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Friday, October 9, 2026
MLB Pipeline Names Its Cubs Prospects of the Year

As I said when Owen Ayers took home Baseball America’s minor league player of the year honors for the Cubs’ system, the call this season is exceedingly difficult. Ayers’ breakout year certainly...

Recalling Chicago icon Mike Ditka’s legendary 7th-inning stretch rendition
Son Ranto Show: Sox Crimes

Comedian Brewers fan and new dad Eric Wielo joins us to gloat and then comedian Joe Kilgallon and Cubs Enthusiast Crawly join Danny Rockett and Michael Cotton to trash the White Sox and their...

Andrew McCutchen on the Modern Day Andrew McCutchen? (Hint: It’s a Cub)

I’ll say up front that it’s a little odd to talk about the “Modern Day Andrew McCutchen” when the Still Present Day Andrew McCutchen just appeared in 37 big league games for the Rangers. But I do...

Cubs Minor League Daily: AFL Edition
Inside a Wrigleyville rooftop owner's fight with the Cubs

Will the last holdout in Wrigleyville be able to stand up to the Chicago Cubs?

No Clincher, No Games, No More Suzuki(?), No Acuña, and Other Cubs Bullets

From four games on Wednesday to just two until Sunday. Even then, it could’ve been just one if the White Sox had won last night … The White Sox bullpen got a little blown up last night, and no...

Thursday, October 8, 2026
The Rundown: Cubs Have Plenty of Offseason Work Ahead, 2027 Qualifying Offer Set, White Sox Hoping to Clinch at Home

The Brewers, Dodgers, and Rays punched their tickets to the league championship series, with Tampa Bay waiting to see if they’ll play the White Sox or Guardians for the right to represent the...

The Qualifying Offer Number For Post-2026 Free Agents is Out

The New York Post’s Joel Sherman reports that the the 2026-27 qualifying offer will be $23.15 million, which will mark the fifth straight year of the QO rising by roughly a million bucks. This...

Cubs get great free agent prediction on fan favorite 131 OPS+ outfielder

This prediction for the Cubs would be a great offseason result.

MLB’s Latest Proposal Includes Trimming Season to 154 Games, Allowing Top Playoff Seeds to Pick Opponents

With the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement looming just under eight weeks away, Major League Baseball and the players union have continued to exchange proposals. Or rather, the...

Major League Baseball Proposes Reducing the Regular Season, Postseason Structure Changes, More

As the league prepares for a lockout when the Collective Bargaining Agreement with the MLB Players Association expires on December 1, it is simultaneously keeping the bargaining discourse in the...

Nico Hoerner on What the Cubs Can Take Away from a Two-Game Wild Card Sweep

Nico Hoerner joined The Score this week to discuss the brief playoff run that was, and the season that preceded it. Probably not the most fun weekly radio hit he’s ever done, but kudos to him for...

Why Cubs are perfect landing spot for Padres $17 million ace

This makes too much sense for the Cubs.

MLB Has Reportedly Issued a Lengthy Memo on How Teams Are to Handle the Upcoming Lockout

In case you had any hopes whatsoever of the league and the players reaching a deal before the December 1 expiration of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, I think this tells you plenty about...

Age is but a number for Cubs' Cabada, the second-youngest player in the Fall League
Heartbreaking Non-Homers, Trio of Clubs Move On, NLCS Match-Up, Streaming, and Other Cubs Bullets

That was a very full, and very exciting day of playoff baseball … BOTH of the Yankees and Padres had late, would-be-game-tying home runs come up just short, of the type that’ll be remembered for a...

Cubs 2026 catcher grades: Carson Kelly shines, Amaya and Ballesteros struggle
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Here are each organization's Prospects of the Year
The Rundown: Hoyer Expects to Address Rotation, PCA Named Baseball Digest’s POY, 4 Elimination Games Today

“You don’t need a penny just to hang around. But if you’ve got a nickel, won’t you lay your money down?” – Down on the Corner by Creedence Clearwater Revival I needed some R & R after the abrupt...

MLB Experimenting With Outfield Shift Restrictions in the Arizona Fall League

As it has worked through possible rules changes over the last decade, Major League Baseball has seen fit to use various minor and offseason leagues as a way to test out rules changes in-game. All...

Cubs legend Anthony Rizzo says 2026 White Sox 'an easy team to root for'

Anthony Rizzo, the heart and soul of the legendary 2016 Cubs team that broke the franchise's 108-year World Series title drought, joined Pat Tomasulo via Zoom on Wednesday's WGN Morning News.

Athletics Pursuing Sam Fuld, Jared Banner For GM Role

The list of known candidates for the Athletics’ general manager opening added two more names this morning. Phillies executive Sam Fuld and Cubs assistant GM Jared Banner are in the mix for the...

Cubs Assistant GM Jared Banner is One of the “Top Candidates” to Get the Open A’s Top Baseball Executive Job

It’s that time of year, as we’ve discussed, when you look around baseball at various openings and job searches, thinking not only about what the Cubs could do to improve their own front office,...

