David Bote rumors, news

David Bote news, rumors

  • The Short Porch has a look at Cubs rookie walkoffs
    • The Short Porch has a look at Cubs rookie walkoffs
    Matt Shaw and Pete Crow-Armstrong celebrate last night’s walkoff win | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Matt Shaw notched the first walkoff of his career last night at Wrigley Field. The 2025 Cubs are relentless, especially at scoring runs. That characteristic has been on display time and time again through this early season that has them leading the league in runs per game ...2025
  • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 48
    • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 48
    Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images Some good, a lot of bad in the Cubs 8-7 loss in Miami. By my count, this is the first time I’ve picked a picture that included new third base coach Quintin Berry. Former third base coach Willie Harris was particularly expressive and photogenic over at third in years gone by and when a photographer captured one of those, I liked to grab those photos. Thi...2025
  • Baseball history unpacked, April 7
    • Baseball history unpacked, April 7
    Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to ex-Cub David Bote* and others, plus more stories for the discerning reader. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and va...2025
  • • David Bote Exercises Upward Mobility Clause In Dodgers Deal
    Dodgers non-roster invitee David Bote triggered an upward mobility clause in his minor league contract yesterday, reports Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic. That clause forces the Dodgers to make the veteran infielder available to all 29 other teams and let him go if another club is willing to put him on its 40-man roster. Los…...2025
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  • On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Dodgers at Tokyo series preview
    • On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Dodgers at Tokyo series preview
    Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Twenty-five years after the Cubs faced the Mets for two in the Tokyo Dome, they’ll play a pair against the Dodgers in the same Japanese venue. Usually, series previews here at BCB post a few hours before the series opens. But this series will be played halfway across the world at the Tokyo Dome, with the first pitch of both games scheduled...2025
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  • • Dodgers Option Hyeseong Kim
    The Dodgers optioned infielder Hyeseong Kim and right-hander Bobby Miller this evening. They also reassigned non-roster invitees Giovanny Gallegos, Eddie Rosario, David Bote, Michael Chavis and top prospect Dalton Rushing to minor league camp. Additionally, Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports that Dustin May will open the season as the fifth starter as Tony Gonsolin is ticketed for an injured lis...2025

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David Bote injury and suspension

  • • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 48
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  • • Baseball history unpacked, April 7
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  • Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax
    • Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax
    Photo by Mary Turner/Getty Images Have the Cubs finished making moves this offseason? We still don’t know for sure. Cubs pitchers and catchers officially report to Spring Training at the Sloan Park complex in Mesa, Arizona this Sunday. So on the same day as the Super Bowl, we’ll have an official Cubs pitcher/catcher workout to report on, and then coming up a week from Friday, the first off...2025
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  • BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: 16 through 20
    • BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: 16 through 20
    Pedro Ramirez | MICHAEL CLUBB/SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE / USA TODAY NETWORK The second installment of series features four infielders and a pitcher. Let’s continue with our countdown of the Top 25 prospects in the Cubs system with prospects 16 through 20 today. Just as a reminder, to be eligible for this list, you need to still have rookie eligibility, which means 130 or fewer at bats or 50 or f...2025
  • Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax
    • Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax
    Photo by Mary Turner/Getty Images The Cubs still have a lot of space under the luxury tax. Spend it, Jed. Now that the deadline for arbitration-eligible players to sign before hearings has passed and Kyle Tucker is the only such Cub unsigned for this year, I thought it would be a good idea to take another look at the 2025 team payroll, projected roster and luxury tax situation. As usual, T...2025
  • Cub Tracks brings one home
    • Cub Tracks brings one home
    Today’s anthology of #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine.  Kyle Tucker is a Cub, and so is Cody Bellinger. One assumes this is temporary. Who’s on third? 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...2024
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  • Nate Eaton, Austin Cox head list of Royals minor league free agents
    • Nate Eaton, Austin Cox head list of Royals minor league free agents
    Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Nate Eaton and Austin Cox headline a list of thirteen Royals minor leaguers who became free agents this week. Minor league free agency is available to any player with six years in the minors who is not on the 40-man roster. Eaton played 72 games for the Royals from 2022-23 as a utility player with good speed and a great arm, but he hit just .201/.266/.283 in...2024
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  • 2024 Cubs final season grades
    • 2024 Cubs final season grades
    Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Obviously, we wish this year’s Cubs would have done better. But there were still some performances to celebrate. As they did in 2023, the Cubs dug themselves a deep hole early on this year, went on a pretty good run and were briefly in a wild-card spot, then couldn’t hold on to it in September. They did finish 83-79, the same record as last y...2024
  • Minor League Wrap: Caleb Kilian and Owen Caissie lead Iowa past Memphis, 4-3
    • Minor League Wrap: Caleb Kilian and Owen Caissie lead Iowa past Memphis, 4-3
    Caleb Kilian | Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports Caleb Kilian has a solid rehab appearance. The Smokies close in on a playoff spot. Outfielder Brennen Davis was activated off of Iowa’s injured list. Right-hander Frankie Scalzo Jr. was activated off the Development List. Infielder David Bote and catcher William Simoneit were sent to the Development List. Third baseman BJ Murray Jr. was dem...2024
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  • Cub Tracks kicks on 66
    • Cub Tracks kicks on 66
    Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs could have scored even more runs but they didn’t. Interesting and fun baseball. The Cubs are even again at 66-66. AND the worst strike call, ever. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers a...2024

