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• Game Thread: Brewers at White Sox

Sean Burke gets the start for the series finale in Chicago. | Justin Casterline/Getty Images Are we poised for another sweep? The first full month of baseball is officially over, and the White Sox are exactly where I imagined — last place in the division and 7-23. The South Siders will face the Brewers this afternoon in a series finale, already having lost another series. Ahead of the gam...2025
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• Matt Shaw Making Adjustments at Iowa, Still Significant Room to Improve
Matt Shaw and Gage Workman opened the season as the Cubs’ primary third base options, but now one is in Iowa and the other on the South Side while Jon Berti gets everyday reps at the hot corner. While not quite aggressive enough to send off strong desperation vibes, it seems a little like Craig … The post Matt Shaw Making Adjustments at Iowa, Still Significant Room to Improve appeared ...2025
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• Eighth-inning rally leads to Brewer victory over White Sox

Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images Jake Bauers’ big hit was his first off a lefty this season Box Score The Brewers and White Sox played the second of a three-game series this evening in Chicago, where Tobias Myers took the mound versus a man with heavy Brewer ties, the right-hander Shane Smith. Smith, who had back-to-back very good seasons in the Milwaukee farm system the last two years, was ...2025
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• Three errors, two unearned runs, and one familiar loss as Sox fall 6-4 to Brewers

Jon Garland again graces the mound he once rode to a World Series championship. | Chicago White Sox/X Jon Garland’s blast from the past can’t cover up our present pain Despite a nostalgic start to the evening with White Sox legend and 2005 World Series champion Jon Garland throwing out the first pitch, the South Siders fell to the Milwaukee Brewers by a score of 6-4, dropping their season...2025
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• A look at a scoring change on Shohei Ohtani that I think MLB got wrong

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images What do you think? Here’s the very first play — in fact, on just the second pitch — of last Tuesday’s Cubs/Dodgers game at Wrigley Field. Shohei Ohtani was the batter [VIDEO]. At the time of the play, this was ruled an error on Gage Workman. Workman is now a member of the White Sox after the Cubs DFA’d him the next day following that error. Shōta I...2025
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• SB Nation Reacts: The Cubs’ biggest need right now

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty Images Your vote might be different after the last few games. Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Chicago Cubs fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Last week, I ran this SB Nation Reacts survey, sponsored by FanDuel which ga...2025
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• Eighth-inning rally leads to Brewer victory over White Sox
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• Cub Tracks sweeps the leg

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, -four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs sent the Dodgers on their way without a Chicagoland victory and prepare for Philadelphia to arrive. 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, ...2025
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• Cubs roster moves: Nicky Lopez signed, Drew Pomeranz added, Gage Workman DFA, Gavin Hollowell optioned

Gavin Hollowell and Drew Pomeranz | Photos by Steph Chambers/Getty Images The Cubs make some more roster shifts. Nicky Lopez, who was with the Cubs in Spring Training this year but was let go and signed with the Angels, has been re-signed by the Cubs after the Angels let him go earlier this week: The Cubs are re-signing INF Nicky Lopez. He was with them in spring then to the Angels and ...2025
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• Cubs 4, Dodgers 2: Pete Crow-Armstrong shows off in front of the home folks

Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images PCA hit two homers and a triple with his parents in attendance at Dodger Stadium. I told you the Cubs could win this series! The Cubs went into Dodger Stadium and with solid pitching and hitting took two of three from the defending World Series champions, winning Sunday. They got a strong outing from an unexpected source (Colin Rea) and a great offen...2025
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• Cubs 16, Dodgers 0: The hits and home runs just kept on coming

Two of the Cubs’ home run heroes from Saturday night, Carson Kelly and Michael Busch | Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images It took a while, but the Cubs brought out the big bats at Dodger Stadium Saturday evening. The Cubs and Dodgers looked like they would be locked in a classic pitcher’s duel for the first five innings of this game. Ben Brown and Roki Sasaki were both dealing, and both teams flashe...2025
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• Cubs Opening Day roster moves: Brad Keller added to 40-man, Cody Poteet DFA, Eli Morgan recalled

Brad Keller | Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images The Cubs have set their roster as they open the North American portion of the 2025 season. Several of these moves have been telegraphed or put on social media over the last day or so, but Thursday morning the Cubs made the following roster moves official: Brad Keller has been selected and added to the 40-man roster To make room for Keller, reliever ...2025
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• BCB roundtable: 2025 Cubs season preview

Getty Images A discussion of the season to come from the BCB staff. BCB’s front-page writers have done several of these roundtable discussions previewing Cubs seasons and postseasons, so here we are again to kick off the 2025 season. Josh, Sara, Thomas, Duane and I had a lively online conversation Wednesday afternoon. The online chat has been lightly edited for clarity. Ashley was unable ...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Will Workman work out?

