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• Cardinals Claim Alfonso Rivas, Designate Moises Gomez For Assignment
The Cardinals announced Monday that they’ve claimed first baseman/outfielder Alfonso Rivas off waivers from the Angels. In a corresponding move, outfielder Moises Gomez was designated for assignment. Rivas has seen MLB time in each of the past three seasons, splitting those years between the Cubs, Padres and Pirates. The 27-year-old hit well in a tiny…...2024
• A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 2020

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images This was a strange year in just about every way. 2020 began like any other year, and then it wasn’t. And so the early-year deals were just like any other, and then... things changed. This was Theo Epstein’s final year as Cubs President of Baseball Operations. He resigned November 20 and was replaced by Jed Hoyer. January 20: Acquired Alfonso Rivas from th...2024
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• Angels Designate Alfonso Rivas For Assignment
The Angels have officially announced their previously-reported deal with right-hander Robert Stephenson. Infielder Alfonso Rivas has been designated for assignment in a corresponding move, per Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register. More to come....2024
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• Angels Claim Alfonso Rivas
The Angels have claimed first baseman Alfonso Rivas off waivers from the Guardians, per announcements from both teams. Cleveland designated Rivas for assignment last week. The Angels’ 40-man roster is now full. Rivas, 27, lost his roster spot when the Guardians made their one-year contract with backup catcher Austin Hedges official. He’d only been in…...2023
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• Guardians Designate Alfonso Rivas For Assignment
The Guardians announced Friday that they’ve designated first baseman Alfonso Rivas for assignment. His spot on the 40-man roster will go to catcher Austin Hedges, whose one-year deal to return to Cleveland is now official. The Guardians will have a week to trade Rivas, pass him through outright waivers or release him. Rivas came to…...2023
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• Guardians Claim Alfonso Rivas From Pirates
The Guardians announced they’ve claimed first baseman Alfonso Rivas off waivers from the Pirates. More to come....2023

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• Today in Cubs history: What a difference a year makes

Nico Hoerner. P.J. Higgins and David Bote celebrate Bote’s homer on October 5, 2022 | David Kohl-USA TODAY Sports Just check out the difference between this lineup ... and now. One year ago today, the Cubs defeated the Reds in Cincinnati 15-2, finishing up a season in which they went 18-13 after September 1. (If they’d played at that percentage in September 2023, we’d be watching the Cubs ...2023
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• Baseball history unpacked, September 13

Alec Mills throws a no-no | Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources, a little bit cheesy but nicely displayed. Mills’ no-hitter and many other stories on a big day in MLB history. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s...2023
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• Braves rally late for 8-6 win over Pirates

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports Kevin Pillar and Orlando Arcia came through with a couple of clutch hits in the ninth to help Atlanta snap a three-game losing streak. Yonny Chirinos struggled and the Atlanta Braves came up short again in a 6-5 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. It didn’t take the Braves long to get on the board Tuesday night. After getting brushed back by the first pitch ...2023
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• Padres sending Austin Nola to Triple-A is one of many roster moves
Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports Luis Campusano is back from his rehab assignment The San Diego Padres made many roster moves ahead of their series opener against the Toronto Blue Jays today: Nola is finally going to El Paso https://t.co/aWWYJ7lQYr— Talking Friars (@TalkingFriars) July 18, 2023 The headliner of those moves is that Luis Campusano (thumb) is back and Austin Nola is head...2023
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• Jose Iglesias opts out of Padres contract
Jorge Salgado/El Paso Chihuahuas One less infield option at Triple-A The San Diego Padres are dealing with a couple of injuries in their infield right now (Ha-Seong Kim and Manny Machado) so Jose Iglesias opting out of his minor league contract with the organization probably doesn’t make the front office very happy. Obviously it’s not hard feeling towards Iglesias but it’s just that Igles...2023
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• Spring Training Opener Gamethread! Padres at White Sox
Lance Lynn, becoming one with his glove — and hoping for a big 2023 is ahead of him. | Rick Scuteri-USA TODAY Sports For better or for worse, the South Siders are back Ready or not, here they come. Spring Training gets started this afternoon, as the White Sox host the Padres. Pedro Grifol will make his managing debut for the ballclub, with first pitch scheduled for 2:05 p.m. CST at Camelb...2023
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• P.J. Higgins has cleared waivers for the Cubs
Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images ... and other Friday roster news P.J. Higgins was designated for assignment when the Cubs announced the signing of Tucker Barnhart last week. Today, Higgins cleared waivers, so he’ll remain in the organization, assigned to the Triple-A Iowa roster. Here are other Cubs roster moves made public today: Cubs roster moves:PJ Higgins cleared waivers and outri...2023
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• Cubs claim Anthony Kay on waivers from Blue Jays
Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images Another relief arm joins the ballclub. The Cubs announced Friday that they had claimed lefthanded reliever Anthony Kay on waivers from the Toronto Blue Jays. Kay is 27 and was the Mets’ No. 1 pick (31st overall) in the 2016 Draft out of UConn. The Jays acquired him in July 2019 in the Marcus Stroman deal, so there’s a Cubs connection. Over the last four...2022
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• Some thoughts about the Cubs’ 40-man roster
Brennen Davis bats during Spring Training 2022 | Diamond Images/Getty Images ... and who will, and won’t, be protected as we head into Rule 5 Draft season. This is going to be an offseason of great change for the Chicago Cubs. This, we already know, as they perhaps get ready to make acquisitions that will help them contend in 2023. It’s also an offseason of decisions for quite a few player...2022
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• Cubs 7, Blue Jays 5: At last, a win in Canada
Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images The Cubs ended a 14-year losing streak north of the border. TORONTO — It required six relievers (seven, if you count Luke Farrell on what was a bullpen day) and some timely hitting, but Wednesday night the Cubs ended a losing streak in Canada that had lasted more than 14 years. Sure, it was only a five-game Canadian losing streak (three in 2014, the first ...2022
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"January 20: Acquired Alfonso Rivas from the Athletics for Tony Kemp Rivas was a high-OBP, mid-range power guy in the A’s system, but didn’t show much of either of those in 119 games with the Cubs in 2021 and 2022, giving the team 0."

