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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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• 2024 Heroes and Goats: Biggest comebacks of the year

Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images Here’s the anatomy of a comeback. As we make our way through the offseason, I thought it would be fun to look at some of the biggest comebacks that occurred in the 2024 season. One of the unique qualities of baseball is that there is always time for a comeback. The odds of a comeback get steeper and steeper of course. But technically, unt...2024
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• A few thoughts about new Cubs lefthander Matthew Boyd

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images This could be a good value signing. Or not. As always, we await developments. As you know, the Cubs signed lefthander Matthew Boyd to a two-year, $29 million contract very early Monday. The signing has not yet been officially announced by the team. You can read Josh’s thoughts about Boyd at the link above. But I also have opinions! So here they are. Boyd ...2024
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• Three offseason moves the Cubs need to make

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Here are some things that would absolutely, positively improve the team for 2025. I know, I know. The first thing many of you are going to say when you think of “three offseason moves the Cubs need to make” is “Sign Juan Soto.” It seems clear that’s not going to happen. So let’s look at some other things the Cubs might do to put them in a position where...2024
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• BCB After Dark: Where goest thou, Sasaki?

Photo by Eric Espada/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks where you think Roki Sasaki will sign and whether the Cubs have a chance. Welcome back to BCB After Dark: your cool nightspot for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in out of the fall chill air. We’ve got some warm music and conversation in here. If you need us to check ...2024
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• Cub Tracks is beautiful, and so are you

Javier Assad was part of the Torneo Apertura 2024 Liga MX at Caliente Stadium, November 1. | Photo by Francisco Vega/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Won’t you come out to play? 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, #...2024
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• Here’s the Cubs’ entire 40-man roster and what might happen with it this offseason

Photo by Griffin Quinn/MLB Photos via Getty Images The team has many decisions to make. Last week, I posted this article about the 14 (!) players the Cubs have who are arbitration-eligible for 2025. In the poll attached to that article, 57 percent of you said the Cubs would non-tender at least seven of those players, with some commenting that it might be as many as nine. So I thought I’d e...2024
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• 2024 Cubs final season grades

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Obviously, we wish this year’s Cubs would have done better. But there were still some performances to celebrate. As they did in 2023, the Cubs dug themselves a deep hole early on this year, went on a pretty good run and were briefly in a wild-card spot, then couldn’t hold on to it in September. They did finish 83-79, the same record as last y...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 159

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images Nico Hoerner homers twice in a 9-6 loss to the Phillies. The Cubs are playing out the string. Today they’ll have an off day and then they’ll have three more games against the Reds at Wrigley Field before packing it up for the season. They were mathematically eliminated last week and with that, there has been a little more variety in the lineup from day ...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ end of the road

Welcome, Kevin Alcantara! | Photo by Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. El Jaguar comes for coffee, the Cubs drop two out of a three-game trip, and the season is mercifully almost over. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and...2024
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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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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 148

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images The Cubs falter late, losing 6-5 to the Rockies. This feeling this morning, it’s different than it has been in a while. The beauty of an in-season vacation is that I was out of contact during the Cleveland series. Because of that, I’m having trouble remembering the last time that things were so frustrating that I’m looking for where the ride ends so th...2024
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• Cub Tracks gets into the end zone

Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes plus extras, four days a week. The Cubs put up a seven spot with late runs and looked good in the first game of a weekend series at PNC Park. 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, over...2024
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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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• A few thoughts about new Cubs lefthander Matthew Boyd
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• BCB After Dark: Where goest thou, Sasaki?
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Final results

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Shota Imanaga nabs the Rizzo Award for his rookie season. As the 2024 season is on a collision course with its conclusion, it is time to start looking back and closing the books on the season. Unfortunately, the Cubs season came to a close several weeks ago. The playoffs are the goal for every team, but certainly for a large market team with a rabid fan b...2024
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• Here’s the Cubs’ entire 40-man roster and what might happen with it this offseason
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 160

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs record their 82nd win in a 1-0 shutout. That game had to make Cubs fans of a certain age remember games of the 60’s and 70’s. The Reds got a complete game with one run allowed. That’s going to win a game, what, 90 percent of the time? Probably more. Five hits, no walks. Tough break, sir. He allowed one double and it cost him. At 34 years of ag...2024
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• The Facade Falls Off for Assad - Sept. 26, 2024
Javier Assad, SP, CHC Assad fell apart against the Phillies on Wednesday, allowing 8 ER's including 3 HR's in 4.1 IP, while striking out 3 and walking 3. Assad spent the first two years of his career far outpitching his peripherals, posting a 3.06 ERA in 2022-2023 despite a 4.49 xFIP. He continued the mirage at the start of this season recording a 1.49 ERA and 4.08 xFIP through his first 9 turns...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 158

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images The Cubs bats lead the way to victory in Philadelphia, 10-4. The Cubs bats broke out in a big way Tuesday night and the Cubs scored an impressive win against the Phillies to reach the 81-win plateau and guarantee a .500 or better finish to the season despite all of their struggles. We can wonder what could have been, but we can also give some credit to ...2024
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• The 5 worst Cubs games of 2024
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• The Facade Falls Off for Assad - Sept. 26, 2024
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• Cubs 10, Phillies 4: Cody! Cody! Cody!
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 157