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if Rule 5 pick Gage Workman will last the season in Chicago. It’s the night before (domestic) Opening Day here at 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. We still have a few tables available. There’s no cov...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Will Nico Hoerner be ready for Opening Day?

Nico Hoerner slides to score a run against the Nationals | Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images The Cubs second basemen made his Spring Training debut today Welcome late night and/or early morning Cubs fans to the late-week, indie coffee shop that is serving up all the beverages to fuel a sports-fueled March Madness weekend or the caffeinated coffee and tea you need to power a weekend shift...2025
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• Padres 5, Cubs 1: Mostly pointless

Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images Nico Hoerner returned to the field. Cade Horton pitched well. Moises Ballesteros homered. Other than that. . . . Now that the Cubs have returned from Japan, having lost two games that count, they now have to play five games that don’t count, because the schedule says so. But it’s hard to find much point to today’s game, which was a glorified minor le...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ don’t make a habit of this

Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Cubs lose to Diamondbacks in a game that doesn’t count but feels bad nonetheless. 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, s...2025
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"Gage Workman, starting at third base, began the game by booting a relatively routine ground ball from Shohei Ohtani."

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"Since the season ended, the following players have been added to the Cubs’ 40-man roster: Matthew Boyd, Eli Morgan, Matt Thaiss and Gage Workman, along with two players to protect them from the Rule 5 Draft: Owen Caissie and Ben Cowles."

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"That was in spite of the fact that Torkelson was primarily a first baseman/corner outfielder at Arizona State University, where fellow prospects Alika Williams, Drew Swift and Gage Workman generally covered the more demanding positions on the…"

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"Tigers fourth-round selection Gage Workman says he fully intends to sign with the club, as Jeff Metcalfe of the Arizona Republic reports."

• Collecting Rule 5: White Sox acquire SS Gage Workman from Cubs

Meet your newest waiver-wire-and-Rule-5 acquisition, Gage Workman! | Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images If you fill your roster with players you can’t demote, at least you’re forced to put them on the IL faster when they’re hurt! Chris Getz seems to have found a curious crack in the baseball industry: Collecting Rule 5 players drafted by other teams and then dropped. The GM made his se...2025
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• Cub Tracks walks on

Denis Poroy-Imagn Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs are headed home after an arduous road trip and hope to right the Good Ship Cub Friday afternoon. 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, ov...2025
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• Padres 8, Cubs 7: This space intentionally left blank

David Banks-Imagn Images That was one of the weirdest games you will ever see. I’m going to put this right out there first thing, and then get to the recap of this bizarre game. You might disagree with my conclusion here, but I think Craig Counsell made a mistake in the ninth inning. After batting for Matt Shaw with Michael Busch, Counsell put Gage Workman at third and left Justin Turner a...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Ban the torpedoes?

Joe Camporeale-Imagn Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks for your opinion on the “torpedo” bats. It’s another week here at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and join us for a while. There’s no cover charge. The dress code is casual. There are still a few tables available. Bring your own bever...2025
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• Cubs 4, Diamondbacks 3: You keep me hangin’ on

Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images The Cubs had another shaky ninth inning, but a great play by Dansby Swanson nailed down the win. I’m gonna make a little teeny tiny suggestion here. Maybe it’s not such a great idea for the Cubs to keep signing former Astros relief pitchers. We went through a roller-coaster ride with Hector Neris last year until he was let go, and the Ryan Pressly Era hasn’t begun...2025
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• BCB roundtable: 2025 Cubs season preview
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• Cub Tracks has the vapors

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs will be heading to Japan for some strangeness with the Dodgers. The guys in the picture are on the trip roster. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground fr...2025
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• Cub Tracks goes to eleven

Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Cubs win in comeback fashion and the starter relieved the reliever. Good times. 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, s...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Who should close for the Cubs?

