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  • Phillies acquire RHP Michael Rucker from Cubs
    • Phillies acquire RHP Michael Rucker from Cubs
    The Philadelphia Phillies acquired reliever Michael Rucker from the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday in exchange for cash considerations. The 29-year-old...2024
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  • • Phillies Acquire Michael Rucker, Designate Andrew Bellatti For Assignment
    The Phillies announced Tuesday that they’ve acquired righty Michael Rucker from the Cubs in exchange for cash. He’d been designated for assignment by Chicago last week. In order to open a spot on the 40-man roster, the Phillies designated fellow right-hander Andrew Bellatti for assignment. More to come....2024
  • Cub Tracks springs into action
    • Cub Tracks springs into action
    Kevin Alcántara chases a fly ball. | 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. Punxsy Phil says Spring is nigh. Rich Nye agrees. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and blog...2024
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  • • Cubs Officially Add Héctor Neris, DFA Michael Rucker
    There was a little procedural action on Thursday, see press release for details. The Chicago Cubs today have agreed to terms with right-handed pitcher Héctor Neris on a one-year major league contract with a club option for 2025. To make room for Neris on the 40-man roster, right-handed pitcher Michael Rucker was designated for assignment. … The post Cubs Officially Add Héctor Neris, DFA...2024
  • • Cubs Designate Michael Rucker For Assignment
    The Cubs have designated right-hander Michael Rucker for assignment, per Bruce Levine of WSCR. That moves opens a roster spot for Héctor Neris, whose signing is now official. More to come....2024
  • Cubs sign Hector Neris
    • Cubs sign Hector Neris
    Photo by Alex Bierens de Haan/MLB Photos via Getty Images They’ve added a solid righthander to the bullpen One of the Cubs’ biggest issues in 2023 was not having enough solid relief help. They’ve addressed that today with this signing: Right-handed reliever Hector Neris and the Chicago Cubs are in agreement on a one-year, $9 million contract that includes an option for 2025, a source fam...2024

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  • 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
  • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Games 134 and 135
    • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Games 134 and 135
    Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images It was almost a perfect day but in the end, the Cubs split the doubleheader. Heavy sigh. Everyone take a few deep breaths. Sequencing can be frustrating. Certainly, if those two games happened in the other order, things change. Also, if the Reds had jumped out 3-0 and the Cubs rallied to make it 3-2, things would be different. Hey, also if the Phillies bu...2023
  • Today in Cubs history: The Field of Dreams game
    • Today in Cubs history: The Field of Dreams game
    Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images A year ago today, the Cubs played in Iowa. EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the BCB recap of last year’s Field of Dreams game, which took place one year ago today, Thursday, August 11, 2022, with a few minor bits edited out. Drew Smyly threw really well in that game. Here’s hoping he can get back to that. DYERSVILLE, Iowa — The Cubs, of course, aren’t going to b...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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  • • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 83
    Peter van den Berg-USA TODAY Sports Next verse: same as the last! I think I remember seeing this one before. Wasn’t there a show some years ago where maybe it turned out that everyone had died and that the whole show was perhaps some kind of collective fever dream? Or if you prefer, a vision of purgatory while the afterlife is sorted out. Yeah, the Cubs and all of their loyal fans died on...2023
  • • Phillies 5, Cubs 1: Smoke gets in your eyes
    Al Yellon Outdoor conditions in Chicago Tuesday were quite bad. London, from which the Cubs just returned, used to have a reputation as being quite foggy. It certainly wasn’t during the week I was there; the weather was generally pleasant and sunny. In fact, the traditional “London fog” was mainly smoke from coal that was being burned for heating and manufacturing. Smoke is what we saw in ...2023
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  • • Phillies 12, Cubs 3: Can we now admit there’s still something wrong with Jameson Taillon?
    Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images The Cubs starter got pounded again. I’m not sure what the Cubs are thinking about regarding Jameson Taillon. Whatever it is, doing what they’re doing now is not helping him or the team. I am obviously no medical expert, but it sure seems like the groin injury that made him miss a couple of starts in April is still bothering Taillon. Taillon before the i...2023
  • • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 33
    Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Back-to-back wins! Cubs triumph 4-2. I’ve no doubt that being a Cub has been difficult for Nick Madrigal. In 2021, when he was traded to the Cubs, he was out with an injury. In 2022, he was in and out of the lineup with more injuries. Though he had a decent August and looked to be getting back settled and then got hurt again. So far, he’s been healthy i...2023
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  • • Cubs 6, Padres 0: The story of the man of Steele and his sidekicks Yan and Nico
    Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Strong pitching and timely hitting once again led the Cubs to victory. If Justin Steele keeps up this sort of pitching, there will be a case for him to be on the National League All-Star team. From BCB’s JohnW53: With his 5⅓ shutout innings, Justin Steele has allowed no more than two earned runs in 12 consecutive starts, going back to July 22 of last se...2023
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  • • Dodgers 6, Cubs 2: Back to the drawing board
    Al Yellon The Cubs got really good relief pitching Thursday night... until they didn’t. The ominous-looking sky depicted above appeared over Wrigley Field as storms skirted the area and never really rained on the ballpark, just a few minutes of a light shower. That sky is a good representation of how we all felt when Michael Fulmer blew up in the ninth inning, serving up a grand slam to Ja...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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  • 2024
    "(I’d suggest Michael Rucker."

