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• Athletics 8, Cubs 1: Still jet-lagged

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images The Cubs continue to sleepwalk through these five Spring Training games between the Tokyo opener and the domestic Opening Day in Arizona. The Cubs continued their five-game Spring Training homestand after their season-opening trip to Japan and once again the bats were silent as they lost to the Sacramento Athletics 8-1 before 13,024 at Sloan Park. New Cub ...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Should Shōta have stayed in?

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if Shōta Imanaga should have pitched longer last night. It’s Tuesday night here at BCB After Dark: the hippest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Or it’s Wednesday afternoon if you’re in Tokyo. Either way, you’re welcome here. Come on in. There’s no cover charge. We sti...2025
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• Dodgers 4, Cubs 1: Walkathon

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images You cannot win games walking that many opposing hitters. TOKYO — I don’t know how many times I’ve said this, but walks will just kill a baseball team. Yes, the Cubs didn’t provide much offense and that’s another story, but the five walks Shōta Imanaga and Ben Brown issued in the first five innings of this game resulted in most of the Dodgers runs, and the de...2025
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• BCB After Dark: The season starts

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks you to make your season predictions. Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We so glad you’re up late with us. Are you planning to stay up for tonight’s season opener? In any case, come on in. We’ve still got a few tables available ...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Intro to the season

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Just what exactly is Heroes and Goats? Here’s an overview. For those of you who have followed Heroes and Goats for one or more years, welcome back! To those of you who are new here, welcome. Hopefully, you’ll give this space a chance. There are a number of loyal followers of this section who come back year after year and engage with this material. Hopefully,...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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• Cub Tracks’ samurai deli tray

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Very lean on the corned beef, and a cream soda, in the spirit of International cooperation and amity. 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,...2025
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• Four reasons Rockies fans should be excited for the 2025 season

Photo by Isaiah Downing/MLB Photos via Getty Images Despite the lack of expectations, there are still plenty of reason for excitement around the 2025 Rockies Spring training is rapidly approaching with pitchers and catchers reporting on Thursday and the remainder of the squad joining on the 18th. Like every year, spring training brings excitement to baseball fans and the potential that co...2025
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• BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: The top 5

Matt Shaw | Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Our countdown of the Cubs top prospects finishes with the top five prospects in the Cubs system. We finish up our look at the top prospects in the Cubs system today with the top five prospects in the system. While I’ve written that the Cubs system is down from its heights last year, it’s still a top 10 farm system in my mind and that’s mostly b...2025
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• Monday Rockpile: The Rockies need to get more from their first round picks

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, January 27th, 2025 Over the past few weeks we’ve taken a closer look at the Colorado Rockies and their preferred team building methodology as a “draft and develop” organization. To be more specific, we’ve evaluated their struggles employing that particular methodology. From their difficulties in both the draft and ...2025
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• Report: Padres out on Roki Sasaki

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Let’s hope this isn’t true... It’s not Jeff Passan so I’m hoping this isn’t correct but Francys Romero is reporting the Padres are out on Roki Sasaki, their number one free agent target this winter. Hearing from multiple sources that the Padres are out in Roki Sasaki. They will begin their international signings of Jhoan De La Cruz and Carlos Alvarez in t...2025
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• Padres in final three for Roki Sasaki

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Not a shocker but it’s fun seeing San Diego being right there as we get closer to Sasaki signing The time we’ve all been waiting for is almost here. Roki Sasaki is nearing a decision on where he’s going to spend the first chapter of his big league career. Jeff Passan is reporting that the Padres are a finalist for the Japanese star. The finalists for Japan...2025
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• Good Morning San Diego: Padres facing competition for Roki Sasaki

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Everything you need to know about MLB news and your San Diego Padres for Thursday, January 9, 2025. San Diego Padres News What are Padres’ plans behind the plate? (MLB.com) What does 2025 hold for the Padres? (MLB.com) Padres’ injuries and roster moves (MLB.com) Padres’ Top 30 Prospects list (MLB.com) Mystery team involved in Sasaki sweepstakes? (MLB.com) ...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 12

