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Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images An off day while we wait for the World Series to begin. Well, the baseball gods have spoken, and following a tense weekend matchup that determined the NL champions, we now know who our 2021 World Series contenders will be. The Los Angeles Dodgers put up a good fight, and had the better season record, but it was simply … [Read more...] about Outside The Confines: The calm before the storm

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Here’s another lefthander who could help the Cubs... if he can stay healthy. If the title of this article sounds familiar, it should — because I wrote one with the very same headline here in December 2019. It’s probably a good thing the Cubs didn’t take my advice then. Wood, who has had some injury issues throughout his career, had some … [Read more...] about Cubs free agent target: Alex Wood

Luis Vazquez | Photo by Jill Weisleder/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Solar Sox went 4-1 on the week thanks in large part to the Cubs’ Nelson Velazquez. We’re two weeks into 2021 Arizona Fall League campaign and thanks to a four-game winning streak, our Mesa Solar Sox are in first place in the East Division with a record of 6-3. Just a reminder, the Solar Sox play … [Read more...] about Arizona Fall League: Mesa Solar Sox Week 2 update

MLB Photos via Getty Images Baseball could grind to a halt in December. Major League Baseball has been through two rough and uncertain years in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, the sport completed an abbreviated 60-game season with no fans in attendance. This year’s total MLB attendance of 45,304,709 was about 66 percent of the total from 2019, the … [Read more...] about It looks like we’re headed for a MLB lockout

Bettmann Archive It’s a good story that I had not heard before. Sunday, I posted this article about some construction being done on the Wrigley Field scoreboard in 1961, the year the major leagues first expanded. In it, I noted that on the “AMERICAN” side of the board, which was still being worked on, the word “SUBURBAN” was on one of the team plates, upside down, … [Read more...] about Wrigley Field history: Here’s why the word ‘SUBURBAN’ appears in this photo

Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images The Braves can still punch their ticket to the World Series tonight. Chris Taylor and the Dodgers had themselves a night on Thursday: Chris Taylor is the first player in #postseason history to have a 3-HR game in a potential elimination game. pic.twitter.com/T6AEfbQYir— MLB Stats (@MLBStats) October 22, … [Read more...] about 2021 National League Championship Series Game 6, Braves vs. Dodgers, Saturday 10/23, 7:08 CT

Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com, Pensacola News Journal via Imagn Content Services, LLC The latest in our long-running series of #Cubs-related news articles. Tales of #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™. Here we have material from current beat writers, bloggers, and the occasional in-house habitué, moonlighting. These … [Read more...] about Cub Tracks’ the fall of the house of Epstein?

Bettmann Archive This photo caught it in the middle of being changed. This will be a different kind of historical photo article. In this case I don’t need to sleuth the date, because it came with the caption supplied with the photo: When the umpire yells “play ball” to open Chicago Cubs’ 1961 season here 4/14. the famed green vines clinging to Wrigley Field’s outfield … [Read more...] about Cubs history: The Wrigley Field scoreboard under construction

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Does he fit on the team, or a narrative? Some video highlights of his season, too. I’ve been figuratively wrestling a literary alligator recently. There’s a term I’m looking for that isn’t quite this word, that term, or the other concept. It’s kinda close, but not really any of them. I’ve been rototilling my internal dictionary over … [Read more...] about Cubs 40-man roster coin flips: Frank Schwindel