Hodge pitches the ninth inning against the Reds in September | Matt Marton-Imagn Images The Cubs will head to Japan on Wednesday Welcome to your late week, late night indie coffee shop where we are listening to some easy going tunes while we serve up all your favorite beverages. If you’re looking for a local craft beer we’ve got you covered. If a cup of tea or decaf coffee is your pleasure...2025
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• A look at a scoring change on Shohei Ohtani that I think MLB got wrong
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• Cub Tracks sweeps the leg
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 20

Denis Poroy-Imagn Images The Cubs bullpen leads the way in a 2-1 win. I’ve never spent any time thinking about who the Murphy fellow was or why he was destined to bring frustration to people for all of time. I decided I’d wait up for the Tuesday night game to end in order to get this written before the quick turnaround day game after night game. So, of course, the game went extra innings....2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 17

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The Cubs bounce back with an offensive explosion and win 16-0. This game almost became as silly to write about in the good direction as the previous two games did in the wrong direction. The subtle difference here is that this one was a 2-0 game through six innings. The final score is not indicative of how much of a nail-biter as this one was for tho...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 13

Photo by Abigail Dean/Getty Images Steele dominates in a 7-0 Cubs win. In the nine years now that I’ve been writing Heroes and Goats, and with the assistance of social media, the strangest thing I’ve learned is that some number of you experience your fandom by being angry a lot. There is some amount of frustration and lashing out that is part of the way you consume the baseball season. On...2025
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• Cubs 18, Athletics 3: Carson Kelly hits for the cycle in a blowout win

Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Cubs bats came alive in Sacramento, and the Cubs catcher did something that hadn’t happened in more than three decades. It was a grand opening the Cubs will certainly never forget, and the Athletics would probably like to. The first MLB game in Sacramento ended with the score Cubs 18, A’s 3, with the Cubs pounding out 21 hits, inc...2025
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• Atlanta Braves go on Home Run barrage as they beat the Cubs

Jonathan Dyer-Imagn Images The Braves’ offense went into overdrive as they beat the Chicago Cubs 13-4 The Atlanta Braves took on the Chicago Cubs in Arizona for Spencer Schwellenbach’s last start of spring training. The Braves deployed a lineup that looks like it could potentially be the opening day lineup against Brad Keller, who is non-roster invitee. To start the game, it looked like ...2025
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• 2025 Cubs player profiles: A few final words

The 2025 player profiles are complet and the projections averaged. Thanks for taking the time to read and comment. We’ve covered the 40-man roster of the Chicago Cubs, as they stand as of this moment. Nico Hoerner is going to miss the opener Japan, but we have yet to attain wisdom as to his Stateside Opening Day status. That might or might not leave a temporary spot open, which would allow the Cub...2025
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• Eighth-inning rally leads to Brewer victory over White Sox
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• BCB After Dark: Should Shaw have gone down?

Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if the Cubs made the right call sending rookie Matt Shaw to Iowa It’s Tuesday night at BCB After Dark: the jazziest joint for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and join us for a while. We love to host new friends and old friends. There’s no cover charge. We still h...2025
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• Cubs 4, Dodgers 2: Pete Crow-Armstrong shows off in front of the home folks
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• Cub Tracks keeps on runnin’

Matt Marton-Imagn Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. De Padres fell prey to the agony of de feet and the goose laid an egg on their plans. 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...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Ban the torpedoes?
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• BCB After Dark: Will Workman work out?
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• 2025 Cubs player profiles: A few final words
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• Cub Tracks goes to eleven
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• BCB After Dark: Who should close for the Cubs?
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• 2025 Cubs player profiles: Carson Kelly

Steve Sher The Cubs’ new backup catcher has hit well so far in Spring Training. View this post on Instagram A post shared by cubs (@cubs) Carson Kelly has been both a starter and backup in The Show. He’s had four years of more than 300 at-bats in a nine-year career, and fared well enough. He has a pretty good bat — not just ‘as a catcher’ but 10-20 home...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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• Cubs 16, Dodgers 0: The hits and home runs just kept on coming
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• Tigers Notes: Torkelson, Greene, Hess
The Tigers announced Spencer Torkelson as a third baseman when they selected him with the first overall pick in the 2020 draft. That was in spite of the fact that Torkelson was primarily a first baseman/corner outfielder at Arizona State University, where fellow prospects Alika Williams, Drew Swift and Gage Workman generally covered the more demanding positions on the…...2022
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• Cubs 18, Athletics 3: Carson Kelly hits for the cycle in a blowout win
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• Just what is Jed Hoyer doing this offseason?

