https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/112/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-unexpected-revival-of-kyle-hendricks-r914/Amid a stretch where the Cubs have been entirely devoid of joy or positivity, it’s been hard to find something optimistic to write about. Not that everything I write has to be optimistic, but that also makes me, and hopefully you, feel good and helps give me something to look forward to when I t...914Sun, 30 Jun 2024 14:08:38 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/destination-the-show-episode-42-mlb-draft-demo-outfield-and-more-r911/911Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:11:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/trading-justin-steele-will-hurt-but-it-might-be-the-best-path-toward-sustained-contention-r913/Looking at the World Series winners from the past 20 years, all but one had either an MVP-level season or a Hall of Fame player on them. Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Corey Seager, David Ortiz, Jose Altuve, Clayton Kershaw, Max Scherzer, Juan Soto, and Buster Posey are the names from just the l...913Sat, 29 Jun 2024 13:15:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/trade-nico-hoerner-matt-shaw-james-triantos/There is, of course, the discussion as to whether the Cubs even have players of enough value worthy of selling. Given the volume of underperforming players on the roster, it's not an entirely unreasonable opinion. Those worth moving at the deadline are more likely to be players the team prefers...912Sat, 29 Jun 2024 11:50:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/minor-league-pitchers-cade-horton-michael-arias-jaxon-wiggins/When searching for reasons as to why the team dwells at the bottom of the NL Central, you can point to a plethora of factors: offensive futility with RISP, early-inning scoring droughts, and, of course, the Cubs’ abysmal bullpen. The bullpen has 17 blown saves, none currently more nausea-inducin...910Fri, 28 Jun 2024 18:11:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/what-to-know-about-the-brewers-in-the-cubs-weekend-series-r909/If there’s ever been a representation of a rivalry manifesting in two more opposite teams, I haven’t seen it. The Brewers are atop the NL Central, and the Cubs are dead last. The Brewers have cobbled together a piecemeal rotation headlined by Freddy Peralta and a mish-mash of whoever has been av...909Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:14:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/javier-assad-cubs-injuries-vinny-nittoli-porter-hodge/It was bad enough when Jameson Taillon had to open the season on the injured list, and then when he was joined there by Justin Steele after Steele's Opening Day hamstring strain. Barely a week later, Julian Merryweather was down with a serious ribcage injury, and the team has not been full stren...908Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:19:18 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/shota-imanaga-needs-to-make-his-curveball-more-of-a-true-weapon-r907/It's fair to characterize Shota Imanaga's pitch usage this season as overwhelmingly reliant on two pitches: his good, high-ride, high-spin, flat-VAA fastball, and his unique lefty splitter. It's no surprise that he would lean on those offerings; he's been extremely effective that way. As recentl...907Thu, 27 Jun 2024 22:12:54 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/are-the-cubs-even-in-a-position-to-sell-at-the-deadline-r906/The Cubs continue to plummet down the standings page of the NL Central, with each game feeling like a worse loss than the last. After Monday’s game, they were 37-42, the same record as last year at this time. In 2023, they were able to turn it around, and missed the playoffs by one game. At firs...906Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:20:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/pete-crow-armstrong-makes-plays-you-can-dream-on-its-turning-into-a-nightmare-r905/It was, all in all, a pretty good night at the plate for Pete Crow-Armstrong. He snuck a ground ball through the right side for a second-inning RBI single, and in the fourth, he drew a leadoff walk, then raced around to score on a single after taking off on a steal attempt with the pitch. Even i...905Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:34:56 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-catcher-trade-blue-jays-alejandro-kirk-danny-jansen/Still, context does matter. The Cubs, ideally, are a team on the upswing. No matter how you feel about the current major league roster, they have what FanGraphs rates as the best farm system in baseball. In a perfect world, the future is brighter, perhaps as soon as next season.  Maybe that...904Wed, 26 Jun 2024 23:12:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/which-cubs-prospects-could-come-up-from-the-minors-to-help-the-2024-cubs-r903/Should things continue at their current pace, the Chicago Cubs are going to find themselves in a weird sort of purgatory as the trade deadline approaches. They're not necessarily bad enough to sell. They're certainly not good enough to buy. With the former, you wonder which of their underperform...903Wed, 26 Jun 2024 11:49:00 +0000