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2 days agoCubs Roster Moves: Suzuki to Start Year on IL, Assad to Iowa, Brown to Bullpen - Bleacher Nation
Seiya Suzuki will start the season on the Injured List, and Javier Assad has been optioned to Triple-A Iowa.
First baseman Pete Alonso is now an Oriole, as his five-year deal with Baltimore was officially announced today. He drove from his Tampa home to the Winter Meetings in Orlando to meet with clubs before locking that deal down. According to Jon Heyman of The New York Post, he also met with the Red Sox and Cubs. It was already known that he would be meeting with the Red Sox but the connection to the Cubs is new.