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• 2024 Heroes and Goats: Emmanuel Clase and the Guardians, part 1Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images A look at Heroes and Goats for the first half of the season. Emmanuel Clase was awarded the AL Reliever of the Year for 2024 after helping the Guardians reach the playoffs. Clase pitched in 74 games and allowed only 10 runs, five earned, in 74⅓ innings. This was a particularly and uniquely impressive season. He matched those 10 runs allowe...2024Read about Emmanuel Clase news -
• Cubs free agent target: Max FriedPhoto by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Cubs say they might go after more pitching. So why not? Starting pitching was one of the strengths of the 2024 Cubs, particularly lefthanders Shōta Imanaga and Justin Steele. So why not go after another left, free agent Max Fried, who’s spent the last eight years with the Atlanta Braves? Fried has been pretty consistent over his caree...2024Continue with Max Fried news -
• BCB After Dark: Will Dansby Swanson exceed his Steamer projection?Dansby Swanson makes a slick play against the Reds The late night coffee shop looks at the Cubs star shortstop next season Thank God it’s Friday at the old late night coffee shop serving all of the libations you’re looking for to get your weekend started right. Josh left things sparkling for us on Thursday so be sure you clean up and leave things the same when he returns on Monday night. Y...2024See also Dansby Swanson news and rumors -
• 2024 Heroes and Goats: Dodgers and Ohtani, part 2Photo by Elsa/Getty Images A legendary season concludes. I’ve been writing Heroes and Goats since 2017. In that time, I’ve covered eight seasons of the Cubs and done additional deep dives on the 1969, 1984, 1989 and 2003 Cubs. I’ve also looked at the 2018 Brewers, the 2004 Giants and the 1985 Mets. Now I’ve added the 2024 Dodgers. Unsurprisingly, I’ve looked into some pretty special season...2024Check it out Anthony Rizzo news and rumors -
• Baseball history unpacked, October 30Photo by Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Chapman gets the save, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various...2024Read about Clark Griffith rumors -
• An update on MLB no-hitter streaks, through 2024Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Who’s got the longest active streak of not being no-hit, through the 2024 season? Shōta Imanaga, Nate Pearson and Porter Hodge combined on a no-hitter against the Pirates at Wrigley Field this past Sept. 4, the first Cubs no-hitter at Wrigley in more than 52 years. Here are the final three outs of that no-no, thrown by Hodge [VIDEO]. Th...2024Continue with Matt Dirksen breaking news
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• Baseball history unpacked, October 28Happy birthday, Lenny Harris! | Photo By Dave Sandford/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Lenny Harris, the first World Series game at Wrigley Field in 71 years, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball...2024See more World Series injuries -
• Baseball history unpacked, October 25Happy birthday, Mike Harkey! | Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Mike Harkey, and other stories for the discerning reader. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of ...2024See also Leo Durocher -
• Baseball history unpacked, October 9Happy birthday, Joe Pepitone! | Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to Joe Pepitone and a great day in 2017, plus much more. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various...2024Check it out Joe Pepitone injury report -
• Baseball history unpacked, October 2Rick Sutcliffe’s greatest game? | Photo by Focus on Sport via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. The second-best Playoff game for the Cubs, ever, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plen...2024See also Rick Sutcliffe injury update -
• Today in White Sox History: September 26Eddie Cicotte pitched his last major league game on this day, 104 years ago. Two days later, he was suspended, never to play in the majors again. | New York Times Co./Getty Images The race remains close — but the 1920 South Siders are on the edge of disaster 1905 In a doubleheader at Boston, White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh relieved starter Doc White in the first inning of the first game without...2024Read about White Sox injury report -
• MLB Trade Deadline 2024: Grading all 30 teams’ movesPhoto by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The dust has settled after a frenzied final few hours of trade activity. How did your team fare? The 2024 MLB Trade Deadline has come and gone. There will be waiver claims, minor signings, injury returns, and other internal promotions from this point onward, but in general, each team’s roster now features the primary players who wi...2024Click for news about AL East injury report
