Just when you think you’ve got these Chicago Cubs pegged, something happens to blow that perception out of the water. Take last week’s trade deadline, for example. It looked for all the world as if Jed Hoyer would move Willson
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London Series: Cardinals and Cubs to play in MLB London Series 2023
Hold on to your hats, folks. MLB has confirmed that the two teams competing in the 2023 London Series are… drumroll… the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals. The two games will take place on 24-25 June 2023, marking
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Epic Deadline Day with 29 of the 30 teams making trades. Guess the party pooper?
Here is your five-minute review of the breathless 2022 MLB trade deadline. There is only one place to start and as the great Tim Kurkjian said “you can make a case this is the biggest trade in baseball history.” The
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Home Run Derby X: What a bunch of whining Brits
On Saturday, I stood in sweltering conditions for hours on end. It was 35 degrees in the shade, although as shade was at a premium, I don’t know how they recorded that. Refreshments from a makeshift bar involved a one-mile
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Home Run Derby X: Revisiting Geovany Soto’s incredible rookie year
While the last decade was unquestionably one of the best in the entire history of the Chicago Cubs, the one that preceded it was far from the worst. In 2003, the team won the division and looked set to end
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Home Run Derby X “Bring the noise”
The first-ever Home Run Derby X hits London on Saturday 9 July. MLB Legends, superstars from women’s softball & baseball, Olympians, social media sensations, and GB national team members will fight it out to clinch the title for their team.
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Home Run Derby X: Meet the sluggers
Saturday 9 July is a big day for sport. Wimbledon hosts the Women’s Singles Final, the eighth stage of the Tour de France is a punchy section from Dole to Lausanne, the Women’s EURO 2022 continues with a cracking matchup
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The Chicago Cubs do not have the resources necessary to compete in 2022
I’ll admit that I felt a degree of optimism when Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts wrote to fans back in October, stating “We have the resources necessary to compete in 2022 and beyond, and we will use them.” Like the bulk
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Episode 286 – Home Run Derby X Preview (ft Nick Swisher, Spencer Owen and Paige Halstead
In our mega preview of Home Run Derby X – which is coming to London on Saturday 9 July – John chats to Yankees legend Nick Swisher about renewing the sport’s oldest rivalry, his pivotal role in baseball’s greatest book
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Everything you always wanted to know about Home Run Derby X but were afraid to ask
In a stunning move, MLB has launched an exciting initiative to grow the game globally with sights on a younger demographic, particularly those unfamiliar with baseball. Home Run Derby X is a modern twist on the traditional version; let’s explore
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