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- 6 hours ago Baseball history unpacked, June 2
Bleed Cubbie Blue — Photo by Megan Briggs/ A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Caleb Kilian! Gehrig and Ruth say goodbyes, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives to follow as they unfold over the course of time. Here’s a handy Cubs timeline, to help you follow along. Today in baseball history: 1891 - Charles ‘Old Hoss’ Radbourn of the...
6 hours ago - 14 hours ago Minor League Wrap: Cole Roederer, Smokies top Lookouts, 5-4
Bleed Cubbie Blue — Cole Roederer | Photo by Jeff Speer/Icon Sportswire via We can now call three minor league games as wins for the Cubs. We’re still waiting on results from Iowa. Two Iowa pitchers, Vinny Nittoli and Tyler Duffey, opted out of their minor-league deals today. The Cubs have 48 hours to either give them a major-league deal (which would put them on the 40-man and not necessarily the 26-man) or release them. Iowa Cubs So here’s the situation with the I-Cubs. This afternoon, they gave up three runs in the top of the ninth and trailed Columbus 8-5. With two outs and the...
14 hours ago - 23 hours ago 2023 Cubs player profiles: Javier Assad
Bleed Cubbie Blue — Photo by Michael Reaves/ No. 25 in a series. Javier Assad is valuable insurance for now and a potential rotation piece going forward. Javier Eduardo Assad is a 25-year-old pitcher with a lot of potential. So far in his MLB career, he’s been on the Iowa shuttle, but probably won’t be forever. His future may well be as a rotation piece — he’s mostly a starter in Triple-A and was a starter/reliever in the 2023 World Baseball Classic for his native Mexico, where he acquitted himself very well indeed. He looks perfectly nerdly in his horn-rimmed glasses, and while...
23 hours ago - Jun 1, 2023 The Cubs should not be thinking selloff. Instead, they should be buyers
Bleed Cubbie Blue — Photo by Quinn Harris/ Here’s why. Since the Cubs are currently seven games under .500 and in last place in the N.L. Central, you’ve probably already read articles about “the inevitable selloff” that note players the team could flip before this year’s trade deadline. I’m here to tell you that not only do I not think that should happen, I don’t think it will happen. First, though the Cubs are in last place in the division, they stand just five games out of first place Thursday morning. With 107 games remaining, that’s hardly an insurmountable deficit. All...
Jun 1, 2023
