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Cubs News, Rumors & Analysis
The Rundown: Free Agent Options Dwindling While Cubs Stand Pat, Growing Vitriol for Ricketts Family, Springer Signs with Blue Jays
I’m starting to wonder when Jed Hoyer is going to have the same sense of urgency to fill the holes…
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Current, Recent Cubs Players Reportedly ‘Readily Available and Relatively Inexpensive’ This Offseason
Though I’m already nursing a torn rotator cuff as I stand over my third dead horse of the winter, I…
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The Rundown: Cubs Look Like Wreck Right Now, Lester Signs with Nationals, Padres Keep Accumulating Good Starters
“Families are always rising and falling in America.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.” – Dante…
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The Rundown: More Contreras Rumors, Dodgers May Have Interest in Bryant, Manfred Identifies Spring Training Coronavirus Protocols
I have a friend in Hollywood who truly believes that the Angels are going to acquire Willson Contreras and that Jed…
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No Half Measures: For Better or Worse, Rebuilding Is Jed Hoyer’s Only Viable Option
Breaking Bad is widely considered to be one of the best television dramas ever created and one of its best…
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The Rundown: It’s Rule 5 Day, Hottovy Preparing Staff for Increased Workload, Virtual Meetings Mostly Uneventful, MLB Contracts 40 MiLB Affiliates
If you’re a Cubs fan and the most exciting part of the Winter Meetings for you is the Rule 5…
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Cubs Currently Projected to Trim Payroll by $40-50 Million for 2021, Second Winter of Big Cuts
Even though it should go without saying because of the use of “currently” in the title, I want to make…
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Tom Ricketts Says Wrigley Field Tax Credits Won’t Help Baseball Budget
Wrigley Field was added to the National Register of Historic Places last week, a long-awaited move that made the Ricketts…
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Theo Epstein Offers 3 Reasons for Stepping Away from Cubs Early
Even though the expiration date on Theo Epstein’s Cubs tenure read “Best by 10/2021,” the milk was starting to curdle…
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The Rant Live – Chicago Cubs Podcast (11/17/20): Theo Epstein Leaving Cubs, Potential Salary Dump, Ricketts Running Out of Options
Join Evan Altman and Jon Strong of Cubs Insider as we try not to take ourselves too seriously while pondering…
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