11 Years Ago Today, the Pirates Tried to Ruffle Jake Arrieta’s Feathers, Failed, and a Cooler Paid the Price

Today marks the 11th anniversary of the 2015 Wild Card Game, back when it was just a single game instead of a three-game series. Each approach has its merits, but it’s hard not to look back and...

MLBTR Podcast: Diamondbacks Stories, Offseason Previews For Eliminated Playoff Teams, And Creative Pitching Usage

The latest episode of the MLB Trade Rumors Podcast is now live on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your podcasts! Make sure you subscribe as well! You can also use the player at this...

Farewell Owen Miller, Antoine Kelly, and Corbin Martin

Free agency of the big league and minor league variety won’t officially get into full swing until after the postseason concludes, but some players will hit free agency earlier than that by virtue...

Why Brennan Hudson could become one of Cubs' biggest draft steals
Cubs Probably Fall Short on Tarik Skubal, Still Need to Get ‘Dude’

Raise your hand if you have any level of confidence in the idea that the Cubs will be willing to hand ace lefty Tarik Skubal what would easily be the largest contract in club history. Okay, I see...

Brewers Tie a Record Losing Streak, Dodgers Go Up, Happ, Dombrowski, Launch Angle, and Other Cubs Bullets

A night of extremely vivid dreams followed by a hard wake-up every sleep cycle, all night long, has me wondering what the heck I ate yesterday that did it. The Padres stayed alive last night,...

5 questions facing Cubs this offseason
Juan Cabada getting plenty of opportunities early in AFL season
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Cubs add five international prospects in early offseason moves
Ian Happ Doesn’t Yet Know What Will Come Next

Much like his comments after the Cubs’ Wild Card Series loss, and much like Jed Hoyer’s comments at the end-of-season press conference, Ian Happ suggests everything is wide open at the moment as...

Juan Cabada stays hot, Luis Rujano shines in AFL action
Stocky Japanese RHP Kaima Taira Could Be Just What Cubs Need

The Cubs need to add velocity without sacrificing grounders as they look to rebuild a pitching staff that simply wasn’t good enough in 2026, and the ideal solution might be stocky right-hander...

Baseball America’s 2026 Player of the Year? Oh Come On, You Know Who

Awards season for the Chicago Cubs and Pete Crow-Armstrong will not hold a great deal of mystery this year. He’s going to be absolutely deluged by awards and honors. Surprises will be few and far...

Cubs Could Try to Retain Clay Holmes, Jays Expected to Pursue Seiya Suzuki and Kevin Gausman

The Cubs have a lot of work to do over the offseason, but they’ve only got about a month to get any work done before a lockout puts the kibosh on any activity for a while. Jed Hoyer said during...

Tommy Pham Says He’s Going to Get a Reporter Banned Because the Reporter Reported a Report

Tommy Pham is never boring, I’ll give him that. Whether it’s a pretty-funny fantasy football slap or an actually-scary stabbing or surprisingly-visible social media tiff with a former teammate,...

Five Players Elect Minor League Free Agency

A handful of former major leaguers hit the open market this week. They’ll get a head start on free agency as the MLB playoffs unfold. These free agent elections were listed on the MiLB.com...

Blue Jays won Kevin Gausman trade with Cubs for 2 reasons

The Blue Jays got the better of the Cubs in this trade.

Chicago Cubs Make a Series of International Free Agent Signings Official

The timing was purely a coincidence, because these International Free Agent signings can and do drop throughout the year officially, but it was funny to me to see that the Cubs officially inked a...

Possible Playoff Winning in Chicago, Pitch-Tipping, Postseason Memories, Surgeries, and Other Cubs Bullets

Today I learned that the feet on most refrigerators can be ratcheted up slightly so that the door gets a gravity-assist on the close. Why does that matter? Well, perhaps you, too, live in a...

Phillies should be interested in switch-hitting outfielder from Cubs

Should the Phillies look to make this move?

Road less traveled takes Cubs' pitcher-turned-outfielder Kade Snell to Fall League
Monday, October 5, 2026
Cubs linked to trade idea with Guardians for Gold Glove OF that would be a mistake

This trade idea for the Cubs would not be a good move for Chicago.

Four Cubs prospects see action in Mesa's 4-3 win over Peoria
Cubs Prospect Notes: AFL, Bailey, Cabada, Snell, Reid, Cabral, Meyer, More

With the big league regular season over, and the minor league seasons before that, we are fully into post-season mode (not to be confused with “postseason” mode, which sadly ended last week for...

Why an Ian Happ reunion with Cubs makes a lot of sense

Happ is a free agent after his 10th season with the Cubs.

PCA Named Hank Aaron Award Finalist, Fan Ballot Open Now

Pete Crow-Armstrong was among the 10 National League finalists for the 2026 Hank Aaron Award, MLB announced on Monday afternoon. Fan voting is open at MLB.com/aaron and will run through Monday,...

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