Evan Altman

Evan Altman is the EIC and co-founder of Cubs Insider and has proclaimed himself Central Indiana's foremost Cubs authority. He is a husband, father, homebrewer, and award-winning blogger with entirely too much pop culture knowledge. Evan's greatest accomplishments include scoring 400 points in Magic Johnson's Fast Break, naming all 10 members of the Wu-Tang Clan in under 3.5 seconds, and winning the Meese Literary Award at Hanover College.

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Evan AltmanNovember 23, 2024

Cubs Sign Reliever Phil Bickford to Minors Deal

This is another move that’ll have people complaining for no reason that Jed Hoyer only targets cheap deals, but it’s…
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Evan AltmanNovember 22, 2024

Mike Tauchman Gone as Cubs Make Several Roster Moves on Non-Tender Day

We covered the Nick Madrigal decision earlier, but the Cubs made more moves on Friday. The only really surprising one,…
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Evan AltmanNovember 22, 2024

Cubs Non-Tender Nick Madrigal

As expected, the Cubs have non-tendered Nick Madrigal. Though he still has a few supporters among Cubs fans, Madrigal never…
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Evan AltmanNovember 22, 2024

Cubs Spring Training Tickets on Sale December 6

Single game tickets for Chicago Cubs 2025 Spring Training games at Sloan Park in Mesa, Arizona, go on sale to…
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Evan AltmanNovember 21, 2024

Roki Sasaki Expected to Sign in 2025, Agent Calls Dodgers Speculation ‘Poor Sportsmanship’

The biggest question about Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki remains where he will sign, but the question of when was at…
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Evan AltmanNovember 20, 2024

Cubs Acquire Catcher Matt Thaiss from Angels, DFA Trey Wingenter

The Cubs ended up trading for an Anaheim catcher after all, it just isn’t Logan O’Hoppe. Not long after picking…
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Evan AltmanNovember 20, 2024

Cubs Acquire RHP Eli Morgan from Guardians, DFA Patrick Wisdom

As first reported by ESPN’s Jeff Passan, the Cubs are acquiring righty reliever Eli Morgan from the Guardians for Low-A…
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Evan AltmanNovember 19, 2024

Cubs Select Owen Caissie and Ben Cowles, DFA Adbert Alzolay and Brennen Davis

Apologies for being redundant with this news, but it makes more sense to do a new post than to update…
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Evan AltmanNovember 19, 2024

Cubs Add Owen Caissie to 40-Man Roster

This was a huge no-brainer and I’m away from my computer for the time being, so I’ll add more later.
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Evan AltmanNovember 19, 2024

Cubs Likely to DFA Adbert Alzolay to Free 40-Man Space

This was almost certainly going to happen at some point in the offseason, the only question was whether the Cubs…
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