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• My summer baseball reading listJust take a look, it’s in a book. When I was about 10 years old, I got really into baseball. I was a bookish kid already, so anytime I went to the library I checked out two kinds of books - Matt Christopher novels and baseball biographies. Matt Christopher wrote a series of fictional kids books about baseball like Catcher with a Glass Arm and The Kid Who Only Hit Homers, which I loved. I also love...2024Click for news about Johnny Bench -
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"Or maybe, you’re still scarred from seeing Jon Lester come into the game with a runner on first base." - 2023
"He had multiple postseasons and a World Series ring to back this up, and his friendship with Jon Lester helped him in this clubhouse leadership role." - 2022
"Left-handed pitcher Jon Lester has retired from baseball with 200 wins and World Series rings with the Red Sox and Cubs." - 2021
"The Cardinals and Nationals agreed to a last-minute trade sending veteran left-hander Jon Lester from Washington to St." - 2020
"Jon Lester said of Rob Manfred's comments: "You play for that piece of metal." - 2019
"” The Cubs are already overloaded with veteran rotation options on the 25-man roster, with Jon Lester, Cole Hamels, Kyle Hendricks, Jose Quintana, Yu Darvish, swingman Mike Montgomery, and Tyler Chatwood all on hand to make starts." - 2018
"For the third time in four seasons, Chicago Cubs lefty Jon Lester will start on Opening Day as manager Joe Maddon announced the decision before Lester's spring debut on Tuesday." - 2017
"Jon Lester hit his first Major League home run, notched his 2,000th career strikeout and got homers from Anthony Rizzo, Ian Happ and Javier Baez, to post a 16-4 victory over the D-backs on Tuesday night and continue the Cubs' hot second-half run." - 2016
"Jon Lester took the baton from Jake Arrieta and ran with it on Tuesday night, dominating the Angels through seven innings and leading his Cubs to a 6-1 victory." - 2015
"Dexter Fowler, Kyle Schwarber and Anthony Rizzo each homered in the fifth inning, and Schwarber added another two-run shot in the seventh plus an RBI single in the eighth, backing Jon Lester and powering the Cubs to a 9-2 victory Thursday over the Brewers at Wrigley Field for their 13th win in the past 14 games." - 2014
"Free-agent left-hander Jon Lester has elected to sign with the Chicago Cubs, his agent told ESPN's Jim Bowden."
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• Cubs free agent target: Max Fried
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Leftover Trade Deadline talk; Lane Thomas love + moreNotes and quotes on the Nationals (from a few days ago since last night’s game was on AppleT and we can’t get any fun Davey quotes. We really can’t...) LEFTOVER TRADE DEADLINE BITS: Davey Martinez was in his second year on the bench when Washington won it all in 2019, but since then (or since 2021/2022, really), he’s overseen the reboot/rebuild in D.C., guiding the Nationals through an at-times di...2024Read about Lane Thomas contract -
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 31Happy birthday, Leon Durham! | Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to Leon Durham, Jon Lester lays it down, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of...2024See more articles Leon Durham salary -
• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats at the 2024 MLB Trade Deadline...Notes and quotes on the deals the Nationals made and one they didn’t... RIZZO AT THE TRADE DEADLINE [RIZZO POINTS TO HEAD]: First it was Hunter Harvey, a waiver wire pickup in 2022, going to Kansas City in return for the Royals’ No. 2 prospect (on MLBPipeline’s list), and a competitive balance round pick in this year’s draft (No. 39 overall) which Washington used on the University of California, ...2024Read about Hunter Harvey salary rumors
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• 2024 Heroes and Goats: Emmanuel Clase and the Guardians, part 1
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 104Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs continue to pile up one-run losses. This has been one of the more frustrating Cubs seasons in memory. It is often pointed out that the difference between bad teams and good ones isn’t massive. Each year, if you lop off the most dominant and most inept teams, the remainder is pretty homogenous. This is at least part of why most of the teams finish...2024See more Quinn Harris stats
