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• Chicago Cubs Lineup (4/21/24): Hoerner Leads Off, Busch Batting Cleanup, Hendricks on Mound
The Cubs should probably be going for the sweep this afternoon, which is actually a more common occurrence than splitting a four-game series, but the early game yesterday concluded with yet another late loss. A lot of folks are making this a referendum on Craig Counsell vs. David Ross or on Jed Hoyer’s decision to … The post Chicago Cubs Lineup (4/21/24): Hoerner Leads Off, Busch Batti...2024
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• Cub Tracks earns the split

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes plus extras, four days a week. Cubs could have had both games, take one, and head for a series win Sunday. 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’ tear...2024
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• The Rundown: Epic Bullpen Meltdown Costs Cubs, Imanaga Has ‘Ace’ Stuff, PCA Hurt, Hendriks Calls MLB Free Agency ‘Bullsh*t’
“They stood there laughing. They’re not laughing anymore.” – The Call, The Walls Came Down It was just one game and just one loss, but what an epic failure. The Cubs blew an 8-0 lead to lose 9-8 to the Padres, and Jed Hoyer’s piecemeal bullpen proved to be the cause. It’s a neverending storyline … The post The Rundown: Epic Bullpen Meltdown Costs Cubs, Ima...2024
• Padres 9, Cubs 8: Uh-oh

Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images The Cubs had a massive bullpen meltdown Monday night in San Diego. The Cubs roared out to an 8-0 lead by the fourth inning Monday night in San Diego. What could possibly go wrong? Well, if you didn’t stay up to see the end of the Cubs’ 9-8 loss to the Padres that began a nine-game West Coast road trip... maybe you don’t want to know. Nevertheless, you c...2024
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• BCB After Dark: How is Lt. Dans doing?

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks for your evaluation of Dansby Swanson after a year and a week. It’s another Wednesday evening at BCB After Dark: the grooviest gathering for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. The weather out there is miserable, but we’re so glad you made the effort to get here. If you have a coat or ...2024
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• 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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• 2024 MLB Season Preview: Chicago Cubs

Rick Scuteri-USA TODAY Sports With Craig Counsell now at the helm for Chicago, the Cubs look to take that next step and become postseason contenders once again The Cubs took a step back a couple of years ago, and finished below .500 in both 2021 and 2022 for the first time since 2014. After a surprisingly good 2023 in which they finished just a game out of a playoff spot, they’re heading i...2024
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• Cody Bellinger: ‘I fully believe in myself as a baseball player’

Marquee Sports Network The outfielder was re-introduced as a Cub Wednesday afternoon. The Cubs re-introduced newly re-signed outfielder Cody Bellinger Wednesday afternoon to a group of media that was already quite familiar with him from his year with the team in 2023. And Bellinger referenced last year a couple of times, saying that the team had “unfinished business” from 2023 from missing...2024
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• The Daily Belli watch: 3 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener

Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports Baseball at Sloan Park on Friday! First, I want to remind everyone that these posts exist mainly as an open thread to discuss baseball every day. They’re not exclusively about Cody Bellinger, and this series is going to end Friday when games begin. Perhaps Bellinger will sign with the Cubs by then, perhaps not, obviously if it happens it’ll be covered here. Sec...2024
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• Looking at projections for the 2024 Chicago Cubs

Jed Hoyer introduces Shōta Imanaga in January | Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images This team seems incomplete at the moment. Every offseason I wait until the Cubs look like a quasi-finished project before writing up my thoughts on the new team. This year I waited longer than usual. Cubs Convention came and went. January turned into February. The ZiPS projections were released, so wa...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ road signs on the treadmill toward tomorrow

Photo by Michael Zagaris/Oakland Athletics/Getty Images Typically acerbic #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. I have no third baseman, but I must team, and other nuggets of wisdom. -WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground f...2024
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• The Daily Belli watch: 17 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener

Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images We have all been here before. Today’s song selection: Or perhaps you’d like your déjà vu this way: The rest of this article is going to look very familiar. Déjà vu, if you like. This is a repeat from last Wednesday, because as of this morning, 15 of MLB Trade Rumors’ Top 50 Free Agents remain unsigned, just as they were last week. Here’s my best gues...2024
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• The Daily Belli watch: 21 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener

