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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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• 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 non-tender Mike Tauchman and Nick Madrigal

Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports The non-tender of Tauchman is a bit of a surprise. Well, this one surprises me: Cubs have non-tendered OF Mike Tauchman and IF Nick Madrigal. LHP Justin Steele, 3B Isaac Parades, RHP Nate Pearson and RHP Eli Morgan have been tendered contracts. Cubs also agreed to terms with RHPs Julian Merryweather and Keegan Thompson and C Matt Thaiss.— Meghan Montemurro (...2024
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• The Cubs have some roster decisions to make by Friday

Mike Tauchman | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Nov. 22 is the deadline to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible and pre-arb players. After Tuesday’s two Cubs DFAs (Adbert Alzolay and Brennen Davis) to make room for two players (Owen Caissie and Ben Cowles) the team wanted to protect from the Rule 5 Draft, the 40-man roster is once again full. That, obviously, isn’t goin...2024
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• Reds 3, Cubs 0: Here’s to next year, beginning in Tokyo

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Cubs and Reds matched zeroes for nine innings, but the Cubs couldn’t hold the visitors down in extras. The Cubs put a Spring Training split-squad lineup on the field Sunday at Wrigley against the Reds, and fought them to a 0-0 deadlock after nine innings. Then in the 10th inning, after Ethan Roberts picked off the placed runner — something I don’t t...2024
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• Nationals 5, Cubs 1: Almost Gored

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Nats lefthander MacKenzie Gore took a no-hitter into the seventh inning before it was broken up. Kyle Hendricks deserved better. This was his penultimate start at Wrigley Field as a Cub — presuming he’s not back next year, and I don’t think he will be — and for five-plus innings, Kyle threw pretty well, allowing just a single run in the second. Then he ...2024
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• Here are the attendees for the 2025 Cubs Convention
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• Cubs 14, Nationals 1: Sweep!

Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images The Cubs just completed their best road trip in many years. You did not expect an 8-1 Cubs road trip. None of us did. And yet, the Cubs, playing their best baseball of the year, did it at exactly the time they needed to, completing a three-game sweep of the Nationals with a convincing 14-1 win. It’s their sixth win in a row, a season high. They’ve also w...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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• The Cubs bullpen is still a problem

Adbert Alzolay yells into his glove after blowing his fourth save on Saturday. | John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune Who will close for the team? Saturday afternoon, the Cubs were two outs away from winning the second game of their series against the Marlins when Adbert Alzolay fell behind in the count against Bryan De La Cruz before this very unfortunate pitch landed in the left field bleachers [...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ High Cs

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. Cubs win first of four-game series, Taillon’s triumphant return, and more! 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, ...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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• Get to know the Iowa Cubs

Lily Smith/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK The Cubs’ Triple-A affiliate takes the field. The minor league season starts . . .well, the Triple-A season started yesterday . . .and that means it’s time to take stock of the Cubs minor league farm system. As we’ve written in these pages over the past few months, the Cubs farm system is the strongest it has been since the 2013-15 period that le...2024
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• Cubs vs. Padres at Peoria preview, Monday 3/4, 2:05 CT

Rick Scuteri-USA TODAY Sports It’s the second spring meeting of these two teams. Here are a few words from Kyle Hendricks about this year’s spring camp: “It’s so much fun. The environment, being back out there with the fans, you feel the energy even out here in Arizona,” Hendricks said. “It just feels more like a real game being back out there and a normal spring.” It’s hardly just a cele...2024
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• A look at the Cubs’ possible 26-man Opening Day roster

Photo by Quinn Harris/MLB Photos via Getty Images Now that Cody Bellinger is back in the fold, who’ll head to Texas for the opener? This is the sort of article I’d normally have written before Spring Training began, but with the uncertainty about whether Cody Bellinger would return to the Cubs, I decided to wait. I had always figured that Bellinger to the Cubs was the best fit for player a...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ let it rain

Photo by Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. A rain-shortened contest. Nobody hurt. 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 w...2024
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"From the current 40-man roster Kevin Alcántara, Miguel Amaya, Javier Assad, Matt Boyd, Ben Brown, Michael Busch, Owen Caissie, Ben Cowles, Pete Crow-Armstrong, Matt Festa, Ian Happ, Porter Hodge, Nico Hoerner, Gavin Hollowell, Caleb Kilian, Luke Little, Julian Merryweather, Tyson Miller, Eli Morgan, Jack Neely, Daniel Palencia, Nate Pearson, Cody Poteet, Ethan Roberts, Justin Steele, Dansby Swanson, Jameson Taillon, Caleb Thielbar, Keegan Thompson, Kyle Tucker, Jordan Wicks, Gage Workman, Rob Zastryzny That’s 33 of the 40 players currently on the roster."

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"Taillon was lifted for Keegan Thompson, who looked really good in his first two outings at Seattle and Arizona."

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"Keegan Thompson, who spent three months at Triple-A Iowa after a rough start to this season, finished the game by throwing two scoreless innings, allowing one hit and striking out five."