Timeline

  • 2025
    "They also reassigned non-roster invitees Giovanny Gallegos, Eddie Rosario, David Bote, Michael Chavis and top prospect Dalton Rushing to minor league camp."

  • 2024
    "MESA, Arizona — I keep telling you guys that David Bote has a real chance to make the Cubs this year, and he put another point on the board in his favor when he hit a two-run homer in the seventh inning against the Guardians Sunday."

  • 2023
    "In the interim, Trey Mancini singled leading off the top of the second and David Bote doubled him in: David Bote is 8-12 with 5 RBI over 7 games in Spring Training."

  • 2022
    "Higgins followed that with another walk, and then David Bote unloaded a ball into the seats [VIDEO]."

  • 2021
    "Cubs Select Johneshwy Fargas, Tyler Ladendorf"

  • 2020
    "The Chicago organization was also tied to Scooter Gennet recently, and Bastian notes that they’re considering left-handed options at second base to pair with right-handed-hitting options like Nico Hoerner and David Bote."

  • 2019
    "But David Bote had homered twice on Saturday, and some Cubs players apparently thought he should remain in the lineup the following day."

  • 2018
    "The Cubs' Ben Zobrist, who was out because of tightness in his lower back, was activated from the disabled list on Saturday, and versatile David Bote was optioned to Triple-A Iowa."

  • 2017
    "Chicago has made three 40-man additions as well, selecting the contracts of righties Adbert Alzolay and Oscar De La Cruz as well as infielder David Bote."

  • 2015
    "Cubs 2014 Minor League Pitcher of the Year Jen-Ho Tseng and six relievers combined to toss a four-hit shutout with 17 strikeouts, David Bote singled twice, doubled, walked, stole two bases, scored three runs, and drove-in another, and Shamil Ubiera singled twice, walked twice, and knocked-in three runs, as the Cubs blanked the Langley Blaze 10-0 in Minor League Camp game action today on Field #3 at Mesa Cubtown."

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David Bote trade rumors, contract, salary rumors

  • • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 48
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  • • David Bote Exercises Upward Mobility Clause In Dodgers Deal
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  • • On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Dodgers at Tokyo series preview
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  • • Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax
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  • • BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: 16 through 20
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  • • Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax
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  • An updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax
    • An updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax
    Photo by Mary Turner/Getty Images Much has changed in only a few weeks. It was only about six weeks ago that I posted a “very early look” at the Cubs’ roster, payroll and luxury tax here. For anyone who thought, at that time, that President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer wasn’t going to do anything this winter, think again. Since that article appeared here Nov. 6, the Cubs have added the...2024
  • • Cub Tracks brings one home
    2024
  • • Dodgers Sign David Bote To Minors Contract
    The Dodgers signed infielder David Bote to a minor league deal, according to Aram Leighton of Just Baseball Media.  As per Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic, the deal includes an invite to the Dodgers’ big league Spring Training camp. Bote became a free agent when the Cubs bought out (for $1MM) the $7MM club option…...2024
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  • 20 Cubs minor leaguers have become free agents
    • 20 Cubs minor leaguers have become free agents
    Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images It’s the annual culling of the herd. As of Monday, 513 players have been made minor-league free agents, per this article at Baseball America. Usually, the reason for this is that players get to six years of minor league service, at which time they are automatically free agents. Some of these players are being let go for other reasons. Here’s...2024

David Bote stats and results

  • • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 48
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  • • Baseball history unpacked, April 7
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  • • On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Dodgers at Tokyo series preview
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  • • BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: 16 through 20
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  • • An updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax
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  • 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Final results
    • 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Final results
    Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Shota Imanaga nabs the Rizzo Award for his rookie season. As the 2024 season is on a collision course with its conclusion, it is time to start looking back and closing the books on the season. Unfortunately, the Cubs season came to a close several weeks ago. The playoffs are the goal for every team, but certainly for a large market team with a rabid fan b...2024
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  • Minor League Wrap: Owen Caissie homers twice and Cam Smith extends his home run streak to 6
    • Minor League Wrap: Owen Caissie homers twice and Cam Smith extends his home run streak to 6
    Owen Caissie | Lily Smith/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK Owen Caissie homers twice. Cam Smith homers yet again. The Smokies and South Bend win on walk-offs in extras. David Bote has cleared waivers and has joined the Iowa Cubs. Everyone wins today. And Charleston is sick to death of Cam Smith. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs poached the Toledo Mud Hens (Tigers), 4-2. Jordan Wicks started on a r...2024
  • Get to know the Iowa Cubs
    • 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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  • Outside The Confines: Play Ball!
    • Outside The Confines: Play Ball!
    Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Jordan Montgomery is a Snake at last. Decisions are made concerning who makes the Opening Day rosters. Looking ahead to the 2024 season and other news from MLB. I’m not going to have any Shohei Ohtani links today. I think we’ve covered that story well enough in other pieces on this site. If you have read something that you really think th...2024
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  • Cub Tracks’ double dip
    • Cub Tracks’ double dip
    Allan Henry-USA TODAY Sports #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. Justin Steele gives everyone a scare, Cubs lose a pair, 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, overhe...2024
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David Bote parents, kids, wife / husband, girlfriend / boyfriend

  • • The Short Porch has a look at Cubs rookie walkoffs
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  • • BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: 16 through 20
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  • • 2024 Cubs final season grades
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  • Cub Tracks’ Miami nice
    • Cub Tracks’ Miami nice
    Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. PCA dashes, Miguel Amaya dots the landscape, and the Cubs win the first of three in Miami. 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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  • • Get to know the Iowa Cubs
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  • An updated look at the 2024 Cubs payroll and luxury tax
    • An updated look at the 2024 Cubs payroll and luxury tax
    Photo by Mary Turner/Getty Images Here’s how the team stands at the beginning of the season. Let me stipulate something right now, before we get into the “Cubs should have signed Jordan Montgomery!” argument again. It’s clear that ownership has, at least for the time being, established a payroll level for the Cubs that will not go over the first level of luxury tax, which this year is $237...2024
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  • • Outside The Confines: Play Ball!
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  • • Cub Tracks’ double dip
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  • SB Nation Offseason Simulation: The fake 2024 Cubs
    • SB Nation Offseason Simulation: The fake 2024 Cubs
    David Kohl-USA TODAY Sports All the SB Nation sites got together for some simulated wheeling and dealing. Each November, the SB Nation sites get together and fly through the entire baseball offseason in two days with our annual offseason simulation. What follows is an annotated summary of deals, signings, and discussions. Enjoy! In prior years, the simulation goals have been easy: supplem...2023
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  • A magical night at Wrigley in three acts: Michael Fulmer, Nick Madrigal and Christopher Morel
    • A magical night at Wrigley in three acts: Michael Fulmer, Nick Madrigal and Christopher Morel
    A joyous celebration at home plate as Morel walksoff the Crosstown Classic | Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports None of these things should have happened but all of them did, thanks to those three players. The vast majority of the time, baseball is wildly predictable. Some detractors of the sport might even say it’s boring, but every so often it gets adventurous. After being conditioned to...2023
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Top David Bote news