Gene Wang/Getty Images Jeral Perez tops our Round 11 ballot. So, who is the 12th-best prospect in the White Sox system? For such an “improved” White Sox system, we’ve hit a stretch where none of our winners are coming out of this organization’s drafts or signings. This round, Jeral Perez ascended, taking 41 of 207 votes (20%). That’s just four fewer tallies in the same number of votes (207...2024
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• Teoscar Hernández wins dramatic 2024 MLB Home Run Derby

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images This ended up coming down to the final swing and the final involved two guys who weren't exactly favored to be there, either. There were plenty of twists and turns in this year's Derby. In a night where it was seemingly wise to expect the unexpected, it was Teoscar Hernández from the Los Angeles Dodgers who wound up becoming MLB's Home Run Derby champion for...2024
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• Good Morning San Diego: Padres reveal starting pitcher rotation

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Everything you need to know about MLB news and your San Diego Padres for Tuesday, March 26, 2024. San Diego Padres News Padres notes: Leodalis De Vries’ appreciation, Woo-Suk Go’s mindset, Manny Machado’s progress (San Diego Union-Tribune) Lifelong Padres fans have Opening Day tradition (MLB.com) Padres set starting pitching rotation, reflect on Korea trip...2024
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• BCB After Dark: the importance of utility
Miles Mastrobuoni | Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks you who should have been the choice to be the Cubs Opening Day utility player Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the coolest pre-party for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. It’s the last week before Opening Day and we’re looking forward to spending all season with...2023
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"Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images The Cubs again couldn’t hit early, then rode a four-run fifth to victory."

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"Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images One of the top pitchers in Japan will be subject to international spending limits."

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"Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Games happened late Tuesday/early Wednesday in Taiwan."

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"“I don’t think it’s right, but it is what it is,” Morris said, via Gene Wang of The Washington Post."

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"Don't count the Wizards out, though, if they assume coach Randy Wittman's attitude, per Gene Wang of the Washington Post: "Hey, the farther this goes along, Game 3, Game 4, Game 5, whatever, next series, it’s going to get more physical, it’s going to get harder."

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• It’s time to believe in Chandler Simpson

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Could he be the center fielder of the future? When Hollywood adapts baseball to the big screen, some screenwriters tried to make the game as realistic as possible while others will present the game with supernatural elements to showcase just how otherworldly their participants actually are. In Twilight, as regularly re-emerges on social media, the vampires ...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ are we there yet?

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Lots of decisions to make this spring. Who’s on third? 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, an...2025
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• ESPN ranks two Braves prospects on new top 100

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Drake Baldwin once again ranks as the Braves top prospect As prospect season continues yet another major top 100 dropped on Wednesday, with ESPN insider Kiley McDaniel releasing his preseason list. McDaniel is one of the most trusted sources of prospect information in the business, and he thinks highly of the Atlanta Braves’s top two position players. Coming...2025
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• Good Morning San Diego: Padres picking up pieces after Roki Sasaki joins Dodgers

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Everything you need to know about MLB news and your San Diego Padres for Tuesday, January 21, 2025. San Diego Padres News Padres’ next steps after missing out on Sasaki (MLB.com) Maldonado, Padres agree to non-roster contract (sources) (MLB.com) The scoop on how SD’s infield is shaping up (MLB.com) Padres plot new course without Sasaki (MLB.com) Padres ros...2025
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• Cubs vs. Yomiuri Giants at Tokyo preview, Sunday 3/16, 5 a.m. CT

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images The Cubs square off against another NPB squad. TOKYO — Sunday notes... MLB vs. NPB: The Cubs were shut out by the Yomiuri Giants, 6-0, when the teams met at Tokyo in 2000 before the Cubs opened the MLB season against the Mets. The Giants are 24-48-6 in games vs. all individual MLB teams. They own seven wins over the Mets, five wins over the Dodgers; two ea...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Going to Japan

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cub fans asks how you feel about the Cubs starting the season in Japan. Welcome back to BCB After Dark; the hippest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and sit with us. There’s no cover charge. Bring your own beverage. BCB After Dark is the place for you to talk baseball, mu...2025
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• SB Nation Reacts: Who’s going to sign Roki Sasaki?

