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• Minor League Wrap: Shaw homers twice, but Smokies fall to Lookouts 7-5

Matt Shaw | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images Everyone lost today, but there were a few standout hitting performances. Pitching? Not so much. Infielder Leonel Espinoza joined the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, where he played 13 games last year. Outfielder Christian Olivo went on the 7-day injured list. So, everyone loses today. Except the major leaguers, and that’s what counts. Iowa Cubs The Io...2024
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• Minor League Wrap: Felix Stevens homers twice as South Bend clobbers Wisconsin, 11-3

Jefferson Rojas | GREG SWIERCZ / USA TODAY NETWORK South Bend’s bats come alive in a romp. Matt Mervis continues to slug in an Iowa win. First, some news: Jameson Taillon’s next start will be with the Cubs, Counsell says. They are determining what date he will slot into the rotation. https://t.co/GBerRNlWKM— Meghan Montemurro (@M_Montemurro) April 13, 2024 So that’s good news. I’d e...2024
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• Minor League Wrap: Strumpf slugs I-Cubs past Mud Hens, 9-6

Chase Strumpf | Lily Smith/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK Three losses today, but a win for the I-Cubs. David Bote went on the injured list after taking a pitch in the wrist yesterday. RHP Matthew Thompson was promoted to Iowa from Tennessee, although I assume he’s taking Daniel Palencia’s spot and not Bote’s. In case anyone is new around here, there’s no Minor League Wrap on most Monday...2024
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• Iowa Cubs Wrap: Iowa falls to Omaha in extra innings again

Luis Vazquez | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images A ninth-inning comeback is for naught as Iowa loses in ten innings. So this is the part of baseball that stinks. As the Cubs try to get the minor league system down to the mandated 165 players, the Cubs released some veteran minor leaguers today. The released players were: SS Liam Spence RHP Max Bain 2B Juan Mora OF Ke’Shun Collier LHP Joe...2024
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• Get to know the Iowa Cubs

Lily Smith/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK The Cubs’ Triple-A affiliate takes the field. The minor league season starts . . .well, the Triple-A season started yesterday . . .and that means it’s time to take stock of the Cubs minor league farm system. As we’ve written in these pages over the past few months, the Cubs farm system is the strongest it has been since the 2013-15 period that le...2024
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• Cubs reduce spring roster to 42

Matt Mervis | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images Five more roster cuts were announced Sunday. The Cubs today reduced the spring roster from 47 to 42 players. Right-handed pitcher Keegan Thompson and infielder Matt Mervis have been optioned to Triple-A Iowa. Three non-roster invitees have been assigned to minor league camp: right-handed pitcher Cam Sanders, catcher Bryce Windham and infield...2024
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• Minor League Wrap: Felix Stevens homers twice as South Bend clobbers Wisconsin, 11-3
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• Cubs 8, Giants 4: Brennen Davis makes his case

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images The Cubs prospect looks healthy, at last. Brennen Davis was all over Top 100 prospect lists from 2020-22 and played in the 2021 Futures Game. The outfielder, who the Cubs took in the second round in 2018 out of high school in Arizona, seemed like one of those proverbial “can’t-miss” prospects, a guy who was going to make the big leagu...2024
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• Minor League Wrap: Brennen Davis homers, but Iowa falls to Toledo 5-4