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats trade Lane Thomas to Guardians ahead of today’s Trade Deadline...First it was Jesse Winker, now it’s Lane Thomas. GM Mike Rizzo is dealing for the future... “There are a lot of teams that would really benefit from getting Lane Thomas,” Nationals’ GM and President of Baseball Ops Mike Rizzo told reporters earlier this month when asked if the club would consider dealing their 28-year-old outfielder at the Trade Deadline this year. Thomas was acquired by Washingt...2024Click for news about Lane Thomas -
• Cub Tracks’ get off the pot?Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. We know what the sell-by date is. The question is, stay or go? 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’ ...2024Visit the page Cub Tracks -
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• Backdoor slidersPhoto by Focus on Sport/Getty Images Baseball’s mystical side With roster moves and opening day bearing down on us, I wanted to explore some of the oddball and sometimes almost mystical occurrences in the history of the Royals and in baseball. How rare is an Opening Day home run on the first pitch of the season? Turns out, it’s really rare. It happened only once, on Opening Day 1986, Bosto...2024Read about Jack Morris -
• Re-live Game 7 of the 2016 World Series with Joe Maddon and Terry FranconaAnthony Rizzo and Kris Bryant lead the mound celebration after the Cubs won the World Series in Cleveland | Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images You will probably want to record this one Have you spent way too much time wondering why Joe Maddon pulled Kyle Hendricks from Game 7 of the World Series in 2016 when he was dealing in the fifth inning? Or maybe, yo...2024Visit the page World Series
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• Lester picks Cubs, gets 6-year, $155M deal
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• Lester, Rizzo lead Cubs in 5-HR, 16-run rout
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• Mets can't stop Cubs after Reyes' leadoff HR
Willson Contreras drove in three runs and had an adventurous night, Javier Baez smacked a solo home run among four hits and Albert Almora Jr. -- who entered the game in the seventh -- drove in a career-high six runs to back Jon Lester and spark the Cubs to a 17-5 victory Wednesday over the Mets at Wrigley Field....2017Click for news about Willson Contreras
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• Cubs overwhelm Mets, maintain Central lead
Willson Contreras drove in three runs and had an adventurous night, Javier Baez smacked a solo home run among four hits and Albert Almora Jr. -- who entered the game in the seventh -- drove in a career-high six runs to back Jon Lester and spark the Cubs to a 17-5 victory Wednesday over the Mets at Wrigley Field....2017Visit the page Willson Contreras
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• Lester, 5 HRs spur Cubs to 7th straight
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• Bryant's HR gives Cubs walk-off win vs. Tribe
Kris Bryant hit a walk-off home run with two outs in the ninth inning and Jon Lester allowed one run through 8 2/3 innings as the Cubs defeated the Indians, 2-1, on Monday at Wrigley Field. Monday's game was a makeup of an earlier game scheduled for June 15 that was postponed because of inclement weather....2015Check it out Kris Bryant
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• Cubs rout Reds; keep heat on Bucs in WC race
Jon Lester struck out nine, Austin Jackson drove in a career-high five runs, and Starlin Castro had four hits, including a leadoff home run and RBI double, to lift the Cubs to a 10-3 victory Wednesday night and hand the Reds their 11th straight loss....2015See more Austin Jackson
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• A Cubsmas Advent Calendar: Justin Steele was an ace in 2023Justin Steele throws against the Diamondbacks in September | John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Was it a career year or a new level for the Cubs lefty? This is Day Nine of a Cubsmas Advent Calendar. You can read the explanation for the project and Day One here. The Cubs’ best pitcher in 2023 was Justin Steele. The 28-year old lefty put together a season worth...2023See also Cubsmas Advent Calendar -
• Washington Finally Gets Started Shy A Few Coronats
It seemed like a nothing move at the time. Just a transactional move that people would forget about within hours, if not minutes. Just ten days ago, the Nats announced they would be demoting Carter Kieboom. Then, before leaving town, Carter Kieboom watered down all the hand sanitizer. Now Patrick Corbin, Yan Gomes, Josh Bell, Brad Hand (ah HA!), Will Harris, Josh Harrison, Alex Avila, Jon Lester, ...2021Check it out Carter Kieboom
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• Bounce-back pitchers: Will Lester, Thor be fantasy stars again in 2018?
