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• Cubs roster move: Michael Fulmer selected, Nate Pearson optioned

Michael Fulmer with the Cubs in 2023 | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images The Cubs play a bit of roster Jenga again with a blast from the past. Nate Pearson was recalled by the Cubs from Triple-A Iowa over the weekend after Génesis Cabrera was designated for assignment. Well. As you know, that did not work out well. Pearson was hit hard in his one outing for the Cubs Sunday afternoon agai...2025
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• Chicago Cubs vs. St. Louis Cardinals preview, Monday 6/23, 6:45 CT

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs finally meet their arch-rivals. Today’s roster move: Here Monday notes... WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, OLD FRIEND?: Tonight’s game will tie for the latest first meeting of the Cubs and Cardinals in a season that began on schedule. They also first met on June 23 in 1997. That was the Cubs’ 74th game. Tonight’s will be their 78th. The teams ...2025
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• Mariners 14, Cubs 6: Back to the bullpen drawing board

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs ended the homestand on a sour note. Look at it this way. The Chicago Cubs are still a very good team. They still have a (mostly) comfortable lead in the NL Central. They are going to go through times like this, every team does, even good teams. The 14-6 loss to the Mariners ended the homestand with a 5-4 record, which is disappointin...2025
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• Overflow thread: Cubs vs. Mariners, Sunday 6/22, 1:20 CT

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• Cub Tracks earns the split

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The #1 source for #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes. The Cubs won the second game and will be looking for the loaf. Ian Happ had a good day. The going is weird. Cub Tracks™ turned pro a long time ago. Cub Tracks™. Where the great ones run away. Any MLB team can beat you. The good teams WILL beat you. In the beginning, there was Genesis C...2025
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• Cubs roster move: Génesis Cabrera designated for assignment, Nate Pearson recalled

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs have made a bullpen move. Génesis Cabrera was signed by the Cubs May 29 and added to the active roster when Julian Merryweather was designated for assignment. Cabrera’s first few outings as a Cub were decent, but the last two... not so much. He wound up allowing four home runs in 9⅓ innings as a Cub and posted an ERA of 9.64 in nine...2025
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• Game thread LXV - Royals at White Sox

Jac has spent a lot of time in the dugout watching others to start his MLB career | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images The Royals need a win after last night’s brutal loss The Royals lost their worst game of the season, perhaps their worst loss of the Picollo/Quatraro era, last night. It was not made better by Q’s flacid argument that essentially boiled down to, “It could have worked.” Giv...2025
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• Game Thread: Royals at White Sox

Look at this lunatic, having fun playing baseball: The Kyle Teel Era has begun. | Matt Dirksen/Getty Images Are the vibes real? There are crickets chirping at SSS headquarters, as most of our staff is out taking in today’s game together. Kudos to Melissa Sage-Bollenbach for organizing the group, and it seems certain that today’s coverage will feature photos and/or quotes from the gathering...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ Capital offense

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The #1 source for #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes. Monday was an off day. The bats should be ready for DC. The going is weird. Cub Tracks™ turned pro a long time ago. Cub Tracks™. Where the great ones run away. Monday was an off day. The Cubs will face the Nationals tonight as they begin a series in the capital. Currently our favo...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 57

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs drop the series opener 6-2 to the Reds. Before Friday, the Cubs had won every series opener that they had played at Wrigley Field. On the last homestand, they finally broke the streak of losing every Sunday. Do you know what those things are? Totally arbitrary outcomes. There is no reason to believe either thing will continue. Consi...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 54

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs win the series opener 3-1 over the Rockies. I did secretly hope this series would be a little more “boring.” In one manner of looking at things, things were boring. The Rockies didn’t put up a ton of fight. More, they just hung around all day. Of course, that means that in the other way of looking at things, it wasn’t boring. Every p...2025
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• Cubs roster moves: Ian Happ activated, Porter Hodge to IL, Moises Ballesteros to Iowa, Ethan Roberts up

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images It was a good audition for the 21-year-old. After Monday’s game, a tough loss, Cubs manager Craig Counsell brought worse news: Per Craig Counsell, #Cubs Porter Hodge has a left oblique injury and is going to be placed on the IL.— Taylor McGregor (@Taylor_McGregor) May 20, 2025 To replace Hodge on the 26-man active roster, righthander Et...2025
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• The Short Porch is shorthanded in the bullpen

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Who should close while Porter Hodge is sidelined? Last night’s loss to the Marlins was about as gut-wrenching as they come. It was a back-and-forth affair that ultimately ended in Miami’s favor in the ninth inning after Daniel Palencia was unable to get the final three outs in the bottom of the frame. Palencia was close to getting out of the ...2025
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. White Sox series preview

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images The first series of this year’s Crosstown Classic is this weekend. In its infinite wisdom, Major League Baseball has decreed that beginning this year, the “rivalry” series between in-city or in-state (or manufactured) rivals shall be six games, two three-game series, instead of the previous pair of two-game series. Even four is too many for me; I’d be fin...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 44

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs offense was ineffective in a 3-1 loss. Worried is the wrong word. But the offensive malaise is lingering a bit longer than I expected. The Cubs have scored 27 runs over their last eight games. I don’t think there is any question that the injury to Ian Happ is part of the equation. The tailing off of Kyle Tucker is a piece of it. It’...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Unsung hero?

