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• Brewers 9, Cubs 3: Hey, Jed! Time to bring in the reinforcements

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images And Ian Happ is headed to the injured list. This is not the way we had hoped this series would go. After an uncharacteristic bad outing from Matthew Boyd Monday, there was at least hope that Colin Rea could put together a good one Tuesday. Welp. Didn’t happen, and the Cubs also got poor relief work and some unusual bad defense from Pete Crow-Armstron...2025
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• 2025 Cubs midseason grades

Photo by Peter Joneleit/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Here are my assessments of Cubs player performances so far this year. As befits a first-place team, most of them are pretty good. The Cubs really couldn’t have done much better so far this year. They have three All-Stars, two of them starting players. They’re in first place in the NL Central, though by just one game, and have had une...2025
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• Royals even the series in a late night 3-2 thriller

Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images On to Arizona In the last game of a four-game series in Seattle, the Royals took on the Mariners, hoping to come away with a split series. Kansas City needed a win, entering the game seven games behind .500 and fighting to stay in the playoff race. In a back-and-forth game that came down to the wire, the Royals were able to get away on a high note and cam...2025
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• Three up, three down: An update on the Cubs, June 23 edition

Matt Marton-Imagn Images The Cubs had a rough week, but there were still some bright spots. The Cubs played only five games over the past week due to an off day and a rainout, and went just 2-3 in the five games. That’s the worst week they’ve had since early May. Here’s who’s hot and not for the Cubs over the last week. Three up Ian Happ has started smashing home runs The much-maligned (un...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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• Washington Nationals vs Seattle Mariners Game Thread

Stephen Brashear-Imagn Images Follow along as the Nationals look to get back on track against a quality Mariners squad Last night was just not the Nationals night. Mitchell Parker got jumped on in the first inning and the Nats offense was non-existent outside of a James Wood solo homer. Now the Nationals have a chance to even up the series and force a rubber match. Trevor Williams will tak...2025
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• Reflections on the cusp of the Cubs’ 2025 season

Photo by @WillByington / www.willbyington.com Will this be the year the Cubs return to the postseason? Truth be told, I put off writing this annual treatise for a while, completing it only yesterday. Why? Because I have a feeling the comments are going to be along the lines of, “Tom Ricketts is cheap!” Granted and stipulated: The Cubs can and should spend more money on payroll. Grante...2025
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• BCB roundtable: 2025 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 2025 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 ...2025
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• Rays have 16 pitchers remaining for 13 slots in 2025

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Here are the decisions made for every pitcher in Spring Training camp thus far. Each Spring Training more than 70 players will roll through hoping for a slot on the 26-man roster. It’s a lot, particularly on the pitching side. Here’s a recap of every pitcher the Rays brought into camp this year, and what’s left to be decided. Non-Roster Invites already re...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Why did the Cubs DFA Alexander Canario?

Alexander Canario hits a home run against the Marlins in April | Patrick Gorski-Imagn Images This is not a trick question Welcome to your late week, late night, indie coffee shop where the drinks are running all night and whether you need something to warm your body up after a brutally cold Chicago week or something to cool down after getting fired up watching the Cubs beat the Dodgers in ...2025
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• BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: 16 through 20

Pedro Ramirez | MICHAEL CLUBB/SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE / USA TODAY NETWORK The second installment of series features four infielders and a pitcher. Let’s continue with our countdown of the Top 25 prospects in the Cubs system with prospects 16 through 20 today. Just as a reminder, to be eligible for this list, you need to still have rookie eligibility, which means 130 or fewer at bats or 50 or f...2025
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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 Heroes and Goats: Game 117

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Cubs win 8-2 to take the series from the Twins. I mean no disrespect to the Twins, but when I was looking into them ahead of this series, I saw a team that has feasted on bad teams with an unusual fervor. On the one hand, all you can do is beat the team in the other dugout. This isn’t college football and you aren’t lining up cupcakes to boost your...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ Open Season
Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images All the #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. It’s here! Opening Day at Wrigley! Play Ball! 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 cold-brewed overnight f...2023
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"To make room for Festa on the 40-man roster, the Cubs have designated utility man Miles Mastrobuoni for assignment."

