"It's not great news," Cubs manager Craig Counsell said of the visa situation that has held up the two catchers' arrivals, per the Sun-Times. "[It's] looking like next weekend, at the earliest .... There's not much you can do .... We've just got to play this process out ...." Counsell had originally indicated that the catchers were "expected shortly" when they weren't in camp for day one, and then later said that the situation was "out of our control a little bit,"
Anthony Rizzo made Moises Ballesteros' first major league home run extra special. The longtime Chicago Cubs first baseman was at Wrigley Field on Saturday for a retirement ceremony, where he was officially named an ambassador for the team. After the ceremony, Rizzo took in the game from the left-field bleachers. That's where the rookie Ballesteros launched his first-ever MLB dinger -- and Rizzo nearly caught it.