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• Minor League Wrap: Iowa sweeps doubleheader from Toledo

Kevin Alcántara | Cody Scanlan/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Six games today and the Cubs farm system won four of them. Left-hander Chase Watkins goes from High-A South Bend to Triple-A Iowa. Right-hander Nolan Clenney goes from Iowa to South Bend. Right-hander Ryan Gallagher, the Cubs’ sixth-round pick last summer, joins South Bend. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs swept a dou...2025
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• Minor League Wrap: Long leads Iowa assault on Toledo, 14-1

Jonathon Long | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Iowa destroys Tolendo. The Pelicans get destroyed by the Mudcats. South Bend rallies for their first win. The Cubs have not yet placed outfielder Owen Caissie on the injured list, so that sounds like his turned ankle in yesterday’s game isn’t serious. This was mentioned in the broadcast, but it seems appropriate tonight. 10...2025
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• Minor League Wrap: Owen Caissie hurt in Iowa DH split

Owen Caissie | Cody Scanlan/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The I-Cubs split a doubleheader, but the win was a pyrrhic one. The Pelicans remain undefeated. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs split a doubleheader with Indianapolis, losing the continuation of Friday’s suspended game 5-4 and winning the nine-inning contest 4-1. Jordan Wicks started on Friday and gave up three runs in t...2025
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• Iowa Cubs Wrap: One down, 149 to go

Christian Franklin | Cody Scanlan/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Iowa started their season with a 6-3 win over Omaha. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs calmed the Omaha Storm Chasers (Royals), 6-3 in the season opener in front of 7,226 fans at Principal Park in Des Moines. Connor Noland started for the I-Cubs and was strong, allowing just one run on two hits over four innings. Nol...2025
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• Get to know the Iowa Cubs

Moises Ballesteros | Cody Scanlan/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK The Cubs Triple-A affiliate is loaded with prospects. The Iowa Cubs take the field tonight against the Omaha Storm Chasers at 7:08 Central Time at Principal Park in Des Moines. It’s the 45th season that Iowa will be the Cubs’ top farm team. The first thing to know about this Cubs team is that it is absolutely loaded with pr...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Power men

Photo by Kenta Harada/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks about the Cubs’ home run totals for 2025. It’s showtime here at BCB After Dark: the grooviest get-together of night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re so glad to see you. There’s no cover charge. There are still a few tables available. The drinks are free, but it’s bring your ow...2025
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• Minor League Wrap: Owen Caissie hurt in Iowa DH split
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• BCB After Dark: Mid-season reinforcements

Photo by Chris Coduto/MLB Photos via Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks which Cubs prospect will make the biggest mid-season impact. It’s a new week here at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and sit with us. It’s always good to see a friend, new or old. We still have a few tables availa...2025
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• Padres 5, Cubs 1: Mostly pointless

Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images Nico Hoerner returned to the field. Cade Horton pitched well. Moises Ballesteros homered. Other than that. . . . Now that the Cubs have returned from Japan, having lost two games that count, they now have to play five games that don’t count, because the schedule says so. But it’s hard to find much point to today’s game, which was a glorified minor le...2025
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• Giants 8, Cubs 6: The hits just kept on coming

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images The Cubs had a lot of hits Sunday... and also got hit. The Cubs sent several players onto the field for the second straight game Sunday afternoon, ramping up as the team gets ready to head to Japan. The starters put together a pretty good offense before departing, scoring in each of the first five innings. Unfortunately, non-roster in...2025
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• Cubs 4, Diamondbacks 2: The comeback Cubs strike again

Steve Sher The team remains undefeated in spring play. MESA, Arizona — Sure, wins in Spring Training don’t mean anything. Well, not much, anyway. Because the way this Cubs team came back to win has to count for something, if nothing more than confidence-building. They spotted the D-backs a 2-0 lead and didn’t have a hit through the first four innings. But then a couple of home runs and som...2025
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• Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax

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

Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The future is bright for the NL Central with many talented prospects nearing their MLB debuts When MLB Pipeline released its top 100 prospects of 2025 list on Friday night, the NL Central found themselves with more prospects on the list than any other division in baseball. Of the 23 NL Central prospects that made M...2025
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• 5 Cubs prospects are in Baseball America’s 2025 Top 100 list

Cade Horton pitching for South Bend in 2023 | Rebecca Snyder The future is still bright. Just to be a bit repetitive here, the Cubs have five prospects listed in Baseball America’s new Top 100 prospects list, which came out today. They are: Matt Shaw (35) Cade Horton (54) Moises Ballesteros (62) Owen Caissie (64) Kevin Alcántara (71) Of those, the only one who’s played in the major leagues...2025
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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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• 2023 Cubs prospect profiles: Moises Ballesteros

Photo by Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images He’s going to have to learn to keep the weight off, but his LH power is real and he can learn defense. The future is bright for this young Venezuelan. This series of Cubs prospect profiles is based on Fangraphs’ top 52 prospects list, minus the players who have already been profiled. Generally, these will be of Triple-A and Double-A ...2023
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"RBIs came from Owen Caissie (single), Moises Ballesteros (ground out) and Luis Vazquez (single)."