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images A fair number of respondents to the survey chose the Cubs. Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across Major League Baseball. 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. Now that the MLB non-tender deadline has passed, thoughts ...2024
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• Braves News: Drake Baldwin, bullpen, spring training invites, more

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Wednesday It was a good day for Drake Baldwin, as he got a spring training invite and landed on ESPN’s top 100 prospects list. It does appear that he will start the season at AAA, especially after The Athletic’s David O’Brien reported that Sean Murphy is expected to start roughly 80% of the Braves’ games this season, which ...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Three left standing

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Roki Sasaki nears a decision and there are consequences. The international amateur market opens today. What’s up with Alex Bregman? And other news from around baseball. Good morning. I think we’re all familiar with Roki Sasaki narrowing his decision to three teams on Monday by now. But the fallout from that continues. This came out before Sasaki’s Monday an...2025
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• Cubs 4, Yomiuri Giants 2: ‘Go Cubs Go,’ 6,310 miles from Wrigley Field
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• Markieff Morris criticizes Kevin Durant for signing with Warriors
On one side, you have people who respect Kevin Durant’s decision to sign with the Golden State Warriors and give himself the best chance at winning a championship. On the other, there are those who think he took the easy way out and was afraid of adversity. Washington Wizards forward Markieff Morris clearly belongs to the latter group. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Morris was critical of Dur...2016
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• Royals have done “due diligence” on Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images One of the top pitchers in Japan will be subject to international spending limits. Juan Soto signed a landmark free agent deal as the most coveted player available, but the second-most coveted free agent this winter will likely sign one of the smaller deals this winter. Roki Sasaki, a 23-year-old who has spent the last five years pitching for the Chibe Lotte...2024
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• The World Baseball Classic has begun!
Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Games happened late Tuesday/early Wednesday in Taiwan. If you missed this late night Tuesday and early Wednesday — and given the time difference, you might have — the World Baseball Classic began in Taichung, Taiwan. There’s already been an upset of sorts — the Netherlands defeated Cuba 4-2 in the opening game of the tournament. In the other initial game in...2023
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• 7 Cubs prospects are in MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 for 2025

Matt Shaw playing third base for Team USA in the WBSC Premier12 tournament in Tokyo in November | Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images So the future could be very bright. It’s that time of year. What time? Time for various prospect rankings to come out. Baseball Prospectus ranked four Cubs in its Top 101, noted here 10 days ago. Baseball America topped that with 5 Cubs, as posted here on Wednes...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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• Outside The Confines: Welcome to August

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images The tail end of the season has begun. Welcome to August, friends, the tail end of the season is here, and we’re still reeling from the big (and small) moves of the trade deadline. Today’s links are heavy on trade deadline reviews, plus looking at the unfortunate end of Mike Trout’s 2024 season, an update on what’s happening with Freddie Freeman’s family, and...2024
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• 2024 NL West Preview: The Dodgers have loaded up for October

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Just like with Atlanta in the NL East, it’s all about what Los Angeles can do in October instead of the regular season. While the NL Central may be wide open, there are no such delusions of grandeur to be had in the NL West. That means that it’s probably going to be another long season in Denver for the Colorado Rockies, who are very likely going to spend a...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 22, 2024

Sure, it’s not the KBO, but it’s in Korea | Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images I tried to write as much as I could of this ahead of time, but if it descends into madness by the end, I blame basketball Max and Jeremy already covered the big stories yesterday. I guess I’ll just link to other stories below that cover the same ground. First, Max: Alec Marsh makes the rotation, Jordan Lyles to th...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 15, 2024

Salvy Splashes are not just for MLB | Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Asia Baseball Previews start today! Max was, of course, all over the notable news that last couple of days. On Wednesday, the big story was that Bo Jackson would be inducted into the Royals HOF. Yesterday, it was announced that former GMs Cedric Tallis and John Schuerholz would join him. Just wanting to link to some st...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 24, 2023
Cardboard fans and robot drummers. 2020 was wild, guys. I don’t think we fully appreciate just how wild it was. | Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Asian Baseball Preview, Part I: CPBL Daniel Lynch exited yesterday’s game with an injury: Lynch was pitching his third inning during Thursday’s game at Peoria Stadium when he felt discomfort in his left shoulder. By the time the next pitch lande...2023
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