  • • 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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  • Today in Cubs history: David Bote hits an ultimate grand slam
    • Today in Cubs history: David Bote hits an ultimate grand slam
    Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports I’m pretty sure you can never get enough of this one. David Bote’s ultimate grand slam on August 12, 2018, bringing the Cubs from a two-out, two-strike, 3-0 deficit to a 4-3 win in an instant, was hit in just his 34th big-league game. Bote had a solid 2017 in Double-A and hit well in the Arizona Fall League, putting him on the Cubs prospect radar after fi...2023
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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
  • Cubs 4, White Sox 3: Christopher Morel walks it off
    • Cubs 4, White Sox 3: Christopher Morel walks it off
    Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports ... and, my friends, this was the game of the year. So far, anyway. As baseball fans, each and every one of us lives for moments like we had at Wrigley Field Wednesday evening, a game in which our team seems headed for an inevitable, crushing defeat and then in a matter of just a few seconds, we are all sent into indescribable joy. Or, as a friend of mine...2023
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  • • Cubs 6, Pirates 5: A little bit of Patrick Wisdom, a little bit of Esteban Quiroz
    Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images ... and the Cubs recorded their fourth straight one-run win. Well, that was... something, all right. The Cubs defeated the Pirates 6-5 Friday evening, their fourth consecutive victory, all by one run. And they did it with a bit of power, a bit of small ball and a couple bits of relief pitching that nearly blew up, but in the end finished things off. The ga...2022
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  • Cubs 5, Guardians 3: David Bote, star man
    • Cubs 5, Guardians 3: David Bote, star man
    Allan Henry-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs infielder is making a bid for the Opening Day roster. MESA, Arizona — I keep telling you guys that David Bote has a real chance to make the Cubs this year, and he put another point on the board in his favor when he hit a two-run homer in the seventh inning against the Guardians Sunday. That gave the Cubs the lead and proved to be the winning blow in a ...2024
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  • • A magical night at Wrigley in three acts: Michael Fulmer, Nick Madrigal and Christopher Morel
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David Bote schedule, game

  • • The Short Porch has a look at Cubs rookie walkoffs
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  • • 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 48
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  • • On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Dodgers at Tokyo series preview
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  • 2025 Cubs player profiles: Gavin Hollowell
    • 2025 Cubs player profiles: Gavin Hollowell
    Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images Gavin is tall and has “elite extension.” Makes him sound like Reed Richards. He will start the year in Triple-A, one presumes. Gavin Hollowell has the body and repertoire of a late-innings relief pitcher. He stands 6 foot 7 on the hill and has the FB/Cutter/Sinker/Slider/Change combination of a one-time starter. He hasn’t thrown the change in two years ...2025
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  • • Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax
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  • • BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: 16 through 20
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  • • Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax
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  • • An updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax
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  • • Nate Eaton, Austin Cox head list of Royals minor league free agents
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David Bote rumors, scandals

  • • BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: 16 through 20
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  • • 2024 Cubs final season grades
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  • Cub Tracks’ double your pleasure
    • Cub Tracks’ double your pleasure
    Photo by mark peterson/Corbis via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. It rained baseballs Saturday as the Cubs split their squads but not their lumber. The Royals had some bombs stored, too. Many wow. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat...2024
  • Cub Tracks C’s the future
    • Cub Tracks C’s the future
    Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. The young Cubs are showing why they’re held in such high regard. These are indeed interesting times. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers...2024

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