https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/131/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/destination-the-show-episode-41-mlb-draft-combine-first-basemen-r891/In episode 41 of Destination: The Show, Jeremy and Jamie talk through the Twins releasing Keoni Cavaco, their first round pick from the 2019 MLB draft. They talk through the risks of the pick, and how MLB teams evaluate their draft classes. The guys go on to talk through the College World S...891Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:17:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/will-cubs-new-catcher-be-a-big-enough-upgrade-to-matter-r890/890Thu, 20 Jun 2024 11:55:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/another-round-michael-busch-is-turning-the-corner-as-he-masters-latest-round-of-tweaks-r889/Any good feeling about individual hitters in the Chicago Cubs’ lineup has been fleeting. We had early plate discipline from Christopher Morel. We had early power from Michael Busch. We have individual moments from Seiya Suzuki. We have a recent power surge from Ian Happ. But none of it has been...889Wed, 19 Jun 2024 23:07:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/willie-mays-the-buildings-on-sheffield-and-what-we-really-want-r888/When the news of Willie Mays's death began to spread and the broadcast teams covering the game between the Giants and Cubs at Wrigley Field realized they would need to relay the sad tidings on the air, both teams' booths made similar decisions. They alluded to the fact that, unlike most other ex...888Wed, 19 Jun 2024 16:01:54 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/is-the-cubs-pitching-lab-even-operational-at-this-point-r887/I’m not going to pretend to know a lot about the inner workings of pitching development. I was never a pitcher (lacking the mental fortitude to do so), and I possess only a rudimentary knowledge of what institutions like Driveline do, outside of increasing velocity. But I do know that the Chicag...887Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:17:11 +0000https://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 +0000