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• Baseball history unpacked, March 24

Happy birthday to Starlin Castro! | Set Number: X84190 TK1 R1 F3 A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to Starlin Castro! Leo Durocher puts his cards on the table, and other stories for the discerning reader. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look...2025
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• Are the Rays Changing the Cooking Time for Prospects?

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Slow and low is no longer how the Rays do things. Editor’s Note: Please join me in welcoming Jason Collette back to DRaysBay. He has written across the blogosphere at Baseball Prospectus, Rotowire, and more. We’re lucky to have him! - DR It is truism accepted by many that the Rays slow cook their prospects like brisket on a smoker. An...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Where is Alex Bregman going to play?

Photo by Alex Bierens de Haan/MLB Photos via Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks who will sign free agent third baseman Alex Bregman. Welcome to BCB After Dark: the hippest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re so glad to see you tonight. New friends or old, all are welcome. Is it still snowing out there? Come in and dry o...2025
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• BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: The top 5

Matt Shaw | Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Our countdown of the Cubs top prospects finishes with the top five prospects in the Cubs system. We finish up our look at the top prospects in the Cubs system today with the top five prospects in the system. While I’ve written that the Cubs system is down from its heights last year, it’s still a top 10 farm system in my mind and that’s mostly b...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ the Wirtz is yet to come

Photo by Chase Agnello-Dean/NHLI via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Blackhawks are coming to Wrigley Tuesday. 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...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, December 27

Photo by Jon Durr/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Clemente’s last home run and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives to follow as they unfold over the c...2024
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• BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: The top 5
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• Baseball history unpacked, December 27
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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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• Baseball history unpacked, October 2

Rick Sutcliffe’s greatest game? | Photo by Focus on Sport via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. The second-best Playoff game for the Cubs, ever, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plen...2024
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• Today in Cubs history: A crazy walkoff win over the Brewers

Photo by Brian Kersey/Getty Images This was a fun game in a lost season. Today is the anniversary of Jake Arrieta’s no-hitter over the Dodgers in 2015, and you’re welcome to read the BCB recap of that game. But everyone remembers that one. What I want to tell you about today is another Cubs win that you might not recall. It happened three years earlier, a wild walkoff win against the Brewe...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, August 30

Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to Luke Little and others! Jake Arrieta no-hits the Dodgers, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore...2024
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• Wander Franco moved to Restricted List

Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports Franco will no longer received his $2 million salary owed in 2024. Wander Franco has formally been charged with sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of a minor, among other crimes. According to Diario Libre, just one of the accusations against Franco’s carries a potential 15-20 year prison sentence, and there are multiple accusations. With the filing of the ch...2024
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• A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 2016

Getty Images The Cubs broke the World Series drought in 2016. And a couple of trades helped them get there. There weren’t too many Cubs trades in 2016, because the team that eventually won the World Series had been put together largely by free agency and guys from the farm system (though one key player on the WS champs, Anthony Rizzo, arrived in a trade we’ve covered earlier in this series...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, December 27
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• Baseball history unpacked, December 27

Photo by Nick Wosika/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to Dylan Floro and a host of other former Cubs. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narr...2023
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• It's No Joke: The New-Look Cubs Are Ready to Win and Win Big in 2015
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• Starlin Castro's Agent Denies Client Was Detained for Questioning About Shooting
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• Police question Cubs' Castro about shooting
Chicago Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro is being questioned by police in the Dominican Republic in connection with a shooting at a nightclub early Saturday....2014
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• NL Notes: Castro, Catchers, Padres
Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro was arrested this morning for questioning involving a shooting at a nightclub in the Dominican that left six injured, ESPN’s Enrique Rojas reports (all Twitter links, some in Spanish). The shooting reportedly involved people close to … ...2014
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"Warren had been a Yankee, acquired in the Starlin Castro deal, but it didn’t work out and Theo Epstein was more than happy to ship him back."

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"The previous nine were Corey Patterson (2000), Kosuke Fukudome (2008), Starlin Castro (2010), Javier Baez and Jorge Soler (both 2014), Willson Contreras (2016), Ian Happ (2017), Robel Garcia (2019) and Christopher Morel (2022)."

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"The hitters are Kyle Schwarber, Starlin Castro, Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo, Jorge Soler and Dexter Fowler."

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"Major League Baseball has suspended Nationals infielder Starlin Castro for thirty games without pay for a violation of the MLB – MLBPA joint domestic violence policy."

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"4:11pm: The Nationals have a deal with infielder Starlin Castro, according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic (via Twitter)."

2018
"Marlins infielder Starlin Castro would prefer not to suit up for his new organization, according to a report from Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic (via Twitter)."

2017
"The Cubs welcomed Starlin Castro, Aroldis Chapman and Adam Warren back to Wrigley Field with video tributes and hugs on Friday, but Brett Gardner gave the Yankees something to celebrate."

2016
"Starlin Castro hit his first home run in pinstripes on Wednesday, and the Yankees defeated the Blue Jays, 2-1, in Grapefruit League action at George M."

