Today’s installment of Cub Tracks, the crème de la crème of link posts. We read everything so you don’t have to and throw out the chaff.

Monday was an off-day for the Cubs before their series with the San Francisco Giants, starting tonight. The Cubs have a fairly solid claim on a wild-card spot and are still not out of the hunt for the division title. Several players are in line for individual honors, but we await October baseball, where the heroes are made.

Advertisement

The Cubs’ schedule is said to be favorable, with them playing mostly second-division clubs for the rest of the year. As always, any team can beat you, and the good teams will beat you.

Predicting what will happen is probably best done with a Ouija board. There is no scrying in baseball.

*means autoplay on, (directions to remove for Firefox and Chrome). {$} means paywall. {$} means limited views. Italics are often used on this page as sarcasm font. The powers that be have enabled real sarcasm font in the comments.

• Michael Cerami (Bleacher Nation*): Can we give it up for Matt Shaw? “… Shaw hasn’t just taken to the position; he’s turned into one of the most valuable defensive third basemen in baseball.“

Food for thought:

Please be reminded that Cub Tracks and Bleed Cubbie Blue do not necessarily endorse the content of articles, podcasts, or videos that are linked to in this series. However, we will not wittingly publish A. I. – driven articles or content.