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  • • Rangers recall Barnhart, reassign Dunning
    The Rangers selected catcher Tucker Barnhart from Triple-A Round Rock and designated pitcher Dane Dunning for assignment on Wednesday....2025
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  • • Rangers To Select Tucker Barnhart, Designate Dane Dunning For Assignment
    The Rangers are going to select catcher Tucker Barnhart to their roster, reports Evan Grant of The Dallas Morning News. That will give them some help behind the plate as Kyle Higashioka battles hamstring tightness. Right-hander Dane Dunning will be designated for assignment as the corresponding move. This will give the active roster a 14/12…...2025
  • • Round Rock Express Game Recap: Barnhart’s Walk-Off Homer Secures 6-4 Win
    Tucker Barnhart delivered a walk-off home run in the bottom......2025
  • • Rangers Release Cody Thomas
    The Rangers released outfielder Cody Thomas from his minor league contract. Texas also officially selected Kevin Pillar onto the 40-man roster after announcing yesterday that he’d make the team. They had an opening after outrighting Dane Dunning earlier in the week. Additionally, the Rangers reassigned a number of minor league signees to Triple-A Round Rock: Joe Barlow, Tucker Barnhart, Cale...2025
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  • Royals finish exhibition schedule with 3-1 win over Rangers
    • Royals finish exhibition schedule with 3-1 win over Rangers
    Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images Kris Bubic looks sharp in his final tune up. Kris Bubic was sharp over five innings in his final start before the regular season as the Royals defeated the Rangers 3-1 to conclude their spring training schedule. The Royals jumped on Rangers starter Jacob deGrom in the first with at two-out rally. Michael Massey doubled and came home on a Salvador Perez s...2025
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  • San Diego holds on to beat Texas, 5-3
    • San Diego holds on to beat Texas, 5-3
    Jason Heyward | Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images Jason Heyward’s three-run triple leads Padres to win The San Diego Padres needed one big inning on offense to beat the Texas Rangers 5-3 in Peoria, Thursday. The Padres loaded the bases in the bottom of the second inning and Gavin Sheets stepped to the plate with no outs. Sheets, who was added to the 40-man roster earlier in the day after San Di...2025
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  • What each American League team has done this offseason
    • What each American League team has done this offseason
    Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Are the Royals keeping up? It’s a new year, and we should see MLB offseason begin to pick up as spring training nears. The Royals have made a few moves, but still have work to do. They’re not alone as many teams still have unfinished rosters. Let’s take a look around the American League at what each team has done so far this off-season - w...2025
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  • Nate Eaton, Austin Cox head list of Royals minor league free agents
    • Nate Eaton, Austin Cox head list of Royals minor league free agents
    Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Nate Eaton and Austin Cox headline a list of thirteen Royals minor leaguers who became free agents this week. Minor league free agency is available to any player with six years in the minors who is not on the 40-man roster. Eaton played 72 games for the Royals from 2022-23 as a utility player with good speed and a great arm, but he hit just .201/.266/.283 in...2024
  • Assessing Rays 2025 Catcher Targets
    • Assessing Rays 2025 Catcher Targets
    Catcher Danny Jansen, Boston Red Sox | Photo By Winslow Townson/Getty Images How will the Rays address this hole? The 2024 MLB season has reached its conclusion and the Rays have flipped their mindset into offseason mode. One of the top items on their wish list, it seems, is too improve upon the poor output they received from the catching position. Rays catchers posted a .562 OPS this seas...2024
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  • A few thoughts about Jed Hoyer, Craig Counsell and Cubs management
    • A few thoughts about Jed Hoyer, Craig Counsell and Cubs management
    Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs fell short of the postsason. How can they fix that? More than two years ago, I posted an article here headlined “The Cubs should fire Jed Hoyer.” Last June, I posted this followup on the topic. That’s just so you know I am no fan of the Cubs President of Baseball Operations. While he has done some good things in that position, overall I believe...2024
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  • Minor League Wrap: Iowa beats Louisville, 5-3
    • Minor League Wrap: Iowa beats Louisville, 5-3
    Matt Shaw | Cody Scanlan/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK The I-Cubs win a matinee. The Smokies see their win streak end. So the crappy news is that Iowa outfielder Brennen Davis has a broken leg. It’s quite sad how many injuries the former Cubs’ top prospect has suffered throughout his career. So Davis goes on the injured list and infielder Reivaj Garcia joins Iowa from the Development Li...2024
  • Let’s talk about Cubs President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer...
    • Let’s talk about Cubs President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer...
    Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports ... and whether his time with the team should be up, or not. One year ago tomorrow, I posted an article provocatively headlined “The Cubs should fire Jed Hoyer.” Admittedly, some or maybe even most of that article was knee-jerk, based on things that were happening with the team at the time, a team that most of us hoped would contend, but entering play on ...2024
  • • Diamondbacks Place Gabriel Moreno On 10-Day Injured List
    The Diamondbacks announced that catcher Gabriel Moreno has been placed on the 10-day injured list due to a sprained left thumb.  Jose Herrera has been called up from Triple-A, and Herrera with team with Tucker Barnhart as Arizona’s catching combo until Moreno has recovered. Moreno’s injury took place in last night’s game, as the backstop’s…...2024
  • The Cubs’ defense is struggling
    • The Cubs’ defense is struggling
    Dansby Swanson fields a ground ball against Houston | Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images This is not how the front office built this team. The Cubs have a unique build that served them well last season and allowed them to overperform most projection systems considerably. The formula goes something like this: fewer starting pitchers with a lot of dominant swing and miss stuff, but excellent ...2024
  • Reflections on the cusp of the Cubs’ 2024 season
    • Reflections on the cusp of the Cubs’ 2024 season
    Photo by @WillByington / www.willbyington.com This year, I believe the Cubs will be playing October playoff baseball. Remember this? That was Joe Maddon in November 2014, at the freewheeling presser held to introduce him as Cubs manager. The Cubs had just come off three of the worst seasons in recent franchise memory, as Theo Epstein rebuilt the ballclub. They had lost 101, 96 and 89...2024
  • 2023 Cubs final season grades
    • 2023 Cubs final season grades
    Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Some of these are pretty good. Others, not so much. In re-reading my midseason grades article, I noted this passage: Last year’s team went 39-31 after the break, a .557 winning percentage. If this year’s team can play to that percentage in the 73 remaining games, they’ll go 41-32. That would result in an 83-79 final record. I don’t claim to be prescient...2023

