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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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• Cub Tracks’ Rea of sunshine

Photo by Jeff Speer/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs have a new No. 8 starter and other items of interest 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 from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #...2025
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• The slow exit

Maybe it's the start of the year, but I feel the urge to leave the social media scene more and more.I don't consider blogging part of that. It's separate for me. But I deleted Twitter/X two months ago and I think Facebook will be coming next.I know a lot of folks deleted Facebook a long time ago, I get it. I've stayed because of connections to people who mean something to me in my life. But...2025
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• Cub Tracks comes to bat

Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Cubs continue to beef up with mystery meat; Tucker and the Cubs exchange numbers and it’s a mismatch, and other stories. 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 base...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ flat out

Photo by Kena Krutsinger/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Trade rumor news, player analysis, roster speculation, and even some facts. We have it all in this edition. 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, a...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Should the Cubs offer Alex Bregman a pillow?

Photo by Alex Bierens de Haan/MLB Photos via Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if the Cubs should try to sign Alex Bregman on a short-term deal It’s another Wednesday evening here at BCB After Dark: the hippest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re so glad to see all of you here, safe and sound. Please come in and join...2025
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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 5, Nationals 3: Keeping the line moving

Rafael Suanes-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs again put together a big rally and held on for the win. There’s something about this team... I suspect you see it too. It took nearly the entire season to get there, but now the Chicago Cubs don’t seem to mind if they fall behind. There’s always a rally within them, and that was the case again Saturday in a come-from-behind 5-3 win over the Nationals...2024
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• Cubs 7, Astros 2: A good beginning

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Cubs opened their series against the visitors from Houston with a decisive victory. After a lackluster series split against the Marlins, the Cubs needed a game like their 7-2 win over the Astros Tuesday evening at Wrigley Field to show themselves, and everyone else, that they’re still the strong contending team many expected them to be this year. Jo...2024
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• Diamondbacks 12, Cubs 11: This space intentionally left blank

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images I can’t even... Whatever that game was, I did not like it one bit. Well, perhaps that’s too harsh. The Cubs scored a lot of runs! They got a key grand slam from Ian Happ! They were one out away from victory... Nope. Sorry. Going back to “did not like it one bit.” The Diamondbacks beat the Cubs 12-11 in 11 innings Tuesday night in Arizona, and while we can fi...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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• Rangers 11, Cubs 2: Back to the drawing board

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images That was an ugly, ugly loss. This... this is not the way we wanted the 2024 Chicago Cubs season to start. An injury to the team’s best pitcher and a blowout loss? Ugh. The Cubs lost to the Rangers 11-2 Saturday and unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of good stuff to report to you. But, report I will! The Cubs scored first, so that’s ... about the only posi...2024
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• Rangers 4, Cubs 3: Justin Steele leaves with hamstring tightness

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images This was not a good way to start the 2024 season. I have a request. Next time the Cubs open a season — a year or so from now — could we have a little less controversy and injury? The Cubs lost Game 1 of the 2024 season to the Rangers 4-3 in 10 innings, and also have likely lost ace Justin Steele to the injured list, though for how long is not yet certain....2024
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• Cubs 8, Rangers 6: The power barrage continues

Rick Scuteri-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs sent more baseballs out of the yard Sunday at Sloan Park. MESA, Arizona — The Cubs hosted many of the regulars from the defending World Series champion Rangers and put the hurt on them, hitting two home runs and smashing several other extra-base hits in an 8-6 victory. Since March 9, including split-squad games, the Cubs are 8-1. (Not that spring wins...2024
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• Cubs 7, Blue Jays 5: At last, a win in Canada
Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images The Cubs ended a 14-year losing streak north of the border. TORONTO — It required six relievers (seven, if you count Luke Farrell on what was a bullpen day) and some timely hitting, but Wednesday night the Cubs ended a losing streak in Canada that had lasted more than 14 years. Sure, it was only a five-game Canadian losing streak (three in 2014, the first ...2022
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• Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax
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• The slow exit
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• Cub Tracks comes to bat
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• BCB After Dark: Should the Cubs offer Alex Bregman a pillow?
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• Cubs 12, Pirates 0: Shōta Imanaga, Nate Pearson and Porter Hodge combine on a no-hitter

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images It’s the first no-hitter thrown by the Cubs at Wrigley Field in over half a century. You know, the Cubs might not make the postseason this year — and despite this 12-0 win over the Pirates they didn’t gain any ground on the Mets and Braves — but we will all have one wonderful, indelible memory to share all winter after Shōta Imanaga, Nate Pearson and Port...2024
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• Cubs 5, Rockies 2: The old school recap

Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports With no video or photos from this game, what you get is descriptions. It is very odd, in the year 2024, to not have any audio or video live coverage of a Major League Baseball game. Yes, even in Spring Training, where the Cubs do cover nearly every game, and all those at home. But this one, about 10 miles north of the Cubs’ Sloan Park complex, had none. So I ca...2024
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• Cody Bellinger watch: He’s still unsigned. What will it take to get him back in the Cubs fold?

