Getty Images ... in the wake of the shocking news of the signing of Craig Counsell to manage the team. MLB free agency has begun. Players who are free agents can now sign with any team. Incidentally, here is a complete list of this offseason’s free agents, and as I have in the past, I’ll be posting individual articles about some of them and how they might meet the Cubs...2023
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• BCB After Dark: Coming back stronger than ever
Photo by Hunter Martin/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks you what currently-injured Cub will be the most productive in 2023. Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the boppin’ bar for night owls, early-risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and drown your sorrows tonight. We’re happy to see you again. Let us know if we can get anything for you. If you...2022
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