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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Three offseason moves the Cubs need to make

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Here are some things that would absolutely, positively improve the team for 2025. I know, I know. The first thing many of you are going to say when you think of “three offseason moves the Cubs need to make” is “Sign Juan Soto.” It seems clear that’s not going to happen. So let’s look at some other things the Cubs might do to put them in a position where...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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• Here’s the Cubs’ entire 40-man roster and what might happen with it this offseason

Photo by Griffin Quinn/MLB Photos via Getty Images The team has many decisions to make. Last week, I posted this article about the 14 (!) players the Cubs have who are arbitration-eligible for 2025. In the poll attached to that article, 57 percent of you said the Cubs would non-tender at least seven of those players, with some commenting that it might be as many as nine. So I thought I’d e...2024
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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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• 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 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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• Chicago Cubs vs. Colorado Rockies preview, Wednesday 4/3, 6:40 CT

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty Images The Cubs go for the series sweep. Wednesday notes... THE WEATHER: Just like Tuesday, rain (or snow!) could interrupt this game. Here’s the point forecast for Wrigley Field. So, again, here’s the local radar for you to keep handy: Just going to go on record right now as saying playing this game tonight is ridiculous. It risks injury to players and is c...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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"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)."

• Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax
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• Juan Soto, an update on where the Cubs stand, and Winter Meetings open thread
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• Rob Zastryzny returns to the Cubs in a flurry of roster moves
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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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• 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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• 2024 Cubs final season grades
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• Phillies 6, Cubs 2: Let’s talk about Caleb Kilian

Eric Hartline-Imagn Images The Cubs righthander got a chance to show his stuff on Monday. It did not go well. You didn’t think the Cubs were going to win this game, did you? Nah. Not with the Phillies one win away from clinching the NL East title and the Cubs going after them with a bullpen game. It worked about the way you figured it might. Nate Pearson threw a decent first inning, but Ca...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 18
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• The 5 worst Cubs games of 2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 18
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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 13
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 8

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs came up empty on Saturday, losing 4-1. When things are going good, you just want them to stretch out to infinity. Of course, nothing works that way. The Cubs came up pretty empty on Saturday. They did manage seven hits and drew three walks. Depending on the quality of the contact through the game, the timing and the sequencing, that kind of ou...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 6

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty Images It was neither pretty, nor easy, but the Cubs sweep. This one looked for a little while like it would finish similar to the first game of the series. The opener/length combo of Luke Little and Ben Brown were fantastic while the Cubs offense was putting up five runs. Credit to the Rockies, they came off of the mat. And discredit to the Cubs, the defense ...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 5

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty Images The Cubs drop an avalanche on the Rockies. Not to echo off of yesterday’s story too much, but the Cubs drew one weak opponent early on. They’ve flat out dominated the first two games of this series. First and foremost, you beat the team across from you. This isn’t college or high school athletics where you can schedule some easier preseason teams as warm...2024
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• BCB roundtable: 2024 Cubs season preview

Getty Images A discussion of the season to come from the BCB staff. BCB’s front-page writers have done several of these roundtable discussions previewing Cubs seasons and postseasons, so here we are again to kick off the 2024 season. Josh, Sara, Thomas, Duane and I had a lively online conversation Wednesday afternoon. The online chat has been lightly edited for clarity. Ashley was unable t...2024
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• 2024 Cubs final season grades
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 13
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• Cubs 9, Rockies 8: Sweep!
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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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• SB Nation Offseason Simulation: The fake 2024 Cubs

David Kohl-USA TODAY Sports All the SB Nation sites got together for some simulated wheeling and dealing. Each November, the SB Nation sites get together and fly through the entire baseball offseason in two days with our annual offseason simulation. What follows is an annotated summary of deals, signings, and discussions. Enjoy! In prior years, the simulation goals have been easy: supplem...2023
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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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• Cubs 14, Pirates 1: Now that’s more like it

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The Friendly Confines were very friendly to Cubs bats Tuesday evening. Rain delayed action at Wrigley Field Tuesday for an hour and 25 minutes and when it got started, the Cubs didn’t wait long before unleashing bats that had been awfully quiet for almost a week. A barrage that included 12 hits, six walks and four home runs led the Cubs to a 14-1 victory over t...2023
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 149

Photo by Zac BonDurant/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The one with four blown leads! Obviously, we all that the Cubs wouldn’t be in a stretch with four straight losses and seven of nine. All of the slack in the rope is gone and what looked like a relatively safe bet a couple of weeks ago is starting to look awfully shaky. The Cubs last lost four straight games June 25 to June 29. You’ll...2023
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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 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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• Juan Soto, an update on where the Cubs stand, and Winter Meetings open thread
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• Phillies 6, Cubs 2: Let’s talk about Caleb Kilian
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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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