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Christian Yelich to Have Season-Ending Back Surgery
Although he and the Brewers have tried to manage the back for a long time - years, really - it seems the time for a more serious intervention has arrived. Christian Yelich will have back surgery, and his season is...
Brett Taylor
Aug 15, 2024
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Jed Hoyer Says the Cubs Expect to Be Over the Luxury Tax This Year
Talking about budgeting today on 670 The Score, together with business president Crane Kenney, Cubs baseball president Jed Hoyer said that the Cubs are expecting to be over the luxury tax THIS year. I had to listen twice, because that's...
Brett Taylor
Aug 15, 2024
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The Updated Top-100 Prospect List at ESPN Has a Lot of Cubs, But There’s an Ample But
I am open-minded about outside evaluators' perspective on Chicago Cubs prospects, and although I will develop many of my own opinions about individual players, I do take into account what others are saying. Not only do they have evaluative skills...
Brett Taylor
Aug 15, 2024
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Chicago Cubs Announce 2025 Spring Training Schedule, Including Tokyo Series Carveout
If you're planning a trip to Arizona next spring, or otherwise just like to know when the Chicago Cubs will be playing their Spring Training games, today is the day. The 2025 schedule is out. The Cubs' first game is...
Brett Taylor
Aug 15, 2024
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MLB Network Announces a Greg Maddux Documentary and You Have to Watch This Clip of Maddux and Barry Bonds
MLB Network has announced a documentary on Hall of Famer and CHICAGO CUBS LEGEND (I am not aware of any other teams) Greg Maddux. https://twitter.com/MLBNetworkPR/status/1824110273017389422 In tandem with the announcement (the full release is at the bottom of this post),...
Brett Taylor
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Chicago Cubs Second Round Pick Cole Mathis Undergoes Tommy John Surgery
That's not the news you want to hear before a new Chicago Cubs prospect even makes his professional debut. Cole Mathis, the Cubs' second rounder out of the College of Charleston (number 54 overall), was one of the few Cubs...
Brett Taylor
Aug 15, 2024
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Bad Time to Get Swept, Counsell’s Experience, Taillon’s Stretch, Egregious Calls, and Other Cubs Bullets
Obviously a team like the Guardians, at home, is more likely to pull off a sweep of the Cubs than if some crap team came to Wrigley Field and tried to do it. In a different season, or at a...
Brett Taylor
Aug 15, 2024
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REPORT: MLB is Discussing a Radical Six-Inning Minimum for Starting Pitchers
With pitch clocks, a universal DH, and shift limits already implemented — and an automated ball/strike zone likely on the way — I really wouldn't put any rule change out of reach. But I have to say, the latest idea...
Michael Cerami
Aug 15, 2024
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Is That It? Can the Cubs Still Hold on to Postseason Hope? Should We?
With 40 games remaining in the 2024 MLB season, the Chicago Cubs would have to go 29-11 over those games to reach 88 wins. That's not an entirely arbitrary number - it's the level I suspect the Cubs would need...
Brett Taylor
Aug 15, 2024
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Rockies Place Catcher Elias Diaz on Waivers
Hey, remember back when things still had a very competitive flavor and we were talking about how the Chicago Cubs needed to aggressively make an upgrade at catcher, given how brutal the production had been at the spot? The Cubs...
Brett Taylor
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Enhanced Box Score: Guardians 6, Cubs 1 – August 14, 2024
For the first time this season, the Chicago Cubs have been swept. It was a very good Cleveland Guardians team that did it at home, so it was not entirely out of the realm of plausible prediction, but a sweep...
Brett Taylor
Aug 14, 2024
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Pre-Gamin’: Cubs at Guardians (5:40 CT) – Lineups, Broadcast Info, Game Thread
CUBS LINEUP — THE GREATEST GAME EVERY PLAYED WAS ON A... you know the rest. Here's the Cubs lineup for the finale against the Guardians. Chicago Cubs Lineup: Ian Happ, LF Michael Busch, 1B Seiya Suzuki, RF Cody Bellinger, DH...
Michael Cerami
Aug 14, 2024
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Juan Soto’s Price Tag Just Keeps Going Up – Who Are Even the Realistic Suitors?
If Aaron Judge, as a 31-year-old free agent, can get $40M a year for nine years, what do you think Juan Soto (five years younger than Judge at the time of his deal) will get this winter? Even if you...
Michael Cerami
Aug 14, 2024
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Top Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Cam Smith Already Ranks Among the Ten Best Third Base Prospects
Together with its release of an updated Top-100 list (in which the Chicago Cubs fare well), the crew at MLB Pipeline also released updated top-10 prospect lists at each position. Because they are in the top-100 overall, it's not hard...
Brett Taylor
Aug 14, 2024
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Cubs Prospect Injury Updates: Horton, Davis, Canario, Vazquez, Mervis
[ankin_law] A handful of updates on injured Chicago Cubs prospects ... Cade Horton has more or less been shut down for the rest of the season after experience a setback in his recovery from a subscapular strain (a muscular shoulder...
Brett Taylor
Aug 14, 2024
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Maybe the Cubs Actually Have the Best Farm System in Baseball?
Although it was largely because of four significant prospect graduations (a good thing!), the Cubs farm system dropped like a stone in a couple of high-profile re-rankings across the industry these last few weeks. Baseball America took them from 4th...
Michael Cerami
Aug 14, 2024
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Owen Caissie May Very Well Be a September Call-Up for the Cubs
Though we've been speculating about it for most of the season, given the 40-man-related issues, we can now say there's a sourced report that indicates Chicago Cubs outfield prospect Owen Caissie may very well be coming up to the big...
Brett Taylor
Aug 14, 2024
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Offense’s Struggle, ho*rner’s Play, Assad’s Start, Hernandez’s Promotion, and Other Cubs Bullets
The final day before the kids return to school. Just as it is for them, I expect, it's a mix of eagerness and anxiety. I'm ready to return to a more scheduled routine, but I also really want it to...
Brett Taylor
Aug 14, 2024
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Top Cubs Draft Pick Cam Smith Drives in His First Run with the Myrtle Beach Pelicans with a Triple
The Chicago Cubs took third base prospect Cam Smith 14th overall in this year's draft, and the 21-year-old recently made his full-season debut at Low-A Myrtle Beach. Tonight, he got to make his home debut for the team, and he...
Brett Taylor
Aug 13, 2024
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Enhanced Box Score: Guardians 2, Cubs 1 – August 13, 2024
That had to be one of the least entertaining Chicago Cubs games of the season. The only run they scored was on a sac fly. The only time they lost the lead was a go-ahead solo shot from Jhonkensy Noel...
Michael Cerami
Aug 13, 2024
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