Brennen Davis | Bryon Houlgrave/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK Everyone loses today, but there were a few impressive performances anyway. Everyone lost again. The minor leagues are limping towards the finish line. Tomorrow is traditionally the final day of the minor league system, but instead it’s going to be a typical Monday with no games. Iowa has three weeks of games left, Tennessee ...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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• Minor League Wrap: Iowa splits two games with Columbus
Miguel Amaya | Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images Iowa won one suspended from yesterday, but that’s the only good news of the day. The Cubs traded Vinny Nittoli, who had just opted out of his deal, to the Mets. We don’t know what the Cubs got in return, but it was probably someone named “cash.” To take Nittoli’s spot on the Iowa Cubs roster, the Cubs took Jordan Holloway off of the ...2023
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• Minor League Wrap: Cole Roederer, Smokies top Lookouts, 5-4
Cole Roederer | Photo by Jeff Speer/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images We can now call three minor league games as wins for the Cubs. We’re still waiting on results from Iowa. Two Iowa pitchers, Vinny Nittoli and Tyler Duffey, opted out of their minor-league deals today. The Cubs have 48 hours to either give them a major-league deal (which would put them on the 40-man and not necessarily th...2023
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• Minor League Wrap: Cade Horton dazzles, but South Bend loses 5-2 to TinCaps anyway
Cade Horton | Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin / USA TODAY NETWORK Some good performances this evening, but only Iowa managed to get a win. And they lost too. Some movement in the minors today. Infielder Chase Strumpf got promoted to Triple-A Iowa. He’d been in Double-A since June 1, 2021. Infielder Scott McKeon was promoted to Double-A Tennessee. Infielder Pedro Ramirez and outfie...2023
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Cincinnati Reds preview, Saturday 5/27, 6:15 CT
Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images The Cubs look to even up their series against the Reds. Saturday notes... BIRTHDAY GREETINGS: Happy birthday to Cubs radio play-by-play voice Pat Hughes, who turns 68 today. BLOWOUT HISTORY: Thursday’s 10-1 rout by the Mets and Friday’s 9-0 drubbing by the Reds marked just the 13th time since 1901 that the Cubs have lost back-to-back games by at least ...2023
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• Getting to know the Tennessee Smokies
Owen Caissie | Photo by Daniel Shirey/WBCI/MLB Photos via Getty Images The roster of the Cubs Double-A affiliate is absolutely loaded with top prospects. The Tennessee Smokies, the Cubs’ Double-A affiliate since 2007, announced their 2023 roster Tuesday. This year’s roster is packed with the top prospects in the Cubs’ system. It shouldn’t really be a surprise that the Smokies are loaded, s...2023
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"David Bote, who’s got plenty of MLB experience and has a non-zero chance of playing in the big leagues, went deep in the eighth with a man on base, and Chase Strumpf, who was the Cubs’ second-round pick in 2019 out of UCLA but hasn’t had any big-league chances, homered to complete the Cubs scoring in the ninth."

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", Nick Neidert, Vinny Nittoli, Manuel Rodríguez and Cam Sanders Lefthanded pitchers (7) Ryan Borucki, Roenis Elías, Bailey Horn, Anthony Kay, Brendon Little, Brailyn Márquez and Eric Stout Infielders (7) Sergio Alcántara, David Bote, Matt Mervis, Esteban Quiroz, Chase Strumpf, Andy Weber and Jared Young Outfielders (5) Pete Crow-Armstrong, Ben DeLuzio, Darius Hill, Yonathan Perlaza, and Mike Tauchman Catchers (3) Dom Nuñez, Luis Torrens and Bryce Windham Apart from a couple of the pitchers and maybe Matt Mervis, it’s pretty unlikely that any of these players will make the Cubs’ Opening Day roster."

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"Also, there will be a large number of Cubs prospects appearing in The Road to Wrigley session, including Kevin Alcántara, Miguel Amaya, Ben Brown, Owen Caissie, Pete Crow-Armstrong, Brennen Davis, DJ Herz, Ed Howard, Ryan Jensen, Matt Mervis, Jordan Nwogu, Daniel Palencia, Chase Strumpf and Jordan Wicks."