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images Let’s throw some numbers around. The photo at the top of this post was chosen for a reason. Specifically, because it’s a photo of Cody Bellinger rounding the bases after a home run against the Cardinals last July... with the words CHICAGO CUBS prominently in view behind him. That, of course, is where we want him to remain for the 2024 season, and hopefull...2024
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• The Cubs introduce Shōta Imanaga to Chicago

Marquee Sports Network The team held a news conference with the lefthander Friday afternoon. The best thing about the news conference introducing Shōta Imanaga as the newest member of the Chicago Cubs was his opening statement, in which Imanaga said several sentences in English, including reciting a few phrases from Steve Goodman’s “Go Cubs Go.” Whether Imanaga knew of the song previously ...2024
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• Craig Counsell: ‘It is time to be a Cub’

Marquee Sports Network The new Cubs manager was introduced at a news conference at Wrigley Field Monday. The headline to this article reflects, I think, Craig Counsell’s approach to taking the job of Cubs manager. During his introductory news conference, he confidently stated: “It’s time to be a Cub.” Throughout the presser he laid praise on Cubs President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer...2023
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• Minnesota Vikings in the Power Rankings — Entering Wild Card Weekend

Photo by Mike Mulholland/Getty Images After getting smoked by the Lions, where do the Vikings rate? The Minnesota Vikings were at the mercy of the Detroit Lions — and in some respects, the officials — in a massive thrashing at Ford Field last Sunday. Now, instead of a bye and home-field advantage in the postseason, the Vikings will have to be road warriors to get to the ultimate goal, if t...2025
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• Cubs 14, Nationals 1: Sweep!
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• Cubs 5, Nationals 3: Keeping the line moving
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• Cubs 3, White Sox 1: Takin’ care of business

Photo by Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Cubs went to the South Side of Chicago and did what they needed to do. The Cubs defeated the White Sox 3-1 Saturday night. It wasn’t pretty much of the time, but the team did what they came for in this series — a sweep, and thus a sweep of the season series against their crosstown rivals for the first time since 2013. The Sox scor...2024
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• Cubs 7, Twins 3: The offense has been located!

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Cubs had a good day at the plate and evened up their series with the Twins. Hopefully, now that Cubs hitters put together a varied, 10-hit offense against the Twins Tuesday evening at Wrigley Field, the offense will stick around for a while. All of that resulted in a well-played 7-3 win over the Twins. The Cubs didn’t waste any time getting going at...2024
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• Cubs 8, Guardians 3: The Cubs display home-run power

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images The Cubs homered four times against the Guards. The Cubs brought quite a number of guys to this game who are expected to be bench players this year, or compete for bench spots. Several of those players brought their big bats with them. The Cubs won the game 8-3 and one of the big blows was a first-inning grand slam by backup catcher Miguel Amaya. In fact, le...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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• Cubs 6, Reds 6: The future on display

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Some guys who will be a big part of the team’s future put together a late-inning rally. MESA, Arizona — The Cubs started quite a few of their regular players Tuesday at Sloan Park, and they got no-hit for six innings, and the Reds put together two rallies in the seventh and eighth to take a 6-0 lead. Instead of guys from the minor lea...2024
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• Cubs 6, Rockies 0: Takin’ care of business

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs need to win games... and here’s one they won in convincing fashion. With their recent skid, the Cubs have put themselves in a position where they pretty much have to win every single day the rest of the season, no matter how absurd that might seem. One day at a time is how they’ll have to take it, and Friday’s was a great effort pitching-wise, ...2023
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• BCB After Dark: Should the Cubs offer Alex Bregman a pillow?
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• Minnesota Vikings in the Power Rankings — Entering Wild Card Weekend
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• Cubs 9, Rockies 8: Sweep!
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• Cubs 5, Rockies 0: Jameson Taillon scratched with a back issue