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"Baseball America’s Top Ten Cubs prospects are: (subscription required) Crow-Armstrong Horton Shaw Miguel Amaya C Matt Mervis 1B Ben Brown RHP Jackson Ferris LHP Jordan Wicks LHP Caissie James Triantos INF Whereas MLB Pipeline sees the Cubs Top Ten prospects as: Crow-Armstrong Horton Caissie Alcántara Brown Shaw Moises Ballesteros C Ferris Triantos Wicks Amaya will fall off the Baseball America list when he gets 18 more plate appearances in the majors—so maybe a little over a week."

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• Minor League Wrap: Iowa sweeps doubleheader from Toledo
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• Get to know the Iowa Cubs
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• BCB After Dark: Mid-season reinforcements
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• Cub Tracks returns to form

Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs dropped one at Sloan Park, thanks in part to Michael King’s good pitching and their quiet bats. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, ov...2025
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• Cubs prospects throttle Angels prospects in Spring Breakout Game, 8-3

Kevin Alcántara | Photo by Marison Bilagody/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Cubs top prospects broke out to a win as the weather finally permitted the team to play a Spring Breakout game. It took three tries for the Cubs to finally get a Spring Breakout game played, but the baby Cubs made it worth the wait. The Cubs prospects jumped on the Angels prospects early and didn’t let up, cruising...2025
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• Rosters for Cubs’ Spring Breakout Games Announced

Cade Horton | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Cubs prospects will play two “Spring Breakout” games this year. Major League Baseball today announced the rosters for the “Spring Breakout” contests that match the top minor leaguers in team’s farm systems against each other. The Cubs team will feature top prospects like right-hander Cade Horton, catcher Moises Ballesteros and ...2025
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• Cubs 12, Dodgers 4: Welcome to our robo-ump overlords

Major League Baseball MLB’s ABS challenge system test was used for the first time. The Cubs — or, more accurately, a bunch of miscellaneous guys wearing Cubs uniforms — defeated the Dodgers in the 2025 Spring Training opener 12-4 Thursday afternoon in Glendale, Arizona. That wasn’t the most important story of the game, as you surely know that Spring Training wins and losses are pretty well...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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• Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax
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• Cub Tracks returns to form
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• Cubs vs. Diamondbacks at Scottsdale preview, Monday 3/3, 2:10 CT

Kevin Alcántara | Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images The Cubs visit Salt River Fields. Monday notes... CUBS REMAINING IN CAMP: The current spring roster of 53 players consists of 28 pitchers (eight non-roster invitees), five catchers (three non-roster invitees), 12 infielders (four non-roster invitees) and eight outfielders (three non-roster invitees). CUBS TEAM SPRING RANKINGS: BA, .301 ...2025
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• Cub Tracks rhesus pieces

Photo by Gusti Aldi/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Too much monkey business? Roll out the barrel! 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 ...2024
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• Eight Cubs prospects make MLB Pipeline’s Top 100

Matt Shaw | Cody Scanlan/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK No team has more Top 100 prospects than the Cubs. MLB Pipeline, the official prospect arm of MLB dot com, updated their Top 100 prospects list at the end of the season. They have listed eight Cubs among the best minor league prospects in baseball. Those eight prospects are: 22. Matt Shaw INF 34. Owen Caissie OF 42. Cade Horton RHP ...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 155

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The end nears for the Cubs and elimination is reached. Each of us reached a point somewhere along the way where we wrote off this Cubs team. For me, it was so long ago that I actually had to turn things around in August after they’d made an exceptionally large bounce and push back into the periphery of the playoff picture. Remarkably, this team became a...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 146

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images The Cubs got slammed in a mile high loss, 9-5. I wish this game had been less predictable. Were I someone to place bets on baseball, this would have been the rare game I’d have waded into the mix. Six straight tough games with the Dodgers and Yankees (completed at 3-3), then fly to play in a weird place? Without looking at their schedule, I wonder how many ti...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 130

Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs offense explodes in a 14-2 win. Finally! After an interminably long road, this team made it back to .500. Unfortunately, the trip back took so long that it’s unlikely this team can continue on and get into legitimate contention. Fangraphs has the Cubs projected for 82 wins and a 3.3 percent chance of making the postseason. I’m not prepared to quibble ...2024
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• Minor League Wrap: Mervis, I-Cubs, blast past Louisville, 11-3

Matt Mervis | Lily Smith/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK Iowa blast by Louisville. Tennessee quiets Montgomery. South Bend and Myrtle Beach win in extras. Left-hander Mitchell Tyranski and right-hander Gabriel Agrazal were added to the Myrtle Beach Pelicans roster. Right-hander Mason McGwire went on the temporarily inactive list. Everybody wins! Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs broke the Louisvi...2024
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• Minor League Wrap: Owen Caissie hurt in Iowa DH split
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• BCB After Dark: Power men
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• BCB After Dark: Mid-season reinforcements
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• Cub Tracks returns to form
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• Cubs 12, Dodgers 4: Welcome to our robo-ump overlords
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• Cubs free agent target: Carson Kelly

