https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/114/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/does-wind-still-matter-the-way-it-once-did-at-wrigley-field-r885/Making sense and use of weather data about baseball games is difficult. No publicly available sources give the temperature, humidity, wind speed, and wind direction for each pitch and batted ball. Instead, we have to try to use large samples of data to smooth out the fact that, within a given ga...885Tue, 18 Jun 2024 22:00:24 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/morel-second-base-hoerner-injury-nido-signing-neris-closer/Here's the paradox of the 2024 Chicago Cubs: They have made it absolutely clear that the rebuild they didn't want to label that way is very much a rebuild, and that it's far from over. Yet, they have a roster theoretically pointed toward short-term contention; a long-term commitment to a new man...884Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:15:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/making-the-case-for-christopher-morel-as-the-cubs-leadoff-hitter-r883/Sure, it would be easy to say, well, yes, they do; Craig Counsell’s ball club is an underachieving disappointment. While that’s true, and I’m writing this in the wake of yet another series loss to the hated St. Louis Cardinals, one that came on a decisive one-run game on Father’s Day, there’s qu...883Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:17:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/trade-rumors-athletics-rooker-mason-miller-mcfarland/As the season enters mid-June, it is easy to look at your team in the standings and wonder what is next. In a subject for a much longer, differently nuanced article, that answer is not clear for the Cubs, as we expected it would be. But for now, let's focus on the moment in front of us, and trea...882Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:54:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/this-cubs-team-just-isnt-fun-to-watch-right-now-r877/I'm in a bad, bad place as a Cub fan. I don't believe in this plan or that this iteration of the Cubs will ever be more than it is right now, for this season, anyway. No, I'm not going to rail about how Ricketts is cheap right now. Nah, it's not time to say Hoyer is not smart enough to do t...877Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:14:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/ben-brown-merryweather-stress-fractures-pitching-motion-injuries/It'll be a while before we get a chance to see Ben Brown continue his exciting rookie season. Shelved last week with what was dubbed a left neck strain, Brown has now been diagnosed with a stress reaction in that area. In essence, a stress reaction is the larval stage of a stress fracture. The C...880Mon, 17 Jun 2024 11:21:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/what-do-the-2012-oakland-athletics-have-to-do-with-the-2024-chicago-cubs-r879/When you try to trace a path from where the Cubs are now to the 2024 postseason, you run into two related but distinct problems. Firstly, the team's record isn't very good. Their loss Friday against the Cardinals dropped them to 33-37 through 70 games, and they face a substantial deficit in the...879Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:12:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-2024-offense-struggling-flyballs-line-drives/The Cubs haven’t been blowing anybody out, but they haven’t exactly been getting blown out, either. Every game seems winnable, only for us all to watch the bullpen blow something like a 2-1 lead late or for the offense to continually fail to come up with any kind of big hit on the rare occasion...878Sun, 16 Jun 2024 11:58:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/if-the-2024-chicago-cubs-were-a-person-theyd-be-2013-edwin-jackson-r875/It's unkind to both parties, but the 2024 Cubs powerfully evoke former Cubs righthander Edwin Jackson, circa 2013. That was the first season of Jackson's four-year contract with the team, signed after the first season of the Theo Epstein-led rebuild as (they hoped and believed) a relatively high...875Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:15:33 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/his-team-needs-him-badly-and-cody-bellinger-is-trying-to-answer-the-call-r873/The Cody Bellinger renaissance last season was rooted deeply in his altered two-strike approach. He drastically reduced his strikeout rate by putting his focus on getting the ball into play when the count reached two strikes. That adjustment begot a highly successful season, and history said he...873Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:10:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/can-the-rockies-help-the-cubs-boost-their-playoff-odds-sky-high-r872/Believe it or not, we are significantly closer to the 2024 MLB Trade Deadline than we are removed from Opening Day. While the Cubs aren’t quite where they’d like to be, they find themselves just a half-game out of the last playoff spot going into Wednesday’s action, thanks to a whole lot of medi...872Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:23:22 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/lets-make-a-deal-what-players-can-the-cubs-acquire-from-the-mets-r869/The first player I want to discuss is Pete Alonso. The Cubs were connected to Alonso this past offseason, but it seems like the Mets didn’t really want to trade him at that juncture. Jeff Passan reported in his Early Trade Deadline Preview that multiple executives around baseball expect him to b...869Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:34:01 +0000