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"Chirinos then allowed two straight singles to Alfonso Rivas and Liover Peguero, but Alika Williams lined out softly to Ozzie Albies to leave them stranded."

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"Alfonso Rivas: C- Rivas plays pretty good defense at first base, but he hasn’t hit (."

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"In corresponding moves, Alfonso Rivas was moved from the 10-day IL to the 60-day IL, and catcher Tyler Payne…"

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"5M Trades and claims Acquired C Austin Allen and OF Buddy Reed from Padres for 2B Jurickson Profar Acquired INF/OF Tony Kemp from Cubs for INF Alfonso Rivas Acquired cash considerations from Cubs for RHP Jharel Cotton Acquired INF Vimael Machin (Rule 5 pick) from Phillies for cash considerations Acquired RHP Burch Smith from Giants for cash considerations Claimed LHP T."

• A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 2020
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• Angels Claim Alfonso Rivas
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• Today in Cubs history: What a difference a year makes
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• Padres trade for Rich Hill and Ji-man Choi
Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images A few prospects are going back to the Pirates A.J. Preller is on the board. The San Diego Padres are acquiring Rich Hill and Ji Man Choi from the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for Jackson Wolf, Estuar Suero and Alfonso Rivas. ESPN’s Jeff Passan broke the news. The San Diego Padres are finalizing a trade to acquire left-handed starter Rich Hill and first...2023
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• The Padres should buy—not stand pat
Photo by Denis Poroy/Getty Images San Diego swept Texas over the weekend so selling isn’t on the table. Doing nothing also shouldn’t be an option There were three options for the San Diego Padres at the MLB trade deadline going into this past weekend: Sell Stand pat Buy I can almost guarantee that selling isn’t on the table any longer. The Padres are only two wins away from getting back...2023
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• Padres sending Austin Nola to Triple-A is one of many roster moves
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• Jose Iglesias opts out of Padres contract
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• 2023 Cubs player profiles: Eric Hosmer is keeping the spot warm
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The sixth in a series of capsule biographies. Eric Hosmer is a placeholder position player who is likely only in Chicago for part of the year, but he doesn’t really hurt you out there. Eric John Hosmer is currently splitting time at first base and designated hitter for the 2023 Chicago Cubs. He’s not expected to stay as phenom Matt Mervis and his powerful...2023
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• Padres Send Brandon Dixon, Julio Teheran and Tim Lopes to Minor League Camp
Alfonso Rivas, Pedro Severino, Drew Carlton and Moises Lugo also won’t be making the Opening Dar roster After we learned Joe Musgrove was going to start the season on the IL, it seemed like Julio Teheran had a really good chance of making the team but that ends up not being the case. He, along with seven other Padres were notified today that they weren’t going to make the Opening Day roster. Brand...2023
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• Spring Training Opener Gamethread! Padres at White Sox
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• Today in Cubs history: What a difference a year makes
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• Cubs 4, Padres 0: The first Spring Training no-hitter in Cubs history
Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports Seven Cubs pitchers combined on this gem against the Padres. Now there’s a headline you did not expect to read on this site about the 2023 Chicago Cubs. Let’s give the seven Cubs pitchers who no-hit the Padres 4-0 Friday night their due: Justin Steele, Javier Assad, Brad Boxberger, Adbert Alzolay, Jeremiah Estrada, Cam Sanders and Nick Burdi allowed San Die...2023
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• 2022 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 160
Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images All good things come to an end. I, for one, liked it better when the Cubs were winning every day. Since the morning after my surgery, I’ve written every night (when there was a game) before bed. As it turns out, there is a lot more energy and the words flow so much more easily while the team is rolling. Tonight, as I sit here, I just feel tired. The end is...2022
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• Reds 3, Cubs 1: Hayden Wesneski throws well, but the winning streak ends
Sam Greene/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK The Cubs played some sketchy defense and it cost them. What a strange little game this was, the Cubs’ 3-1 loss to the Reds that ended their season-high seven-game winning streak. Sure, the Cubs didn’t hit — only two the entire game — but Hayden Wesneski, in his sixth and final 2022 appearance for the Cubs, threw well enough to win. Six innings, f...2022
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• 2022 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 159
David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs sweep their final homestand of the season with an 8-1 win. I’ve decided that I just don’t have a vivid enough imagination, because things keep happening for the Cubs that I just didn’t imagine happening. Among them: The Cubs sweeping their last homestand of the season. This hits the official milestones. This is now 100 games of .500 baseball and alongs...2022
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• 2022 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 156
Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images The Cubs move to 8-1 over their last nine games with the sweep of the Phillies. There are some times where I think baseball is so predictable and I feel that even if I don’t know exactly what is going to happen, that I have a feeling for largely what will happen. I assure you none of those things that I know or even feel, no hunch, nothing that said that t...2022
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• 2022 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 155
Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs win yet again, 4-2 over the Phillies 92 games. Break even. What is that? That’s what the Cubs have done now. They’ve played their last 92 games at 46-46. Just under halfway through that stretch, the Cubs made a series of trades, sending away arguably their top four relievers of the first four months of the season. The Cubs are actually 28-26 sinc...2022
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• 2022 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 154
Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs continue to impress down the stretch I imagine I do more fourth-wall breaking than most people whose articles you read online with any frequency. Last week I did so in telling you what a grind it can be to write about an ugly loss near the end of a long season. One of you brave readers gave me credit for trying to dig three bright spots in a dump...2022
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• 2022 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 153
Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs win 8-3 to complete a series win in Pittsburgh There are many groupings of people around baseball who don’t get enough credit. I’m sure there are many who I would never think of who make my baseball experience better. But one I can think of that some of you may not be able to is baseball photographers. To be sure, some days I go looking for photos...2022
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• Cubs 2, Marlins 1: The sub Cubs come through
Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images A makeshift Cubs lineup defeated the Marlins. The Cubs are playing out the string of the 2022 season with many players you’d never heard of before this year began. Several of those players had nice games Tuesday evening, so give credit where it’s due for a well-played 2-1 win over the Marlins that snapped a three-game losing streak. The Marlins took a 1-0...2022
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• Blake Perkins delivers in the 10th, giving the Brewers a 3-2 win over the Pirates

