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Photo by Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Player movement has commenced and round and round we go. 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, … [Read more...] about Cub Tracks’ merrily it goes around

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images The righthander has had an up-and-down career. Jack Flaherty was a first-round pick of the Cardinals (34th overall) in 2014 out of a very famous baseball high school, Harvard-Westlake in Los Angeles. Other successful pitchers (Max Fried, Lucas Giolito) attended that school. So did Pete Crow-Armstrong, as you probably … [Read more...] about Cubs free agent target: Jack Flaherty

Dutch Leonard | Getty Images Once again in this year, the Cubs got a guy who might have helped them... if they had only kept him. After having a winning season in 1946, following their 1945 pennant, the Cubs dropped back under .500 in 1947. This led to a bunch of wheeling and dealing, mostly on waiver claims that didn’t work out. But there were some significant trades … [Read more...] about A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1948

Al Yellon Here’s how to get yours. The Cubs have announced details of the on-sale procedure for tickets for Spring Training games next year at Sloan Park. The first of 17 home games will be Friday, Feb. 21 against the Dodgers. Single game tickets will go on sale to the general public starting Friday, Dec. 6, at 10 a.m. MT/11 a.m. CT. In addition to the 17 Cubs spring … [Read more...] about Cubs 2025 Spring Training single game tickets will be on sale December 6

MLB Network It’ll be a bit different than it was in the minor leagues. Last month, I posted about the ball-and-strike challenge system being used in the Arizona Fall League and that MLB was going to test it further during Spring Training next year. In this article in The Athletic, Evan Drellich has some details about how that system will be used next spring. The key … [Read more...] about MLB releases some details about the Spring Training ball and strike challenge testing