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• SB Nation Reacts: The Cubs are going to have a very good year

Patrick Gorski-Imagn Images So say the voters in the recent survey. Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Chicago Cubs fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. This edition of SB Nation Reacts is sponsored by FanDuel. There’s been a lot of angst surroundi...2025
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-February 22, 2025
Around the League Mets Starting Rotation Tylor Megill is reportedly ahead of other Mets pitchers. He is scheduled for three innings of live batting practice. The Mets are going with a six-man rotation to start the year. They have competition in camp for the rotation even with recently signed Frankie Montas on the shelf for 6-8 weeks. The final spot will come down to Griffin Canning, Paul Black...2025
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• Cubs 7, Dodgers 3: What’s so great about these Dodgers, anyway?

Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images The Cubs beat the team from L.A. for the second straight afternoon. MESA, Arizona — So the Cubs beat the Dodgers twice in Spring Training games and outscored them 19-7. Everything’s all set then, right? Well, of course it isn’t, not with these being practice games not played under regular-season conditions and half of it being played with miscellaneous minor leagu...2025
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• Over/Under on 2025 Braves projections: Part Two

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Diving into 5 more projections before the Braves first spring training game. For part one, click here. Baseball is a beautiful, wonderful, stupid sport. It’s famously the most random major sport in the US, and it doesn’t take much searching to find numerous examples of its unpredictability. Chris Sale went 18-3 in 2024 as he domi...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Calling balls and strikes

Photo by Michael Owens/MLB Photos via Getty Images ESPN and MLB decide to part ways, for now. The Robo Umps have a successful debut. Looking ahead to next year’s free agent class. And more news from around MLB. Good morning. Evan Drellich and Andrew Marchand report that MLB and ESPN have “mutually agreed” to terminate their agreement to broadcast MLB games after this year. (The Athletic ...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Why did the Cubs DFA Alexander Canario?

Alexander Canario hits a home run against the Marlins in April | Patrick Gorski-Imagn Images This is not a trick question Welcome to your late week, late night, indie coffee shop where the drinks are running all night and whether you need something to warm your body up after a brutally cold Chicago week or something to cool down after getting fired up watching the Cubs beat the Dodgers in ...2025
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-February 22, 2025
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• Over/Under on 2025 Braves projections: Part Two
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• Preseason Prep - February 21, 2025
Isaac Paredes, 3B, Astros Isaac Paredes was traded from the Cubs to the Astros as part of the Kyle Tucker trade, and it's going to do wonders for his fantasy value. Paredes may not look like much on paper with an 85 mph average exit velocity (3rd percentile) and a .337 xSLG (11th percentile), but his expected stats are deceiving. This is because expected stats don't take into account the direction...2025
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• Brewers Reacts Survey: Where will the Brewers finish in the NL Central?

Dave Kallmann / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images We also ask who fans expect to be Milwaukee’s primary shortstop out of spring training Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Milwaukee Brewers fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed s...2025
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• MLB storylines to watch as Spring Training gets underway

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images There is no shortage of intrigue as baseball returns for the 2025 season. The Super Bowl is now more than a week in the rear view mirror and, for Eagles fans like myself, I’m still not done re-watching the highlights of their beatdown of the Chiefs. Not even close. But this week, full squad spring training workouts began around Major League Basebal...2025
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• Baseball Prospectus finds new ways to insult the Rays

Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images Baseball Prospectus compares the Rays way of operating to the people firing air traffic controllers. We think that insults the reader’s intelligence more than it does the Rays. Sometimes being a Rays fan feels like being part of a dysfunctional and much-maligned family. We are aware — hyperaware! — of our family problems. We resent having to share Thanksgiv...2025
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-February 15, 2025
Welcome Back! Around the League Alex Bregman-Red Sox-3B Alex Bregman signed a three-year, $120 million deal with the Boston Red Sox, including opt-outs after the 2025 and 2026 seasons. He reportedly chose this higher average annual value contract over longer-term offers from the Tigers and Cubs. Bregman is expected to transition to second base, a position he last played in 2018. This is going t...2025
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• 2025 Cubs player profiles: Nico Hoerner

Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images The Cubs’ Gold Glove second baseman looks like he won’t miss much time, if any. Nico Hoerner, wearing No. 2 and batting No. 2 in the order, looks and acts like an old-time player, a hard-nosed gym rat, impossible to keep off the field. And the best news is the injury he was recovering from over the winter likely won’t make him miss much time: The Cubs’ ...2025
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• Another way-too-early look at the Cubs’ Opening Day roster

Major League Baseball Let’s try this again, after a few more acquisitions. One week today, the Cubs — or, more correctly, a bunch of guys wearing Cubs uniforms — will take the field at Camelback Ranch to face the Dodgers. Most likely, even if there are a handful of everyday Cubs regulars in the lineup, by the fifth inning they’ll be replaced by guys who will probably spend 2025 in Double-A...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Can Nate Pearson start?

