https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/page/144/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/do-bad-teams-play-more-one-run-games-r917/A brief study on an interesting theory about the nature of teams who play close games. As the 2024 Chicago Cubs flail and flounder, one major source of frustration for fans has been their woeful record in one-run games. No team in baseball has played as many as the Cubs' 33 such nailbiters,...917Mon, 01 Jul 2024 13:13:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/trade-candidates-steele-hoerner-suzuki-happ-bellinger/Losing a series in Milwaukee over the weekend was the best thing that could possibly happen to the 2024 Chicago Cubs. They needed it, the way a person battling addiction needs to find rock bottom. The first step to solving a problem is admitting there is one. The Chicago Cubs are bad. Now, they...916Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:18:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/rich-cohen-the-front-office-the-story-of-a-curse-still-being-written-r915/It won't be like this forever... will it? Perhaps one of the more reassuring aspects of Cubs fandom is this: there are many of us. Indeed, when you think of the most prominent and storyline-intensive franchises in all sports, our baseball team finds itself on a short list with the likes of t...915Sun, 30 Jun 2024 19:30:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/the-unexpected-revival-of-kyle-hendricks-r914/There isn't much to be excited about right now, but one old friend's revival should bring some joy. Amid a stretch where the Cubs have been entirely devoid of joy or positivity, it’s been hard to find something optimistic to write about. Not that everything I write has to be optimistic, but...914Sun, 30 Jun 2024 14:08:38 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/destination-the-show-episode-42-mlb-draft-demo-outfield-and-more-r911/Draft tandem Jeremy Nygaard and JD Cameron team up for a podcast to discuss prospects on their way to the big leagues and the MLB draft, produced by Theo Tollefson. In episode 42 of Destination: The Show, Jeremy and Jamie talk through the upcoming plans of the show and why last night's episo...911Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:11:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/trading-justin-steele-will-hurt-but-it-might-be-the-best-path-toward-sustained-contention-r913/In this wasted year, it’s time to put everything on the table. The Cubs have no great bats. The system isn’t developing a great bat. A baseball team needs a great bat to win; there is no chance this bat will come. Looking at the World Series winners from the past 20 years, all but one had ei...913Sat, 29 Jun 2024 13:15:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/trade-nico-hoerner-matt-shaw-james-triantos/As the Chicago Cubs continue their plight in the National League playoff picture, the conversation has somewhat naturally shifted to the buy/sell concept for next month’s MLB trade deadline.  There is, of course, the discussion as to whether the Cubs even have players of enough value worthy...912Sat, 29 Jun 2024 11:50:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/minor-league-pitchers-cade-horton-michael-arias-jaxon-wiggins/The level of dissatisfaction with this Chicago Cubs team could not be higher, and yet, as the club migrates closer and closer to irrelevancy, what happens next may actually be quite interesting. When searching for reasons as to why the team dwells at the bottom of the NL Central, you can poi...910Fri, 28 Jun 2024 18:11:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/what-to-know-about-the-brewers-in-the-cubs-weekend-series-r909/Few expected this mid-season series to have the look it does. Let's dive into how the Cubs and Brewers got here. If there’s ever been a representation of a rivalry manifesting in two more opposite teams, I haven’t seen it. The Brewers are atop the NL Central, and the Cubs are dead last. The...909Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:14:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/javier-assad-cubs-injuries-vinny-nittoli-porter-hodge/The Chicago Cubs' pitching staff has been depleted by injuries since before Opening Day, but it's getting worse by the day. The group is now a patchwork, and the team will have to scramble to stay afloat in the coming weeks. It was bad enough when Jameson Taillon had to open the season on th...908Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:19:18 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/shota-imanaga-needs-to-make-his-curveball-more-of-a-true-weapon-r907/A three-run lead disappeared in the blink of an eye for the Cubs Thursday afternoon, when an 0-2 fastball to Jorge Soler started a string of scoring plays that negated a 3-0 advantage the Cubs had built in the third frame. It was the latest in a string of instances recently in which the team's a...907Thu, 27 Jun 2024 22:12:54 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/are-the-cubs-even-in-a-position-to-sell-at-the-deadline-r906/The 2024 Chicago Cubs certainly haven't earned an infusion of talent, at the expense of their future. They're no deadline buyers. Can they be deadline sellers, in any serious sense? The Cubs continue to plummet down the standings page of the NL Central, with each game feeling like a worse lo...906Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:20:01 +0000