Eric Hartline-Imagn Images The Cubs were overpowered in the opener in Philly and lose 6-2. The Cubs were roadkill in Philadelphia Monday night. This isn’t a giant surprise. With 53 wins, the Phillies have more wins at home than any other team. This is their final home series of the season and they’ve now clinched the National League East title. They are half a game behind the Dodgers for t...2024
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• BCB After Dark: Where goest thou, Sasaki?
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• BCB After Dark: Vote for the Cubs MVP

Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks who isnthe Cubs MVP this season. It’s another Tuesday evening here at BCB After Dark: the hippest happening for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re so glad you decided to stop by. We’ve got a good crowd here, but there are still a few tables available. The dress code is casual...2024
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• Your weekly moment of baseball Zen: Hispanic Heritage Edition

Isaac Paredes plays third | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images A few notes about Monday’s game at Wrigley Field. The Cubs opened their penultimate homestand on Monday night against the Athletics with a bang. They won nine to two, with 18 hits and staff ace Shota Imanaga struck out a career high 11 batters en route to his 14th win of a stellar rookie campaign. All of that was l...2024
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Nationals series preview

Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images The Cubs swept the Nats in DC in August. Can they do it again? The Cubs swept the Nationals a few weeks ago in Washington and outscored them 26-10. Unfortunately, since then the Cubs are just 6-9, and 3-6 at Wrigley Field. Here’s hoping this series ends better than the last three home sets. For more on the Nats, here’s Patrick Reddington, who runs our SB N...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 148
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• Colorado Rockies game no. 148 thread: Javier Assad vs. Austin Gomber

Photo by Logan Riely/Getty Images Rockies take on Cubs in 1st of 6-game homestand The first of two final homestands of the 2024 season will begin tonight for the Rockies as they host the Chicago Cubs Friday through Sunday. Arizona will then come to Coors Field before Colorado makes a trip to Los Angeles to play the Dodgers, only to return to Denver to host the Cardinals and Dodgers. There...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 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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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 32

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Cubs inability to close out a game pops up again in a 7-6 loss. In probably the biggest upset of the young 2024 season to date, I made it through the first 31 games without writing a glass half full/glass half empty piece. It’s probably my biggest go to as a writer, but the cup has run over so much in the early going, I just haven’t r...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 25

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs sweep the Astros to close a successful homestand. Every season is an entity onto its own. You watch enough seasons and they start to feel like one long homogenous mass. But when you sort them out, or more specifically when one is going on, you can really feel that individuality. And so, as we sit in front of this currently unfolding season, th...2024
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• Cub Tracks earns the split

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes plus extras, four days a week. Cubs could have had both games, take one, and head for a series win Sunday. 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’ tear...2024
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep - March 7, 2024
Cub 3B Battle Christopher Morel Morel's light-tower power (and propensity for shedding clothing) is well-known. His sudden Spring Training slide to 3B was endorsed by Northside Counsell himself, who said the Cubs 3B situation is "not going to be solved in spring training" but he's been "pleased with Morel's defensive work." Here's what we know: his 26 HRs in only 429 plate appearances in '23 means...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 141

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs come up empty in a 3-0 loss to Anthony Rizzo and the Yankees. The Cubs were so happy to see their old pal Anthony Rizzo that they rolled over and played dead to give his team a win. Not really, but it might as well have been true. It was a generally well played game and neither team was able to generate a whole lot of offense. Unfort...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 137

Rafael Suanes-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs crush the Nats to conclude an 8-1 road trip. A strange thing is happening here in 2024. I’m fairly certain the doctor called time of death weeks ago. For a while now, the math has been so bad that it’s hard to actually draw up, even today, realistic scenarios that involve this Cubs team as one of the playoff teams. Here we are though. Mission Imposs...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 127

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images The Cubs fall flat in an 8-2 loss to the Tigers. One thing that has gone well for the Cubs in 2024 has been waiver wire pickups. While that can often feel like you are just recycling washed up players or guys that just never quite made it, the Cubs have gotten real value off of the wire. Tyson Miller and Jorge López have been terrific out of the Cub...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 70

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs offense was silent in a 3-0 loss. The Cubs offense collectively are a bunch of nice guys. I mean, they must be. They lay down for rookies, veterans, journeymen and aces. They’ve grown so collectively bad as a unit that they are actually overshadowing the Cubs bullpen. The Cubs bullpen failed them late on Friday but it didn’t really matter, becau...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 63

Photo by Jeff Dean/Getty Images The Cubs fade away in an 8-4 loss in Cincinnati. I play a game called Out Of The Park baseball. I first read about it a couple of years ago in my email via an offer I received to play test the game for free in exchange for writing about the game. I didn’t take that offer, because you’re not here to read about my game play. That said, it sparked my curiosity...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 59

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs finally return to the win column with a 7-5 triumph. It wasn’t pretty by, any stretch of the imagination. But it was nice to see the efforts to get back into this game not go to waste. It was a long, wet and sloppy night on the North Side of Chicago. Two teams that have disappointed their respective fanbases took turns doing disappointing things....2024
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