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Cubs News, Rumors & Analysis
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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Cubs Reportedly Signaling ‘Willingness to Move Almost Any Veteran’
It’s been obvious to anyone who’s paying any sort of attention that the Cubs are looking to cut costs heading…
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Theo Epstein Reportedly Still ‘Mulling Whether to Step Down,’ Which Ownership Might Not Hate
Outside of having seven players named as Gold Glove finalists, there hasn’t been any good Cubs-related news since their season-ending…
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The Rundown: Jason Heyward 2020 Report Card, Financial Difficulties Will Challenge Epstein Again, Rays Even Up World Series
I think people forget that Jason Heyward is only 31 years old because it seems he’s been around forever and…
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The Rundown: Epstein Set to Meet With Ricketts, Cubs Express Hope for 2021, Phillies Clean House, MLB Playoffs Resume This Afternoon
Will today represent the “reckoning” Theo Epstein promised Cubs’ fans after the 2018 season? Over the weekend word leaked that…
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