https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/140/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/trade-rumors-nico-hoerner-shaw-triantos-mariners/It’s officially July, the Cubs are plummeting, and rumors are everywhere. It sure seems like the Cubs will be sellers, although this next week should confirm or reverse that. One name that I wasn’t particularly ready to show up in rumors was Nico Hoerner, but it seems that there are talks of him...942Tue, 09 Jul 2024 23:08:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/whats-jameson-taillons-trade-value-and-who-might-want-him-r940/In his first 14 starts of the season, Jameson Taillon has thrown 81 innings and notched a 2.99 ERA. The latter figure would be the best of his big-league career, and there are some reasons to wonder how legitimate his success has been, but you can go all the way back to Jul. 1 of last year and f...940Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:02:06 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-will-focus-on-draft-this-week-but-then-spotlight-swings-to-two-trade-candidates-r935/When Cubs executive Jed Hoyer joined broadcasters Boog Sciambi and Jim Deshaies in the broadcast booth Saturday afternoon, the mess below them made clear the writing on the wall before them. Hoyer's frustration with a season full of bad injury luck and sloppy play was evident, as he gave an upda...935Mon, 08 Jul 2024 11:33:14 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/week-in-review-uneven-week-all-but-seals-cubs-fate-with-trade-deadline-near-r933/But, if you were hoping for the start of a miracle run that pulls the club out of the seller cellar, this was not the week for you. The Cubs returned to Wrigley this week for a unique six-game home stand against one of MLB’s best teams and one of MLB’s worst teams. After an off day last Mon...933Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:18:49 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/why-the-cubs-should-buy-at-the-trade-deadline-r932/The Cubs aren’t in a position to sell at the trade deadline. Despite their talk of intelligent spending and maintaining flexibility, they are locked into this roster with no obvious moves to sell. It’s time to add on and buy for the rest of this season and beyond. The first reason the Cubs...932Sun, 07 Jul 2024 17:53:06 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/with-everything-going-wrong-are-we-prepared-for-a-cubs-resurgence-r931/As the last firework embers cascade down towards the grounds of Navy Pier, and we steamroll closer and closer to the MLB trade deadline like a Metra train on its way to Naperville, we still have an awful lot of baseball left to play. An awful lot of baseball and a rising tide of trade talks rega...931Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:18:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-increasing-murkiness-of-the-cubs-dh-spot-r930/930Sat, 06 Jul 2024 11:56:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-hitter-of-the-month-june-2024-r926/Seiya Suzuki can be a very frustrating hitter to watch, but overall, he has put up good numbers. Suzuki also had a high strikeout rate of 32.7%, with a relatively low walk rate. He had a .851 OPS in June, hitting five home runs with twelve RBIs. What's most frustrating with Suzuki is how he ofte...926Thu, 04 Jul 2024 16:16:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-staying-under-the-tax-threshold-in-december-leads-to-cubs-selling-at-trade-deadline-r927/I won’t belabor what’s going on with the Cubs right now. The team stinks. They’re the worst team in the NL Central, a whopping 13 games behind the division-leading Milwaukee Brewers and one of just three teams in the National League that has yet to reach the 40-win threshold. If this were 2...927Thu, 04 Jul 2024 11:47:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/christopher-morels-bat-speed-keeps-going-to-waste-r925/When MLB released Statcast bat-tracking data for public consumption earlier this season, the headlines for Cubs partisans wrote themselves. Christopher Morel swings extraordinarily fast! It was one of those insights from advanced baseball data that are so obvious to even a casual observer that t...925Wed, 03 Jul 2024 23:08:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/michael-buschs-midseason-adjustments-are-paying-off-r924/Having missed the start of last Saturday’s win over the Brewers, I was overjoyed when I pulled out my phone to catch myself up on the action. The Cubs were up 2-0! Even better, it was thanks to a Michael Busch home run. Something, in particular, caught my eye about that home run on the Game...924Wed, 03 Jul 2024 14:31:59 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-pitcher-of-the-month-june-2024-r923/923Wed, 03 Jul 2024 12:00:01 +0000