Anyone who is a fan of the Chicago Cubs has to be excited about the direction in which the franchise is heading. It would be nice to see the team spend a little ...

With help from coaches Jose Oquendo and Stubby Clapp, the former All-Star catcher is beginning his shift to first base with fundamentals and new gloves.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's baseball season. Players are arriving at Spring Training complexes in Arizona and Florida, and ...

The switch to first base in 2025 for Willson Contreras should lead to the best at-bat opportunity of his career. Injuries ...

It's been almost a month since we published Version 2.0 of our Opening Day lineup predictions on Jan. 6, and things have become much clearer as the ...

(As always there will be a transcript below this window that allows you read the chat like any other article here at ... and doing so with a seven-figure, auction-win way. Five years later ...

W hen MLB Pipeline released its top 100 prospects of 2025 list on Friday night, the NL Central found themselves with more prospects on the list than any other division in baseball ...

Recently, MLB.com and MLB Pipeline released their annual lists of their top 100 prospects, and the Cubs again have seven players on the top MLB list, with Matt Shaw again being the best among them.

Well, we believe in exit velocity, bat flips, launch angles, stealing home, the hanging curveball, Big League Chew, sausage ...

We followed it almost every single day that it was on.” Like other Cubs fans during the Lou Piniella era, Johnson’s younger brother put his name down for season tickets in 2007. “It took ...

All in all, Willson Contreras has not had the smoothest ride ... He is a frequent contributor to the Belleville News-Democrat, mlb.com and other sports websites.

It was an unearned run, and it gave the Cubs a 1-0 lead that they would maintain until the seventh. The Brewers turned three other double ... and then seven runs (three earned) in a Game 2 loss ...