https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/111/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/with-everything-going-wrong-are-we-prepared-for-a-cubs-resurgence-r931/As the last firework embers cascade down towards the grounds of Navy Pier, and we steamroll closer and closer to the MLB trade deadline like a Metra train on its way to Naperville, we still have an awful lot of baseball left to play. An awful lot of baseball and a rising tide of trade talks rega...931Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:18:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-increasing-murkiness-of-the-cubs-dh-spot-r930/930Sat, 06 Jul 2024 11:56:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-hitter-of-the-month-june-2024-r926/Seiya Suzuki can be a very frustrating hitter to watch, but overall, he has put up good numbers. Suzuki also had a high strikeout rate of 32.7%, with a relatively low walk rate. He had a .851 OPS in June, hitting five home runs with twelve RBIs. What's most frustrating with Suzuki is how he ofte...926Thu, 04 Jul 2024 16:16:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-staying-under-the-tax-threshold-in-december-leads-to-cubs-selling-at-trade-deadline-r927/I won’t belabor what’s going on with the Cubs right now. The team stinks. They’re the worst team in the NL Central, a whopping 13 games behind the division-leading Milwaukee Brewers and one of just three teams in the National League that has yet to reach the 40-win threshold. If this were 2...927Thu, 04 Jul 2024 11:47:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/christopher-morels-bat-speed-keeps-going-to-waste-r925/When MLB released Statcast bat-tracking data for public consumption earlier this season, the headlines for Cubs partisans wrote themselves. Christopher Morel swings extraordinarily fast! It was one of those insights from advanced baseball data that are so obvious to even a casual observer that t...925Wed, 03 Jul 2024 23:08:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/michael-buschs-midseason-adjustments-are-paying-off-r924/Having missed the start of last Saturday’s win over the Brewers, I was overjoyed when I pulled out my phone to catch myself up on the action. The Cubs were up 2-0! Even better, it was thanks to a Michael Busch home run. Something, in particular, caught my eye about that home run on the Game...924Wed, 03 Jul 2024 14:31:59 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-pitcher-of-the-month-june-2024-r923/923Wed, 03 Jul 2024 12:00:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-problem-with-the-cubs-offense-might-not-be-what-we-thought-it-was-r922/The Cubs are below-average just about across the board, when it comes to run creation. They don't hit for enough power. They don't collect hits on balls in play, which is because their swings are largely geared toward power they don't have. They don't make enough contact to compensate for those...922Tue, 02 Jul 2024 14:09:30 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-inexperienced-corner-infielders-going-in-two-different-defensive-directions-r919/919Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:36:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/do-bad-teams-play-more-one-run-games-r917/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, and they're 14-19 in those games. Flip that record, and they'd be at least in contention fo...917Mon, 01 Jul 2024 13:13:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/trade-candidates-steele-hoerner-suzuki-happ-bellinger/Little mystery remains, because the choices the front office made this winter amounted to running back the same roster that won 83 games last season after a miraculous July turnaround that made them into contenders until the bottom fell out in September. The sample with which the Cubs front offi...916Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:18:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/rich-cohen-the-front-office-the-story-of-a-curse-still-being-written-r915/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 the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and the L...915Sun, 30 Jun 2024 19:30:00 +0000