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• Cubs roster moves: Matt Shaw and Nate Pearson optioned, Eli Morgan to injured list

Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images The first of these moves, Shaw being sent down, was not expected. The Cubs gave rookie Matt Shaw the third-base job out of Spring Training. The 2023 first-round pick had hit well at all levels of the minor leagues. Unfortunately, that hasn’t yet translated to MLB performance. In 18 games so far this year and 68 plate appearances, Shaw is batting .172/.2...2025
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• Cubs Option Matt Shaw
The Cubs have optioned third baseman Matt Shaw to Triple-A Iowa, reports Keith Law of The Athletic. That’s part of a larger slate of moves, relayed by Jordan Bastian of MLB.com. Infielder Vidal Brujan has been reinstated from the 10-day injured list. On the pitching side, the club recalled left-hander Luke Little and right-hander Daniel…...2025
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• Minor League Wrap: Owen Caissie hurt in Iowa DH split

Owen Caissie | Cody Scanlan/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The I-Cubs split a doubleheader, but the win was a pyrrhic one. The Pelicans remain undefeated. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs split a doubleheader with Indianapolis, losing the continuation of Friday’s suspended game 5-4 and winning the nine-inning contest 4-1. Jordan Wicks started on Friday and gave up three runs in t...2025
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• Iowa Cubs Wrap: Smart baserunning leads to a 2-1 I-Cubs win

James Triantos | Cody Scanlan/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK Iowa rallied for 2 runs in the top of the 9th to beat Indianapolis The Iowa Cubs rallied late to beat Indianapolis (Pirates), 2-1. Chris Flexen started for Iowa and was constantly pitching out of trouble. But for the most part he did. Flexen gave up seven hits and four walks over 4.2 innings, but allowed just one unearned run, ...2025
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• The Cubs need a bullpen fix — and fast

Photo by Masterpress/Getty Images Sunday’s meltdown was one of the worst in recent memory. As a refresher, one of the things that torpedoed — to use a current baseball-related word — the Cubs’ 2024 season was some awful bullpen work over the first couple of months. These are the pitchers who were in the Cubs’ Opening Day bullpen in 2024: Yency Almonte, Adbert Alzolay, Jose Cuas, Mark Leite...2025
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• Get to know the Iowa Cubs

Moises Ballesteros | Cody Scanlan/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK The Cubs Triple-A affiliate is loaded with prospects. The Iowa Cubs take the field tonight against the Omaha Storm Chasers at 7:08 Central Time at Principal Park in Des Moines. It’s the 45th season that Iowa will be the Cubs’ top farm team. The first thing to know about this Cubs team is that it is absolutely loaded with pr...2025
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• Cubs roster moves: Matt Shaw and Nate Pearson optioned, Eli Morgan to injured list
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• Minor League Wrap: Owen Caissie hurt in Iowa DH split
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• The Cubs need a bullpen fix — and fast
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• Padres 5, Cubs 1: Mostly pointless

Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images Nico Hoerner returned to the field. Cade Horton pitched well. Moises Ballesteros homered. Other than that. . . . Now that the Cubs have returned from Japan, having lost two games that count, they now have to play five games that don’t count, because the schedule says so. But it’s hard to find much point to today’s game, which was a glorified minor le...2025
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• 2025 Cubs player profiles: Luke Little

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Big Luke has a strong likelihood of ending up in the Chicago pen. How long it takes is the question. 85-72 is the team’s projected record, heading into the end of our profile series. Luke Little, hopefully to reside in the major-league bullpen before too long, is up this time, and then we’ll finish with a look at Keegan Thompson. Luke Little...2025
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• Cubs cut spring roster to 42 players

Ethan Roberts | Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images The Cubs didn’t play Friday, but they were still active. Once again, none of these cuts should surprise you. We’re getting to the point where the Tokyo Series roster (plus taxi squad) will be announced early next week. The Cubs today reduced the spring roster from 53 to 42 players. Right-handed pitcher Ethan Roberts an...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Grade the bullpen makeover