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks who is the Cubs’ unsung hero It’s another week here at BCB After Dark: the grooviest gathering of night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Thank you for stopping by. Come on in and join us. There’s no cover charge. We still have a few tables available. Bring your own beve...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ stealth blogging

#4, the invisible man | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, hand-selected for your possible pleasure, with commentary. What even is ‘content’? 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,...2023
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• Cub Tracks’ best paw forward
Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images All the #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Clark is looking for a Clark bar and a Clark station, on Clark St. Welcome to today’s edition 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 c...2023
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"| Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images A five-run outburst that was hard to watch."

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"| Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images The team is likely to see major turnover by the time they take the field at Wrigley next March 30."

• Cubs roster move: Michael Fulmer selected, Nate Pearson optioned
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Pittsburgh Pirates preview, Friday 6/13, 1:20 CT

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs go for two in a row over the Bucs. Friday notes... FRIDAY, NOT UNDER THE LIGHTS: This is the Cubs’ sixth Friday afternoon home game of the season. They won the first four before losing to the Reds on May 30. Since Aug. 8, 1988, when the lights were turned on at Wrigley Field, the Cubs are 253-204-1 in Friday day games, a winning pe...2025
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• Game thread LXV - Royals at White Sox
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• The Short Porch thinks Michael Busch should face more lefties

Michael Busch at the plate on Sunday | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs first baseman is too important to the offense to be in a platoon The Cubs have had one of the strongest offenses in baseball by just about any metric you care to use this season. Their wRC+ of 120 indicates that they are 20 percent better than the league and park adjusted average at run creation...2025
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• 2025 Cubs attendance watch: A look at ticketing trends and pricing

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The team is doing well, so secondary market pricing is on the way up. Welcome to our first look at Cubs attendance and ticket pricing for this year. With the Cubs in first place in the NL Central, attendance has been up recently. Overall, for 26 home dates at Wrigley Field the Cubs have sold 997,088 tickets, or 35,610 per date. The total numb...2025
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Colorado Rockies preview, Wednesday 5/28, 7:05 CT

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs look to sweep the visitors from Colorado. Wednesday notes... WRIGLEY STREAKS: Tuesday night’s win was the Cubs’ eighth straight at home against the Rockies, going back to Sept. 22, 2023. A win tonight will tie their record in the rivalry of nine straight at Wrigley Field from Oct. 1, 2006, through April 13, 2009. Nine games is the ...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: May 24

On this day 86 years ago, the White Sox won the first night game in their history, at Philadelphia. The ballpark lights might not have looked like these. | Matt Dirksen/MLB Photos via Getty Images Baseball under the lights? No problem for the South Siders 1917 Reb Russell threw a 12-inning shutout against the Senators, giving up 11 hits, striking out six, and walking none. Russell was help...2025
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• The Short Porch is shorthanded in the bullpen
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 47

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images A 6-2 win and a sweep of the White Sox made for a good Sunday. It feels fitting for Pete Crow-Armstrong to be right in the middle of the defining inning of this game. He scored two of the first three runs in the game. He had a hand in the other scoring, though he doesn’t get an RBI for his aggressive baserunning and the opportunity (however i...2025
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Pittsburgh Pirates preview, Friday 6/13, 1:20 CT
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• Cubs 3, Pirates 2: Seiya Suzuki and Pete Crow-Armstrong go deep

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs got some solid pitching and enough home runs to win. The wind was blowing in at Wrigley Field yet again Thursday evening, as it has seemingly for pretty much every home game this year. That didn’t matter to Pete Crow-Armstrong and Seiya Suzuki, who both launched baseballs into the bleachers. Suzuki’s homer wound up the difference in ...2025
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• Complete eighth inning meltdown leads to 7-2 loss to White Sox

Jac went hitless. | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images A five-run outburst that was hard to watch. After a doubleheader cleared most of the bullpen yesterday, the Royals were scraping to pull together four good innings after Seth Lugo put down five shaky innings to keep the game close. Heading into the eighth inning, the game was tied at 2-2. Unfortunately, the bullpen was not up to the ta...2025
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• SB Nation Reacts survey: How many bases will Pete Crow-Armstrong steal this year?

