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What amateur free agent Roki Sasaki's list of finalists means for the Cubs

The Cubs were never the favorites to sign 23-year-old Japanese pitching phenom Roki Sasaki. But they reportedly were eliminated from contention Monday, leaving them to assess how to address their pitching staff during the rest of the offseason.

News that Sasaki was narrowing his pool of suitors trickled out as teams fell out of the running. Multiple outlets reported the Dodgers, Padres and Blue Jays are the last three standing in Sasaki’s wide-reaching free-agency process.

Sasaki has until Jan. 23, the end of his posting window, to choose his team.

The new international signing period opens Wednesday, which would be the first day Sasaki could sign within the rules of the international amateur process. It was also important for teams to know ahead of time whether they would need to set aside bonus-pool space for Sasaki.

The combination of Sasaki’s talent and the relatively small financial commitment it would take to sign him because of his early posting made him an ideal fit for the Cubs and about 20 other teams that submitted information to his agents after he posted.

For the Cubs, landing Sasaki would have improved their odds of ending a four-year playoff drought. Losing out on him doesn’t derail their plans, but there’s no other free-agent pitcher of Sasaki’s caliber and age who would fit as neatly into what appears to be a strict payroll budget.

When the Cubs traded for three-time All-Star Kyle Tucker, who can become a free agent after this coming season, it sent the message that winning in 2025 was a high priority. But their budget constraints were clear in their next move: a salary-dumping trade that sent Cody Bellinger to the Yankees.

‘‘There’s always that push-pull of the things you’re doing for now and things you’re doing for the future,’’ president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer said this month. ‘‘Ultimately, our goal is to try to be a better team than last year, and that’s been our focus.’’

The Cubs’ rotation is headed by Justin Steele, Shota Imanaga, Jameson Taillon and Matthew Boyd. The team made right-hander Colin Rea’s signing signing official Monday, adding him to a robust group of pitchers who could compete for rotation spots and/or pitch out of the bullpen. Those also include Javier Assad, Jordan Wicks, Ben Brown and prospect Cade Horton.

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Xavier to Hire First Varsity Coach in School History

Xavier University of Louisiana will hire its first ever men’s and women’s head varsity rowing coach as the university will be elevating the current co-ed team from club to varsity beginning in the fall of 2025. With this move Xavier will become the first and only HBCU in the nation to offer co-ed varsity rowing.

There will have been a club rowing team for two years at Xavier before the team moves to varsity with an active group of engaged students, many of whom learned to row once they reached college.

Dr. Elizabeth Manley, professor of history and department chair, is a member of the New Orleans Rowing Club (NORC) and is one of several dedicated individuals who helped the club team go from an idea to reality.

“Around 2020 there was a lot of conversation about who rows and who has access to rowing,” stated Manley. “I started thinking about how I have this position at Xavier and as a HBCU Xavier is limited in resources. There’s not a lot of space for club sports but last fall we started a club program with the help of NORC.”

Initially the team operated like an extended learn-to-row program. There were a lot of supporters of the program, and it started to gain attention from the university’s administration, which was already planning to expand current sports and offerings for students.

“By the time we started having these conversations with them there was already a club in place, and we had a little more than a dozen students who were getting into the sport,” said Manley. “The administration decided last spring that they were going to add rowing as a varsity sport so it is a program that will be built mostly from the ground up.”

The head coach will be expected to carry out the typical tasks of a collegiate head coach in addition to focusing on starting up the team, gaining interest from students and community members and heavily recruiting especially during the transition to varsity.

“The coach should be someone who is a typical head coach and in other ways is pioneering to build the first coed HBCU program in the country ever,” noted Manley. “Howard University had a program in the late 60s for men only. Saint Augustine’s University started a women’s only program—this will be the first co-ed program.”

Xavier will compete in NAIA and do much of its racing locally in Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, and Georgia in addition to competing at ACRA and SRAA events.

“As we are trying to change the way that rowing looks. A lot of these amazing efforts have happened at the middle school and high school level. We also need to make it clear to these rowers that there are spaces within the collegiate landscape for them. I’ve talked to Arshay Cooper [author of A Most Beautiful Thing] and he has had a lot of rowers that end up no longer rowing because it is important to them that they got to an HBCU so this is an opportunity for them to not have to make that choice but it’s also a larger statement that there is a real commitment from beginning of career to all points in a rowing career to open up different kinds of spaces for potential rowers.”

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