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks for your opinion of the Cubs bullpen. Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the swinging-est soiree for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re so glad you decided to stop by. The good times are rolling tonight. There’s no cover charge. We still have a few tables availab...2025
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• The Cubs’ coming bullpen crunch

Who will be the eight relievers Craig Counsell will have to choose from on Opening Day? | Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images Which relievers are going to make the Opening Day roster? One of the things that ruined the Cubs’ 2024 season was multiple bullpen meltdowns, particularly in the first couple of months. It’s not my purpose here to rehash those. Cubs President of Baseball Operations J...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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", Luke Little, Julian Merryweather, Hector Neris, Drew Smyly Here are the pitchers who were in the Cubs’ Opening Day bullpen this year (using the North American opener last Thursday as the benchmark): Porter Hodge, Brad Keller, Julian Merryweather, Eli Morgan, Nate Pearson, Ryan Pressly, Colin Rea, Caleb Thielbar That’s almost a complete turnover — just one pitcher (Merryweather) is in both lists."

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"Luke Little, who had finished off Tuesday’s win, got the call as the opener for this one and dispatched the Rockies 1-2-3 on only 14 pitches."

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"And then it was Luke Little time."

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"But the real damage came in the fourth inning, when Franklin gave up four singles (two of them infield singles and another one softly hit through the infield) and was pulled for Luke Little."

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"The Cubs announced Thursday that they’ve signed three of their five picks from the 2020 amateur draft: left-hander Burl Carraway (second-round), left-hander Luke Little (fourth) and right-hander Koen Moreno (fifth)."

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• Cub Tracks returns to form

Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs dropped one at Sloan Park, thanks in part to Michael King’s good pitching and their quiet bats. 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, ov...2025
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• 2025 Cubs player profiles: Caleb Thielbar

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Thielbar is the Cubs’ sole lefthanded reliever at present. He’ll have to work hard to pitch his way out of a spot. Caleb Thielbar, No. 24 in your program guide, signed with the Cubs as a free agent in late December, a belated Xmas present for the bullpen. He was signed to a one-year, $2.75 million contract. He’s had effective years with the T...2025
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• 2025 Cubs player profiles: Ryan Brasier

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images Ryan Brasier’s veteran status and track record probably gives him an edge to a bullpen spot. He has to earn it, though. Ryan Brasier is going to need to get guys out. I mean, that’s what all pitchers do, ideally, but Brasier’s track record, veteran status, and relatively high salary probably get him a spot in the middle of the bullpen as long as he’s ef...2025
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• Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax

Photo by Mary Turner/Getty Images Have the Cubs finished making moves this offseason? We still don’t know for sure. Cubs pitchers and catchers officially report to Spring Training at the Sloan Park complex in Mesa, Arizona this Sunday. So on the same day as the Super Bowl, we’ll have an official Cubs pitcher/catcher workout to report on, and then coming up a week from Friday, the first off...2025
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• Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax

Photo by Mary Turner/Getty Images The Cubs still have a lot of space under the luxury tax. Spend it, Jed. Now that the deadline for arbitration-eligible players to sign before hearings has passed and Kyle Tucker is the only such Cub unsigned for this year, I thought it would be a good idea to take another look at the 2025 team payroll, projected roster and luxury tax situation. As usual, T...2025
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• Juan Soto, an update on where the Cubs stand, and Winter Meetings open thread

Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images A potpourri of things for you on Monday morning. Juan Soto has signed with the Mets. That, you already know, and you can read more reaction in this morning’s Outside The Confines. You knew he wasn’t coming to the Cubs, right? I think we all knew that, or should have. Here’s the only thing I have to say about that. The Cubs have made it pretty clear that ...2024
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• Rob Zastryzny returns to the Cubs in a flurry of roster moves

