https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/page/137/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/adbert-alzolay-is-on-twitter-pleading-for-the-life-of-his-country-its-your-job-to-listen-r1027/What do we owe to each other? Sometimes, we're helpless to change the big, bad things of the world, but when we take as much from a place as baseball fans have taken from Venezuela, part of what we owe in return is our attention and our effort. There is an unfortunate tendency, in the United...1027Wed, 07 Aug 2024 16:52:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/dansby-swanson-swing-change-approach-numbers/Since the All-Star break, the team's formerly All-Star-caliber shortstop has looked a bit more like his All-Star self. Can the good times last? And if so, is this team alive and kicking, after all? For nearly a year, Dansby Swanson's bat looked dead. From Aug. 1, 2023 through the recess for...1026Wed, 07 Aug 2024 11:47:15 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/is-it-even-possible-to-catch-cubs-rookie-pete-crow-armstrong-stealing-r1025/We know, as of about a year ago, that it was possible. But some things have changed. If the season ended today, Pete Crow-Armstrong would be tied for the fourth-most stolen bases in a season by a player who was not caught stealing during that campaign. He's 21-for-21; the only guys who have...1025Tue, 06 Aug 2024 23:09:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/take-a-good-look-at-the-twins-this-week-one-of-them-could-be-a-cub-in-2025-r1024/This winter will bring change to the Cubs roster. They'll need to be opportunistic and aggressive. One team with whom they might need to get together on a move will occupy the visitor's clubhouse at Wrigley Field for another two days. It's not too early to start thinking about the 2025 Chica...1024Tue, 06 Aug 2024 11:03:53 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/are-cubs-waiting-for-cody-bellinger-to-get-healthy-before-making-seiya-suzuki-a-full-time-dh-r1023/The Cubs' incumbent right fielder isn't one, really, and they have 30 million reasons to spend the final several weeks of this season getting a good look at the player who will man that spot in 2025. Though it wasn't quite for the reasons one might have hoped, during Cody Bellinger's absence...1023Mon, 05 Aug 2024 22:11:41 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/as-three-other-top-cubs-prospects-join-them-a-check-in-on-moises-ballesteros-and-owen-caissie-in-iowa-r1021/On Sunday night, news broke that three of the Cubs' top five or six position-player prospects were being promoted from Double-A Tennessee to Triple-A Iowa, Two other top bats in the system will be waiting there to welcome them. Lately, the Cubs are in the bad habit of having their best offen...1021Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:04:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/cubs-hitter-month-july-seiya-suzuki-miguel-amaya-ian-happ/It was a down month for the North Siders but there were some standout performances. #4 Patrick Wisdom Wisdom hit only .222, which is the same on-base percentage as his batting average. Only six hits were had, and Patrick didn’t start but five games. Wisdom deserves mention for his flair fo...1020Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:28:39 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/justin-steele-cutter-fastball-slider-sinker-changeup-curveball/After a few tough starts coming out of the All-Star break, the left-handed workhorse looked much better Sunday night against the Cardinals. Notably, though, he still didn't look like last year's version of himself. It might be time to fully kill the notion that Justin Steele is a two-pitch p...1019Mon, 05 Aug 2024 11:17:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/week-in-review-mistakes-frustration-signal-beginning-of-the-end-r1018/It's not that this Cubs team is terrible, they're just uninspiring. The game of baseball is loaded with rituals and superstitions. Most famous is the collective effort made by teams, fans, and broadcasters when one of their own is tossing a no-hitter or perfect game. There are probably sever...1018Sun, 04 Aug 2024 23:32:28 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/pete-crow-armstrong-is-fast-but-how-fast-is-he-compared-to-an-olympian-r1017/Pete Crow-Armstrong is really, really fast. But when compared to the fastest in the world, how fast is he? If you’re anything like me, you’ve been watching the Summer Olympics for the past week or so. I’ve found myself enjoying the brief respite from the Cubs continuing to tread water by wat...1017Sun, 04 Aug 2024 14:09:18 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/cubs-gm-jed-hoyer-needs-to-start-prioritizing-great-players-not-great-value-r1015/As Jed Hoyer navigates toward the end of his fourth season as the Cubs' General Manager, there is little to indicate his cautious ways are going to change. To his credit or possibly as a team-assigned part of his job, Jed Hoyer speaks regularly on 670 The Score. Mostly, these radio hits are...1015Fri, 02 Aug 2024 23:18:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/in-all-likelihood-sad-end-to-a-happy-marriage-between-adbert-alzolay-and-the-cubs-r1014/The erstwhile fist-pumping closer will undergo surgery this month and miss a large chunk of 2025. The Cubs can't spare his roster spot all winter. Baseball is cruel. It's not the sport's fault; it's part of life. Still, it punches you in the gut sometimes, when a player who deserves so many...1014Fri, 02 Aug 2024 14:02:02 +0000