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"Miles Mastrobuoni batted for Amaya and hit into a force play at the plate."

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"Personally, I’d like to see the end of the third base platoon, because honestly Miles Mastrobuoni can’t hit."

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"The Rays and Cubs have agreed to a trade that would send Miles Mastrobuoni to Chicago, per Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times."

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• Three up, three down: An update on the Cubs, June 23 edition
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• Padres drop third game to Mariners

Mike Shildt takes the ball from Michael King. | Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images San Diego fails to record a hit with runners in scoring position during three-game sweep by Seattle San Diego Padres starting pitcher Michael King cruised through his first three innings against the Seattle Mariners. He ran into trouble with two outs in the top of the fourth inning when Randy Arozarena br...2025
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• Reflections on the cusp of the Cubs’ 2025 season
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• 2025 Major League Baseball predictions

Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images In which I go out on the usual limb to pick this year’s order of finish and playoff results. Today I will join thousands of other bloggers, websites, pundits, etc. in making my so-called “expert” predictions for the baseball season that begins tomorrow. If you have been here at BCB for the last 20 years, you’ll find this prediction format familiar — and...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Why do the Cubs have so many scrappy utility guys on the roster?

Vidal Bruján fields a ball against the Rays in July. | Photo by Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images How many of the same guy can Jed Hoyer acquire in one offseason? Welcome to your late week, late night indie coffee shop where we’ve got all the drinks you need to warm you up from the cold weather. If you’re looking for something warm and caffeinated, we’ve got you covered. If you’d prefer som...2025
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• Brewers 9, Cubs 3: Hey, Jed! Time to bring in the reinforcements
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• Cubs vs. Mariners at Mesa preview, Saturday 3/8, 2:05 CT

Photo by Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images The Cubs return to Sloan Park, where the sun should also return. Saturday notes... FORMER CUBS IN MARINERS CAMP: Miles Mastrobuoni. That’s it — of the 74 (!) players in Mariners camp, he’s the only one who once played for the Cubs. CUBS SPRING RANKINGS: BA, .302 (1st). OBP, .384 (1st). OPS, .858 (T-2nd). Runs, 104 (1st). Doubles, ...2025
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• 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, AL West

Kyle looks weird in that red uniform | Photo by Caitlin O’Hara/MLB Photos via Getty Images There are a lot of things still up in the air for this division. The Cubs went 9-6 against AL West teams last year, including an unlikely sweep of the Astros at Wrigley Field. Houston went on to win the division, but this year... might be different. Houston Astros Key departures: Kyle Tucker, Alex Br...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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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 161

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images A magical sendoff for a Cubs legend in a 3-0 win. What a day. We all have so many memories of Kyle Hendricks. Obviously, he started some of the most significant games in modern Cubs history, a statement that can be made without even an ounce of hyperbole. He started the deciding games of both the NLCS and the World Series in 2016, dominating the Dodgers ...2024
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• Brewers 9, Cubs 3: Hey, Jed! Time to bring in the reinforcements
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• Padres drop third game to Mariners
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• Cubs roster moves: Jordan Wicks, Miles Mastrobuoni added to active roster

Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images Today is roster expansion day. Sept. 1 has traditionally been the day MLB rosters could expand past their April-to-August limit. For many years, that limit was 25, but teams could in theory activate everyone on their 40-man roster. In practice, most teams worked with 30-35 active players. With the recent CBA changes, teams now have active rosters of 26 pl...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 129

Albert Cesare/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK The Cubs win the opener in Miami, 6-3. On April 26, the Cubs reached their high water mark at 17-9. That was a start so fantastic that the Cubs could go .500 the rest of the way and they’d win 85 games. 85 wins would have reached the playoffs last season and figures to be within a game or two this year at worst. As we all know, the bottom fe...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 113

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images The Cubs fail to protect their lead and lose 5-4. Heavy sigh. Once again, the Cubs had things in position to win a game and let it get away. That will be the enduring memory of this season. The crushing number of blown leads late has derailed this team over and over again. The Cubs had the opportunity to get back to three under .500. The last time they r...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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• 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 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 5: Now that’s more like it