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• Cub Tracks’ your daily hero

Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports Typically acerbic #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. The Cubs have looked impressive so far. Let’s keep the string going! 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 base...2024
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• The 2024 Cubs by the numbers

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images A complete numerical list of this year’s Cubs as they get ready for this year’s Spring Training. As I do here every spring, I present to you a full numerical roster of all the players and coaches in Cubs spring camp. Also included are the Cubs’ retired numbers, so you can see the full numerical progression. There are 59 players in camp, the 40-man roste...2024
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• BCB Top 25 Cubs Prospects: June update
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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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• Cubs lose righthander Chris Clarke to Mariners in Rule 5 Draft
Chris Clarke | Tennessee Smokies The Cubs made no selection in the Major League phase. There was a considerable bit of angst among many Cubs fans this offseason because the Cubs had quite a few prospects who might have been protected from the Rule 5 Draft by placing them on the 40-man roster. While the Cubs did protect Kevin Alcántara, Ryan Jensen, Brennen Davis and Ben Brown by placing th...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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• Minor League Wrap: Darius Hill’s 2 triples leads Iowa past St. Paul, 7-1
Darius Hill | Dylan Heuer Darius Hill, Caleb Kilian and Alexander Canario led Iowa to victory over St. Paul. Pete Crow-Armstrong has 3 hits in South Bend’s win. Yesterday in After Dark I mentioned that Alexander Canario was promoted to Iowa and Brennen Davis was moved to South Bend to continue his rehab. Today, first baseman/outfielder Greg Deichmann was released. The Cubs also put Pelic...2022
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• Minor League Wrap: Strumpf slugs I-Cubs past Mud Hens, 9-6
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• Minor League Wrap: Jared Young hits a 493-ft HR as Iowa tops St. Paul, 7-5.
Jared Young | Bryon Houlgrave/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK Iowa scores five times after 2 were out to beat St. Paul. The Smokies lose in extras. South Bend and Myrtle Beach just lose. Iowa had an epic comeback and Jared Young hit an epic home run. That was pretty much all the good news tonight. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs scored five runs in the top of the ninth after two were out to def...2023
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• Minor League Wrap: Cole Roederer, Smokies top Lookouts, 5-4
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Cincinnati Reds preview, Saturday 5/27, 6:15 CT
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• Minor League Wrap: Kyle Hendricks impresses in a 6-1 Iowa win over Mud Hens.
Kyle Hendricks | Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK Kyle Hendricks looked sharp in a rehab assignment. The Smokies stage an epic comeback. South Bend jumps all over the Timber Rattlers. Moves today in the Cubs system: The big news was that Cade Horton was promoted to South Bend after four dominating starts in Myrtle Beach. Horton is scheduled to start for South Bend tomor...2023
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• Getting to know the Tennessee Smokies
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• BCB 2023 Cubs Top 25 Prospects List: Introduction and 21 to 25
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• The Cubs say Tom Ricketts will speak at Cubs Convention
Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images What could possibly go wrong? The Cubs sent out a press release Thursday morning detailing events at the Cubs Convention, scheduled to be held January 13-15, 2023, at the Sheraton Grand Chicago. The fan convention will kick off Friday, January 13 at 5 p.m. CST with Marquee Sports Network: Red Carpet Special, a college gameday-inspired show, followed by ...2022
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• Minor League Wrap: Pelicans clinch 1st half title; beat FredNats, 8-2
Moises Ballesteros | Photo by Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images The Pelicans managed to clinch a 1st half title on their final home game of the first half. Iowa and Tennessee also win. Happy Father’s Day to everyone who is a father or who has a father. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs won their fifth-straight game, 12-11 over Indianapolis (Pirates). Nick Neidert put the I-Cubs in an...2023
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• Minor League Wrap: Iowa wins 4th-straight with 4 home runs tonight
Jake Slaughter | Margaret Kispert/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK Iowa blasts their way to their 4th-straight win. The rest of the system came up short. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs burned the Toledo Mud Hens (Tigers), 10-2. It was Iowa’s fourth-straight win. Starter Nick Neidert got the win after five scoreless innings, allowing just two hits. Neidert walked one and struck out one. Codi Heu...2023
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• Getting to know the Tennessee Smokies
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• The Cubs Convention is back for the first time in three years
Marquee Sports Network Here are some notes from Friday’s Opening Ceremony Marquee Sports Network kicked off coverage of the 2023 Cubs Convention Opening Ceremony at 5 p.m. Friday and while the crowd was a bit smaller than in previous years (there was an entire section of empty chairs to the right of the main stage that was definitely filled in 2020), there was an enthusiastic atmosphere on...2023
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• The Cubs say Tom Ricketts will speak at Cubs Convention
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• Cubs 8, Giants 4: Brennen Davis makes his case
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• Cubs 5, Rangers 1: Drew Smyly and Jordan Wicks show their stuff