Just a season ago, Noah Syndergaard and Jon Lester were among the top pitchers off the board in drafts. Heading into 2018, both are coming at a discount and are among our top candidates to rebound on the mound in fantasy....2018Click for news about Noah Syndergaard
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• 2024 Heroes and Goats: Emmanuel Clase and the Guardians, part 1
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• This day in Braves History: Marcus Giles becomes sixth Braves player to reach 20 homers in 2003Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Talk about sharing the wealth! Braves Franchise History 2003: Second baseman Marcus Giles hits a home run off Brad Penny’s 3-2 pitch, as the Atlanta Braves tie the National League record by having six players hit at least 20 home runs in a season. Along with Giles, Javy Lopez, Gary Sheffield, Andruw Jones, Chipper Jones and Vinny Castilla equal the mark ...2024Read about Jamie Squire -
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• Cubs roster moves: Isaac Paredes activated, Ethan Roberts recalledJerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs were a busy team on deadline day. As you know, the Cubs acquired Isaac Paredes from the Rays in a deal that was completed during Sunday’s game. Paredes, who hit 31 home runs and had 98 RBI with an .840 OPS in 2023, is batting .245/.357/.435 with 19 doubles and 16 home runs in 101 games so far this year. He was named to the AL All-Star team. Today, Par...2024Read about Isaac Paredes -
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• Cubs 3, Padres 2: Michael Busch walks it offKamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports A game that started like many recent others had a stunning ending. New Cubs first baseman Michael Busch can be described in part as just getting his job done. You don’t hear many quotes from him; he just plays pretty good defense and has been hitting reasonably well in his first full MLB season. That all changed with one swing of the bat, as Busch hit the...2024See also Michael Busch scandal -
• Baseball history unpacked, October 2Adam Greenberg gets his chance at bat | Photo by Marc Serota/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. The sad tale of Adam Greenberg and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and vario...2023Check it out White Sox whispers -
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Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources, a little bit cheesy but nicely displayed. Happy birthday to Leon Durham, Mike Bielecki, and others, plus a plethora of good stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s co...2023See more Leon Durham whispers
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats rally in 7th, blow lead in 9th in 8-6 loss to Padres...
Notes and quotes from the series finale in Nationals Park... Irvin Rides Or Just Starts Again: In spite of the fact he struggled at points in each of his last two starts, with strong stretches and bad ones, Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez said Jake Irvin would continue to start for Washington again, even after veteran starter Chad Kuhl came off the IL recently. “We definitely want to give Jake ...2023Visit the page Davey Martinez scandals
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• Brewers 3, Cubs 1: A battle of two bullpens
Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Justin Steele and Brandon Woodruff pitched a tight matchup for six innings... but the Cubs’ pen couldn’t hold the lead. Today, the complaint department is open. Here’s mine: Why is it, that when an opposing hitter is literally trying to make an out, the Cubs pitcher can’t throw strikes? That’s what happened to Javier Assad in the eighth inning after a l...2023See also Michael Reaves scandals
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• Cub Tracks’ wondering in winterland
Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images #Cubs,#MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. The powers-that-be convene in San Diego for jawflaps and handshakes. Welcome to today’s edition 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, and then cold-brewed overnight for maximum...2022Check it out Cub Tracks whispers
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• BCB After Dark: How high will the Cubs go?
Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if the Cubs will set any marks for contract value this winter. Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the swingin’ spot for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. It’s so good to see you again this evening. Come on in out of the cold. We can take your coat for you if you’d like. There are...2022See more articles Matt Dirksen whispers
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