Rob Zastryzny pitches for the Cubs at Wrigley Field in August 2016 | Photo by Jon Durr/Getty Images Today was the deadline for returning players on the 60-day injured list to the 40-man roster. Rob Zastryzny was the Cubs’ second-round pick in 2013 out of the University of Missouri. He pitched in 12 games (one start) for the team in 2016-17 — and thus picked up a World Series ring. Release...2024
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• The Cubs have some roster decisions to make by Monday

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Who will stay and who will go? Tomorrow, Monday, Nov. 4 at 4 p.m. CT, MLB teams are required to activate all players on the 60-day injured list and restore them to the 40-man roster. The Cubs have eight players on the 60-day: Yency Almonte, Adbert Alzolay, Colten Brewer, Ben Brown, Brennen Davis, Luke Little, Nick Madrigal and Julian Merrywea...2024
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• Iowa Cubs Wrap: Smart baserunning leads to a 2-1 I-Cubs win
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• 2025 Cubs player profiles: A few final words

The 2025 player profiles are complet and the projections averaged. Thanks for taking the time to read and comment. We’ve covered the 40-man roster of the Chicago Cubs, as they stand as of this moment. Nico Hoerner is going to miss the opener Japan, but we have yet to attain wisdom as to his Stateside Opening Day status. That might or might not leave a temporary spot open, which would allow the Cub...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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• MLB’s 2024-25 offseason calendar: Free agents, awards, Rule 5 draft, non-tenders, arbitration, more

Getty Images Baseball doesn’t stop just because there are no games. Here’s a handy calendar of everything happening before next season begins. Congratulations to the Los Angeles Dodgers on winning the 2024 World Series, the eighth title in their franchise history. With that, baseball’s offseason commences. Here’s a handy calendar to help you fill your fall and winter until Opening Day 202...2024
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• Cub Tracks earns the split

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes plus extras, four days a week. Cubs could have had both games, take one, and head for a series win Sunday. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tear...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 18

Peter van den Berg-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs win the game, the series, and the road trip with 5-3 victory. I like to start with a disclaimer. You are welcome to your own fandom and to experiencing it however you like. It is not my intent to tell you how you should think. How am I feeling about this team through 18 games? This team has gotten one abbreviated start from its best starter, Jus...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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• Minor League Wrap: Owen Caissie hurt in Iowa DH split
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• 2024 Cubs final season grades

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Obviously, we wish this year’s Cubs would have done better. But there were still some performances to celebrate. As they did in 2023, the Cubs dug themselves a deep hole early on this year, went on a pretty good run and were briefly in a wild-card spot, then couldn’t hold on to it in September. They did finish 83-79, the same record as last y...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 13

Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports Too many walks allowed, too few hits doom Cubs in Seattle. Two weeks do not make a baseball season by any means. However, I chuckle every time I hear someone say that the Cubs didn’t really do anything in the offseason. Certainly, running it back with a team that didn’t reach the playoffs and hoping that internal growth seems like a silly plan. That said, ...2024
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• Cubs 9, Rockies 8: Sweep!

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty Images The Cubs fought off the weather and a Rockies rally to complete the three-game sweep. The weather outside was frightful. And, for a while, so was the Cubs’ bullpen. But in the end, the Cubs hung on Wednesday night for a 9-8 win over the Rockies, their fourth straight victory. It rained — and snowed — most of the day in Chicago and the start of the game w...2024
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• Dodgers 8, Cubs 5: Shōta’s debut

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs’ new Japanese lefty looked good. The rest of the team... not so much. Shōta Imanaga made his Cubs debut Saturday and pitched as advertised. Despite allowing a three-run homer to Dodgers prospect Andy Pages, Imanage had command of all his pitches and struck out five. The Cubs, however, dropped the game to the Dodgers 6-5. The Cubs opened the scoring...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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• BCB 2024 Top 25 Cubs prospects countdown: 11 to 15

Alexander Canario | David Banks-USA TODAY Sports A catcher, an outfielder, a reliever and two shortstops are on today’s list. We are at the halfway point in our countdown of the BCB top 25 prospects for 2024. As we’ve noted before, the Cubs system is very deep at the moment. I think there’s a bit of a drop off after 12, but that’s just going from “excellent” to “pretty good.” And the firs...2024
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• Cubs 8, Giants 2: Sweep!

