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• A way-too-early look at the Cubs 2025 Opening Day roster

Major League Baseball It’s still January and there could be additions to come. Before I get into this list — and it’s likely to change perhaps even before Spring Training begins — here’s the caveat. This is a look at who will take the field for the Cubs Thursday, March 27 against the Diamondbacks at Chase Field — not who will open the actual 2025 season against the Dodgers Tuesday, March 1...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Which Cub will emerge behind the plate?

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks which Cubs catcher will have the better 2025 It’s Wednesday night here at BCB After Dark: the hippest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Please come in out of the cold and join us. There’s no cover charge this evening. We can check your coat for you. We ...2025
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• Here are the attendees for the 2025 Cubs Convention

Craig Counsell greets Cubs players at the 2024 Cubs Convention | Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Most of the 40-man roster plus some alumni favorites will be in attendance. The Cubs Convention begins this Friday at the downtown Sheraton Grand Hotel. Passes are still available and you can get yours here. Here are all the current, past and future Cubs who wi...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Fifth starter?

Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks who should get the first chance to be the Cubs fifth starter, assuming no other acquisitions. Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come in out of the cold. It’s plenty warm in here. Let us check your coat for you. The hostess wil...2025
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• What’s next for the Cubs now that Roki Sasaki is going somewhere else?

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images They do have some choices. But they had better get going. As we learned late Monday, the Cubs will not be the MLB landing spot for NPB star Roki Sasaki. He has narrowed his choices to three teams: Dodgers, Padres and Blue Jays. I think I’m not alone when I say I hope it’s either of the two teams besides the Dodgers. In fact, if he did choose the Jays, t...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Would Robert Suarez be a good fit?

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if Robert Suarez is worth the price. It’s another week here at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come in out of the cold. There’s no cover charge this evening. Let us check your coat. We still have a few tables available. Bring your own beverag...2025
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• What’s next for the Cubs now that Roki Sasaki is going somewhere else?
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• Cubs 10, Phillies 4: Cody! Cody! Cody!

Kyle Ross-Imagn Images Cody Bellinger had three hits and four RBI as the Cubs brought out the bats and dominated the host Phillies. Bryce Harper homered off Justin Steele in the first inning Tuesday, his 30th, and... well, after that, not much from the Phillies. The Cubs offense, meanwhile, pounded out 15 hits and drew four walks and romped over the Phils 10-4. Tanner Banks, normally a rel...2024
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• Cubs 5, Nationals 3: Keeping the line moving

Rafael Suanes-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs again put together a big rally and held on for the win. There’s something about this team... I suspect you see it too. It took nearly the entire season to get there, but now the Chicago Cubs don’t seem to mind if they fall behind. There’s always a rally within them, and that was the case again Saturday in a come-from-behind 5-3 win over the Nationals...2024
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• Cubs 7, Nationals 6: A little less drama, please

Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images The Cubs almost blew a five-run lead. The Cubs have won four straight and seven of eight after defeating the Nationals 7-6 Friday evening... but Cubs’ fans collective hearts were probably beating pretty fast after a high-wire act in the ninth inning. Whew. Let’s rewind to the beginning. Shōta Imanaga got touched up for a pair of runs in the bottom of t...2024
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• Three up, three down: An update on the Cubs, August 12 edition

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Last week was a good one for the North Siders. Since the last update in this series, the Cubs played five games and won four of them, the last four, so they enter this week on a high note and a four-game winning streak. During those four games there were some good performances — as well as some not-so-great — so let’s take a look at both sides. Three up C...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ the thrill of the Chase

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. A pitcher’s duel created drama in the desert. The Cubs emerged victorious. 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, ove...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ Yu who?

Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. Javier Assad ran out of gas and a Tatis tater ruined the night. 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, overheate...2024
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• BCB After Dark: Would Robert Suarez be a good fit?
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"A starting pitcher, perhaps Jordan Wicks or Javier Assad, would have to be included, and perhaps another prospect or two."

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"Javier Assad is listed as the starter for Tuesday against Rockies lefty Kyle Freeland."

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"Javier Assad will start for the Cubs and Chris Flexen gets the start for Colorado."

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"The Pirates scored first, in the bottom of the first, and as has been the case for Javier Assad too many times in his brief MLB career to date, a walk started things off."

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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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• 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 12, Pirates 0: Shōta Imanaga, Nate Pearson and Porter Hodge combine on a no-hitter

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images It’s the first no-hitter thrown by the Cubs at Wrigley Field in over half a century. You know, the Cubs might not make the postseason this year — and despite this 12-0 win over the Pirates they didn’t gain any ground on the Mets and Braves — but we will all have one wonderful, indelible memory to share all winter after Shōta Imanaga, Nate Pearson and Port...2024
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• Padres 9, Cubs 8: Uh-oh

Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images The Cubs had a massive bullpen meltdown Monday night in San Diego. The Cubs roared out to an 8-0 lead by the fourth inning Monday night in San Diego. What could possibly go wrong? Well, if you didn’t stay up to see the end of the Cubs’ 9-8 loss to the Padres that began a nine-game West Coast road trip... maybe you don’t want to know. Nevertheless, you c...2024
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• Cubs 5, Rockies 2: The old school recap

Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports With no video or photos from this game, what you get is descriptions. It is very odd, in the year 2024, to not have any audio or video live coverage of a Major League Baseball game. Yes, even in Spring Training, where the Cubs do cover nearly every game, and all those at home. But this one, about 10 miles north of the Cubs’ Sloan Park complex, had none. So I ca...2024
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• Padres 7, Cubs 0: Just give us something to talk about

Allan Henry-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs got shut out for their first loss of the spring. MESA, Arizona — Be honest now. All you want to talk about today anyway is Cody Bellinger. The Cubs certainly didn’t give us anything to talk about, recording just three hits, all singles, in a 7-0 loss to an anonymous Padres team. San Diego didn’t bring any of their big names to Mesa for this afternoon’...2024
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• A few more thoughts about Shōta Imanaga, new Cubs lefthander

Photo by Mary DeCicco/WBCI/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Japanese star should be a solid addition to the Cubs rotation. We waited quite a long time this offseason for the Cubs to make a major free-agent signing. As of today, we stand just 44 days from the team’s first Spring Training game and just 78 days until the Cubs open the 2024 season in Arlington, Texas against the World Series ch...2024
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• The 5 worst Cubs games of 2024

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images You probably don’t want to remember these, but here we are. There have been other years when I’ve posted a number of blowout losses in this annual recap. In some ways, those are easier to take, a team runs up a huge score against the Cubs but it still counts for only one loss. Other times I’ve filled these with soul-crushing defeats. This time, I’m going...2024
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• Cubs 10, Phillies 4: Cody! Cody! Cody!
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• Cubs 5, Nationals 3: Keeping the line moving
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• Cubs 7, Twins 3: The offense has been located!

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Cubs had a good day at the plate and evened up their series with the Twins. Hopefully, now that Cubs hitters put together a varied, 10-hit offense against the Twins Tuesday evening at Wrigley Field, the offense will stick around for a while. All of that resulted in a well-played 7-3 win over the Twins. The Cubs didn’t waste any time getting going at...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 14

Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports Shōta and some homers for the win. That’s more like it! The Cubs have been a little sloppy over the last few days. But a whole lot more of it came together Saturday night. Shōta Imanaga was slightly less dominant that he’d been in his first two starts, but was still very good. The offense wasn’t quite as relentless as it has been at times. But, they slugged t...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 5

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty Images The Cubs drop an avalanche on the Rockies. Not to echo off of yesterday’s story too much, but the Cubs drew one weak opponent early on. They’ve flat out dominated the first two games of this series. First and foremost, you beat the team across from you. This isn’t college or high school athletics where you can schedule some easier preseason teams as warm...2024
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 144

Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs salvage a winning homestand with a 5-2 win in the finale. As a new week dawns, we first have to close the book on the one that just ended. Sunday afternoon, the Cubs salvaged one game in the series with the Diamondbacks. In doing so, they finished off a winning homestand. Baseball, very much like life, is so often measured by context and perspective. F...2023
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 139

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images The offense takes its turn in an 11-8 win. We have to take care of some business off of the top. If you were someone giving up and deciding for at least the 20th time that this team was trash by the top of the third inning, show yourself out. I don’t know how to help you. Look, I had this team at 75 wins. We’re all wrong sometimes. (And let me tell,...2023
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 138

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports Justin Steele dominates in a holiday 5-0 win. It was a long holiday weekend for me here in the Tampa area. I had an old friend in town and Sunday night was a very late night. There were a few drinks and only a few hours of sleep. I appreciate you all bearing with me while I gave you somewhat abridged versions of Heroes and Goats the last couple of days. The C...2023
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• Dodgers 10, Cubs 8: Just... not... quite... enough
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• Cub Tracks’ the thrill of the Chase
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• Braves 5, Cubs 3: You can’t always get what you want

Bags packed, perhaps for the offseason | Photo by John Adams/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images And in this series, the Cubs did not. ATLANTA — Finally, the Cubs got some good relief pitching, six innings’ worth of two-hit, one-run (unearned) ball with eight strikeouts. Unfortunately, because Marcus Stroman couldn’t get past the second inning and once again the Cubs forgot how to play defens...2023
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• Cubs 14, Pirates 1: Now that’s more like it

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The Friendly Confines were very friendly to Cubs bats Tuesday evening. Rain delayed action at Wrigley Field Tuesday for an hour and 25 minutes and when it got started, the Cubs didn’t wait long before unleashing bats that had been awfully quiet for almost a week. A barrage that included 12 hits, six walks and four home runs led the Cubs to a 14-1 victory over t...2023
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 144
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 129

Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images A strong debut, a rollercoaster, a win. As per usual, Saturday is a family day for me. I’m usually good in the afternoon when the Cubs are at home. But these Saturday night games are tough for me to follow too closely. Did I miss anything? Obviously, I was right there with many of you when the ripple went through social media on Friday. Actually, I’d been...2023
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• Cubs 4, White Sox 3: Christopher Morel walks it off