Daytime version of yesterday’s photo | Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs will be playing baseball soon... hopefully WITH Cody Bellinger. There’s some big news from one of the Cubs’ NL Central rivals, a trade that happened late Thursday: Full trade, sources tell me and @kileymcd :Baltimore receives: RHP Corbin BurnesMilwaukee receives: IF Joey Ortiz, LHP D.L. Hall and the 34th pick in...2024
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• The Daily Belli watch: 23 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener

Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports Let’s do something different today! Maybe I am a crowded mindI watch your eyes glaze overStared down at the floorYou were amazing to meI was amazing to youBut here we go again — O.A.R., “Love And Memories” Indeed, here we go again! The Cubs are the most likely landing spot for Cody Bellinger, multiple people in the baseball industry told me this week, although...2024
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• Cub Tracks could stand the weather

Dansby Swanson at Sloan Park | E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Typically acerbic #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus scientific food for thought. Minor-leaguers in the news, relief corps augmented, sunny skies and maybe a bright future. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ let it rain

Photo by Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. A rain-shortened contest. Nobody hurt. 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 w...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ Open Season
Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images All the #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. It’s here! Opening Day at Wrigley! Play Ball! 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 f...2023
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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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• Kris Bryant, Javier Baez and the Cubs Building the 'New-Age' MLB Star
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• VIEW: Kerry Wood Puts $3.6 Million Dollar Mansion on the Market
According to the Chicago Tribune, the former Chicago Cubs’ ace, Kerry Wood and his wife, have placed their $3.595 million dollar Lincoln Park mansion on the market. While they have not led on as to where Wood and his family would be relocating, one thing is for sure, it won’t be too far. Wood, now 37, played the majority of his 14-year career right here in Chicago and has since been hired on as a ...2015
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"It’s just a matter of waiting out the staring contest between Jed Hoyer and Scott Boras."

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"Whatever it takes, Jed Hoyer and Tom Ricketts — sign that guy."

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"Will dealing Contreras make that anger more widespread and perhaps cost the team money in lost ticket sales from fans who are fed up at the idea of another rebuild, even if Jed Hoyer refuses to call it one?"

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"Cubs' Jed Hoyer implies Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo, Javier Báez are to blame for extension talks falling apart"

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"MLB teams are not required -- or allowed -- to divulge the names of any player that tests positive for the coronavirus, both Yankees GM Brian Cashman and Cubs GM Jed Hoyer said Tuesday."

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"Jed Hoyer let us sit in with him as his Cubs played in the Cactus League this week."

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"Checking in on the National League… The Cubs are “still looking to add depth” to their pitching staff, general manager Jed Hoyer tells Jesse Rogers of ESPN."

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"The Cubs announced on Wednesday that former Major League outfielder Will Venable has been hired as a special assistant to president of baseball operations Theo Epstein and general manager Jed Hoyer."

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""Go back to spring training, and even prior to that where we were trying to put this thing together, and I was on the phone a lot with [president of baseball operations Theo Epstein] and [general manager Jed Hoyer] regarding the composition."

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"Theo Epstein Erases Losing Traditions as Baseball's Miracle Worker"

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"” Lester already has met with the Cubs, who feature some familiarity in the form of president of baseball operations Theo Epstein and general manager Jed Hoyer."

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• Padres 9, Cubs 8: Uh-oh
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• BCB After Dark: How is Lt. Dans doing?
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• An updated look at the 2024 Cubs payroll and luxury tax
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 1

Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports An uneven start to the season. I didn’t set out to be a baseball writer. I just kind of fell into it. I was sitting in the same spot that you, the reader, occupied back in 2017 and even before. I loved this space from its creation and was a commenter on a regular basis. When its previous writer rode off into the sunset after the 2016 championship, I was just ...2024
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• BCB roundtable: 2024 Cubs season preview

Getty Images A discussion of the season to come from the BCB staff. BCB’s front-page writers have done several of these roundtable discussions previewing Cubs seasons and postseasons, so here we are again to kick off the 2024 season. Josh, Sara, Thomas, Duane and I had a lively online conversation Wednesday afternoon. The online chat has been lightly edited for clarity. Ashley was unable t...2024
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• BCB After Dark: Second Guesses

Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if you the Cubs made the right call on the roster decisions. It’s Monday night at BCB After Dark: the groovin’ gathering for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and celebrate with us. Celebrate what? What do you got? There are still a few tables available. The show wil...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ where the great ones run...