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Just how high can PCA go in the stolen-base category? 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. Pete Crow-Armstrong has stolen bases in bunches this year. He...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 57
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 54
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• The Short Porch is shorthanded in the bullpen
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 47
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 45

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs win 13-3 behind PCA and some sloppy White Sox play. The Cubs continue to excel in the first game of each series, particularly at Wrigley Field. I still suspect most of this is random sequencing. It’s ironic, because the way the Cubs can make other pitching staffs work, I might expect them to do well at the end of a series. But that h...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 44
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• 2025 Cubs attendance watch: A look at ticketing trends and pricing
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• The Short Porch has a look at Cubs rookie walkoffs

Matt Shaw and Pete Crow-Armstrong celebrate last night’s walkoff win | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Matt Shaw notched the first walkoff of his career last night at Wrigley Field. The 2025 Cubs are relentless, especially at scoring runs. That characteristic has been on display time and time again through this early season that has them leading the league in runs per game ...2025
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• Minor League Wrap: Jonathon Long, Christian Franklin lead I-Cubs to 7-5 win

Jonathon Long | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Iowa slugs past Columbus. Myrtle Beach outlasts Hickory. Right-hander Keegan Thompson went on the injured list. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs impounded the Columbus Clippers (Guardians), 7-5. Kenta Maeda made his second Cubs start and like his first one, he struggled badly in the first inning. Tonight Maeda got hammered for five ...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Where will you watch the 2027 All Star Game at Wrigley Field?

Pete Crow Armstrong salutes the crowd during the Crosstown Classic | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Reports suggest the Cubs will finally host the Midsummer Classic again! Welcome to your late night indie coffee shop and bar where we’re packaging the hottest tunes and the fanciest cocktails along with all of your favorite caffeinated beverages. We’re still serving up hot c...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 45
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• Cub Tracks settles for meatloaf

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes. It’s sad when two out of three is disappointing, but there you go. Expectations are high. WELCOME to today’s edition 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, an...2025
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• Cubs roster move: Caleb Thielbar returns from paternity list, Gavin Hollowell optioned

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs lefthander is back. Cubs lefthander Caleb Thielbar was placed on the paternity list before Friday’s game in New York: Caleb Thielbar and his wife welcomed a baby girl into the world today, Craig Counsell announced. Thielbar is going on the paternity list, and the Cubs are recalling Tom Cosgrove.— Maddie Lee (@maddie_m_lee) May 9, 2...2025
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• Jacob Amaya throws three straight easy fly outs, so White Sox only lose to Royals, 10-0

He can’t hit a lick, but Jacob Amaya’s eephus pitch is a rally-killer. | Matt Dirksen/Getty Images Enough, already, of those close games that get everybody on edge As a general rule, when you lose a baseball game by 10 runs, there wasn’t really a defining moment. But in this case, there kind of was. Coming into today, the White Sox had lost the first three games of the series in Kansas Cit...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Horton or Flexen?

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if Cade Horton or Chris Flexen should make the next start when Imanaga’s turn comes up. Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and sit with us for a while. There’s no cover charge. There are still a few ta...2025
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• Kyle Hendricks will make a rehab start for Iowa this Thursday
Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images The righthander is on the road to return to the Cubs. Cubs righthander Kyle Hendricks, the last remaining active Cub who played for the team in the 2016 World Series, had two rough years in 2021 and 2022 and has not pitched in a game at all since a three-inning outing at Milwaukee July 5, 2022. Diagnosed with a shoulder injury, Hendricks chose rehabbing i...2023
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• The Daily Belli watch: 9 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images We’re getting closer to real games — well, real practice games, anyway. Today’s the day! Cubs pitchers and catchers report to the Sloan Park complex in Mesa for their first official workout, though some players were going through informal workouts earlier this week. And guess whose name was on Nico Hoerner’s lips? Cutting to the chase: Cody Bellinger is...2024
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• Marcus Stroman opts out of his Cubs contract

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images This could change everything. Marcus Stroman had an opt-out of his Cubs deal for 2024, which would have paid him $21 million. Today, the Cubs have saved that money: Confirming @JonHeyman report, Cubs righty Marcus Stroman has opted out of his deal and is now a free agent. Was due $21 million for 2024. This was a 50/50 call after a down/injured second ha...2023
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• Cubs roster move: Brandon Hughes activated from injured list, Nelson Velázquez optioned
Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images At last, the Cubs have a lefthanded reliever. Before Saturday’s game, the Cubs announced that they had activated lefthanded reliever Brandon Hughes from the injured list and optioned Nelson Velázquez to Triple-A Iowa. Hughes had some minor knee inflammation during Spring Training and appeared in just four games during camp with a 6.75 ERA. He also made th...2023
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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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• Cubs non-tender Codi Heuer, Ethan Roberts and Brandon Hughes; Patrick Wisdom signed