Al Yellon The Cubs won the game, but... MESA, Arizona — Seven Cubs pitchers shut out the Rockies 5-0 at Sloan Park Saturday, allowing just three hits and striking out nine. That should be good news. Unfortunately, one of those pitchers was not the scheduled starter Jameson Taillon. Occasionally over the last few seasons, I’ve walked over to the Cubs bullpen to do a Facebook Live stream of...2024
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• Dodgers 8, Cubs 5: Shōta’s debut
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• Craig Counsell: ‘It is time to be a Cub’
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• Cubs 6, Tigers 4: The never-quit Cubs pull one out

Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports After a devastating grand slam tied things up, the Cubs got to work and came out on top. All’s well that ends well, and the Cubs ended this series well with a 6-4 win over the Tigers, but I’ll ask you the question, and you can vote in the poll. After Jameson Taillon loaded the bases in the sixth inning, then retired the next two hitters, would you have taken...2023
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• Cubs 4, White Sox 3: Christopher Morel walks it off

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports ... and, my friends, this was the game of the year. So far, anyway. As baseball fans, each and every one of us lives for moments like we had at Wrigley Field Wednesday evening, a game in which our team seems headed for an inevitable, crushing defeat and then in a matter of just a few seconds, we are all sent into indescribable joy. Or, as a friend of mine...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 4, Marlins 1: The complaint department is closed
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Justin Steele threw another nice game and the Cubs had enough timely hitting to win. The Cubs came off their worst road trip in quite some time and faced a team that swept them last weekend. No matter! Thanks to seven excellent innings from Justin Steele, a two-run homer by Ian Happ and a couple of other key hits, the Cubs defeated the Marlins 4-1 on a pi...2023
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• Mark Grace and Shawon Dunston will be inducted into the Cubs Hall of Fame next month

Mark Grace and Shawon Dunston in 1997 | VINCENT LAFORET/AFP via Getty Images They’ll be honored at Wrigley Field September 8-10. Cubs greats Mark Grace and Shawon Dunston were announced as the 2023 Cubs Hall of Fame inductees at last January’s Cubs Convention. Today, the team announced that these two popular former Cubs will be honored at Wrigley Field the weekend of September 8-10, when t...2023
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• Cubs 3, Brewers 2: The comeback Cubs do it again

Mike Tauchman scores the eventual winning run in the eighth inning Wednesday afternoon | Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports This game had just about everything, and the best part: A Cubs win! Wednesday’s game at Wrigley Field reminded me why I love baseball so much. Gorgeous weather. Meaningful baseball between two rivals for a playoff spot. Back-and-forth, great pitching, lousy pitching, good f...2023
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• Cubs 6, Tigers 4: The never-quit Cubs pull one out
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• Cubs 10, Red Sox 4: Cody Bellinger is en fuego!
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs brought out the long ball — and a lot more hits — and evened up the series. There is nothing that says more about what the Chicago Cubs should do going forward than what happened in their 10-4 win over the Red Sox Saturday. Cody Bellinger, who has now homered five times in his last six games, hit a grand slam to cap a six-run inning. Marcus Strom...2023
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• Cubs 9, Rangers 6: Seven in a row!
Edwin Rios | Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs have been on a winning tear in the Cactus League. Adrian Sampson and the Cubs did not start this game well, trailing 6-2 after just three innings. But a few of the sub Cubs had nice days at the plate and that resulted in a 9-6 Cubs win over the Rangers, the team’s seventh straight victory. Wins and losses, obviously, mean nothing in Sp...2023
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• Cubs 5, Rockies 4: The cardiac Cubs come back

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images A ninth-inning rally put this one in the win column. You asked for meaningful baseball in September and by gum, you have got it. Now let’s hope we all survive it. The Cubs fashioned an early lead, got good starting pitching, then the bullpen blew that lead. But then the team put together a stirring ninth-inning rally and held on — barely — for a 5-4 wi...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 8, Braves 6: Swingin’ in the rain

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Cubs bats came alive on a really bad weather day at the ol’ ballpark. It rained all morning and afternoon in Chicago, and at Wrigley Field, and I’ll have a bit more to say about that later. Keeping with the spirit of the day, the Cubs rained down hits and home runs and evened up the series against the Braves with an 8-6 victory. The Cubs did not was...2023
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• Minnesota Vikings in the Power Rankings — Entering Wild Card Weekend
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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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• Cubs 14, Nationals 1: Sweep!
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• Cubs 3, White Sox 1: Takin’ care of business
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• Cubs 7, Twins 3: The offense has been located!
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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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