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if Nate Pearson should be given a chance to start. It’s a new year here at BCB After Dark: the hippest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and warm up. There’s no cover charge this evening. We can take your coat for you. The hostess will lead you to a tab...2025
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"The Giants were known to have had interest in Kyle Tucker before the Astros traded the outfielder to the Cubs, and The Athletic’s Andrew Baggarly shared some details on that pursuit plus the new information that the Giants were one of the many teams who talked to the White Sox about Garrett Crochet."

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"But he retired Alex Bregman to begin the inning, then was removed for lefthander Luke Little who retired Yordan Alvarez and Kyle Tucker in good order, and so far Counsell’s moves in this game are working out."

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"Astros' Kyle Tucker stuns Orioles with go-ahead grand slam vs. All-Star closer Félix Bautista"

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"The Astros line up features rookie shortstop Jeremy Peña, Alex Bregman and Kyle Tucker."

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"MLB trends: Adam Duvall chasing unique 40-homer season; Kyle Tucker breaking out for Astros"

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" Fantasy Baseball Prospects Report: Mike Soroka pushing for a return, while Kyle Tucker slips "

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"Houston and Miami have discussed the backstop, according to Sirius XM’s Craig Mish, who adds that the Marlins have requested high-end outfield prospect Kyle Tucker in return."

2017
"Astros prospects Kyle Tucker and Jason Martin have been swinging hot bats lately, and the trend continued Saturday as the duo led Class A Advanced Buies Creek to an 8-2 win over Down East."

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"Perhaps most importantly, Murray showed consistent improvement over the course of his freshman season, as Kentucky coach John Calipari made sure to point out in an interview with Kyle Tucker of the Courier-Journal."

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"According to Kyle Tucker of the Courier-Journal, Cousins posted 33 points, 18 rebounds and six assists in Kentucky's 122-115 victory."

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"And though it might be a while before he emerges as a "legit three-point shooter," which is how Kyle Tucker of The Courier-Journal recently labeled him, his jumper plays to his attractive versatility."

• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-February 22, 2025
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• Over/Under on 2025 Braves projections: Part Two
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• Outside The Confines: Calling balls and strikes
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• BCB After Dark: Why did the Cubs DFA Alexander Canario?
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• Preseason Prep - February 21, 2025
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• Cub Tracks’ goal tending

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs have their eyes on the ultimate prize. 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’ tears, and ...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Which new Cub will have a big impact?

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks, other than the obvious choices, which new Cub will have the biggest impact? It’s another evening at BCB After Dark: the hippest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Please come in and get warm. We can take your coat for you. There are still a few tables available, ...2025
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• MLB storylines to watch as Spring Training gets underway
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• Baseball Prospectus finds new ways to insult the Rays
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• The Cubs are signing Justin Turner

Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images Many of you wanted this. And now, you have it. There had been rumors flying for a couple of weeks that the Cubs were interested in signing free agent infielder Justin Turner. Now, per Patrick Mooney of The Athletic, they are about to do so: The Chicago Cubs are close to an agreement with Justin Turner, a source briefed on the negotiations told The Athle...2025
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• SB Nation Reacts: The Cubs are going to have a very good year
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-February 22, 2025
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• Over/Under on 2025 Braves projections: Part Two
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• BCB After Dark: Why did the Cubs DFA Alexander Canario?
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• Preseason Prep - February 21, 2025
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• Fun with Cubs 2025 photo day

The skipper | Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images The annual ritual always produces some interesting poses. One of the rituals for Major League Baseball’s players every spring is to pose for team and media photographers. These shots get used in a variety of ways; you’re probably most used to seeing them on player pages on various websites, or in the pitcher previews I do here at BCB. If y...2025
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• Brewers Reacts Survey: Where will the Brewers finish in the NL Central?
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-February 15, 2025
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• 2025 Cubs player profiles: Ian Happ

