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• Cubs series preview: To the friendly confines!

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Will these two teams make a deal? The Royals head to the friendly confines of Wrigley Field this week, just a train ride away. They swept the Cubs there in 2021, but have lost the series to them each of the last two seasons. The Cubs have missed the playoffs each of the last four seasons, but come into this series with the second-best record ...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Swing, swing, swing

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The All-Star Game ended in a “swing-off.” Big Dumper won the Home Run Derby. The Rays are sold, the draft is over and other news items from All-Star Week. Good morning. The National League beat the American League at the All-Star Game 6-6 after a “swing-off,” a mini home run derby where the game’s MVP Kyle Schwarber hit three home runs. Matt Snyder wri...2025
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• Bobby Witt Jr. snubbed for All-Star starter nod

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Jacob Wilson gets the AL start at shortstop. Maybe Bobby Witt Jr. shouldn’t have set expectation so high last year? In 2024, Witt put together one of the best non-MVP seasons in recent history. This year he is merely “very good”, and yet that wasn’t enough to gain the support of All-Star voters at shortstop, who went with Athletics rookie Jacob Wilson. Wilso...2025
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• Pete Crow-Armstrong, Kyle Tucker named NL All-Star Game starters

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images At least two Cubs will be representing the North Side down in Atlanta. The starters for both leagues in the upcoming MLB All-Star Game in Atlanta were announced today and two Cubs, outfielders Pete Crow-Armstrong and Kyle Tucker, will be starting in Atlanta on Tuesday, July 15. Catcher Carson Kelly fell short to the Dodgers’ Will Smith in t...2025
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• Today in Cubs history: The Cubs score five runs in the 15th inning

Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images A very long game was decided by a huge outburst late. This game happened in that weird 5-15 stretch the Cubs had midway through their World Series year in 2016. They had lost six of seven before opening a series in Cincinnati with an 11-8 win. The next night, June 28, Jon Lester took the mound and wound up in a pitchers’ duel with journeyman John Lamb. Ben...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Young guns

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Wander Franco is sentenced. The injured lists keep growing. A look back at the first half and ahead to the second. And other MLB news. Good morning. I think we have the All-Star Game balloting covered around here already. So I’ll skip that. Rays infielder Wander Franco was found guilty of the sexual abuse of a minor in the Dominican Republic and sentenc...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 77

Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images A little trouble in paradise: The Cubs lose 14-6. A little while back, I dropped my Cubs DEFCON to 4. I saw warning signs that suggested a slump might be coming. If you aren’t following me every day, I’m not in possession of any magic formula or inside info. The last time I saw the signs, I was dead wrong and they turned it on a dime and started dominating ag...2025
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• BCB After Dark: The untouchables

Sam Navarro-Imagn Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks which minor league prospect should be the last one the Cubs part with. It’s another week here at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Please come on in out of the heat. We’ve got the best music and the best companionship. There’s no cover charge. We’ve ...2025
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• Outside The Confines: A Tiger on the prowl

Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images Javier Báez is El Mago again. A Brewers rookie has an impressive debut. A look ahead to the trade deadline and the draft. And other baseball news. Let’s go surfing now. Everybody’s learning how. Come on and safari with me. I’m leading with this one because it’s the one that will bring the most joy to your heart. Jesse Rogers tells of how the Tigers’ Javier ...2025
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• Cub Tracks has no need to fear

Lon Horwedel-Imagn Images The #1 source for #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes. Cubs lost a close one as the Tigers hit the ball just a bit further than the Cubs did. A win today would assuage doubts? The going is weird. Cub Tracks™ turned pro a long time ago. Cub Tracks™. Where the great ones run away. Weird to be the underdog, but there you go. The team with the second-best reco...2025
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Tigers series preview

Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images A matchup between the two Central division leaders. DETROIT — Yes, I’m in the Motor City for this series. First time I’ve seen the Cubs at Comerica Park since 2001, and an important series for both teams. As you likely know, BCB’s Ashley MacLennan also writes about the Tigers at our SB Nation Tigers site Bless You Boys. Here’s Ashley with some info on t...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ Capital offense

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The #1 source for #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes. Monday was an off day. The bats should be ready for DC. The going is weird. Cub Tracks™ turned pro a long time ago. Cub Tracks™. Where the great ones run away. Monday was an off day. The Cubs will face the Nationals tonight as they begin a series in the capital. Currently our favo...2025
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• Tigers series preview: Is this the best team in baseball?

Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images The Tigers have been on a roll since last August. The Tigers began their rebuild around the same time as the Royals, and just when it seemed it was stalling out last August with the team in “sell mode” a the trade deadline, the plan fell into place. The Tigers went on a tear, storming into the playoffs, then carried it over to this season where they now hav...2025
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• MLB Week 7 Hot or Not: A week of epic walk-offs and go-ahead games!

Taylor Ward hits a go-ahead grand slam against the Padres at Petco park on May 12, 2025. | Vincent Mizzoni/MLB Photos via Getty Images Last week was a whirlwind filled with exciting finishes from old and new faces. This week’s Hot or Not summary reviews the best and worst in MLB from May 11-17. AL West Hot: Angels stun the Padres in epic fashionHeading into the ninth, the Angels had a 1.9...2025
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• Javier Báez is providing free meals in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona
Javy makes a slick play against the Astros | Photo by Duane Burleson/Getty Images He’s always been a star on and off the field There are a lot of wonderful Javier Báez memories from his time as a Cub at Wrigley Field. The man is electric and plays baseball accordingly. We could spend an afternoon remembering his incredible home runs, unbelievable plays and the times he manufactured runs wi...2022
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"Former Cubs great and current Tiger Javier Báez was named an outfield starter for the American League."

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"A leadoff walk to the forgotten man, Javier Báez, put Detroit’s second run on the board, but the veteran starter wasn’t out of the woods yet."

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"This is the first time the Cubs have had at least three players earn Gold Gloves in a season and the first time the team has been honored with multiple award winners since 2020 when first baseman Anthony Rizzo and shortstop Javier Báez were named Gold Glove winners."

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"When longtime players like Contreras (or, last year, Javier Báez, Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo) are traded, some institutional memory goes with them."

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"Javier Báez trade: Mets acquire Cubs star in trade deadline blockbuster, per report"

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"While he didn’t mention them by name, star infielders Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo and Javier Báez are the obvious players that come to mind."

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"Is Albert Almora finally going to get his chance?"

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"Javier Báez, Chicag"

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"#JB9 @cubs A video posted by Javier Báez (@javy23baez) on May 5, 2016 at 12:55pm PDT Most of the players seemed to enjoy the impromptu concert, although we can’t tell if outfielder Dexter Fowler is in that group."

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• Cub Tracks waits for the meatloaf

Matt Marton-Imagn Images The #1 source for #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes. The game Wednesday night was postponed and therefore line cooks all over Chicagoland are greasing up the loaf pans in preparation. The going is weird. Cub Tracks™ turned pro a long time ago. Cub Tracks™. Where the great ones run away. Any MLB team can beat you. The good teams WILL beat you. It’s important to ...2025
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• BCB After Dark: How am I doing?

Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images The late-night/early-morning spot asks if you what it would take for you to give Cubs team president Jed Hoyer an extension. It’s another evening here at BCB After Dark: the grooviest gathering of night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re so glad to see you. Come in and join us. There’s no cover charge. Tell us if you need anything. Th...2025
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• Sean Burke pitched a gem, and Tim Elko walked it off — the kids are alright!

A refreshing Gatorade shower for Tim Elko. The White Sox split the series against the first-place Tigers in 10 innings The White Sox pulled off a split against the best team in Major League Baseball, 3-2 in 10 innings, with a beautiful walk-off win and a pitching masterclass by Sean Burke. Chicago loaded the bases in the first inning and pushed Detroit starter Casey Mize to 33 pitches bef...2025
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• Pitching woes and ice-cold bats open the series for the worst game of the season ... so far

The White Sox lose the series opener to the Tigers, 13-1 As I warned everyone in the game thread, don’t expect a win this series because the Tigers are mighty (and the best team in Major League Baseball right now). The White Sox as a whole had a game full of woes and lost spectacularly. At least it wasn’t a shutout, right? Jonathan Cannon started off battling 3-0 to strike Parker Meadows out, but ...2025
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• Tigers 8, Rockies 6, 10 innings: Colorado wastes late scoring chances

Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images Toglia and McMahon homered, but the Rockies couldn’t get clutch hit in the 9th or 10th In a game with promising young starters on the mound, the spotlight instead fell to the offenses, and the Rockies weren’t able to keep up with the Tigers in an extra-inning loss on Wednesday night. In the battle of the No. 9 overall MLB Draft pick from 2023, 23-year-old RHP Chase ...2025
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• Brewers bounce back, take down Tigers 5-0

Michael McLoone-Imagn Images Rhys Hoskins homers, pitching staff dominates, and Jackson Chourio walks (yes, that’s news) Box Score In the Milwaukee Brewers’ 5-0 win over the Detroit Tigers Tuesday night, two things happened that hadn’t happened through the first 17 games of the season: Jackson Chourio walked, and Rhys Hoskins homered. Chourio’s walk, which led off the game for Milwaukee af...2025
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• Hey, Tom Ricketts! You need to get Kyle Tucker signed now — and not just for baseball reasons

David Banks-Imagn Images There’s something else that this signing would do for the Cubs. With Kyle Tucker off to a great start with the Cubs, the chorus of voices urging Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts to open up the team wallet and sign Tucker to an extension before he hits free agency has gotten louder. While there’s no question about Tucker’s abilities on the field — he’s hitting the way he ...2025
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• BCB After Dark: World Championship defense?

Ed Szczepanski-Imagn Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks which Cubs team had the better defense: 2016 or 2025? Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in out of the cold and sit with us. We’re so glad you decided to stop by. There’s no cover charge this evening. We still have a few tabl...2025
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• Cubs vs. Giants at Mesa preview, Sunday 3/9, 3:05 CT

Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images Another sunny afternoon is forecast. Sunday notes... CUBS AND SLAMS AND OTHER HOMERS: Pete Crow-Armstrong hit a grand slam and a solo homer yesterday. Cubs batters have hit 332 slams in regular-season games since 1901. In 39 games, the same batter also hit another homer. The last to do so was Patrick Wisdom, on June 30, 2022, at home vs. the Reds. ...2025
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• With Alexander Canario gone, how many Cubs remain from the 2021 selloff?

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Here’s a look at all the players who were sent away and acquired in that flurry of deals nearly four years ago. News item: The Cubs have traded OF Alexander Canario to the Mets for cash considerations, sources tell ESPN. Canario, 24, was DFA’d by the Cubs last week.— Jesse Rogers (@JesseRogersESPN) February 25, 2025 Well. This isn’t the...2025
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• Sean Burke pitched a gem, and Tim Elko walked it off — the kids are alright!
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• Tigers finish their sweep in a traditional doubleheader

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images The Rockies’ losing streak continues. Game 1: Tigers 10, Rockies 2 It was an ugly start to the afternoon for the Colorado Rockies as they dropped the first game of the doubleheader as Kyle Freeland struggled on the hill, the defense lapsed, and the offense stalled out. Freeland’s start Freeland (0-5, 6.41 ERA) entered the game on the heels of a stron...2025
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• Tigers finish their sweep in a traditional doubleheader: Tigers 10, Rockies 2; Tigers 11, Rockies 1

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images The Rockies’ losing streak continues. Game 1: Tigers 10, Rockies 2 It was an ugly start to the afternoon for the Colorado Rockies as they dropped the first game of the doubleheader as Kyle Freeland struggled on the hill, the defense lapsed, and the offense stalled out. Freeland’s start Freeland (0-5, 6.41 ERA) entered the game on the heels of a stron...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ Cubs get medieval on Brewers