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports ... and, my friends, this was the game of the year. So far, anyway. As baseball fans, each and every one of us lives for moments like we had at Wrigley Field Wednesday evening, a game in which our team seems headed for an inevitable, crushing defeat and then in a matter of just a few seconds, we are all sent into indescribable joy. Or, as a friend of mine...2023
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• Cubs 5, Rockies 4: The cardiac Cubs come back

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images A ninth-inning rally put this one in the win column. You asked for meaningful baseball in September and by gum, you have got it. Now let’s hope we all survive it. The Cubs fashioned an early lead, got good starting pitching, then the bullpen blew that lead. But then the team put together a stirring ninth-inning rally and held on — barely — for a 5-4 wi...2023
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• Cubs 10, Pirates 1: Takin’ care of business

Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images The Cubs got another strong team effort and won the series in Pittsburgh. When the Cubs departed for the just-completed seven-game road trip to Detroit and Pittsbugh, my feeling was that they needed to go 5-2 to keep pace with, or improve their position on, other postseason contenders. With Sunday’s well-played 10-1 win over the Pirates, the Cubs did just ...2023
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• Cubs 8, Braves 6: Swingin’ in the rain

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Cubs bats came alive on a really bad weather day at the ol’ ballpark. It rained all morning and afternoon in Chicago, and at Wrigley Field, and I’ll have a bit more to say about that later. Keeping with the spirit of the day, the Cubs rained down hits and home runs and evened up the series against the Braves with an 8-6 victory. The Cubs did not was...2023
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• Cubs 6, Rockies 3: Javier Assad and the comeback Cubs do it again

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The team came from behind with some timely hitting, and got some excellent relief work. This afternoon started out weirdly when Marcus Stroman barely got through three innings and the Cubs went behind and looked pretty weak sauce against Chris Flexen, a guy who came into the game with an ERA north of 7. But the persistent Cubs scored single runs in the fi...2023
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• Cubs 8, Giants 2: Sweep!

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs swept the Giants behind solid pitching from Jordan Wicks and a varied offense. Before I begin this recap of the Cubs’ impressive 8-2 victory over the Giants that gave them a series sweep and four straight wins, a mea culpa. I thought it was not wise to bring a rookie like Jordan Wicks into the pressure of a playoff race. Man, was I wrong. Wicks...2023
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• Cubs 7, Cardinals 2: Hey, Jed! Don’t trade Cody Bellinger!
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs center fielder homered again and drove in three runs. The Cubs did what they had to do this weekend, take three of four from the Cardinals, in order to stay close to playoff contention. And they did so Sunday in their third straight win over St. Louis, 7-2, largely on the back of center fielder Cody Bellinger. Bellinger smacked a two-run homer an...2023
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• Cubs 5, Rockies 0: Shōta Imanaga shines in the rain

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs got the game in and got a great pitching performance. Let me get this out of the way first. Last Friday I wrote this article saying the Cubs should postpone Opening Day — right then. The forecasts were dire. But they got the game in, though it rained pretty hard from about the seventh inning on. So, mea culpa, they played, got Opening Day in — ...2024
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• Cubs 4, Royals 3: More drama than we needed

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images This looked like a fairly easy win for a while, but the Royals made it close in the ninth. Thank you, Miguel Amaya, for hitting a home run in the eighth inning. This is why they call runs like that “insurance runs,” because that gave the Cubs a 4-1 lead that seemed fairly safe. Unfortunately, Adbert Alzolay wasn’t on his best game Sunday and allowed the ...2023
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• Cub Tracks’ Rea of sunshine

Photo by Jeff Speer/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs have a new No. 8 starter and other items of interest for the discerning reader. 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 #...2025
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• BCB After Dark: what is Colin Rea’s role on the 2025 Cubs

Colin Rea pitches as a Cub at Wrigley in 2020 against the Cardinals | Photo by David Banks/Getty Images This is another solid backend starter or bullpen piece Welcome late week late night Cubs fans and thank God it’s Friday here at BCB After Dark. We made it through the first full week of 2025. It feels like it’s been a month in a handful of days, but we are here, on Friday with every drin...2025
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• Cubs 5, Nationals 0: Shōta Imanaga shines, and the Cubs bring out the long ball
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• Cubs 4, Astros 3: Getting the job done

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Dansby Swanson’s three-run homer highlighted a four-run first inning that the Cubs made hold up for another win. It wasn’t the best of games. Cubs hitters struck out 12 times. Some sketchy defense helped lead to a Houston run. The Cubs had only one hit after the fourth inning. And yet, the Cubs put a large crooked number on the board in the first inning f...2024
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• 2022 Cubs Heroes and Goats; Game 135
Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Cubs pound Reds 9-3 in their return home to Wrigley Field. We say “baseball happened” when some lousy team beats one of the better teams. That scenario plays itself out basically every day somewhere across baseball. The reality that it is hard to sweep a series leads to these outcomes. It’s essentially a baseball meme to hold up what is essentially an exc...2022
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