Getty Images The veteran left fielder is ready for another season of Cubs baseball. He’s probably going to lead off, for now. The Pittsburgh-area native Ian Happ usually ends up with decent counting numbers. He’s one of the best left fielders in the game today, by many estimates, a former player rep, a coffee mogul, and a sports media tycoon. He has a podcast — The Compound, with former C...2025
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• Cub Tracks sees stars

Troy Taormina-Imagn Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Is Kyle Tucker enough to point the way to the top? What about that too many bullpen men thing? 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...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Why did the Cubs DFA Alexander Canario?
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• Preseason Prep - February 21, 2025
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• Cub Tracks’ goal tending
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• BCB After Dark: Which new Cub will have a big impact?
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• MLB storylines to watch as Spring Training gets underway
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• Baseball Prospectus finds new ways to insult the Rays
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• 2025 Cubs player profiles: Seiya Suzuki

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs’ Japanese DH/right fielder is featured in this installment of the series. Seiya Suzuki came to the Cubs from the Hiroshima Toyo Carp as a free agent, arriving for the 2022 season. The 30-year-old was heralded as a Gold Glove-quality fielder with power and patience at the plate, another five-tool guy with some wheels to take extra bas...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Where is Alex Bregman going to play?

Photo by Alex Bierens de Haan/MLB Photos via Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks who will sign free agent third baseman Alex Bregman. Welcome to BCB After Dark: the hippest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re so glad to see you tonight. New friends or old, all are welcome. Is it still snowing out there? Come in and dry o...2025
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• The 2025 Cubs by the numbers

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images A complete numerical list of this year’s Cubs as they get ready for this year’s Spring Training. As I do here every spring, today I present to you a full numerical roster of all the players and coaches in Cubs spring camp. Also included are the Cubs’ retired numbers, so you can see the full numerical progression. There are 60 players in camp,...2025
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• Cub Tracks sees stars
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• DeMarcus Cousins Knocks Down 3-Pointer from UK Logo During UNC-UK Alumni Game
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• Kentucky's Jamal Murray Is Putting the NBA on Notice Long Before He Even Arrives
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• Astros' Kyle Tucker stuns Orioles with go-ahead grand slam vs. All-Star closer Félix Bautista

Bautista allowed five earned runs all season entering Tuesday's game...2023
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• Astros, Kyle Tucker Have Discussed Extension
The new Astros general manager Dana Brown recently chatted with Brian McTaggart of MLB.com and was asked whether they have begun extension talks with some of their younger players such as Kyle Tucker. “Tucker, we’ve been in conversation,” Brown said. “Some of the stuff was started prior to me coming. We had some talks with…...2023
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• Royals again take advantage of Astros miscues, win 3-2

Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images The Royals take the series and the season series against the defending champs. If you had only watched Royals/Astros games this year, you’d think the Royals were an aggressive, dynamic team high in the standings while the Astros were a tight, mistake-prone team going through a tough year. Baseball is funny that way! The Royals took the season series from the...2023
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• Royals take advantage of Astros miscues for 7-5 win

Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images The Royals score seven runs on just five hits. The Royals scored seven runs on just five hits and defeated the Houston Astros for the third time in four tries with a 7-5 win on Friday night. The Royals jumped on Framber Valdez with four runs in the first inning. Maikel Garcia struck out to start the game, but reached first on a passed ball. Bobby Witt Jr. wo...2023
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• Brown: Astros Pursuing Extensions With Multiple Core Players
It’s been two weeks since the Astros tabbed now-former Braves vice president of scouting Dana Brown as their new general manager, but Brown has wasted little time in embarking on extension talks with Houston’s core players. The GM acknowledged earlier this week that he’s had talks with Kyle Tucker’s camp in the run-up to Tucker’s…...2023
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• Astros select SS Bregman No. 2 overall in Draft
On the day shortstop Carlos Correa was set to make his Major League debut for the Astros, the club drafted another shortstop, LSU's Alex Bregman, with the No. 2 overall pick in Monday's Draft. Houston then took Florida prep outfielder Kyle Tucker three picks later at No. 5....2015
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-February 22, 2025
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• Preseason Prep - February 21, 2025
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-February 15, 2025
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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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• 2023: The year the Braves achieved offensive apotheosis?

