As one of the NL MVP voters, here was my ballot: 1. Shohei Ohtani 2. Geraldo Perdomo 3. Kyle Schwarber 4. Juan Soto 5. Trea Turner 6. Pete Crow-Armstrong 7. Fernando Tatís Jr. 8. Corbin Carroll 9. Cristopher Sánchez 10. Francisco Lindor

Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer said he isn’t closing the door on left-hander Shota Imanaga returning next season. 📝 @mmontemurro.bsky.social

Matt Shaw received one 3rd-place vote and one 5th-place vote for NL ROY.

Cubs righty Cade Horton finishes 2nd for NL Rookie of the Year behind Braves catcher Drake Baldwin. Horton received 9 of 30 votes and finished with 139 points while Baldwin got 21 votes and 183 points.

The Cubs have extended qualifying offers to Kyle Tucker and Shota Imanaga. The QO is worth $22.025 million for the 2026 season. While Tucker will obviously decline his, Imanaga faces an interesting decision.

The Cubs have agreed with RHP Colin Rea on a one-year contract with a club option for 2027. The 40-man roster currently stands at 27 players.

The Cubs have traded reliever Andrew Kittredge to the Orioles for cash considerations. Kittredge, who the Cubs acquired from Baltimore at the trade deadline, had a $9 million club option for 2026.

ICE pushes Chicago restaurants in immigrant neighborhoods into survival mode: ‘We are dying a slow death’

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

The Cubs have 3 Gold Glove award winners: CF Pete Crow-Armstrong (1st) 2B Nico Hoerner (2nd) LF Ian Happ (4th consecutive)

COLSTON LOVELAND TD FOR THE BEARS

The Bears allowing 15 points in 49 seconds plus failing to recover the onside kick is something.

The MLB offseason is officially underway. These 10 Cubs are now free agents: Kyle Tucker, Willi Castro, Aaron Civale, Brad Keller, Drew Pomeranz, Taylor Rogers, Carlos Santana, Mike Soroka, Caleb Thielbar and Ryan Brasier

NEWS: Trump administration’s Chicago immigration raids are coming to a city near you as Homeland Security sidelines old ICE leadership. “What we’re seeing now is what the rest of the nation can expect. This is the new model.” Our story on what that means www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/02/b...

Yoshinobu Yamamoto: First pitcher to win 3 games in a single World Series since 2001 Randy Johnson First pitcher with 3 road wins in a single WS 4th P to win G6+7 in a WS, joining ‘01 Johnson, 1946 Harry Brecheen, 1925 Ray Kremer — FIRST to do it on road

The level of adrenaline I feel right now watching this Game 7

Miguel Rojas homers and it's a new ball game in Toronto, 4-4

Postseason baseball is awesome, Game 7s are amazing — holy cow!

With the Dodgers forcing a Game 7, we now have 7 series that have gone the full distance this postseason That’s two more than in any other single postseason (And yes, there are more series these days, but 7 has been possible since ‘95 and in ‘81)

I’d be feeling sick right now if I’m the Blue Jays or a Toronto fan with how that bottom of the 9th played out. But Game 7s are awesome and it’s fun that’s how the World Series will be decided

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Penny says, “Yeehaw! Happy Halloween!” 🎃

Holy s*** what a goal from André Burakovsky, between the legs in traffic

A federal judge reminded Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino of the public's Constitutional right to protest his actions and ordered him to come into court every day. Read Jason Meisner on today's remarkable court hearing as masked federal agents continue raiding Chicago neighborhoods

Video from today's first gas attack. Saturday morning in Chicago.

Nico Hoerner, Pete Crow-Armstrong and Kyle Tucker are NL Silver Slugger award finalists at their respective positions. The NL winners will be announced Nov. 6. NL 2B: Hoerner, Brice Turang, Ketel Marte NL OF: PCA, Tucker, Corbin Carroll, Juan Soto, Kyle Stowers, James Wood

Cubs President Jed Hoyer and the front office know they must build off this season and not let it be a one-off playoff appearance. @mmontemurro.bsky.social reporting from Wrigley Field.

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!” Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

The Cubs have 6 NL Gold Glove award finalists at their respective positions: Matthew Boyd, Carson Kelly, Nico Hoerner, Matt Shaw, Ian Happ and Pete Crow-Armstrong.

ICE officers deployed multiple canisters of tear gas on the Far South Side to quell a clash with residents who demanded the officers leave the neighborhood. At least 100 neighbors flocked to the intersection of 105th Street and Avenue N following a vehicle crash involving at least one ICE vehicle.

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

Asked after Game 5 if he wishes to return to the Cubs, Kyle Tucker said, "We'll see what happens." In the Cubs' 8 playoff games, he went 7-for-27 (.259) with one home run, one RBI, five walks and five strikeouts. 📝 @mmontemurro.bsky.social

Among the variety of not fun things being without a car since getting rear ended and my vehicle totaled: ordering groceries for delivery from Jewel, the delivery being picked and then stolen by the driver 🙃

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Cubs manage only four hits and bow out of the playoffs with a 3-1 loss to the Brewers on Saturday in Game 5 of the NLDS. "Why couldn't we get anything going? It's hard to get past that right now," manager Craig Counsell said. @mmontemurro.bsky.social reporting from Milwaukee.

This Cubs season ends with a 3-1 loss to the Brewers in Game 5 of the NLDS. All four runs in tonight's game came on solo homers. Cubs pitchers couldn't finish off at-bats/innings as the Brewers' three homers all were with 2 outs. The opportunity Cubs wasted in the top of the 6th inning will sting.

Turang has the ballpark rocking as he takes Kittredge deep for a solo homer to put the Brewers up 3-1 in the 7th. And that's where a bullpen game can hurt Cubs. They didn't have another lefty available for that pocket of Brewers lineup after using Pomeranz as the opener and Thielbar previous inning

If the Cubs lose this game, they will lament the top of the 6th. Put first two hitters on and then Tucker (strikeout swinging), Suzuki (line out) and Happ (strikeout looking) can't bring them home. Suzuki's line out to Chourio in LF was a little unlucky: 101.6 mph exit velo, .500 expected average

Daniel Palencia and William Contreras have a stare down after Palencia is fired up watching Nico Hoerner turn Contreras' line out into an inning-ending double play by doubling up Chourio at 1B. Brewers up 2-1 heading to the 6th

Palencia gets the job done, getting Joey Ortiz to hit into an inning-ending force out.

Craig Counsell has talked about how Daniel Palencia has been a "fireman" mid-game closer for the Cubs this postseason. Palencia is coming into a huge spot in relief of Rea: bases loaded and two outs in the 4th as Cubs try to keep the Brewers' lead at 2-1.

Colin Rea left an 88 mph cutter down the middle and Andrew Vaughn sent it over the LF wall. Brewers up 2-1 in the 4th

Colin Rea is back out for the bottom of the 4th as Shota Imanaga starts to warm in the bullpen. Cubs-Brewers tied at 1.

Colin Rea touching nearly 96 mph with his fastball out of the bullpen, avg +1.4 mph. He's feeling it tonight:

Seiya Suzuki home run

Seiya Suzuki ties the game with a homer off a Misiorowski 101.4 mph fastball to begin the 2nd. Sounds like there are more Cubs fans here than for the first two games.

The team that has scored first this NLDS is 1-3. Game 4 featured the lone win when the Cubs opened the scoring in the first inning.

Drew Pomeranz had retired 17 consecutive hitters to begin this postseason. William Contreras ends that streak by taking him deep on a full-count fastball to give the Brewers a 1-0 lead in the 1st.