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Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, featuring material from current beat writers, bloggers, and the occasional in-house habitué, moonlighting. These pieces center around #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball.

The Cubs played Monday night. The events described herein took place prior to that contest taking place. Al will have details in his recap.

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• Tim Stebbins (NBC Sports Chicago*): Cubs Opening Day 2022: Roster projection with 10 days to go. “Here’s a look into the crystal ball.” Fangraphs’ depth chart.
• Jordan Bastian (MLB.com*): Cubs putting pieces in place for rotation ‘puzzle’. “This spring, things are complicated.” Patrick Mooney says it depends on Hendricks and Stroman {$}.
• Gordon Wittenmyer (NBC Sports Chicago*): On bobblehead snubs, Oscar slaps and reaping what you so. “Talk about free Willy.”
• Sean Holland (Cubs Insider*): Alfonso Rivas would bring much-needed balance to Cubs roster. “He has a career .393 on-base percentage and a K-rate of 20% (MiLB average is around 25%) to go with a walk percentage of 13% (MiLB average 9%).”
• Gordon Wittenmyer (NBC Sports Chicago*): Cubs Nico Hoerner, Dixon Machado career paths altered by quad injury. “That was crazy,” Machado said.
• Vincent Parise (Da Windy City*): This Cubs player is looking to prove everyone wrong in 2022. “It is going to be a big year for Patrick Wisdom as he tries to lift this team while also showing that he is just a late bloomer that deserves to be in the MLB for a long time.” Jordan Bastian has words of Wisdom.
• Logan Whaley (Cubbies Crib*): Seiya Suzuki already proving he’s the perfect fit. “Suzuki has quickly fit in with the Cubs and the fan base.”
• Jake Misener (Cubbies Crib*): Is this the end of the road for Jason Heyward? “Right now, there’s a very real chance Chicago could simply eat the contract and cut ties with Heyward...”
• Greg Huss (Cubs Insider*): Cubs Insider’s Annual Prospect List: Top 20 Bats. “... the top seven players on this list could be featured on league-wide top 100 lists as soon as midseason.”
• Todd Johnson (Cubs Insider*): 2022 Cubs Affiliate Preview – Myrtle Beach’s talent level borders on obscene. “... some of these players might not be there for too long.”

Cubs birthdays: Bill Harbridge, Karl Pagel, Domingo Ramos.

Food for Thought:

• IFL Science: Astrophotographer snaps incredible photo of astronauts on a spacewalk from Earth. “This may be the first ground-based image that has captured two astronauts out on a spacewalk at the same time.”
• Futurism: Scientist says that dark matter may be information itself. “There’s no shortage of debate about the nature of dark matter...”
• Michelle Starr (Science Alert*): Feast your eyes on ‘Unprecedented’ new pics revealed of our Sun. “... a fully zoomable image that allows you to pore over fine details of the solar surface and corona.”

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