Allan Henry-USA TODAY Sports #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. Cubs thump the Rockies. More players cut. Taillon has a back issue. 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, s...2024
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• Boras, Hoyer Discuss Bellinger Signing
The Cubs reintroduced Cody Bellinger at a press conference this morning. The two-time All-Star was alongside agent Scott Boras and Chicago president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer to discuss his protracted free agent process (link to the full presser). At the start of the offseason, few would’ve expected Bellinger settling for a three-year guarantee worth $80MM.…...2024
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• Sunday Notes: Orioles Prospect Coby Mayo Continues To Mash
Plus Bob Melvin on IF throws, Wildfire Schulte, SABR Analytics, Jake Rogers on Tarik Skubal, Jed Hoyer on spring stats, and much more....2024
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• Cubs vs. Brewers at Phoenix preview, Wednesday 2/28, 2:05 CT

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images Another road contest for the North Siders. Here’s a bit more on Matthew Thompson, who the Cubs acquired yesterday in a trade with the White Sox: In the 23-year-old Thompson, the Cubs got a righty who was selected in the second round of the 2019 Draft by the Sox. Last season with Double-A Birmingham, Thompson had a 4.85 ERA with 136 strikeouts and 85 walks i...2024
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• Cub Tracks turns the page

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images Typically acerbic #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. All about Bellinger, more about Bellinger, and some stuff about Bellinger. Plus news. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cub...2024
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• Cubs vs. Royals at Surprise preview, Monday 2/26, 2:05 CT

Allan Henry-USA TODAY Sports Another away game for the boys in blue. There have been a few questions raised about when Cody Bellinger might play in a spring game. First, we only know about the signing through Jeff Passan and some Cubs reporters who confirmed it via a source. The team has not officially announced the signing, though it was reported that Bellinger was in Cubs camp Sunday tak...2024
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• The deadline for MLB arbitration agreements is today. Seven Cubs are arb-eligible.

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports And here are some possible numbers they might sign for. With the signing of Shõta Imanaga making big Cubs news this week, I didn’t want to forget — nor let you all forget — that the deadline for arbitration-eligible players to sign contracts is at hand. Originally, that deadline was supposed to be this Friday, but last month owners and players agreed to mo...2024
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• Cubs New Year’s resolutions, No. 1: Make big deals

Cody Bellinger rounds the bases after a double at Wrigley Field in September | Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Pitchers and catchers report in 40 days It’s January, and like many people I spend the first weeks of every New Year evaluating what went right in the previous year(s) before setting intentions for this year. I see no reason this practice should be limited to individual fitness...2024
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• BCB After Dark: How is Lt. Dans doing?
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• Cody Bellinger: ‘I fully believe in myself as a baseball player’
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• BCB After Dark: Looking for flaws

I’m not suggesting that Christopher Morel is a flaw. He just looks sad and pensive here. | Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images The late night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks what is the Cubs’ biggest flaw heading into the season. It’s Tuesday night here at BCB After Dark: the secret party for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. So glad you found us. No, we hav...2024
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• Cub Tracks rolls out the barrel

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Typically acerbic #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. The world accordion to me, and other notes. 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,...2024
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• The Daily Belli watch: 3 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener
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• In appreciation of Willson Contreras
David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs catcher moves on, but we remember him fondly. Willson Contreras, as you know, declined the Cubs’ qualifying offer Tuesday and so will likely be moving to another team as a free agent. I actually wrote this article last summer when it appeared Willson would be traded. When he wasn’t, I decided to save it for the time, if it came, when it looked like his...2022
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• The Cubs should sign Nico Hoerner to a long-term deal
David Banks-USA TODAY Sports This could save the team lots of money in the long run. Nico Hoerner, finally healthy, is having the best year of his brief MLB career. In 101 games and 387 plate appearances, he is batting .304/.351/.429 with 18 doubles, three triples, seven home runs and 12 stolen bases. He’s also solidified a claim as the Cubs’ starting shortstop, playing solid defense at th...2022
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• Cubs 10, Pirates 1: Takin’ care of business

Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images The Cubs got another strong team effort and won the series in Pittsburgh. When the Cubs departed for the just-completed seven-game road trip to Detroit and Pittsbugh, my feeling was that they needed to go 5-2 to keep pace with, or improve their position on, other postseason contenders. With Sunday’s well-played 10-1 win over the Pirates, the Cubs did just ...2023
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• Cubs 6, Braves 4: Takin’ care of business

