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The Cubs have 14 (!) arbitration-eligible players for 2025
Oct 2, 2024 · The Cubs claimed Herget on waivers from the Braves Sept. 13 and stashed him on the Triple-A Iowa roster. He didn’t pitch in any games there, nor was he called up the last week of the season.
Cubs and third-base coach Willie Harris part ways
Oct 11, 2024 · The Cubs invite 20 non-roster players to Spring Training Here are the players who will help fill out the spring camp roster. Will the Cubs have a 40-homer man in 2025? It’s been quite some time.
Cubs free agent target: Alex Bregman - Bleed Cubbie Blue
4 days ago · Photo by Alex Bierens de Haan/MLB Photos via Getty Images Al Yellon created Bleed Cubbie Blue and has been its managing editor since 2005. His latest book about the Cubs is "Chicago Cubs Firsts ...
A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1903
4 days ago · The Cubs got off to a fantastic start in 1903, 30-11, and were in first place in early June. They faded and finished third, eight games out, their first winning season in the 20th Century.
Here’s the Cubs’ entire 40-man roster and what might happen …
Oct 10, 2024 · If that happens, the Cubs would enter the trade/free-agent season with 33 players on the 40-man roster, thus having seven spots open for waiver claims, trades or free-agent signings. That’s how ...
Pete Crow-Armstrong, Matt Shaw among 12 Cubs roster cuts
Mar 8, 2024 · Friday, the Cubs announced the following roster cuts: Optioned to Triple-A: Ben Brown, Luis Vázquez, Pete Crow-Armstrong and Brennen Davis. Optioned to Double-A: Michael Arias, Porter Hodge and ...
Just how bad has the Cubs bullpen been? - Bleed Cubbie Blue
Jul 1, 2024 · The 2012 Cubs were 61-101, somehow also a fourth-place team, but literally designed to lose in the first year of the Theo Epstein rebuild, the 2021 Cubs were 71-91 in the first year of Jed Hoyer ...
Cubs 14, Nationals 1: Sweep! - Bleed Cubbie Blue
Sep 1, 2024 · The Cubs have scored at least five runs in six straight road games for only the 22nd time since 1901. Their record is nine straight games, in 2008, during two road trips. They did it in eight ...
BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: 6 through 10 - Bleed Cubbie Blue
4 days ago · The Cubs took Wiggins in the second round in 2023 despite him missing his entire junior season at Arkansas with Tommy John surgery. So Wiggins didn’t make his professional debut until this past May.