Photo by Sam Hodde/Getty Images The Cubs should be looking at FA catchers, and here is one. The Cubs will be seeking a catcher this offseason to pair with Miguel Amaya. In fact, they will need to sign or trade for someone at this position, I’d think, reasonably soon. At the moment, Amaya is the only catcher on the Cubs’ 40-man roster. Carson Kelly might fit the bill. He was a high-round (s...2024
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• A visit to the Arizona Fall League

Jonathon Long homers for the Solar Sox | Al Yellon ... and a report on two Cubs prospects. MESA, Arizona — Along with 391 other baseball geeks, I attended the Arizona Fall League game Thursday afternoon at Sloan Park between the Mesa Solar Sox and Scottsdale Scorpions. Cubs prospects (along with prospects from the Angels, Red Sox, A’s and Rays) play for the Solar Sox. The Solar Sox won t...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ light of yesterdays

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The present ain’t much. The past is past, the future unknown. Go Cubs. 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 wr...2024
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• Eight Cubs prospects make MLB Pipeline’s Top 100
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• Cubs prospects make midseason Top 100 lists from Baseball America, MLB Pipeline

Pete Crow-Armstrong | Dylan Heuer Two major publications updated their top prospects lists this week. Two major publications, Baseball America and MLB Pipeline, both updated their Top 100 prospects lists to include recently-drafted players. And while the two lists are quite different, both lists include several Cubs prospects. Both organizations agree that Orioles shortstop Jackson Hollida...2023
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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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• The Tennessee Smokies are Southern League Champions!

Tennessee Smokies The Smokies won their first undisputed Southern League title since 1978 The Tennessee Smokies completed a 2-0 sweep of the Pensacola Blue Wahoos (Marlins) with a 10-3 shellacking. The win was the Smokies first title since 2004 and the first undisputed title since 1978 for the franchise. With a 8-4 win against Pensacola at home on Sunday, the Smokies traveled to Florida a...2023
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• BCB Top 25 Cubs Prospects: June update
Cade Horton | Rebecca Snyder After two months, we’ve made some adjustments to the prospect list. With a little over two months in on the minor league season and a month away from the draft, it seemed like the right time to do an update to the BCB Top 25 Cubs prospects list. I don’t like to make major changes based on just two months of games. Still, we are approaching the halfway point of ...2023
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• Baseball America announces Cubs Top 10 prospects for 2024

Moises Ballesteros | MATTIE NERETIN / USA TODAY NETWORK The magazine has announced a deep Cubs prospect list for the upcoming season. Lots of places do prospect lists these days, but Baseball America was the first and is still arguably the most respected of the many prospect rankings. So when they announce their top ten Cubs prospects list for the 2024 offseason, it’s worth taking a look a...2023
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• Minor League Wrap: South Bend proves to River Bandits that crime does not pay, 6-1
Max Bain | Max Thoma/South Bend Cubs Myrtle Beach wins in a walkoff. South Bend just wins. The Cubs released right-handed pitcher Rowan Wick today. Outfielder Cristian More was promoted back to Myrtle Beach. He started this season with the Birds but was demoted to the complex league at the end of May. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs were raided and boarded by the Columbus Clippers (Guardians), ...2023
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• BCB 2023 Cubs Top 25 Prospects List: Introduction and 21 to 25
Porter Hodge | Chloe Trofatter / USA TODAY NETWORK Our annual list of the best prospects in the Cubs system begins today. This week is finally here! We’re going to count down the BCB Top 25 Cubs prospects and I hope that you come along for the ride. Today is a brief introduction and a look at prospects 21 through 25. Every day we’ll have five more prospects until we announce the top 5 on F...2023
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• Cub Tracks ducks and covers

Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. So many balls were in the air that I thought I was watching juggling. 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...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ spring training speed bump

Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs dropped another game, and the regulars played very little. Domestic Opening Day looms. 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, overhe...2025
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• Padres 5, Cubs 1: Mostly pointless
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• Giants 8, Cubs 6: The hits just kept on coming
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• Cub Tracks’ spring training speed bump
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• A visit to the Arizona Fall League
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• MLB Pipeline has six Cubs prospects in their updated Top 100 ranking

Moises Ballesteros bats in this year’s Futures Game | Photo by Sam Hodde/MLB Photos via Getty Images The future would appear to be bright. MLB Pipeline posted its updated Top 100 prospects list today and the Cubs are well-represented. In fact, it’d be seven if Pete Crow-Armstrong hadn’t graduated to the major leagues this year. Here are the six, and their rankings. Matt Shaw, No. 25 Shaw, ...2024
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• Minor League Wrap: South Bend proves to River Bandits that crime does not pay, 6-1
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• BCB 2023 Cubs Top 25 Prospects List: Introduction and 21 to 25
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