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LAS VEGAS — If there was any doubt about what their focus would be this offseason, Chicago Cubs executives Jed Hoyer and Carter Hawkins spelled it out this week during Ma...
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It’s still early in Major League Baseball’s offseason, but the Chicago Cubs appear ready to move on without Kyle Tucker, the consensus No. 1 player in this year’s free agent class.
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As Shota Imanaga explores his options as a free agent, Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer signaled the club would welcome back the Japanese pitcher under certain circumstances.
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The convergence of the thriftiest rich franchise in baseball and the $400 million rental was an angle ready-made for the current state of baseball, where superstars are getting contracts that rivaled the value of entire teams 15 years ago, and only a handful of teams are anteing up to pay them.
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While legal sportsbooks in the U.S. aren’t offering next-team odds for Kyle Tucker, we asked Borgata director of race and sports Thomas Gable to create hypothetical odds for where he expects Tucker to sign, using the same analysis oddsmakers employ when creating these markets.
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