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs wrapped up a successful homestand by winning a series against the team with the best record in baseball. The Atlanta Braves, who came into Wrigley Field with the best record in baseball, are a very good team. But you know what? So are the Chicago Cubs. After a blowout loss Friday, the Cubs played solid baseball in every way for two days (in the rain, t...2023
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• Cubs 6, Brewers 5: Willson Contreras walks it off!
Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images The Cubs catcher had himself a day, and the Cubs won their fifth straight. It took a 41-minute rain delay, three hours and 51 minutes of baseball and two extra innings, but the Cubs won their fifth straight game Saturday afternoon at Wrigley Field, 6-5 over the Brewers, when Willson Contreras dumped a single into right field in the bottom of the 11th. Not ...2022
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• Cubs' Jed Hoyer implies Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo, Javier Báez are to blame for extension talks falling apart
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• Cubs 15, Reds 2: Zach McKinstry, David Bote and Franmil Reyes go deep in this laugher to end the year
David Kohl-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs had some fun and breezed to win No. 74. It seems like a very long time ago when the Cubs defeated the Brewers 5-4 at Wrigley Field in the 2022 season opener, but in reality, that was just short of six months ago, the length of a normal baseball season. Wednesday, on a lovely October afternoon that spilled into early evening in Cincinnati, the Cubs booke...2022
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• In appreciation of Jason Heyward
Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports His career in Chicago is over. It’s had its ups and downs, to be sure. In the end, though, I’m glad he was here. Monday evening, before the Cubs game against the Nationals, President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer told reporters that Jason Heyward wouldn’t play again this year and that he’d be released at the end of the season, as Josh posted here. The C...2022
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• Cub Tracks’ Seiya sooner

Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. The Cubs set their roster, play an exhibition game against the stinkin’ Cardinals. Stinkin’ Cardinals kick two field goals and win. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers an...2024
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• Cub Tracks makes the trip

Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. The lineup du jour pounded out four homers, it was a good day at Goodyear. And other stories. 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, an...2024
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• Cody Bellinger: ‘I fully believe in myself as a baseball player’
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• Craig Counsell Making Cubs ‘Uncomfortable’ in Best Possible Ways
The Cubs didn’t fire David Ross and make Craig Counsell the highest-paid manager in MLB history just so they could save on player payroll by morphing into the Brewers. No, Jed Hoyer pulled off the shocking coup because he knew things had grown stagnant at the corner of Clark and Addison, and that Counsell was … The post Craig Counsell Making Cubs ‘Uncomfortable’ in Best Pos...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ spring in, fallout

Al Yellon Typically acerbic #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. Pitchers and catchers reporting day Wednesday. Most position players are in camp as well. 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 ba...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ 18 days til Spring Training

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Typically acerbic #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. Trade speculation and ST news. Still no Cody. Real baseball looms. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #C...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ end of an era?

SI Model Chase throws out the first pitch. | Photo by David Banks/Getty Images Typically acerbic #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus scientific food for thought. SI on the skids, Hader sets a record, Stroman bites the apple, and other stories. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Convention: It’s all about Cody Bellinger

Cody Bellinger celebrates a hit in August | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Will it finally move the Cubs front office to make a big deal? A week ago it looked like fans might be bringing pitchforks and torches to Cubs Convention. In fact, 24 hours before the 37th annual winter gathering of Cubs fans kicked off in downtown Chicago I was wondering what the turnout would look like. A st...2024
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• Cub Tracks ‘ how tweet it is

Shota Imanaga — lots to like so far. | Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Typically acerbic #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus scientific food for thought. The Cubs’ new pitcher is already popular. The Cubs Convention is ON. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, groun...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ big empty

Typically acerbic #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus scientific food for thought. It’s about expectations, isn’t it? 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, and then cold-brewed overnight for maxi...2024
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• BCB After Dark: Pick your southpaw

Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if you’d rather have Jordan Montgomery or Shōta Imanaga play for the Cubs next year. It’s a new year here at BCB After Dark: the grooviest get-together for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We hope your new year is off to a great start. Ours is since you arrived. It’s cold out...2024
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• A few thoughts about David Ross, Cubs manager

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images He’s done a very good job under difficult circumstances. It’s become fashionable in some parts of the Cubs fanbase to call for the firing of manager David Ross. Something something lineups, something something bullpen, or something like that. I’m here to tell you that not only should Ross not be fired, but he should — presuming the Cubs continue contending...2023
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