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The meatloaf looms and the Cubs are rolling along the boulevard with halberds and quarter-staves. W/ELCOME 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, overh...2025
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• Javier Báez trade: Mets acquire Cubs star in trade deadline blockbuster, per report
Báez heads to the Big Apple, where he'll fill in at shortstop for a bit...2021
• In appreciation of Willson Contreras
David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs catcher moves on, but we remember him fondly. Willson Contreras, as you know, declined the Cubs’ qualifying offer Tuesday and so will likely be moving to another team as a free agent. I actually wrote this article last summer when it appeared Willson would be traded. When he wasn’t, I decided to save it for the time, if it came, when it looked like his...2022
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• Cubs left fielder Ian Happ wins National League Gold Glove Award
Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images His defense was significantly improved in 2022. Tuesday afternoon, the winners of the 2022 Rawlings Gold Gloves were announced on ESPN2. Ian Happ, who was named a finalist last month, has won his first Gold Glove for his play in left field for the Cubs this year. He’s the first Cubs left fielder to win a Gold Glove since the awards began in 1957. As not...2022
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• Cubs' Jed Hoyer implies Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo, Javier Báez are to blame for extension talks falling apart
The Cubs dealt three franchise staples ahead of last week's trade deadline...2021
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• Dansby Swanson, Nico Hoerner and Ian Happ are Gold Glove winners

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images This is a Cubs first! Cubs left fielder Ian Happ, second baseman Nico Hoerner and shortstop Dansby Swanson have been named National League Rawlings Gold Glove Award winners at their respective positions. This is the first time the Cubs have had at least three players earn Gold Gloves in a season and the first time the team has been honored with multiple...2023
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• Should the Cubs trade for Javier Báez?
Getty Images Wait, hear me out. Unpopular opinion: The Cubs should make a trade with the Tigers and reunite with Javier Báez. The Cubs are in the market for a shortstop. So far, two big-name shortstops on the free-agent market have signed (Trea Turner, Xander Bogaerts) and two remain (Dansby Swanson and Carlos Correa). The Cubs have been linked to both Swanson and Correa, but as of now, no...2022
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• Today in Cubs history: The Schwarboard home run

Kyle Schwarber watches his HR head toward the RF video board, October 13, 2015 | Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images Kyle Schwarber hit a home run that we’ll always remember. EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally ran two years ago on this date. This was a signature event in recent Cubs history, and as such, I thought you’d like to read it again, lightly edited. Game 4 of the Cubs’ divi...2023
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• Javier Báez benched: Tigers shortstop pulled from game after forgetting how many outs left in inning

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• 2024 Fantasy Baseball Sabermetric Notes: Shortstops
In our continuing series on the Sabermetric analysis that shapes our Player projections in our 2024 Player Projections Draft Advisor. Today we'll take a look at some of the indicators that are defining our 2024 Shortstop projections: CJ Abrams Abrams finished 2023 with 18HR/64RBI/83RS/.276BA/47 SB. It's encouraging to see his power emerge as the season's progressed, making him a terrific fantas...2024
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• The Short Porch looks forward to seeing Javy Báez and Pete Crow-Armstrong on the same field

Former Cub Javier Báez makes a flying catch in center field | Dan Hamilton-Imagn Images The Cubs will take on the Tigers in Detroit this weekend The Cubs are in Detroit to take on the Tigers and this sets up to be quite the series. Al will have more in his series preview later, but suffice to say the team with the best record in baseball facing off against the team with the second best rec...2025
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• Tigers' Javier Báez continues shocking renaissance as walk-off blast caps two-homer game

Báez is hitting .319/.357/.513 this season while moving to center field...2025
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• Jonathan Cannon struggled, but poor defense and hits put the nail in the coffin for the White Sox

@WhiteSoxDJ The South Siders tank the opener against the Tigers The White Sox might have rallied in the ninth, but it was too little too late thanks to poor pitching and terrible plate appearances. Miguel Vargas started the game with a stand-up double. Alas, in a tale as old as time, he was stranded even after stealing third. After review, Kerry Carpenter put the Tigers on the board early...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Who’s the Cubs second baseman of the quarter century?

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks wo is the Cubs second baseman of the century so far? Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the grooviest gathering of night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and sit with us for a while. There’s no cover charge. Dress code is casual. We can check your coat. The hostess will take...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 7, 2024

Sweet! Max didn’t use this picture for the recap | Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images The Royals Will Be Back (home for a series with Seattle) We’ve talked about it before and you know the drill - day game makes for an odd set of links in Rumblings. Anne Rogers profiled old friend Scott Barlow: On a mantle at home, Barlow has two bats signed by Perez and Witt. He has baseballs from miles...2024
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