For Chicago-area natives Mike Tauchman and Ryan Borucki, Chicago Cubs camp represents opportunity — and Bears trade talk – The Denver Post

Mike Tauchman’s big-league career has taken him coast to coast.

Five major-league seasons with three teams has brought him to 24 major-league ballparks. One in particular, though, has eluded him. Tauchman is trying to rectify the Wrigley Field omission in the next month. For the Palatine native who grew up a Cubs fan, Tauchman’s opportunity to make the opening-day roster grew exponentially when the team lost right fielder Seiya Suzuki for the start of the season because of an oblique injury.

Tauchman, 32, homered in Saturday’s 5-2 win against the Los Angeles Dodgers, improving to 7-for-21 (.333) this spring with three extra-base hits, two RBIs, six runs scored and three stolen bases in 10 games.

Tauchman spent 2022 in the Korean Baseball Organization where he posted a…