https://northsidebaseball.com/legacy-nsbb-1/cubs-articles/page/2/?d=2Joomla Posts 1: Joomla Posts 1enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/legacy-nsbb-1/cubs-articles/addison-russell-seems-mostly-fixed-at-the-plate-r9/After a tremendous start to the season, Addison Russell went through a mighty slump in May. He seems to have mostly rebounded and has been well above average over his last 10 games. The chart below shows the extent of his slump and recovery. Let's see if we can find out what drove the slump and what...9Thu, 23 Jun 2016 02:52:31 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/legacy-nsbb-1/cubs-articles/an-addendum-to-my-critique-of-javier-baez-r8/In my last article, we discussed Javier Baez's plate discipline, or lack thereof.  We briefly touched on the fact that Javy is making more contact on pitches thrown outside of the strike zone.  This year, his Z-Contact% (the % of pitches he makes contact on inside the strike zone) is 79.8% according...8Fri, 10 Jun 2016 01:11:29 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/legacy-nsbb-1/cubs-articles/javier-baezs-plate-discipline-or-lack-thereof-r7/Much has been said about Javier Baez and his propensity to swing at pitches out of the zone.  He's always been a free swinger, and this year is no different. Today, we are going to examine his zone profiles at BrooksBaseball and Fangraphs to see if there is anything that's changed in his approach at...7Mon, 06 Jun 2016 23:13:17 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/legacy-nsbb-1/cubs-articles/jorge-soler-ev-and-la-charts-r6/I was inspired by Aaron to spend some time on the Baseball Savant website. I chose to study my favorite engima: how Jorge Soler can hit the ball so damn hard and yet have mediocre results. I'm still getting my arms around using the site to do good analysis, so I figured I'd take an easy first step a...6Sat, 04 Jun 2016 19:55:54 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/legacy-nsbb-1/cubs-articles/statcast-fun-with-addison-russell-r5/In my last article, I briefly mentioned that the Cubs give up the lowest BABIP against on balls hit with less than a 10° launch angle, these being ground balls.  I attributed this partly to having Addison Russell playing shortstop.  Today, we'll see if we can glean anything from Statcast to substant...5Thu, 02 Jun 2016 13:18:03 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/legacy-nsbb-1/cubs-articles/the-cubs-and-weak-contact-r4/Stop me if you've heard this before, but the Cubs have been very good at a number of things so far this season.  They are 35-14, after all.  Today we'll focus on one of the things at which they are very good, namely their proficiency in inducing weak contact.  It seems pertinent to delve into this p...4Wed, 01 Jun 2016 03:23:05 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/legacy-nsbb-1/cubs-articles/first-summer-trade-rumor-baez-for-eovaldi-r3/The Cubs first rumor has surfaced for the summer. This article, among others, links the Chicago Cubs to pitcher Nate Eovaldi from the Yankees. Everything is pure speculation at this point, but lets take a look anyway. How good is Eovaldi? Eovaldi has been one of the hardest throwing starting pitch...3Tue, 31 May 2016 22:01:56 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/legacy-nsbb-1/cubs-articles/hammel-hurt-again-r2/It appears as though the injury to Jason Hammel is nothing more than cramps. Hammel had to leave his start today during warmups for the third inning. As he was warming up, he started to shake his leg and grab his hamstring.  As quoted at Cubs.com, Hammel says that he felt he was fully hydrated, but...2Mon, 30 May 2016 22:57:45 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/legacy-nsbb-1/cubs-articles/we-are-good-r1/Just sayin'.1Mon, 30 May 2016 21:19:48 +0000