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  • • Cubs 4, Pirates 0: Marcus Stroman keeps on rolling
    Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports And so do the Chicago Cubs, who have won nine of 11. LONDON — I have a confession to make. This game started at five minutes after midnight London time. I had an extremely busy day, between arrival, clearing Customs and spending part of the afternoon at Westminster Abbey — a must-see if you are ever in London. Thus I was beyond exhausted before this game e...2023
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  • • An unconventional Cubs Convention: Fans, friendship and love for a baseball team
    Danny Rockett A summary of happenings at the first Cubs Con in three years. I am a part of the greatest community in the world: I am a Cubs fan. Cubs fans can be from anywhere and can be anyone. You can be a part of any religion, race, or gender and the bond that ties us all together is a love of the Chicago Cubs. Whether you’re an autograph hound, a fantasy league stats nerd, gear head, o...2023
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Timeline

  • 2025
    "Estevez, who has been nursing back issues, averaged 93 mph on his fastball, striking out catcher Tucker Barnhart."

  • 2024
    "Tucker Barnhart doubled (where was that last year?"

  • 2023
    "Madrigal advanced to second on the throw to the plate, and that set up Miguel Amaya, batting for Tucker Barnhart, for his first MLB hit [VIDEO]."

  • 2022
    "News item: Sources: Cubs closing in on a deal with veteran catcher Tucker Barnhart."

  • 2021
    "The Tigers are nearing agreement to acquire catcher Tucker Barnhart from the Reds, reports Jon Heyman of the MLB Network (Twitter link)."

  • 2020
    "Alford suffered the injury during the third inning after crashing into the wall in pursuit of a Tucker Barnhart home run ball."