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs swept the Giants behind solid pitching from Jordan Wicks and a varied offense. Before I begin this recap of the Cubs’ impressive 8-2 victory over the Giants that gave them a series sweep and four straight wins, a mea culpa. I thought it was not wise to bring a rookie like Jordan Wicks into the pressure of a playoff race. Man, was I wrong. Wicks...2023
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• Cubs 9, Rockies 8: Sweep!
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• Cubs 6, Brewers 1: Some pitching performances of note

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images There will be some interesting bullpen choices this year. With much of the attention of Cubs fans today on the re-introduction of Cody Bellinger as a member of the team (and don’t expect to see him in a game before next week), and most of the Cubs regulars not making the trip to the Brewers’ spring home in west Phoenix, I wanted to ta...2024
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• Brewers 4, Cubs 0: The 2023 journey comes to an end

Waiting till next year | Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports ... with the Cubs using a makeshift lineup and pitching staff. With the Cubs eliminated from the 2023 postseason after the Marlins won Saturday, the team decided to make a flurry of roster moves and give Sunday’s previously scheduled starter, Justin Steele, and most of the rest of the team’s regular players the afternoon off for this yea...2023
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• Cubs 12, Rockies 2: Raining runs

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty Images The weather was frightful, but the Cubs didn’t seem to mind. We’ve talked a lot here about the awful Chicago weather so far this April (after the warmest February in Chicago history), but if this is what it takes for the Cubs to win, bring it on. The Cubs crushed the Rockies 12-2 on a chilly, drizzly Tuesday evening at Wrigley Field that brought out less...2024
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• The Daily Belli watch: 24 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Let’s shake it up. There hasn’t been any Cody Bellinger news since yesterday’s post so I thought I’d do something a little different for today’s, given that another purpose here is to give you an open thread to discuss anything baseball-related. In addition to today being 24 days to the Cubs’ Spring Training opener, it’s 58 days until the regular season...2024
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• Cubs 8, Giants 4: Brennen Davis makes his case

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images The Cubs prospect looks healthy, at last. Brennen Davis was all over Top 100 prospect lists from 2020-22 and played in the 2021 Futures Game. The outfielder, who the Cubs took in the second round in 2018 out of high school in Arizona, seemed like one of those proverbial “can’t-miss” prospects, a guy who was going to make the big leagu...2024
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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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• Padres 5, Cubs 1: Mostly pointless
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• 2025 Cubs player profiles: Ryan Brasier
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• Another way-too-early look at the Cubs’ Opening Day roster
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• A way-too-early look at the Cubs 2025 Opening Day roster

Major League Baseball It’s still January and there could be additions to come. Before I get into this list — and it’s likely to change perhaps even before Spring Training begins — here’s the caveat. This is a look at who will take the field for the Cubs Thursday, March 27 against the Diamondbacks at Chase Field — not who will open the actual 2025 season against the Dodgers Tuesday, March 1...2025
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• 2024 Cubs final season grades
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• Cubs 4, Astros 3: Getting the job done
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• Cub Tracks’ Brown harvest

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. Part of the future is coming to a park near you. Plus game notes and other amusements for the discerning reader. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground ...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ double your pleasure

Photo by mark peterson/Corbis via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. It rained baseballs Saturday as the Cubs split their squads but not their lumber. The Royals had some bombs stored, too. Many wow. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat...2024
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• A very early look at the 2024 Cubs roster and payroll

Photo by Mary Turner/Getty Images ... in the wake of the shocking news of the signing of Craig Counsell to manage the team. MLB free agency has begun. Players who are free agents can now sign with any team. Incidentally, here is a complete list of this offseason’s free agents, and as I have in the past, I’ll be posting individual articles about some of them and how they might meet the Cubs...2023
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