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"Consider that challenge met, as the Cubs, despite a spirited comeback attempt by the Cardinals, held on for an 8-5 victory Tuesday night behind seven RBIs from Starlin Castro and Anthony Rizzo."

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"With Lester wearing a Cubs uniform, Maddon’s message to a clubhouse full of young phenoms like Anthony Rizzo, Starlin Castro, Javy Baez, Jorge Soler and Kris Bryant should ring far truer than he ever could have imagined when he took this job last month."

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• BCB After Dark: Where is Alex Bregman going to play?
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• BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: The top 5
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• Cub Tracks’ the Wirtz is yet to come
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• Baseball history unpacked, December 27
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• Eight Cubs prospects make MLB Pipeline’s Top 100
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• Baseball history unpacked, October 2
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• A look at Cubs no-hitters through history

Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images The Cubs threw their second-ever combined no-no Wednesday. Here are all the other Cubs no-hitters. The combined no-hitter Wednesday evening by Shōta Imanaga, Nate Pearson and Porter Hodge against the Pirates is the 18th in Cubs franchise history. That statement has to be looked at with a small grain of salt. The first four no-hitters thrown by the Chicago ...2024
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• Wander Franco moved to Restricted List
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• A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 2016
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• Are the Rays Changing the Cooking Time for Prospects?
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• Eight Cubs prospects make MLB Pipeline’s Top 100
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• Baseball history unpacked, August 30
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• Cubs 14, Pirates 10: The Christian Bethancourt game

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs backup catcher drove in seven runs to lead the team’s comeback win of the year, and a sweep of the Pirates. So let’s say you hadn’t watched this game, hadn’t heard anything about it, had a news blackout this afternoon. And then I told you that Kyle Hendricks would have the shortest and worst start of his career, that Paul Skenes was on the mound f...2024
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• Wander Franco moved to Restricted List
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• Cubs historical sleuthing: Nationals Park edition

Here’s one from a reader, from a Cubs road game. This one was sent to me by BCB reader PACubsfan1. A reminder! If you’ve got old Cubs or Wrigley photos you’d like me to sleuth, send ‘em over (to the email address on my profile here). This is obviously Nationals Park — the big “W” in the photo is the giveaway. But the Cubs uniform numbers aren’t really readable. The only one I can tell for sure is ...2023
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• Today in Cubs history: The Cubs break a postseason losing streak

Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images It had been 12 years since the Cubs won a division series game. The Cubs lost three straight division series games to the Diamondbacks in 2007 and three more to the Dodgers in 2008. But in St. Louis, eight years ago today, Saturday, October 10, 2015, a young Cubs club broke that division series losing streak, against the team’s biggest rival. I was at this game...2023
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Arizona Diamondbacks preview, Sunday 9/17, 6:10 CT

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images The Cubs look to end a four-game losing streak. Results of afternoon games involving the Cubs’ playoff competition (as of the time this preview posted, 4 p.m. CT): Marlins 16, Braves 2 (final) Mets 8, Reds 4 (final) Cardinals 6, Phillies 5 (final) Nationals 1, Brewers 1 (top 10) Giants 9, Rockies 0 (bottom 6) So, the Cubs can pick up a game on the...2023
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Washington Nationals preview, Monday 5/1, 6:05 CT
Rich Storry-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs open a four-game set in the nation’s capital. Monday notes... THOSE ONE-RUN LOSSES: The Cubs have lost three straight games by one run: 3-2, 7-6 and 4-3. This is their 50th such three-game streak since 1901. They have had six such streaks of four straight, the last in 1972. They lost five one-run games in a row in September of 2019, the last four to ...2023
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• BCB After Dark: Where is Alex Bregman going to play?
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• Baseball history unpacked, December 27
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• Eight Cubs prospects make MLB Pipeline’s Top 100
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• Cubs 14, Pirates 10: The Christian Bethancourt game
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• Wander Franco moved to Restricted List
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• Baseball history unpacked, December 27
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• Today in Cubs history: The Cubs set a postseason home run record against the Cardinals

Photo by David Banks/Getty Images This mark was tied Wednesday by the Phillies. The Phillies defeated the Braves 10-2 in Game 3 of their Division Series Wednesday in Philadelphia. In so doing they hit six home runs: Two each by Bryce Harper and Nick Castellanos and one by Trea Turner and Brandon Marsh. In so doing, the Phillies tied a postseason record that was set by the Cubs in Game 3 of...2023
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• Cubs 14, Pirates 1: Now that’s more like it