  • 2019
    "The Reds, too, have Tucker Barnhart as a catcher with MLB experience, though he’s signed through 2021 (plus a 2022 option) as part of a $16M extension."

  • 2018
    "Reds catcher Tucker Barnhart is a prime example of a good defensive player getting his due thanks to improved defensive metrics."

  • 2017
    "Reds catcher Tucker Barnhart has completed his evolution from reliable backup to injury replacement to elite backstop and Rawlings Gold Glove Award winner."

  • 2016
    "Tucker Barnhart delivered a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth to give the Reds a wild 6-5 win over the Rockies on Wednesday and two of three games in the series."

  • 2015
    "The top of the ninth inning went without a Pirate getting hit, but Pittsburgh's Mark Melancon was thrown out of the game for drilling Cincinnati catcher Tucker Barnhart in the bottom of the ninth."

  • 2014
    "There are several other prospects who could figure into the Reds' plans for Opening Day, those being Tucker Barnhart, David Holmberg and Chad Rogers."

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  • • Rangers Release Cody Thomas
    2025
  • • San Diego holds on to beat Texas, 5-3
    2025
  • • What each American League team has done this offseason
    2025
  • • 2025-26 MLB Free Agents
    The following players project to become free agents after the 2025 season.  We’ve providing this list for those who would like to look ahead to the free agent market one year from now.  For the list of current free agents, click here. Updated 12-25-24 Catchers Austin Barnes (36) Tucker Barnhart (35) Christian Bethancourt (34) Victor…...2024
  • A few thoughts about the Cubs and Jed Hoyer going over the luxury tax in 2024
    • A few thoughts about the Cubs and Jed Hoyer going over the luxury tax in 2024
    Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images It didn’t have to happen. But since it did, let’s look forward, not back. Late Friday afternoon, figures on the teams that went over MLB’s Competitive Balance Tax were posted online. Now, the first thing about this is the timing. Friday afternoon? Late? Before a week where a lot of people are going to start heading out for the holidays? Of course. This ...2024
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  • • Rangers Sign Tucker Barnhart To Minors Contract
    The Rangers have signed catcher Tucker Barnhart to a minor league contract, FanSided’s Robert Murray reports.  The deal includes an invitation to the Rangers’ big league Spring Training camp, and Barnhart will earn $1MM if he makes the Texas roster. Barnhart is the second veteran catcher the Rangers have acquired in the last two weeks,…...2024
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  • 20 Cubs minor leaguers have become free agents
    • 20 Cubs minor leaguers have become free agents
    Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images It’s the annual culling of the herd. As of Monday, 513 players have been made minor-league free agents, per this article at Baseball America. Usually, the reason for this is that players get to six years of minor league service, at which time they are automatically free agents. Some of these players are being let go for other reasons. Here’s...2024
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  • • Nate Eaton, Austin Cox head list of Royals minor league free agents
    2024
  • • Assessing Rays 2025 Catcher Targets
    2024
  • • A few thoughts about Jed Hoyer, Craig Counsell and Cubs management
    2024
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  • 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, AL West
    • 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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  • Cubs vs. Rangers at Mesa preview, Sunday 2/23, 2:05 CT
    • Cubs vs. Rangers at Mesa preview, Sunday 2/23, 2:05 CT
    Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images The Cubs play the last of three in a row at home. Sunday notes... FORMER CUBS IN CAMP WITH THE RANGERS: Shawn Armstrong, Tucker Barnhart, Jesse Chavez, Codi Heuer, Chris Martin, Joc Pederson. FORMER RANGERS IN CAMP WITH THE CUBS: Carson Kelly, Tyson Miller. And now for your small sample sizes of the day! SPRING ...2025
  • • A few thoughts about the Cubs and Jed Hoyer going over the luxury tax in 2024
    2024
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  • • The Cubs’ defense is struggling
    2024
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  • Braves secure sweep via very normal baseball victory, 5-2
    • Braves secure sweep via very normal baseball victory, 5-2
    Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The Braves hit three homers, Chris Sale was good, and the bullpen gave no quarter once again After two bonkers comeback wins to take the series on Friday and Saturday, the Braves, perhaps unexpectedly, engaged in a perfectly normal baseball contest in which they also emerged victorious by a 5-2 score. They did normal things like hitting some homers, playi...2024
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  • • 2023 Cubs final season grades
    2023
  • Cubs 4, White Sox 3: Christopher Morel walks it off
    • Cubs 4, White Sox 3: Christopher Morel walks it off
    Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports ... and, my friends, this was the game of the year. So far, anyway. As baseball fans, each and every one of us lives for moments like we had at Wrigley Field Wednesday evening, a game in which our team seems headed for an inevitable, crushing defeat and then in a matter of just a few seconds, we are all sent into indescribable joy. Or, as a friend of mine...2023
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  • The Cubs lineups are not as effective as they could be
    • The Cubs lineups are not as effective as they could be
    Mike Tauchman rounds the bases after a home run against the Mets | Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images A cautionary tale of handedness obsessions If you are reading Bleed Cubbie Blue you likely obsess about the Chicago Cubs. You are probably watching all of the games, reading Al’s game recaps, joining in on the game threads here and there, and, if you’re anything like me, waiting obsessiv...2023
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  • • Cubs 10, White Sox 7: What a comeback!
    Photo by Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Cubs went into this series needing to win a pair to keep in contention and avoid being sellers, and they did it after being down five runs. The Cubs went down two runs in the first inning Wednesday night on the South Side, came back, then were down five going into the fifth inning. Things seemed bleak for the North Siders. But as ...2023
