https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/109/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/nico-hoerner-trade-candidate-red-sox-mariners-royals-braves/It's been without power, but in the first half of July, Nico Hoerner has appeared to come around a bit at the plate. He's not ever likely to blossom into a powerful hitter, and he seems to be at his best when he understands and embraces that reality, using the whole field and keeping a sound pla...975Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:18:19 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/justin-steele-trade-candidates-mayo-kjerstad-rushing-rodriguez/After this season, the Cubs will still control the rights of Justin Steele for three more years, assuming they don't trade him first. Steele reached arbitration as a Super Two player last winter, and is making $4 million this season. He's going to get expensive over the next few years, but every...974Thu, 18 Jul 2024 11:49:11 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/in-michael-busch-cubs-have-their-first-baseman-of-the-present-and-future-r973/  While the Chicago Cubs were able to cap off the first half of the 2024 season on a largely positive note, truly encouraging narratives around the team remain fairly sparse. The bullpen cost them games early in the year, and the lineup was pinned down by a number of underperforming and/or...973Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:08:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/5-impending-free-agents-who-should-shape-cubs-trade-deadline-plans-r972/The particular shape of the Cubs' frustrating first half has closed some doors for Jed Hoyer and company. At the outset of the season, names like Pete Alonso (a free agent at season's end) and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.(a costly potential trade target) were high on the wish lists of many Cubs fans. N...972Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:06:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/jim-edmonds-can-go-soak-his-toasted-raviolis-but-yes-christopher-morel-is-a-problem-r971/Allow me to get one thing clear before I really jump into this article: I love Christopher Morel. I firmly believe that having professional baseball players act in a manner that clearly shows that they are having fun is important for the growth of the game. Frankly, I wish I derived even 20 perc...971Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:12:06 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/is-kyle-hendrickss-cut-change-unique-r966/It's not just that Kyle Hendricks throws two distinct versions of his changeup. It's also extremely unusual that he throws one of them the way he does. Changeups come in all shapes and velocities, and some cut toward the glove side, in an absolute sense, while others have a crazy amount of arm-s...966Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:38:55 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/how-shota-imanaga-became-a-2024-all-star-and-what-he-means-to-the-cubs-r965/To be sure, a few players on the roster have done good work thus far, even as the Cubs have trudged out to a NL Central-worst 47-51 record to start the season. Three everyday hitters (Michael Busch, Seiya Suzuki, Ian Happ) have an OPS above .800. Tyson Miller has been electric out of the bullpen...965Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:36:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/jed-hoyer-and-the-french-radical-r964/There is an infamous quotation ascribed to the French revolutionary leader (not that French Revolution; no, not that one, either; the Revolution of 1848) Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin. Although briefly the chief champion of the proletariat during that mid-century uprising, he failed to provide...964Mon, 15 Jul 2024 11:58:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/week-in-review-well-it-could-have-been-better-r961/961Mon, 15 Jul 2024 02:19:40 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/breaking-down-the-cubs-roster-and-its-trade-values-r950/Immovable Money/No Trade Clauses Dansby Swanson, Ian Happ, Seiya Suzuki, Kyle Hendricks, Drew Smyly There are not many multiverses in which these guys get moved, so let’s move on. Theoretically, the first three would be long-term building blocks, but they fit better here with difficulty m...950Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:55:13 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/with-the-brief-but-enthralling-cody-bellinger-era-possibly-ending-what-did-it-all-mean-r954/I keep my phone face down on my nightstand overnight to help me sleep better. Less distraction and less unnecessary light beaming out of my device like a walk sign on Michigan Avenue. But then, one night, I left it face up, and at around 2:00 AM, I got the same alert I’m sure many of you did as...954Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:12:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-untouchables-the-five-players-the-cubs-cannot-should-not-trade-at-the-deadline-r953/There isn’t a stretch to talk them out if it in the way that we saw 2023. Veterans currently on the roster will no longer be so by the time the calendar flips over to August.  Navigating that, though, remains a difficult task. The Cubs, at large, are an underperforming group. They don’t hav...953Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:55:01 +0000