https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/114/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cody-bellinger-is-two-different-hitters-and-not-just-based-on-the-count-r1007/On balance, being a left-handed hitter is an advantage in baseball. You start a step or two closer to first base, so if you have speed, it's a bit easier to collect infield hits. More importantly, most pitchers are right-handed, so you'll carry the platoon advantage more often. In compensation f...1007Wed, 31 Jul 2024 15:43:16 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/at-mlb-trade-deadline-cubs-poise-to-strike-but-dont-get-chance-to-pounce-r1006/The late-developing theme, as the trade deadline passed Tuesday evening, was a lot of teams shrinking from prices they perceived as too high for controllable players who might have changed hands, and a few last-second price drops on the part of semi-desperate sellers. The Cubs were concertedly n...1006Tue, 30 Jul 2024 23:30:32 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-trade-mark-leiter-jr-acquire-two-prospects-from-yankees-r1004/Mark Leiter Jr. is a Cub no more. For the most consistently available and dominant reliever on the team over the last season and a half, the Cubs acquire righty reliever Jack Neely and infield prospect Ben Cowles from the Yankees. It's an underwhelming return, although for a reliever...1004Tue, 30 Jul 2024 17:32:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/one-sure-thing-today-cubs-will-not-add-more-than-25-million-in-net-salary-r1003/It's almost negligible, but keep an eye on it. When the Cubs traded for Isaac Paredes and gave up Christopher Morel, their salary obligations for the balance of the season rose by just under $1 million. That's not an important amount of money to the Ricketts family, of course, but it's important...1003Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:56:43 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/christopher-morel-was-once-the-hope-cubs-fans-needed-but-isaac-paredes-is-the-reality-they-need-today-r1001/On May 18, 2022, the Cubs were in a dark place, sending their fans into a vortex of doom and gloom. They had sold off or let go of beloved fan favorites and entered into a rebuild that was not called a rebuild. With a 15-21 record, the promise of a deal that never happened of Willson Contreras a...1001Tue, 30 Jul 2024 13:19:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/trade-candidate-nico-hoerner-seiya-suzuki-isaac-paredes-deadline/Conversations have swirled and eddied, surged and slowed in the 40 hours or so since the Cubs made the most surprising trade of the deadline period Sunday, sending Christopher Morel and two pitchers to the Rays in exchange for Isaac Paredes. A very strong gravity has pulled those conversations b...1002Tue, 30 Jul 2024 11:06:41 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/in-two-different-ways-nate-pearson-is-a-quintessential-cubs-relief-acquisition-r1000/It's not the fact that Nate Pearson throws hard that attracted the Cubs to him. There are plenty of relievers who throw hard, and many of them have much more success doing so than Pearson does. His fastball command stinks. His injury history stinks. His track record, as a whole, stinks. They did...1000Mon, 29 Jul 2024 15:23:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/with-pressure-on-jed-hoyer-is-moving-up-some-timelines-r999/One of Jed Hoyer's consistently stated goals since taking over the leadership of the Cubs' baseball operations department has been to emphasize drafting and player development. Hiring Dan Kantrovitz was an investment in starting to get the Draft right, after years of not truly doing so. The Cubs...999Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:08:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/week-in-review-cubs-make-waves-not-ripples-in-big-week-r998/Considering the calm before the July 30th trade deadline storm, Jed Hoyer and Carter Hawkins are orchestrating the old switcheroo from their earlier proclaimed “seller” status. In scooping up the career .734 OPS slugger Isaac Paredes, the Cubs’ brass boldly reneged on packing it in for this seas...998Mon, 29 Jul 2024 01:04:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/in-swapping-christopher-morel-for-isaac-paredes-cubs-aim-for-big-two-way-upgrade-and-more-flexibility-r997/For the second consecutive year, the Chicago Cubs have acquired a corner infielder that was once part of their own organization (and, in a further level of irony, included in the same 2017 trade). However, the difference in context between last year’s Jeimer Candelario addition and Sunday’s acqu...997Sun, 28 Jul 2024 22:19:19 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/blockbuster-cubs-land-isaac-paredes-send-christopher-morel-to-rays-in-huge-trade-r996/This is a huge one, and while it comes a bit out of left field, it couldn't make more sense, or have more bread crumbs forming a trail right up to it. The implications are massive, for this year and far beyond. Christopher Morel will be the centerpiece of a move that brings in his own replacemen...996Sun, 28 Jul 2024 19:02:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/how-the-cubs-and-the-milwaukee-brewers-could-be-irresistibly-perfect-trade-partners-r995/An injury to Christian Yelich has left the division-leading Brewers short a left-handed bat as they head into the trade deadline. The team doesn't want to pour a lot of resources into that breach, because they're in the process of reinforcing their injury-ravaged pitching staff, and that needs t...995Sun, 28 Jul 2024 11:20:02 +0000