https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/115/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-state-of-the-cubs-brand-r993/Whether driving in from Lombard or stepping off the 22 bus at Clark and Waveland, a Cubs baseball game harnesses the power to change your mood, maybe even your life. And that’s even in a year like this, with the product on the field as bad as it is. Estimated at over $4.2 billion, The Chicago Cu...993Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:12:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/trade-candidate-jameson-taillon-red-sox-yankees-orioles-astros/This week has seen an absolute torrent of Jameson Taillon trade rumors. It might be easier to name teams who haven't been linked to him, but for the sake of clarity, let's just list those who have: the Houston Astros, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, and Baltimore Orioles. When I wrote about Ta...992Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:38:29 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/trade-candidate-mike-tauchman-groin-injury-yankees/For the second straight season, Mike Tauchman has been a pleasant surprise amid a roster full of disappointment. He's roughly a league-average hitter, with on-base skills making up the huge majority of his value. He's a fine outfielder, a bit below average in center field but a bit better than a...991Thu, 25 Jul 2024 23:09:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/destination-the-show-episode-45-2024-mlb-draft-review-r989/In episode 45 of Destination: The Show, Jeremy and Jamie review the 2024 MLB Draft classes for the Cubs, Brewers, and Twins. They talk through day one hauls in depth before digging into best value picks, under-the-radar names from day two and three, and their overall impressions of each class....989Thu, 25 Jul 2024 16:02:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-best-news-of-the-cubs-month-so-far-might-just-be-miguel-amayas-progress-r990/As discouraging as much of the 2024 Chicago Cubs offense has been, the absence of production from behind the plate has been almost dispiriting. A tag-team plan that began with Miguel Amaya and Yan Gomes has been disappointing enough to see half the unit jettisoned from the roster, while the othe...990Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:01:20 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/5-controllable-stars-cubs-could-target-this-week-in-blockbuster-trades-r988/That Hoyer and company understand their situation better than to try to make short-term upgrades is encouraging. The next logical question they face, though, is an equally important one: how do you go about acquiring players who represent long-term upgrades, and who can help you avoid the grisly...988Thu, 25 Jul 2024 11:56:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/podcast-this-is-not-a-rebuild-jul-24-2024-closers-playing-screw-the-team-r987/It's been a few weeks since our last episode, but all the important facts of Cubdom remain unchanged. Jed Hoyer is ready to acknowledge that this team can't be a trade-deadline buyer, but it's not yet clear whether he understands that they need to be sellers. More importantly, it's hard to figur...987Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:15:58 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/once-the-trade-deadline-comes-and-goes-what-will-make-the-cubs-interesting-r986/Admittedly, I’ve wavered on a number of occasions, as it relates to the 2024 Chicago Cubs. The team appeared to collapse in on itself after a strong April. An underperforming offense and a woeful bullpen had me starting to think about the other ways in which I could consume the sport, without it...986Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:02:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/three-historical-mlb-trades-to-show-the-risks-rewards-of-the-cubs-trading-justin-steele-r984/What could the Cubs expect in return for such a deal? History has few examples of pitchers with years remaining around Justin Steele’s level at the deadline, but they exist. Twitter is chirping with rumors of Tarik Skubal and Garrett Crochet; the Cubs should explore the return for Justin Steele....984Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:55:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/trade-candidates-neris-merryweather-leiter-smyly-miller/  For a while there, Craig Counsell was trying to hold together a bullpen on a team aimed at contention without the services of any of the four best pitchers in that bullpen, as of a year ago: Julian Merryweather, Adbert Alzolay, Mark Leiter Jr., and Drew Smyly. The team had to make do, for...985Tue, 23 Jul 2024 22:03:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/if-cubs-want-to-win-in-2nd-half-jameson-taillon-must-be-even-better-r982/Here’s a fun fact: the Cubs currently have five players on the roster playing on a contract worth more than $60 million. Three of them (Ian Happ, Seiya Suzuki, Cody Bellinger) make up the starting outfield triumvirate, and another is the seven-year, $177 million deal World Series champion Dansby...982Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:14:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cody-bellinger-isnt-going-anywhere-this-month-or-this-fall-r983/Jed Hoyer came right out on Monday and said it. Unless the Chicago Cubs defy what the first three-plus months of the season have shown us, they’ll be set to sell ahead of the Jul. 30 trade deadline. We’ve already heard rumblings about a handful of veteran players who could be dealt before that p...983Tue, 23 Jul 2024 11:24:02 +0000