  • • 2023 Cubs midseason grades
    Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Some things were good for the Cubs before the All-Star break. And some... were not. (If that sounds familiar, I wrote the same words in last year’s midseason grades article.) The Cubs stand seven games out of first place in the N.L. Central at the All-Star break. This still shapes up as a weak division that could be taken with fewer than 90 wins. One th...2023
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  • • A few thoughts about the Cubs and Jed Hoyer going over the luxury tax in 2024
    2024
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  • • A few thoughts about Jed Hoyer, Craig Counsell and Cubs management
    2024
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  • • Braves secure sweep via very normal baseball victory, 5-2
    2024
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  • An updated look at the 2024 Cubs payroll and luxury tax
    • An updated look at the 2024 Cubs payroll and luxury tax
    Photo by Mary Turner/Getty Images Here’s how the team stands at the beginning of the season. Let me stipulate something right now, before we get into the “Cubs should have signed Jordan Montgomery!” argument again. It’s clear that ownership has, at least for the time being, established a payroll level for the Cubs that will not go over the first level of luxury tax, which this year is $237...2024
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  • • Cubs 4, White Sox 3: Christopher Morel walks it off
    2023
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  • • The Cubs lineups are not as effective as they could be
    2023
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  • • 2023 Cubs midseason grades
    2023
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  • • Cubs 4, Marlins 2: Nick Madrigal saves the day
    David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The infielder’s key two-run single gave the Cubs an eighth-inning lead. As most of you know, I have been critical of Nick Madrigal on this site in the past. So today I will give him major props for his game-winning single in the Cubs’ eighth-inning rally. Madrigal’s two-run single with one out in the eighth gave the Cubs the lead and Miguel Amaya followed with ...2023
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  • • 2023 Cubs player profiles: Tucker Barnhart
    Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The eighth in a series of capsule biographies. Barnhart was brought in to help foster strong defense and good pitching, and he seems to have helped with both. He’s signed through 2024. Tucker Barnhart was signed as a Free Agent to help out with the catching, with the emphasis on defense. He’s theoretically a switch-hitter (though he’s gone back to lefty...2023
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  • • Cubs 3, Mariners 2: Nico Hoerner walks it off
    Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images The Cubs blew a ninth-inning lead, but won in extras. In their first foray into extra innings in 2023, the Cubs got themselves in trouble in the top of the 10th, got out of it, then won quickly in the bottom of the inning on a line-drive single by Nico Hoerner, defeating the visiting Mariners 3-2. It was the team’s first walkoff win since August 20, 2022. ...2023
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  • • Benches Clear in Pirates-Reds Game After Tempers Flare in Beanball War
    2015
  • • Reds' Barnhart wins first career Gold Glove
    2017
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  • • Barnhart's walk-off hit lifts Reds over Rockies
    2016
  • • Reds Manager Bryan Price Goes on Expletive-Filled Tirade Against Media
    2015
  • • Barnhart leads Reds' late burst past Mets
    Hoping to salvage something from a four-game series at Citi Field, which Reds manager Bryan Price called a "house of horrors" for his team over the years, catcher Tucker Barnhart keyed Cincinnati's come-from-behind, 10-5 win over the Mets with a career-high five RBIs in the game's final two innings....2017
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  • • Cubs 4, Marlins 2: Nick Madrigal saves the day
    2023
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  • • Cubs 7, Yankees 4: A big-time comeback win
    Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The Cubs scored six unanswered runs to end the first half on a high note. Here is one way to show how much the Chicago Cubs have improved over the last year or so. In June 2022, the Cubs visited Yankee Stadium and got swept. They were outscored 28-5 and were embarrassed to the point where Frank Schwindel threw a 35 mile per hour pitch hit for a home run, t...2023
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  • • Wild game features Cubs pitchers in outfield
    Tuesday's game between the Cubs and Reds at Great American Ball Park got weird. By the 13th inning, both teams had used up their entire benches, with catchers Miguel Montero and Tucker Barnhart getting pinch-hit appearances. From there, the game featured three pitchers playing left field, a line-drive double play with the winning run in scoring position and the first grand slam in the 15th inning ...2016
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  • • The Cubs lineups are not as effective as they could be
    2023
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    2023
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  • • Royals finish exhibition schedule with 3-1 win over Rangers
    2025
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  • • San Diego holds on to beat Texas, 5-3
    2025
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  • • 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, AL West
    2025
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  • • Cubs vs. Rangers at Mesa preview, Sunday 2/23, 2:05 CT
    2025
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  • • What each American League team has done this offseason
    2025
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  • • A few thoughts about the Cubs and Jed Hoyer going over the luxury tax in 2024
    2024
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  • • Nate Eaton, Austin Cox head list of Royals minor league free agents
    2024
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  • • Assessing Rays 2025 Catcher Targets
    2024
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  • • A few thoughts about Jed Hoyer, Craig Counsell and Cubs management
    2024
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  • • Minor League Wrap: Iowa beats Louisville, 5-3
    2024