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images The rookies continue to come up clutch for the Brewers What started as a story about a pitchers duel quickly turned into a night with a focus on the Brewers rookies. Time and time again, the Brewers have seen their rookies put into high-pressure moments and deliver. Tonight, there was some clutch base running along with some timely hitting, providing the B...2023
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• Padres sending Austin Nola to Triple-A is one of many roster moves
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• BCB After Dark: Who’s on first?
Matt Mervis | Dylan Heuer The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks who will get the most games at first base this year. Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the groovin’ gettogether for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. So glad to see you again tonight. It’s cold out there, but the music and camaraderie is warm in here. There are still a few good tables ava...2023
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• Cub Tracks’ working for the weekend
All the #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Spring Training is right around the corner. 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 for maximum flavor. I’m a longtime WXRT (@93...2023
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• 2022 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 160
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• Cub Tracks has no words other than gamethread words
Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images Recent #Cubs,#MLB, and #MiLB news, four days a week. At least there was one highlight. Welcome to today’s edition of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits from Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, and then cold-brewed overnight for maximum flavor. The Cubs opened a series with one of my le...2022
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• 2022 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 142
Photo by Adam Hunger/Getty Images The Cubs get another strong pitching effort and beat the Mets 4-1 When you write about baseball, it’s pretty hard with the relentless flow of games to not repeat yourself. Which in turn repeats what the many hundreds of people analyzing the Cubs in print and online, not to mention all of the other teams. But one of those thoughts is that no matter how much...2022
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• 2022 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 138
Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Drew Smyly turns in a strong effort in a 4-2 Cubs win This was the kind of game that makes you roll your eyes a little bit. Not because anything bad happened, but because the team looked so polished after getting pounded on Wednesday and then letting one get away in the ninth inning on Thursday. On Friday? The Cubs just executed. The Giants are pretty cle...2022
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• Blue Jays 5, Cubs 4: Running on empty
Photo by Cole Burston/Getty Images The Cubs did not run the bases well Monday. It might have cost them the game. TORONTO — The Cubs lost to the Blue Jays 5-4 Monday, and truth be told they probably should have won this game and scored several more runs. There were at least four questionable baserunning choices made by Cubs, as well as some odd choices by David Ross regarding pitching, that...2022
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• Braves rally late for 8-6 win over Pirates
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• Cubs 4, Padres 0: The first Spring Training no-hitter in Cubs history
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• 2022 Cubs final season grades
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Let’s look at the players who were on the Cubs active roster at season’s end, plus a few others. Sixty-four men played for the Chicago Cubs this year, five short of the franchise (and MLB) record the team set last year. I am certain you don’t want, or need, to see grades for all 64 men who wore the blue pinstripes in 2022. So I’m limiting this to the 28 p...2022
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• Cubs 9, Reds 3: Hayden Wesneski, your table is ready
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The righthander acquired in trade a month ago made quite an impression in his MLB debut. Now THAT was a major league debut! Hayden Wesneski, acquired August 1 from the Yankees for Scott Effross, threw five shutout innings in his first MLB game, striking out eight, helping lead the Cubs to a 9-3 win over the Reds on a beautiful Tuesday evening at Wrigley F...2022
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• The Cubs outright David Bote, Franmil Reyes, Alec Mills off the 40-man roster
Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images ... as well as make several other roster moves. As you know if you have read my 2022-23 MLB offseason calendar, the deadline for teams to add prospects to the 40-man roster to protect them from the Rule 5 Draft is next Tuesday, November 15. In advance of that, today the Cubs made several roster moves: David Bote, Franmil Reyes, Alec Mills, Brad Wieck ...2022
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• Cubs 7, Blue Jays 5: At last, a win in Canada
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• Cubs 4, Phillies 2: Christopher Morel’s three-run homer is the difference
Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports ... as the Cubs won their second straight over the contending Phillies. The Cubs are going home next week when the 2022 season ends and watch the postseason on TV like the players on 18 other MLB teams. But they appear to be having fun this series, wreaking a bit of havoc on the Phillies’ wild card chances. For the second straight night, the Cubs got good...2022
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• Padres, Alfonso Rivas Agree To Minor League Contract
The Padres are signing first baseman Alfonso Rivas to a minor league deal, tweets Jeff Sanders of the San Diego Union-Tribune. The La Jolla native will get a non-roster invitation to MLB Spring Training with his hometown club. Rivas, 26, hit free agency last week after being released by the Cubs. That ended a three-year tenure…...2023
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• Travis d’Arnaud back in the lineup as Braves go for series win against Pirates

Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports Atlanta’s lineup looks for another solid showing in series finale The Atlanta Braves will look to take the rubber match in their three-game series Sunday afternoon against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Allan Winans will get the start Sunday for Atlanta while the Pirates will go with Luis Ortiz. Travis d’Arnaud returns to the lineup for the finale and has started thre...2023
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• Riley still ailing, d’Arnaud to start again on Friday night

Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Braves will run out the same lineup that mashed Adam Wainwright against Mitch Keller Austin Riley missed his first game of the season on Thursday night, and he’s still out on Friday. Poor guy, I hope he feels better soon. The other notable non-change is Travis d’Arnaud drawing another start. d’Arnaud hasn’t started back-to-back game...2023
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• Brewers thrashed by Pirates 8-4

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Mark Canha had three hits but Colin Rea allowed six runs. Box Score After the Brewers destroyed the Pirates on Thursday night, it was the Pirates turn to do the clobbering on Friday. The Brewers fell behind early 6-2 and never recovered, losing to the Pirates 8-4. Colin Rea struggled in what might be his final start for a while, with Brandon Woodruff...2023
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Braves series preview

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images This series is likely to tell us a lot about the 2023 Chicago Cubs and where they stand among N.L. teams. The Cubs have not played the Braves since June 19, 2022, a span of 205 games. To give you an idea of how much the Cubs have changed since then, of the 11 Cubs who played in that game last year, five are no longer on the team (Will...2023
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• The Padres should buy—not stand pat
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• Padres Send Brandon Dixon, Julio Teheran and Tim Lopes to Minor League Camp
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