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images So far, it’s a mystery. It seems to be a parlor game these days to dunk on Cubs President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer. So far, I haven’t participated, though I’m no big fan of Hoyer. So let me dive in. Since the season ended, the following players have been added to the Cubs’ 40-man roster: Matthew Boyd, Eli Morgan, Matt Thaiss and Gage Workman, al...2024
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• Cubs 4, Diamondbacks 3: You keep me hangin’ on
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• White Sox Acquire Gage Workman, Designate Nick Maton
The White Sox announced that infielder Gage Workman has been acquired from the Cubs in a trade for cash considerations. To create roster space for Workman, the Sox designated infielder Nick Maton for assignment. More to come…...2025
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• Cubs 4, Yomiuri Giants 2: ‘Go Cubs Go,’ 6,310 miles from Wrigley Field

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images The Cubs again couldn’t hit early, then rode a four-run fifth to victory. TOKYO — What a trip, hearing “Go Cubs Go” blare from the Tokyo Dome speakers, and Clark the Cub flying the “W” flag in the outfield, after the Cubs defeated the Yomiuri Giants 4-2 Sunday evening (or morning, depending on where you are). Just a little piece of home, thousands of miles a...2025
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• Game Thread: Brewers at White Sox
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• Eighth-inning rally leads to Brewer victory over White Sox
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• Three errors, two unearned runs, and one familiar loss as Sox fall 6-4 to Brewers
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• Game Thread: White Sox at Athletics

Tyler Gilbert, White Sox starter in perpetuity. | Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images Tyler Gilbert, meet Groundhog Day Howdy everyone, yeah it’s me again. It is a full Brett Ballantini day today, with roster updates, game threads, recaps, minor league update. I cannot promise a great effort on any one of these stories for fear of perishing before the final Kannapolis Cannon Ballers recap is p...2025
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• Cubs Trade Gage Workman to White Sox for Cash
Gage Workman‘s time with the Cubs may be over, but he gets to stay in Chicago. Just three days after designating the spring training phenom for assignment, the Cubs announced that they have traded Workman to the White Sox in exchange for cash considerations. While it’s a bit of a surprise that he was claimed … The post Cubs Trade Gage Workman to White Sox for Cash appeared first ...2025
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• Cub Tracks sweeps the leg
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• Cubs 11, Dodgers 10: This team never quits!
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• Cub Tracks walks on
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• Cubs 4, Dodgers 2: Pete Crow-Armstrong shows off in front of the home folks
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• Three errors, two unearned runs, and one familiar loss as Sox fall 6-4 to Brewers
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• Cubs 4, Diamondbacks 3: You keep me hangin’ on
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• Cub Tracks has the vapors
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• BCB After Dark: Who should close for the Cubs?
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• BCB After Dark: Does Gage Workman make the team?

Gage Workman | GREG WOHLFORD/ERIE TIMES-NEWS / USA TODAY NETWORK The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if Rule 5 pick Gage Workman makes the Opening Day roster. It’s Monday evening here at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Please come on in. We’ve been expecting you. There’s no cover charge this evening. We still...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Which new Cub will have a big impact?

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks, other than the obvious choices, which new Cub will have the biggest impact? It’s another evening at BCB After Dark: the hippest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Please come in and get warm. We can take your coat for you. There are still a few tables available, ...2025
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• BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: 16 through 20

Pedro Ramirez | MICHAEL CLUBB/SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE / USA TODAY NETWORK The second installment of series features four infielders and a pitcher. Let’s continue with our countdown of the Top 25 prospects in the Cubs system with prospects 16 through 20 today. Just as a reminder, to be eligible for this list, you need to still have rookie eligibility, which means 130 or fewer at bats or 50 or f...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Why did the Cubs sign Nicky Lopez?

Nicky Lopez takes an at bat at Wrigley Field during the Crosstown Classic | Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images Welcome to your end of the weekend, heading into the work week coffee shop where we’ve got whatever you’re looking for tonight we’ve got you covered. If you’d like a warm chai tea to get your evening going, we can do that. If you’re looking for a shot of something a little stronger...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Why do the Cubs have so many scrappy utility guys on the roster?

Vidal Bruján fields a ball against the Rays in July. | Photo by Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images How many of the same guy can Jed Hoyer acquire in one offseason? Welcome to your late week, late night indie coffee shop where we’ve got all the drinks you need to warm you up from the cold weather. If you’re looking for something warm and caffeinated, we’ve got you covered. If you’d prefer som...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Opening Day for Matt Shaw?

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if Matt Shaw should be the Cubs’ Opening Day third baseman. It’s another week here at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in out of the cold. There’s no cover charge. We can check your coat for you. There are still a few available tables...2024
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