https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/page/24/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/trade-desperate-cubs-pick-up-left-handed-starter-david-peterson-from-mets-r2994/It's not about finding playoff-caliber starters right now. It's not about building a bridge to a long-term winner, either. The Cubs simply have games to play this weekend, and too few healthy starting pitchers to fill the slots on their schedule. Feeling around in the dark, they scooped up the f...2994Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:53:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/hoby-milner-provider-extraordinaire-of-volume-and-stability-for-cubs-bullpen-r2983/That the Chicago Cubs' bullpen hasn't been a total catastrophe serves as something of a minor miracle in this 2026 season. Despite a fWAR figure that ranks just 24th in the league (-0.1), they sit comfortably in the top half of the league in reliever ERA (3.82), walk rate (9.2 percent), and grou...2983Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:05:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/cubs-avalanche-of-pitching-injuries-reaches-insurmountable-status-are-they-stuck-r2988/Both Ben Brown and Edward Cabrera landed on the injured list Wednesday. Brown (ironically, the one Cubs hurler not plagued by the home-run ball and vulnerable to whiplash this year) has a neck strain; Cabrera has injuries to both his hamstring and his adductor. Brown could be back relatively soo...2988Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:03:10 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/seiya-suzuki-trade-candidate-landing-spots-and-potential-returns-for-cubs-slugger-r2984/Mother Nature and the Chicago Cubs seem to think otherwise, but we are in the midst of summer. The Fourth of July is around the corner and the Cubs currently sit at 41-37, 7.5 games out of first in the NL Central. They're tied with the Padres for the final Wild Card spot, narrowly behind the Car...2984Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:09:55 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/overselling-pete-crow-armstrong-has-become-kind-of-impossible-r2985/Pete Crow-Armstrong contains multitudes. Almost immediately upon making his Chicago Cubs debut with a 2023 cup of coffee, it was clear that there would be multiple sides of the Crow-Armstrong experience. He's a player with loud tools capable of doing things rarely seen on a baseball field, in al...2985Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:59:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/dansby-swanson-has-mastered-the-art-of-making-up-for-terrible-hitting-with-elite-defense-r2980/There’s been a lot of consternation about Dansby Swanson this year, and rightfully so. He has been really bad at the plate, after all. Heading into their late-June series against the New York Mets, his wRC+, which is an all-encompassing offensive statistic where 100 is average, sits at just...2980Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:05:03 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/under-cubs-stewardship-edward-cabrera-has-simply-gotten-much-worse-r2978/The good news, according to Baseball Prospectus's StuffPro metric, is that Edward Cabrera's slider hasn't gotten any worse this year. It's still a plus pitch, when he can locate it anywhere near the zone. In fact, that pitch should have more utility this year, in theory, because he's throwing fr...2978Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:42:16 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/reviewing-the-cubs-2025-trade-deadline-moves-r2977/  As we near July and get into the full swing of trade season, it's worth going back and looking at the 2025 trade deadline to review how it went for the Cubs. Jed Hoyer and Carter Hawkins were busy, making four trades on deadline day last year in an effort to bolster their championship hop...2977Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:09:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/seiya-suzuki-has-turned-a-quick-release-into-a-real-run-stopping-outfield-arm-r2976/Check the top of Statcast's leaderboard for outfield arm value in 2026, and you'll see Pete Crow-Armstrong wrestling for first place with the Dodgers' Andy Pages. If you've watched either play over the last two seasons, that's no surprise. Pages has as much raw arm strength as anyone in the game...2976Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:06:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/colin-reas-survival-instinct-has-become-his-best-quality-r2973/Most pitchers spend their 30s trying to hold on to whatever once made them special. Colin Rea has taken a different path. Rather than clinging to a previous version of himself, he has built a career around finding new ways to adapt every time the game demands another adjustment. He did it in Mil...2973Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:33:51 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/trade-him-or-promote-him-either-way-jefferson-rojas-will-play-a-role-in-the-future-of-the-cubs-r2972/Josiah Hartshorn has, for good reason, garnered many of the headlines around the Cubs farm system this year. He's the sexiest prospect of the moment for this team. He's the teenager already playing at High-A, and looking utterly dynamic. But he's still not the Cubs' top prospect. For now, that h...2972Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:55:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/chicago-cubs-news/cubs/cubs-difficult-decision-to-demote-mois%C3%A9s-ballesteros-should-yield-long-term-benefits-r2964/Moisés Ballesteros' second-half audition in 2025 was so impressive that the Chicago Cubs felt comfortable handing him the reigns to the designated hitter spot full-time in 2026. Through 66 plate appearances, he posted a .298/.394/.474 line with proportionally-appropriate 18.2 percent strikeout a...2964Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:00:03 +0000