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images The Cubs rallied in the ninth and finally put one in the win column. The Cubs had trouble scoring runs all series against the Rangers, and then they worked a bunch of ninth-inning walks into a game-winning rally. The Cubs thus won their first game of 2024, 9-5 over the defending World Series champions. It was not easy, though. The Cubs began this game wel...2024
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• Cubs 6, Rockies 3: Javier Assad and the comeback Cubs do it again

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The team came from behind with some timely hitting, and got some excellent relief work. This afternoon started out weirdly when Marcus Stroman barely got through three innings and the Cubs went behind and looked pretty weak sauce against Chris Flexen, a guy who came into the game with an ERA north of 7. But the persistent Cubs scored single runs in the fi...2023
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• Cubs 3, Orioles 2: Just enough pitching, just enough hitting, just enough defense
David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs won their fifth straight. After winning four games on the homestand in blowout fashion, the Cubs played a much tighter game against the Orioles Saturday afternoon at Wrigley Field. A two-run double by Nico Hoerner and sacrifice fly by Mike Tauchman plated all the runs for the Cubs, and four Cubs pitchers, helped by some great defense, held a good Oriol...2023
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• Cubs 4, Cardinals 3: Is the Cubs’ season saved?
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs put runs on the board early and held on to win. This game might have saved the Cubs’ season. All right, maybe I’m being a bit overdramatic about the Cubs’ pulsating 4-3 win over the Cardinals on a gorgeous afternoon at Wrigley Field, but I’m pretty sure of this: Had they blown a 4-1 seventh-inning lead and lost this game, that probably would have...2023
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• Cubs 15, Reds 7: Have you been waiting to exhale?

Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images Now you can, a bit, after a seven-run inning turned a close game into a Cubs blowout win. Where have these runs been all week? The Cubs scored more runs in the eighth inning Sunday in Cincinnati — seven — than they had scored in any full game over the previous six, and that stood up for a 12-5 win over the Reds and a split of their four-game series. This g...2023
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• Cubs 8, Nationals 3: Homers by Nico Hoerner and Mike Tauchman lead the way
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images It was a close game... until, suddenly, it wasn’t. Funny thing about Nico Hoerner’s first career grand slam, the homer that blew open this game in the eighth inning and gave the Cubs an 8-3 win over the Nationals: Nico and the Nats pitcher he hit the slam against, Cory Abbott, were teammates in the Cubs system at Double-A Tennessee in 2019 and Triple-A Io...2023
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• Cubs Designate Tucker Barnhart For Assignment
The Cubs have informed reporters, including Paul Sullivan of the Chicago Tribune, that catcher Tucker Barnhart has been designated for assignment. Infielder Miles Mastrobuoni has been recalled in a corresponding move. More to come....2023
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 25

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs sweep the Astros to close a successful homestand. Every season is an entity onto its own. You watch enough seasons and they start to feel like one long homogenous mass. But when you sort them out, or more specifically when one is going on, you can really feel that individuality. And so, as we sit in front of this currently unfolding season, th...2024
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• 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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• White Sox 3, Cubs 2: A rainy day in the Valley of the Sun

Photo by Rob Tringali/Getty Images Rain prevented a lot of baseball Friday, but not this game. Rain moved through the Phoenix area Friday afternoon, and all but two scheduled games were cancelled. The only teams who played in Arizona Friday were the Guardians and Royals at Surprise and the Cubs and White Sox at Camelback Ranch. It was 62 degrees at game time and the game was delayed 30 min...2024
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• Cub Tracks C’s the future

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. The young Cubs are showing why they’re held in such high regard. These are indeed interesting times. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers...2024
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• BCB After Dark: Winter Meetings Blues
Photo by David Banks/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning club for Cubs fans asks if the Cubs will make a big acquisition at the Winter Meetings. Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the jumpin’ joint for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re so glad to that you decided to stop in this evening. I hope to find you well tonight. Come on in and relax for a while. T...2022
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