Rick Scuteri-USA TODAY Sports Sunday’s game featured very good outings from this pair of Cubs lefthanders. With Jameson Taillon now possibly missing Opening Day, the Cubs will possibly need an extra starter to fill in. One of those potential starters is Drew Smyly, and he had a fine outing against the Rangers. So did Jordan Wicks, who’s in contention for the fifth starter spot. The entire ...2024
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• Cubs reduce spring roster to 42
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• Pete Crow-Armstrong is among 32 non-roster players invited to Cubs Spring Training
Pete Crow-Armstrong bats for the Cubs in Spring Training last March | Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images The team announced its NRI’s today. The Cubs announced Monday that 32 non-roster players would be invited to major league Spring Training, joining the players on the 40-man roster, so 72 total players will be in camp. The team’s first pitcher/catcher workout will be...2023
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• BCB Top 25 Cubs Prospects: June update
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• Some thoughts about the Cubs’ 40-man roster
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• BCB 2023 Cubs Top 25 Prospects List: Introduction and 21 to 25
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• Minor League Wrap: Strumpf slugs I-Cubs past Mud Hens, 9-6
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• Cubs 5, Rangers 1: Drew Smyly and Jordan Wicks show their stuff
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• Minor League Wrap: The I-Cubs smash five home runs

Levi Jordan bats for the Cubs in Spring Training 2022 | Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Only one team in the system in action Wednesday... in a day game! Hi! It’s your substitute Minor League Wrap writer, while Josh is traveling today. He’ll be back for Thursday’s wrap. In news from the system, South Bend righthander Frankie Scalzo Jr. was named to the 2023 Midwest ...2023
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• Chicago Cubs Minor League Wrap: September 16

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Iowa won the day, while the Smokies opted for extra innings. Hello all, another Ashley minor leagues recap, I hope you didn’t mind the last one! Rest assured Josh will be back to regularly scheduled programming soon. It was an interesting night at the park for the two Cubs’ affiliates taking the field tonight. Let’s take a look at wh...2023
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• Minor League Wrap: Maldonado walks with the bases loaded as Smokies snap losing streak, 1-0

Nelson Maldonado | Allan Henry-USA TODAY Sports The Smokies snap their 8-game losing streak. Otherwise, 0 for 3 against Royals farm clubs. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs were swamped by the Omaha Storm Chasers (Royals), 10-2. Nick Neidert took the loss after giving up five runs on eight hits over five innings. Only two of the five runs were earned. Neidert walked one and struck out five. For the...2023
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• Minor League Wrap: Brennen Davis homers, but Iowa falls to Toledo 5-4
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• Chicago Cubs Minor League Wrap: August 31

Chase Strumpf | Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images Iowa beats Toledo, but every other team lost. Outfielder Brennen Davis ended his rehab stint and rejoined the Iowa Cubs. Left-handed pitcher Richard Bleier was released. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs cooped up the Toledo Mud Hens (Tigers), 10-7. Starter Caleb Kilian got roughed up today to the tune of seven runs on eight hits over 4.1 innings. Fo...2023
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• Minor League Wrap: Iowa stops Indianapolis, 4-3

Matt Mervis | Dylan Heuer Iowa comes back to snap a three-game losing streak. The Cubs released right-handed pitcher Gregori Montano. He had a 7.88 ERA in seven relief appearances with Myrtle Beach. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs beat Indianapolis (Pirates), 4-3. Starter Nick Neidert pitched five innings and allowed two runs on five hits. Neidert walked one and struck out four. Bailey Horn gave ...2023
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