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images The injured pitchers could come back on minor-league deals. Today was the deadline to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players and here’s what the Cubs did: The Cubs are non-tendering RHP Codi Heuer, RHP Ethan Roberts and LHP Brandon Hughes. Additionally, Patrick Wisdom and the Cubs have agreed to terms on a contract, avoiding arbitration.— Andy...2023
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• David Bote is among five Cubs roster cuts

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images The team reduced the spring roster to 37 Thursday. There has been much discussion here about whether David Bote would make the Opening Day roster. After a strong start to Spring Training his numbers declined a bit, and now stand at .222/.271/.578 (10-for-45), but with five home runs. Thursday, the Cubs sent Bote back to the minor-league camp. Three other ...2024
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• The Daily Belli watch: 8 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images One week from tomorrow, there will be spring baseball. Pitchers and catchers had their official report date to Cubs Spring Training Wednesday and President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer held a news conference. He had things to say about Cody Bellinger. ‘‘There’s a lot of good free agents out there,’’ Hoyer said. ‘‘Certainly, it’s been a really late-ev...2024
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• Chicago Cubs vs. St. Louis Cardinals preview, Monday 6/23, 6:45 CT
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• Wrigley Field security upgrades are progressing through the Chicago City Council

Outside Wrigley Field at the corner of Clark & Addison on June 15, 2025 | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images This is one of the keys in getting an All-Star Game at the North Side ballpark. Last month, I wrote about a proposal for security bollards around Wrigley Field that was introduced in the Chicago City Council, and that this was one of the things Major League Baseball had...2025
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Pittsburgh Pirates preview, Friday 6/13, 1:20 CT
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• Game thread LXV - Royals at White Sox
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• Nico Hoerner is having an unusual season

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images He hasn’t homered, but is still a good run producer. Nico Hoerner isn’t a power hitter, not at all, but the last three seasons has been good for at least a few baseballs that left the yard: Ten in 2022, nine in 2023 and seven last year. Through 61 team games this year, in which he’s played in 57 (all starts), Nico has not homered — at all. Ne...2025
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Washington Nationals preview, Tuesday 6/3, 5:45 CT

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs open a series against an NL East ballclub. Tuesday notes... HIT MILESTONE APPROACHING: The Cubs go into tonight’s game having made 536 hits this season. Five more will make them the first Major League team to reach 200,000 in regular-season games since 1876, first year of the National League. The Cubs’ 199,995 hits are 605 more tha...2025
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• The Short Porch thinks Michael Busch should face more lefties
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• BCB After Dark: Unsung hero?
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• BCB After Dark: Horton or Flexen?
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• BCB After Dark: Will Drew Pomeranz continue to be effective out of the Cubs bullpen?

Drew Pomeranz pitches at Wrigley Field | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The 36-year old has been excellent since his call up last homestand Welcome to your late night, indie, pop-up coffee house where you can imbibe the beverage of your choice as we finish out the week. Maybe you’re looking for a glass of wine after a big event or are sticking to mocktails because you’ve g...2025
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• Luis Robert Jr trade rumors persist despite slow season start

Luis Robert Jr. needs to remember he has to play well enough now, in order to be traded soon. | Matt Dirksen/Getty Images Hypothetical deals continue to be thrown around, even though the centerpiece isn’t hitting well enough to be traded Well, it was fun while it lasted. Spring Training Luis Robert Jr. is officially gone, and mid-season, struggling Robert is back on the team. The differen...2025
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• Cub Tracks has the vapors

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs will be heading to Japan for some strangeness with the Dodgers. The guys in the picture are on the trip roster. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground fr...2025
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• With Alexander Canario gone, how many Cubs remain from the 2021 selloff?

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Here’s a look at all the players who were sent away and acquired in that flurry of deals nearly four years ago. News item: The Cubs have traded OF Alexander Canario to the Mets for cash considerations, sources tell ESPN. Canario, 24, was DFA’d by the Cubs last week.— Jesse Rogers (@JesseRogersESPN) February 25, 2025 Well. This isn’t the...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Pitchers and catchers signal the start of baseball!

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Wooo, winter is over! Hello and happy Monday, BCB friends! Baseball is officially here! At least if you count pitcher and catcher reporting as the first day of baseball season, because the Cubs reported for duty earliest, coming to camp yesterday. The rest of the teams will be reporting between the 11th and 13th, with the bulk of teams report...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Which non-roster invitee to camp will have the biggest impact on the 2025 Cubs

Non-roster invitee Moises Ballesteros works out at Spring Training on Sunday | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Cubs pitchers and catchers reported on Sunday Welcome to your late week, late night, indie coffee shop where we’re pouring whatever libations your heard desires as the weekend winds to a close and the work week begins. If you need a triple shot to get your week sta...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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• Baseball history unpacked, September 2

Happy birthday, Christian Bethancourt! | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Pappas throws a no-no and other stories. Happy birthday to Christian Bethancourt! On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseba...2024
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