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• Cubs roster move: Tom Cosgrove recalled, Ethan Roberts optioned

Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images The Cubs have another lefty in the bullpen. The Cubs acquired lefthander Tom Cosgrove from the Padres about two weeks ago. Cosgrove had a pretty good year for San Diego in 2023, but last year he was awful. He’s pitched in three games for Triple-A Iowa, covering four innings, allowing three hits and a walk with seven strikeouts, and no runs...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 28

Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images The Cubs were pounded by the Phillies, 10-4. The Cubs haven’t had a lot of completely uncompetitive games. This was the first one since April 14, when they also lost to the Padres 10-4. If this were to happen regularly, I’d be concerned about it. Maybe. But, at every few weeks, it is what it is. Maybe I’m rationalizing, but the Cubs, for the second straight ...2025
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• Phillies 10, Cubs 4: Sometimes it’s just not your day

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty Images The Cubs played the Phillies even for three innings. And then... they didn’t. There’s an old baseball saying, you’ve likely heard this one: “Every team wins a third of its games and loses a third of its games. It’s what you do with the other third that makes your season.” The Cubs’ 10-4 loss to the Phillies Saturday afternoon in front of a sold-out Wrigl...2025
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• Cubs 11, Dodgers 10: This team never quits!

Matt Marton-Imagn Images The Cubs won their second bonkers game of this homestand. The Cubs were behind... and then, suddenly, they weren’t. And then they built a nice lead... and then, blew it and wound up behind in the late innings. Then, just as they did in Friday’s crazy game at Wrigley Field, this Cubs team came back. They forced extra innings and Ian Happ’s 10th-inning single complet...2025
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• Diamondbacks 3, Cubs 2: There was nothing good about this day

The look from Carson Kelly sums up this one | Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images There were multiple rain delays and the Cubs lost a frustrating extra-inning game. How was your Sunday? Oh yes, as you can imagine I have some things to say about how Sunday’s weather was handled at the ballpark, but I’m going to save that for tomorrow. The Cubs lost to the Diamondbacks 3-2 in 11 innings, a loss t...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 22

Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images The Cubs outlast the Diamondbacks 13-11 in a wild finish. The online community has looked at WPA graphs that take a wild swing late as a Wee game. This is one of the first I can recall looking a little like a half pipe from skateboarding. We’ll start right off the top with the big numbers. After Michael Busch’s two-out RBI single in the bottom of the s...2025
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• Diamondbacks 3, Cubs 2: There was nothing good about this day
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 18

Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images The Cubs win 4-2 and take the series from the Dodgers in LA. When does being on the Sunday night national broadcast suck less? When you are in California. I mean, it is certainly possible the game would have been a Sunday “afternoon” game in Los Angeles. But for me over here in Florida, them playing a game that only ended around 10 p.m. local time wa...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 15

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images It was a bummer of a day as the Cubs lose 6-2. The start to this season has been so exceptional that this game is a weird feeling. The Cubs did show a brief sign of life in the fourth inning and the game was tied after four. This game was all Rangers, though. Shōta Imanaga had an uncharacteristically bad day. He allowed a couple of homers and...2025
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• Cubs roster move: Justin Steele to injured list, Ethan Roberts recalled

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images This isn’t good. Justin Steele threw seven outstanding innings on Monday. Unfortunately, that’s the last we’ll see of him for at least two weeks (Bluesky link): Cubs announce that lefty Justin Steele has been placed on 15-day IL due to left elbow tendinitis. Righty Ethan Roberts recalled from Iowa.— Jordan Bastian (@bastianmlb.bsky.social) ...2025
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• Justin Steele Placed on 15-Day IL with Left Elbow Tendinitis, Ethan Roberts Recalled
Just went it felt like everything was going just right for the Chicago Cubs, suddenly it’s not. The Cubs just announced that RHP Justin Steele was placed on the 15-Day Injured List with left elbow tendinitis, retroactive to April 8. Que the haunting music. The Cubs have called Ethan Roberts from Iowa, which is surely … The post Justin Steele Placed on 15-Day IL with Left Elbow Tendinit...2025
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• Cubs Place Justin Steele On Injured List
The Cubs placed lefty Justin Steele on the 15-day injured list due to tendinitis in his left elbow, per a team announcement. Righty Ethan Roberts has been recalled from Triple-A Iowa to take his spot on the roster. It’s something of a surprise IL placement for the excellent 29-year-old southpaw. The Cubs hadn’t previously acknowledged…...2025
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• Minor League Wrap: Owen Caissie hurt in Iowa DH split

Owen Caissie | Cody Scanlan/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The I-Cubs split a doubleheader, but the win was a pyrrhic one. The Pelicans remain undefeated. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs split a doubleheader with Indianapolis, losing the continuation of Friday’s suspended game 5-4 and winning the nine-inning contest 4-1. Jordan Wicks started on Friday and gave up three runs in t...2025
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• The Cubs need a bullpen fix — and fast

Photo by Masterpress/Getty Images Sunday’s meltdown was one of the worst in recent memory. As a refresher, one of the things that torpedoed — to use a current baseball-related word — the Cubs’ 2024 season was some awful bullpen work over the first couple of months. These are the pitchers who were in the Cubs’ Opening Day bullpen in 2024: Yency Almonte, Adbert Alzolay, Jose Cuas, Mark Leite...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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"Ethan Roberts finished off the seventh without further incident."

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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."

• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 18
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• Dodgers 3, Cubs 0: Tommy Edman ruins Matthew Boyd’s night

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Boyd was throwing a real nice game until Edman interrupted it with a three-run homer. Tommy Edman has been a Cubs nemesis dating back to his days with the Cardinals. He entered Friday night’s game batting .280/.320/.500 with 13 home runs in 68 career games against the Cubs — by far his most homers against any team (next most: seven against the Pirates ...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 15
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• The Cubs need a bullpen fix — and fast
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• Get to know the Iowa Cubs
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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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• 2025 Cubs player profiles: Ryan Brasier

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images Ryan Brasier’s veteran status and track record probably gives him an edge to a bullpen spot. He has to earn it, though. Ryan Brasier is going to need to get guys out. I mean, that’s what all pitchers do, ideally, but Brasier’s track record, veteran status, and relatively high salary probably get him a spot in the middle of the bullpen as long as he’s ef...2025
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• Cubs 4, Angels 4: Fit to be tied

Steve Sher One strike away from a Cubs win, an Angels homer led to the Cubs’ second straight tie. MESA, Arizona — Well, they’re still undefeated. The Cubs were that close — as noted above, one strike away — from winning Thursday afternoon’s game, when Brooks Kriske served up a two-run homer to Angels minor leaguer Kyren Paris. The Cubs loaded the bases in the bottom of the ninth but could ...2025
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• Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax

Photo by Mary Turner/Getty Images Have the Cubs finished making moves this offseason? We still don’t know for sure. Cubs pitchers and catchers officially report to Spring Training at the Sloan Park complex in Mesa, Arizona this Sunday. So on the same day as the Super Bowl, we’ll have an official Cubs pitcher/catcher workout to report on, and then coming up a week from Friday, the first off...2025
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• Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax

Photo by Mary Turner/Getty Images The Cubs still have a lot of space under the luxury tax. Spend it, Jed. Now that the deadline for arbitration-eligible players to sign before hearings has passed and Kyle Tucker is the only such Cub unsigned for this year, I thought it would be a good idea to take another look at the 2025 team payroll, projected roster and luxury tax situation. As usual, T...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 28
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 22
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• Padres 4, Cubs 2: It’s déjà vu for the bullpen

Denis Poroy-Imagn Images Sadly, you have heard this all before. The Cubs had a bullpen meltdown in Monday’s game against the Padres at Petco Park, and so two bullpen moves were made before Tuesday’s game. Unfortunately, it was those two relievers, Daniel Palencia and Luke Little, who had bad performances on Wednesday. The two runs (one each) that Palencia and Little allowed were the differ...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 18
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 16

Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images The offense was stifled in Los Angeles, as the Cubs lose 3-0. This is a frustrating one to write. That cover photo should be Matthew Boyd. Coming off of two strong starts against quality opponents, in his third start he drew the defending World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers. And that’s not any ordinary defending champion, that team is a poor man’s All-Star team...2025
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• Dodgers 3, Cubs 0: Tommy Edman ruins Matthew Boyd’s night
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 15
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• Rangers 6, Cubs 2: Sometimes it’s just not your day

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images The Cubs offense got shut down on a very cold afternoon. Dire weather forecasts of all-day rain made it seem very unlikely, early this morning, that this game would be played. But the rain fell mostly south of the city — it just sprinkled a couple of times at the ol’ ballyard — and so the Cubs and Rangers were able to complete their three-game series...2025
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• Cubs roster move: Justin Steele to injured list, Ethan Roberts recalled
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• The Cubs need a bullpen fix — and fast
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• Minor League Wrap: Owen Caissie hurt in Iowa DH split
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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• Cub Tracks gets its steps in

Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes plus extras, four days a week. On National GlenAllen Hill Remembrance Day, the Cubs faced Paul Skenes, who was as advertised. 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 ...2024
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• BCB After Dark: The wisdom of Wisdom

Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if the Cubs should have brought back Patrick Wisdom for 2024. It’s another week here at BCB After Dark: the swingingest set for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We hope you’ve had a great last weekend as we head into the upcoming holiday weekend. As our present to you, there’s no co...2023
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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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• Cubs 11, Dodgers 10: This team never quits!
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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!

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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• 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 roster move: Tom Cosgrove recalled, Ethan Roberts optioned
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• Cubs 11, Dodgers 10: This team never quits!
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 18
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 15
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• Cubs roster move: Justin Steele to injured list, Ethan Roberts recalled
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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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• 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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• Reds 7, Cubs 3: All good things...

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs’ unbeaten streak came to an end. MESA, Arizona — You didn’t really think the Cubs would stay undefeated all Spring Training, did you? Oh, come now, you know that’s pretty much impossible. They did manage to not lose through their first 11 spring games, a pretty good feat, before dropping Sunday’s contest to the Reds at Sloan Park, 7-...2025
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• Cubs vs. Reds at Mesa preview, Sunday 3/2, 2:05 CT

Steve Sher The Cubs look to remain unbeaten! Sunday notes... WINNING: Counting both wins Saturday, the Cubs are 8-0-3. In the regular season, they last went 11 games without a loss July 31-Aug. 12, 2016, when they won 11 straight. Their only longer unbeaten streak this century was 12 games, all wins, May 19-June 2, 2001. That was their fourth 12-game streak since 1901 and first since 193...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 16
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• 2024 Cubs final season grades
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• A very early look at the 2024 Cubs roster and payroll
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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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