Chicago Cubs
Brett Taylor
•Mar 18, 2025
The good news is that the 2025 MLB season kicked off today. The bad news is that it kicked off with a Cubs loss to the Dodgers in Japan. Anticlimactic. After cruising in the first inning, Shōta Imanaga ran into mild trouble in the second in the form of a tightening strike zone and a whole lot of Dodgers foul balls. He couldn’t quite put guys away, and he wasn’t…
Chicago Cubs
Michael Cerami
•Mar 18, 2025
CUBS LINEUP — The first (real) Chicago Cubs lineup of the year is here! And although the Cubs will be missing Nico Hoerner for both games in Japan, I think it’s a pretty good first group. I mean … it’s hard not to like any Cubs lineup that features Kyle Tucker and Seiya Suzuki at its heart…. Chicago Cubs Lineup: Ian Happ, LF Seiya Suzuki, DH Kyle Tucker, RF Michael…
Chicago Cubs
Michael Cerami
•Mar 17, 2025
As of my typing, it is 11:00 pm CT, which means first pitch happens in fewer than six hours. But the Cubs just made a big announcement and you can never stop feeding the #content machine, so here we. Late Monday night, the Chicago Cubs revealed the 26-man roster for their Opening Day matchup against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Tokyo, Japan. Let’s take a look. Cubs Opening Day Roster…
Chicago Cubs
Michael Cerami
•Mar 17, 2025
Late Monday night, the Chicago Cubs released their 26-man roster for the Tokyo Series against the Dodgers (we’ll have more on that announcement in a bit). And because that group included Matt Shaw, who was not previously on the 40-man roster, someone needed to get bounced. Unfortunately, that someone was former top Cubs pitching prospect and shutdown reliever Keegan Thompson. Keegan Thompson DFA’d https://twitter.com/MLBBruceLevine/status/1901838611139489907 The Cubs will now have 7…
Chicago Cubs
Michael Cerami
•Mar 17, 2025
CUBS VS DODGERS — Well, I was GOING to say the regular season kicks off tomorrow bright and early, but that’s not entirely accurate. In Chicago, the sun will rise nearly two full hours after this game begins. So I guess I should say the regular season kicks off tomorrow … dark and early. And, hey, the Cubs did have one game last season come in at just 1 hour…
Chicago Cubs
Brett Taylor
•Mar 17, 2025
With the 2025 Major League Baseball season officially opening tomorrow morning, when the Chicago Cubs face the Los Angeles Dodgers in Tokyo, it’s the last time we can look at power-ranking-type-things and say they are still “pre-season.” In other words, this is it. Get in your final predictions and projections and rankings before “real” data becomes available. Naturally, I wanted to see where the Cubs land, less for the imagined…
Chicago Cubs
Matt Rooney
•Mar 17, 2025
Happy Opening Day! Well, almost. The Cubs and Dodgers will officially get the MLB regular season started early on Tuesday morning with a 5:10 AM CT first pitch live from Tokyo, Japan. Both teams enter the 2025 campaign with high expectations. The Dodgers will look to begin their World Series title defense on a high note, while the Cubs enter the year as the frontrunners in the NL Central. Let’s…
Chicago Cubs
Michael Cerami
•Mar 17, 2025
Boom. We made it. The offseason is over, and the Cubs’ regular season — with those much higher expectations — begins tomorrow. Of course, things are a little wonky this year, as Spring Training briefly resumes on Friday when the team gets back from Tokyo, but the Cubs are beginning a very real series against the Los Angeles Dodgers TOMORROW! In case you slept through the winter, I’m here to catch…
Chicago Cubs
Brett Taylor
•Mar 17, 2025
Not that you needed more to get you hyped for tomorrow morning, but the Cubs just put out a Shōta Imanaga and Seiya Suzuki video that’ll definitely do the trick. A follow-up performance 25 years in the making, as the Chicago Cubs return to Japan a quarter century after they opened the 2000 season there. This is so freaking cool: View this post on Instagram A post shared by cubs…
Chicago Cubs
Brett Taylor
•Mar 17, 2025
Although he is best known for his prodigious power and being the most three-true-outcome-oriented player since Adam Dunn, it is also true that outfielder Joey Gallo has an excellent arm. Not only was he always scouted as “plus” in that regard, he has also routinely showed up on the leaderboard in outfield arm strength at Statcast. So, when the opportunities as a hitter dried up for the 31-year-old, he decided…
