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I almost hate to even write that headline, because I know that the St. Louis Cardinals have needed a deep rebuild for a while. I don’t actually want to celebrate their looming badness, because it’s likely going to jumpstart a process of getting them back to a much better place [...]

Time is limited, so I’m just going to post the lineup image below. I will, however make a note of one particular player. That wouldn’t typically be worth mentioning, but the circumstances related to his presence are worth discussing. Things got a little spicy at camp on Tuesday as Craig Counsell [...]

Anyone who’s followed more than a single baseball season knows that the number of times everything goes right for a team for a full season is roughly equal to zero. Even in the Cubs’ magical 2016 campaign, when they miraculously had FIVE starting pitchers make 29+ starts (in what world…), [...]

Cubs utility man Matt Shaw started in center field against Team Italy on Tuesday, making his first appearance of the spring in that spot. His viability in center could be a pivotal question for the team's bench construction. [...]

The tournament begins with three games in the Tokyo pool, with some familiar names and many more that aren't. [...]

If you were creating a list of individual players whose success in 2026 would be disproportionately important to his team in the NL Central, I don’t know that I’d say Cincinnati Reds righty Hunter Greene would be at the very top of that list, but he’d be somewhere in the [...]

So that’s why Phillies outfielder Johan Rojas was removed from the Dominican Republic WBC roster (replaced by old friend Junior Lake). This comes fresh on the heels of word about Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar failing his second PED test, and the timing is not entirely a coincidence, because sometimes these [...]

Ian Happ has admitted that his future with the only team he's ever known is uncertain due to the Chicago Cubs' deluge of one-year contracts. [...]

Shota's velocity is up. What does that mean for his 2026 season? [...]

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James Triantos didn't have the 2025 for which many Cubs fans hoped, but there's still a pathway for the infielder to make noise at the next level. [...]

Dusty Baker has a checkered history with the Chicago Cubs. Baker's arrival as manager of the Cubs in 2023 certainly had fanfare, considering he was coming off w [...]

The Cubs played an exhibition game against Team Italy at Sloan Park Tuesday afternoon before the World Baseball Classic gets underway. The home side built an early advantage, but the pitchers from minor-league camp squandered the lead and the Italians won easily. Cade Horton got the start for Chicago and tossed [...]

Despite 2025 first-round pick Ethan Conrad undergoing shoulder surgery before he was taken by the Chicago Cubs, Jed Hoyer was confident in the selection. When h [...]

ESPN is on a bit of a spending spree this week. And so far, it’s all good ideas. On Monday, they announced a new multi-year extension with Senior MLB Insider Jeff Passan, who has evolved into arguably the most trustworthy name in MLB news, rumors, and transactions. And today, they [...]

In preparation for pool play later this week, Team USA is playing an exhibition game against the San Francisco Giants in Arizona. The absolutely loaded Team USA roster figures to win this one – though fake, deeply random baseball games can have a lot of variance – and they got [...]

On the last pod, other than the part where we can’t watch a fun WBC exhibition between Team Italy and the Cubs (but for some reason could watch the Reds broadcast of the destruction yesterday on Marquee), we did ponder the way the edges of the roster would shape out, [...]

MLB Pipeline has slowly been rolling out its updated top 30 lists, and several teams still have “Coming soon…” displayed. The Cubs are no longer one of those, however, as Pipeline dropped those rankings on Tuesday. There weren’t many surprises from what I see, though I think a little breakdown [...]

Some Cubs and MLB prospect notes for you today … This year’s Spring Breakout games are coming soon for prospects around baseball (the Cubs play Saturday, March 21 against the Padres), but Major League Baseball has announced a significant change to the event starting in 2027: Spring Breakout is being expanded [...]