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  • • Red Sox 11, Cubs 5: Because baseball
    Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images That wasn’t how we envisioned the series finale. This one was going to go the Cubs’ way, right? With All-Star Justin Steele on the mound and an opposing pitcher who had been hit really hard (5.17 ERA, four home runs) in his last three starts, this game was... Well, nope, because baseball. Steele didn’t have it and got hit hard, and Kutter Crawford threw...2023
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  • • MLB’s pitch clock has shortened Cubs spring games by about half an hour
    Trey Mancini and the pitch clock | Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images The clock’s doing its job and I couldn’t be happier. If you’ve been watching Cubs games and they seem faster, you’re not imagining it. The first 10 Cubs games this spring have averaged two hours, 33 minutes, and that’s nearly 30 minutes faster than the average of the first 10 Cubs spring games over the previous five seas...2023
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  • • Cub Tracks stands in the hourglass
    Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images #Cubs,#MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Such are the days of our lives — we await developments. 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, and then cold-brewed overnight for maximum flavor...2022
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  • • Report: Reds interested in J.T. Realmuto
    Yet another suitor has emerged for J.T. Realmuto, as SiriusXM’s Craig Mish (Twitter link) reports that the Reds “have jumped into” talks for the Marlins catcher. It isn’t a new interest, however, as the Miami Herald’s Clark Spencer hears that Cincinnati has been interested in Realmuto “for a while.” Current Reds catcher Tucker Barnhart and outfield prospect Taylor Trammell have been mentioned as p...2018
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