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The Braves’ sacrilegious-to-some style of hitting may have reached its apotheosis in 2023, with an unexpected twist I want to start this by saying that I don’t have any firsthand insight regarding the workings of the Atlanta Braves organization. I’ve never talked with, much less been in the same vicinity as Kevin Seitzer. Sure, Kris is down at the ballpar...2023
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• Outside The Confines: No Rays of sunshine

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Things are going wrong fast for the Rays. Also the Angels, who bet big on one last year with Shohei Ohtani. And other news from around MLB Just a few months ago, the Tampa Bay Rays were the biggest story in the game for the best start to a season since the 1984 Tigers. Now, they’re the biggest story in the game for not-as-pleasant reasons. The Tampa Bay Ray...2023
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• Houston Knocks Down Nathan’s Offerings Like It’s A July 4th Contest
Kyle Tucker (2-for-5, 6 RBIs and his 6th and 7th homer) has three asses, because he's -- count them with me now -- an unassuming assassin. Kyle Tucker, who looks like he just walked in from the library and wants to watch TV but his roommate is having people over, homered again. pic.twitter.com/JTg5reVE4K — Razzball (@Razzball) May 18, 2022 That photo of him brings me so much joy. He's like, "I'...2022
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• Top 100 Hitters: New Kids on the Block
Well over 50 games into the 2021 fantasy baseball season have given birth to true breakouts and true concern for the underperformers. In this week for the rest of the season top 100 hitters we see some strong movement from breakout stars that are showing not only top performance but sustained performance. We have the breakouts from players that have shown potential over the past few years in guy...2021
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• Points Leagues: Boy Am I Vlad That Guerrero Jr. Is On My Team
I really didn't understand the whole Bo Bichette is greater than Vladimir Guerrero Jr. movement that took place this draft season. That's not a knock on Bichette by any means, but instead an affirmation that Vlad is a very special player that came into this league as the highly touted number one prospect ahead of Fernando Tatis Jr, Eloy Jimenez, Kyle Tucker and Bo Bichette. While it does seem like...2021
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• A Pearson Of Much Importance On Your Mother/Tucker’s Day
Happy Mother's Day to all the baby's mamas, mamas, mamas, baby mamas, mamas. Much respect to the mothers. Without my emergence from my mother’s vagina, I wouldn’t be able to bestow on you my fantasy baseball ‘pertness. We are one people and everyone has popped out of a mother’s vagina at one point, unless you’re an alien — I’m looking at you, Andrelton! — and with our emergence from our mother’s v...2021
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-February 22, 2025
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• Over/Under on 2025 Braves projections: Part Two
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• BCB After Dark: Why did the Cubs DFA Alexander Canario?
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• Preseason Prep - February 21, 2025
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• Cub Tracks’ goal tending
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• Brewers Reacts Survey: Where will the Brewers finish in the NL Central?
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• MLB storylines to watch as Spring Training gets underway
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• Baseball Prospectus finds new ways to insult the Rays
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• The Cubs are signing Justin Turner
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• Cub Tracks is here for it

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. “Be Here For It,” say the Cubs. 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’ tears, and then ...2025
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• Over/Under on 2025 Braves projections: Part Two
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• BCB After Dark: Which new Cub will have a big impact?
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• Baseball Prospectus finds new ways to insult the Rays
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• BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: The top 5

Matt Shaw | Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Our countdown of the Cubs top prospects finishes with the top five prospects in the Cubs system. We finish up our look at the top prospects in the Cubs system today with the top five prospects in the system. While I’ve written that the Cubs system is down from its heights last year, it’s still a top 10 farm system in my mind and that’s mostly b...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Where should the Cubs find more pitching?

Justin Steele warms up before a game against the Cardinals in August in front of a sold out Wrigley Field | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The roster has improved but more can be done before Spring Training Welcome to your late week, late night indie coffee shop where we’re pouring all the beverages you can imagine to help you get through January. If you’re looking for som...2025
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• Seiya Suzuki Prefers to Play RF, Understands Role as DH
There was a bit of a kerfuffle earlier in the offseason when Seiya Suzuki trade rumors intensified in the wake of his agent saying he didn’t care much for the DH role to which he’d been relegated last season. The acquisition of Kyle Tucker did nothing to quiet the speculation, but that has since died … The post Seiya Suzuki Prefers to Play RF, Understands Role as DH appeared firs...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Can Nate Pearson start?
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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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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Astros series preview
Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images It’s been four years since these teams have played each other. The last time these two clubs met was May 29, 2019. The Cubs won 2-1. Of the 23 men who played in that game, just one is on either team’s current active roster -- Alex Bregman. Somehow, that seems like a very long time ago. For more on the Astros, here’s William Metzger, managing editor of o...2023
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