https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/page/147/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/if-the-2024-chicago-cubs-were-a-person-theyd-be-2013-edwin-jackson-r875/It's Flag Day, and the Chicago Cubs welcome the St. Louis Cardinals to Wrigley Field for the first time in 2024. When they take the field, the flags waving above the center-field scoreboard will tell the story: this is a team flapping blandly and ineffectually in the breeze. It's unkind to b...875Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:15:33 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/his-team-needs-him-badly-and-cody-bellinger-is-trying-to-answer-the-call-r873/You can see it in the way he's playing, but you can also see it in numbers, for proof. With the Chicago Cubs struggling to produce runs and their season in some early peril, their big free-agent prize is doing his utmost to put the team on his back. The Cody Bellinger renaissance last season...873Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:10:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/can-the-rockies-help-the-cubs-boost-their-playoff-odds-sky-high-r872/The Chicago Cubs need help. They need multiple pieces of help. As they teeter on the verge of becoming sellers themselves, though, there remain a couple of surefire sellers who have pieces that might help the North Siders turn things around. One such team is one of the most familiar cellar-dwell...872Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:23:22 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/lets-make-a-deal-what-players-can-the-cubs-acquire-from-the-mets-r869/As we get closer to July, the trade deadline is becoming more of a conversation around baseball. While many teams are still in the hunt, clearly, a few teams are going to be sellers come late July. One of those teams is the New York Mets, who are currently in fourth place in the NL East, eight g...869Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:34:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/vladimir-guerrero-jr-to-cubs-rumors-risk-absurdity-on-a-couple-of-levels-r871/The hot rumor of this week is that the Chicago Cubs might try to acquire the cover athlete for this year's edition of MLB: The Show. It's the kind of notion that inevitably gets fans excited, but it also has a familiar ring of ridiculousness. For the third time in four years, the Cubs have t...871Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:25:35 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/the-automated-zone-in-triple-a-has-rookies-like-ben-brown-pumping-strikes-in-mlb-r870/It's frightening to imagine where the Chicago Cubs' starting rotation would be, if not for their slender right-handed rookie starter. His stuff has always been good, but it's been impressive to see him throw so many strikes in his first bite at the big-league apple. He's far from alone in that r...870Mon, 10 Jun 2024 23:02:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/can-cubs-lessen-seiya-suzukis-workload-and-bolster-lineup-at-the-same-time-r866/Seiya Suzuki was hit by a baseball on Friday while trying to steal second base, and soon had to be removed from the game. It proved not to be cause for alarm, but it speaks to an underlying issue for the Cubs right fielder. Do they need to change his usage to keep him healthy? And how could they...866Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:04:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/cubs-need-to-revive-a-nearly-extinct-baseball-stratagem-to-save-their-season-r867/By now, it's clear to everyone watching closely that the 2024 Chicago Cubs will be defined by the tip of the balance on a thousand or so little things. Unfortunately, they're the very worst team in baseball at managing one of the biggest little things. Four teams have surrendered more stolen...867Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:11:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/never-quite-in-sync-cubs-risk-a-season-lost-before-it-can-be-found-r865/The Chicago Cubs have the record they deserve. They might be a better team than this, but as the games pile up, their identity increasingly lives on the standings page. It hasn't been a matter of winning blowouts and losing nail-biters--although, to be fair, it also hasn't been the other way...865Sun, 09 Jun 2024 17:14:52 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/trade-deadline-los-angeles-angels-logan-ohoppe-luis-rengifo/As the Cubs are reeling in the National League Central, the Angels are flailing in the dark. What Angels players would help the Cubs right the ship in 2024? The trade deadline is traditionally when good teams pillage the bad ones and take all their good players.  Of course, we are assuming t...864Sat, 08 Jun 2024 15:25:34 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/start-relieve-whatever-cubs-just-need-depth-jordan-wicks-brings-to-pitching-staff-r863/Another game got away from the Chicago Cubs in Cincinnati Thursday. As the team tries to find some momentum on the strength of better health and an offense hitting its stride, they badly need one more solid arm--anywhere on the daily depth chart. When last Jordan Wicks appeared on a big-leag...863Fri, 07 Jun 2024 11:10:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/destination-the-show-episode-39-the-2024-mlb-draft-class-with-carlos-collazo-r862/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 39 of Destination: The Show, Jeremy and Jamie sit down with Carlos Collazo, Draft Expert at Baseball America. The gu...862Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:23:00 +0000