  • 2023
    "Michael Rucker finished off the sixth without further incident."

  • 2022
    ", Michael Rucker and Brandon Hughes combined for 6⅓ shutout innings after Sampson’s early departure, allowing three hits and three walks and striking out seven."

  • 2020
    "The departures of righties Brandon Bailey and Michael Rucker will open two 40-man roster spots."

  • 2019
    "are Triple-A arms who cracked the big leagues in 2018, plus a variety of 2016 draft picks (Thomas Hatch, Michael Rucker, Duncan Robinson) could potentially reach the majors this season, possibly"

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  • • Cub Tracks springs into action
    2024
  • • Cubs Officially Add Héctor Neris, DFA Michael Rucker
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  • • Cubs sign Hector Neris
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  • • 2023 Cubs final season grades
    2023
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  • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 136
    • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 136
    Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images For the second game, the Reds rally in the ninth to beat the Cubs. Heavy sigh, part two. I’m invoking early day game after a night game formation. As in, an abridged Heroes and Goats today. I’m going to give you bullet points rather than a full narrative. The Cubs lost consecutive games for the first time since August 13 and 15 against the Blue Jays and W...2023
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  • • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Games 134 and 135
    2023
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  • Cubs roster move: Keegan Thompson recalled, Michael Rucker optioned
    • Cubs roster move: Keegan Thompson recalled, Michael Rucker optioned
    Katie Stratman-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs have an old friend back in the major leagues. Keegan Thompson, who a year ago seemed Justin Steele’s equal as a starter/reliever, fell on hard times early this season and was optioned to Triple-A Iowa May 19. He didn’t throw well on first reporting to Iowa, but his last four outings covering 8⅓ innings have been improved: 2.16 ERA, 0.840 WHIP, eight...2023
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  • • Today in Cubs history: The Field of Dreams game
    2023
  • • Cubs 10, Cardinals 3: Six in a row, along with some extracurricular activity
    Joe Puetz-USA TODAY Sports The first inning of this game was... interesting. The tone for the Cubs’ 10-3 win over the Cardinals Thursday, their sixth straight victory, was set just three batters into the game. The first two hitters, Mike Tauchman and Nico Hoerner, went down quietly. Then this happened [VIDEO]. Ian Happ’s backswing hit Willson Contreras in the mask. Part of the metal m...2023
  • • Cubs 7, Cardinals 2: Hey, Jed! Don’t trade Cody Bellinger!
    Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs center fielder homered again and drove in three runs. The Cubs did what they had to do this weekend, take three of four from the Cardinals, in order to stay close to playoff contention. And they did so Sunday in their third straight win over St. Louis, 7-2, largely on the back of center fielder Cody Bellinger. Bellinger smacked a two-run homer an...2023
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  • • Cub Tracks springs into action
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  • • 2023 Cubs final season grades
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  • • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 136
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    Read about Andy Lyons scores
  • • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Games 134 and 135
    2023
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  • • 2023 Cubs midseason grades
    2023
  • • Cub Tracks comes from behind
    Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week, plus bleeding-edge science and a musical selection each day. Matt Mervis is the canary 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, and #MLB baseball, overheated, s...2023
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  • • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 83
    2023
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  • • Cubs 8, Pirates 0: Swingin’ in the rain
    Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images The Cubs won the first game of the series in part thanks to a weird little rainstorm over PNC Park. LONDON — Hi everyone, I’m in London getting ready for the Cubs/Cardinals series this weekend. In the meantime, the season goes on and so, I’ll keep covering the games being played in Pittsburgh from here. Remember last week? The first game of the Cubs/Pi...2023
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  • • Mets 10, Cubs 1: Kyle Hendricks is a work in progress
    Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs still meatloafed their series against the Mets. The Cubs lost to the Mets 10-1 Thursday on another chilly evening at Wrigley Field, and I’m sure you’d rather hear less about that and more about how I viewed Kyle Hendricks’ first MLB start in nearly 11 months. Obviously the results weren’t what Kyle, or the Cubs, or you or me, would have wanted. N...2023
  • • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 33
    2023
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  • Cubs 6, Tigers 4: The never-quit Cubs pull one out
    • Cubs 6, Tigers 4: The never-quit Cubs pull one out
    Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports After a devastating grand slam tied things up, the Cubs got to work and came out on top. All’s well that ends well, and the Cubs ended this series well with a 6-4 win over the Tigers, but I’ll ask you the question, and you can vote in the poll. After Jameson Taillon loaded the bases in the sixth inning, then retired the next two hitters, would you have taken...2023
  • • Today in Cubs history: The Field of Dreams game
    2023
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  • • Cubs 10, Cardinals 3: Six in a row, along with some extracurricular activity
    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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  • • Marlins 3, Cubs 2: The hit batters just kept on coming
    Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images A disastrous ninth inning turned this game into a loss. I have a question, which I’ll get to in a moment. First, the unhappy details: Michael Rucker gave up a leadoff single in the ninth, hit two batters, then allowed a walkoff hit that sent the Cubs to a 3-2 loss to the Marlins Friday night in Miami. Before Friday, Rucker had not hit a batter since Augus...2023
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  • • Cub Tracks’ Seiya sooner or later
    Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Read all about it! #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. The Cubs’ No. 1 right fielder opened his season in Los Angeles as his team faced the Dodgers in a three-game series. Cody Bellinger got a hero’s welcome in his return to LA. Welcome to today’s edition of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-styl...2023
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  • • Cubs 14, Mariners 9: Nelson Velázquez helps slam the Cubs to victory
    Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Dansby Swanson left the game, but doesn’t appear to be seriously injured. Before we get to the details of the Cubs’ come-from-behind 14-9 thrashing of the Mariners, let’s address the events that took shortstop Dansby Swanson out of the game in the sixth inning. Here’s what happened: Before the top of the 6th inning, Dansby Swanson threw one ball, motion...2023
  • • 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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  • • Cub Tracks’ curtains for certain
    Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images Recent #Cubs,#MLB, and #MiLB news, four days a week. Cubs closed out the laughable season with a laugher and handed Cincinnati their 100th loss. David Bote had a day. 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 th...2022
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  • • Cubs 6, Tigers 4: The never-quit Cubs pull one out
    2023
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  • • Cubs 4, Marlins 2: Nick Madrigal saves the day
    2023
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  • • Cubs 6, Rockies 5: The sub Cubs come through
    Brennen Davis | Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images After all the regulars departed, some Cubs minor leaguers put together a ninth-inning rally. SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — Wins and losses mean nothing in Spring Training, yet the Cubs’ come-from-behind 6-5 win over the Rockies at Salt River Fields Sunday afternoon felt... well, pretty good. Some guys who could be part of the ...2023
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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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  • • Cubs 5, Dodgers 2: Hayden Wesneski, your table is ready
    Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs righthander was outstanding on Saturday. Remembering, of course, that Spring Training stats don’t generally mean anything, Hayden Wesneski went out and made a statement Saturday afternoon against the Dodgers. Wesneski faced 12 Dodgers and retired all of them, four by strikeout, and the Cubs smashed three home runs on their way to a 5-2 win over L.A....2023
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  • • Cubs 7, Cardinals 2: Hey, Jed! Don’t trade Cody Bellinger!
    2023
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  • • Cubs 8, Brewers 7: A Morel victory
    David Banks-USA TODAY Sports Christopher Morel’s sixth-inning homer, plus some excellent relief work, gave the Cubs a win over Milwaukee. Now that was a fun baseball game! That could have been said even if the Cubs had lost it, but it was entertaining regardless. There were five lead changes and five home runs hit on a windy day at Wrigley, and in the end Christopher Morel’s two-run homer ...2022
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  • • Cubs 10, Rangers 3: Clicking on all cylinders
    Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs got excellent starting pitching again, and a varied offense. The complaint department is closed! I could get used to THIS kind of game, too. The Cubs got good pitching again — and this time offense that included a couple of home runs, as they routed the Rangers 10-3 for their third win in a row. One other thing I want to mention before going through al...2023
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  • • Cub Tracks springs into action
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  • • 2023 Cubs final season grades
    2023
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  • • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 136
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  • • 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Games 134 and 135
    2023
    Visit the page Dylan Buell
  • • Today in Cubs history: The Field of Dreams game
    2023
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  • • Cubs 10, Cardinals 3: Six in a row, along with some extracurricular activity
    2023
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  • • Cubs 7, Cardinals 2: Hey, Jed! Don’t trade Cody Bellinger!
    2023
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  • • Cardinals 7, Cubs 2: That sound you hear is the Cubs’ playoff chances circling the drain
    Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images This was not the way we wanted this series to begin. Marcus Stroman was one of the league’s best pitchers until the end of June. He was named to the National League All-Star team. But then came a blister in London and his removal from that game. Including the game against the Cardinals in London, over Stroman’s last five starts: 6.46 ERA, 1.648 WHIP. M...2023
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  • • 2023 Cubs midseason grades
    2023
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  • • Cubs 4, Brewers 3: The best game of the year
    Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Down to their final strike, the Cubs scored three ninth-inning runs to win. Two days after suffering their worst gut-punch loss of the season, the Cubs pulled one out with a thrilling three-run ninth and won by one run for the second straight game, 4-3 over the Brewers in Milwaukee. That was primarily thanks to a terrific eight-pitch at-bat by Mike T...2023
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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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