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The Friendly Confines were very friendly to Cubs bats Tuesday evening. Rain delayed action at Wrigley Field Tuesday for an hour and 25 minutes and when it got started, the Cubs didn’t wait long before unleashing bats that had been awfully quiet for almost a week. A barrage that included 12 hits, six walks and four home runs led the Cubs to a 14-1 victory over t...2023
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• Today in Cubs history: A 14th-inning walkoff
Photo by David Banks/Getty Images ... hit by a guy you probably don’t remember. The 2013 Cubs were not a very good team. This, you surely know. Nevertheless, they had a handful of shining moments and this is one of them. This game was the last of a four-game series against the Reds, and the Cubs had lost the first three. Thus entering this game against the Reds, who were the defending N.L....2023
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• Cards' Central lead cut as Cubs gain ground
Having watched his club be swept and outscored, 15-4, during a June visit to St. Louis, Cubs manager Joe Maddon hoped they would make a September statement upon returning to Busch Stadium for a series budding with playoff implications. Consider that challenge met, as the Cubs, despite a spirited comeback attempt by the Cardinals, held on for an 8-5 victory Tuesday night behind seven RBIs from Star...2015
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• Cards rally, but Central lead down to 4 1/2
Having watched his club be swept and outscored, 15-4, during a June visit to St. Louis, Cubs manager Joe Maddon hoped they would make a September statement upon returning to Busch Stadium for a series budding with playoff implications. Consider that challenge met, as the Cubs, despite a spirited comeback attempt by the Cardinals, held on for an 8-5 victory Tuesday night behind seven RBIs from Star...2015
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• Down to final strike, Yankees stun Cubs
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• Yanks stun Cubs on Gardner's HR in ninth
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• Giants see Cubs pull away with homers
Jake Arrieta became the first pitcher in the Major Leagues to reach 16 wins and Kyle Schwarber, Miguel Montero and Starlin Castro each homered to power the Cubs to an 8-5 victory over the Giants on Tuesday night. Chicago now has won 21 of its last 25 games....2015
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• Three homers back Arrieta to 16th victory
Jake Arrieta became the first pitcher in the Major Leagues to reach 16 wins and Kyle Schwarber, Miguel Montero and Starlin Castro each homered to power the Cubs to an 8-5 victory over the Giants on Tuesday night. Chicago now has won 21 of its last 25 games....2015
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• Lynn, bullpen wild as Cardinals fall to Cubs
The Cardinals' bid to secure a playoff spot will have to wait. Starlin Castro smacked a tiebreaking two-run home run in the fifth and launched a three-run shot in the sixth to power the Cubs to an 8-3 victory over the National League Central leaders in front of 40,846 at Wrigley Field on a feisty Friday afternoon....2015
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• Cubs ride Castro's 2 HRs, cut into Cards' lead
The Cardinals' bid to secure a playoff spot will have to wait. Starlin Castro smacked a tiebreaking two-run home run in the fifth and launched a three-run shot in the sixth to power the Cubs to an 8-3 victory over the National League Central leaders in front of 40,846 at Wrigley Field on a feisty Friday afternoon....2015
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• New York Yankees Top 10 Prospects for 2022 Fantasy Baseball
Bit of a trivia question off the top: who were the last two big-time Yankees prospects who weren't overrated. Aaron Judge is quick to mind. Who else? Our best bet is to check the trades for guys who actualized for other organizations. Let’s see. Stanton was traded for Starlin Castro, Jose Devers and Jorge Guzman, so . . . no hits there. Still a pretty good trade for the fish considering Stanton’s ...2021
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• Assembling the Perfect Cubs-Mets Blockbuster Trade Package
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• Cubs' Hype-Filled Roster Still at Least a Year Away from MLB Success
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• Mets Should Consider Trading ROY Jacob deGrom in Winter Blockbuster
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• Jimmy Rollins, Elvis Andrus or Alexei Ramirez: Who Is Best Derek Jeter Heir?
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• Unexpected Trades New York Yankees Could Pull off This Offseason
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• New Chicago Cubs Offseason Checklist Following Joe Maddon Hire
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• A look at Cubs no-hitters through history
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• Today in Cubs history: A crazy walkoff win over the Brewers
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• Baseball history unpacked, August 30
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• Cubs 14, Pirates 10: The Christian Bethancourt game
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• Baseball history unpacked, October 2
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• Wander Franco moved to Restricted List
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• Starlin Castro suspended 30 games for violating MLB domestic violence policy

Starlin Castro has been suspended for 30 games without pay for violating the MLB's policy on domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse....2021
• Nationals' Castro suspended 30 games by MLB

Washington Nationals infielder Starlin Castro was suspended 30 games without pay by Major League Baseball on Friday for violating its domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse policy....2021
• Nationals' Starlin Castro has administrative leave extended seven days

Castro's administrative leave was extended another seven days on Friday per MLB's domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse policy. He has been on leave since July 16....2021
• Nationals reportedly sign Thames to one-year, $4M deal
In a continuation of a recent signing bonanza, the Nationals have struck a deal with first baseman Eric Thames, according to Britt Ghiroli of The Athletic (via Twitter). It’s a one-year, $4 million pact — that includes a $1 million buyout on mutual option — per MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand (via Twitter) and ESPN.com’s Jeff Passan (Twitter link). The Nats have now added five veteran infielders on short-...2020
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• Cubs' Title Drought Lives On, but Their 'Curse' Days Are Officially over
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• Matt Harvey Shows Up an Ace to Quell Powerful Cubs Lineup in NLCS Game 1 Win
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• Jake Arrieta, Cubs Show Regular Season Was No Fluke in NL Wild Card Win
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