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"Keegan Thompson struggled in the first inning, eventually serving up a two-run homer to Andrew McCutchen."

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"The Cubs have activated Nico Hoerner and Keegan Thompson from the 10-day injured list."

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"The Cubs have added three pitchers – right-hander Keegan Thompson and a pair of lefties in Justin Steele and Jack Patterson – to their 60-man player pool, per Gordon Wittenmyer of NBC Sports Chicago."

• Cubs non-tender Mike Tauchman and Nick Madrigal
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• The Cubs have some roster decisions to make by Friday
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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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• The Cubs bullpen is still a problem
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• Cub Tracks’ too many free passes

Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. The Bryce was right, Seattle’s bullpen held, and the Cubs fell. 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, overhe...2024
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• An updated look at the 2024 Cubs payroll and luxury tax

Photo by Mary Turner/Getty Images Here’s how the team stands at the beginning of the season. Let me stipulate something right now, before we get into the “Cubs should have signed Jordan Montgomery!” argument again. It’s clear that ownership has, at least for the time being, established a payroll level for the Cubs that will not go over the first level of luxury tax, which this year is $237...2024
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• Brewers 7, Cubs 4: Ben Brown, your table is almost ready

Allan Henry-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs righthanded pitching prospect had a fine outing. MESA, Arizona — The Cubs lost to the Brewers 7-4 Saturday at Sloan Park, but the story of the game from the Cubs’ standpoint is the outstanding outing by Ben Brown. Brown threw four scoreless innings, allowed two singles and a walk, striking out three. He had great movement on his pitches, mixed them up ...2024
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• 2023 Cubs final season grades

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Some of these are pretty good. Others, not so much. In re-reading my midseason grades article, I noted this passage: Last year’s team went 39-31 after the break, a .557 winning percentage. If this year’s team can play to that percentage in the 73 remaining games, they’ll go 41-32. That would result in an 83-79 final record. I don’t claim to be prescient...2023
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• Braves 6, Cubs 5: Jameson Taillon has an outstanding outing, but it’s not enough

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Once again, the Cubs’ bullpen failed. ATLANTA — The summary of the Cubs’ September in one tweet: The Cubs have now lost 5 games this month after holding a lead in the 8th inning or later.That's tied for their most such losses in any single month over the last 50 seasons (June 1991 & September 1992).— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) September 28, 2023...2023
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• The 5 worst Cubs games of 2024
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• Cubs 14, Nationals 1: Sweep!
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• Marlins 6, Cubs 3: Where did the offense go?

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty Images That’s likely not the headline you were expecting to read, but it’s the one we really need to talk about. You guys are all going to want to talk about Kyle Hendricks and what to do with his rotation spot and by all means, feel free. What I want to talk about is how the Cubs bullpen failed to keep the game close and the offense completely vanished after t...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 17

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images The Cubs pitching staff fails in a 12-11 loss. Those of you who are regulars here will have heard me say this many times. Al is going to do an in depth recap of every game. That’s going to be the best space to micro-analyze the decisions that added up to the final result. Here, I usually try to pull the camera back just a bit and look at larger trends and st...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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• Cub Tracks’ too many free passes
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• Mariners 4, Cubs 2: Walkathon

Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images Jordan Wicks had trouble throwing strikes and that led to the Cubs’ downfall. Walks can be death on a pitcher and they were that, at least figuratively so, for Jordan Wicks Friday night in Seattle. Trying to keep a 1-0 game close in the fourth inning, Wicks walked the bases loaded. He was one strike away from ending the inning on the walk that loaded ...2024
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• Brewers 7, Cubs 4: Ben Brown, your table is almost ready
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• Dodgers 10, Cubs 8: Just... not... quite... enough
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• Cub Tracks’ Tony rewards

Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs drop the first game of the series and need to win today. 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’...2024
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• Cubs 9, Pirates 5: Keeping the line moving

Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images The offense has clicked since the Cubs got to PNC Park. It’s safe to say that if the Cubs offense had hit like this in May and June, they’d be solidly in a postseason berth right now. The Cubs defeated the Pirates 9-5 Tuesday evening, and though they are just 5-4 against the Bucs this year, they’ve outscored them 58-46. Let’s begin at the beginning. It...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ High Cs
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• Get to know the Iowa Cubs
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• An updated look at the 2024 Cubs payroll and luxury tax
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• Cub Tracks’ let it rain
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• A look at the Cubs’ possible 26-man Opening Day roster
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 145

Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs fumble the lead late, but bounce back to win 5-4. In the moment, I suspect Jordan Wicks would tell you that winning a game and the march towards the playoffs is what matters. That’s the right thing to say and is admirable. At the end of the day, it is a team sport. You win as a team and you win at a lose. It isn’t about individual accomplishments...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 4, Marlins 2: Nick Madrigal saves the day
David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The infielder’s key two-run single gave the Cubs an eighth-inning lead. As most of you know, I have been critical of Nick Madrigal on this site in the past. So today I will give him major props for his game-winning single in the Cubs’ eighth-inning rally. Madrigal’s two-run single with one out in the eighth gave the Cubs the lead and Miguel Amaya followed with ...2023
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• Cubs 6, Reds 2: Cody Bellinger, Seiya Suzuki and Ian Happ go deep

Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images A Belli Bomb and two other homers helped lead the Cubs to victory. SITE NOTE: Since this game went so quickly, I’m posting a separate recap. There will be a preview for Game 2 that will post at 4:30 p.m. CT. The Cubs began their double dip in Cincinnati on a good note, defeating the Reds 6-2 on the strength of homers by Cody Bellinger, Ian Happ and Seiya S...2023
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• Cubs 11, Canada 7: Our home and native land
Tucker Barnhart | Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs defeated a team going to the World Baseball Classic. MESA, Arizona — The Cubs defeated an entire country Wednesday at Sloan Park. Well, not really. The Canadian WBC team is made up of guys who were born in Canada, or, like Freddie Freeman, have a Canadian parent. The visitors from north of the border gave the Cubs a tough time ear...2023
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• Cubs 8, Brewers 7: A Morel victory
David Banks-USA TODAY Sports Christopher Morel’s sixth-inning homer, plus some excellent relief work, gave the Cubs a win over Milwaukee. Now that was a fun baseball game! That could have been said even if the Cubs had lost it, but it was entertaining regardless. There were five lead changes and five home runs hit on a windy day at Wrigley, and in the end Christopher Morel’s two-run homer ...2022
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• Cubs 12, Athletics 2: Sweep!
Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs put together another varied offensive performance and swept a series for the first time in 2023. Let’s stipulate right now that the Oakland Athletics are a bad, bad baseball team. The roster resembles an expansion club, they don’t have any real good hitters nor pitchers and they have a chance to lose 110 or more games this year. The Cubs? Well, on...2023
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• Cubs 5, Padres 2: Some home runs and, at last, the bullpen holds
Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs smashed three long balls and won the series from San Diego. This time, Cubs relievers did their job. With four innings to cover for Hayden Wesneski after he departed following a decent five-inning outing, Michael Fulmer, Mark Leiter Jr., Keegan Thompson and Brad Boxberger threw four innings and allowed two hits and a run. Combined with a power ...2023
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• Cubs 10, Rangers 3: Clicking on all cylinders
Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs got excellent starting pitching again, and a varied offense. The complaint department is closed! I could get used to THIS kind of game, too. The Cubs got good pitching again — and this time offense that included a couple of home runs, as they routed the Rangers 10-3 for their third win in a row. One other thing I want to mention before going through al...2023
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• Reds 3, Cubs 0: Here’s to next year, beginning in Tokyo
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• Nationals 5, Cubs 1: Almost Gored
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• Athletics 5, Cubs 3: Hey, remember all those bullpen meltdowns?

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Cubs got a reminder of the bad old days of May and June in this loss. Justin Steele returned from the injured list Wednesday afternoon on an absolutely gorgeous late summer day. Unfortunately, he appeared pitch-limited and after struggling and loading the bases in the third inning, Steele was lifted after 57 pitches. That made this essentially a bul...2024
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• Dodgers 10, Cubs 8: Just... not... quite... enough
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• Cubs 10, Dodgers 4: Michael Busch bites the hand that once fed him

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images The former Dodgers prospect had a huge night in his first game at Dodger Stadium as a Cub. Michael Busch, who the Cubs acquired over the winter from the Dodgers for prospects Jackson Ferris and Zyhir Hope, has been in a terrible slump over the last few weeks. Perhaps the desire to show the Dodgers what they gave up helped Busch break out of that. He homered,...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ Tony rewards
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• Yankees 3, Cubs 0: Playoff hopes circling the drain, and Anthony Rizzo’s emotional return

Anthony Rizzo is celebrated on his return to Wrigley Field | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The only thing Cubs fans had to cheer for Friday afternoon was celebrating the former Cubs first baseman. If you are one who enjoys no-hitters, well, you nearly got to see another one at Wrigley Field Friday afternoon after Wednesday’s gem by Cubs pitchers. Cody Bellinger’s one-out ...2024
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• Cubs 14, Nationals 1: Sweep!
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 145
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 1
Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Hope springs eternal! Welcome back for the 10th season of Heroes and Goats. I can remember back to 2014 when Al Yellon asked the Bleed Cubbie Blue faithful if any of them had ideas for new features. Me? I wouldn’t describe myself as particularly creative. But I well remember when Russ La Croix conceived Heroes and Goats. I was from the beginning a fan o...2023
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• The Drew Smyly signing by the numbers
Drew Smyly pitches against the Giants at Wrigley Field in September | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Smyly will return to the Cubs It’s hard to avoid a sense of déjà vu writing this piece because I’ve written it before — I also did this five years ago, the first time the Cubs signed Drew Smyly to a two-year deal when he was recovering from Tommy John surgery. The Cubs took a second f...2023
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