https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/141/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-problem-with-the-cubs-offense-might-not-be-what-we-thought-it-was-r922/The Cubs are below-average just about across the board, when it comes to run creation. They don't hit for enough power. They don't collect hits on balls in play, which is because their swings are largely geared toward power they don't have. They don't make enough contact to compensate for those...922Tue, 02 Jul 2024 14:09:30 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-inexperienced-corner-infielders-going-in-two-different-defensive-directions-r919/919Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:36:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/do-bad-teams-play-more-one-run-games-r917/As the 2024 Chicago Cubs flail and flounder, one major source of frustration for fans has been their woeful record in one-run games. No team in baseball has played as many as the Cubs' 33 such nailbiters, and they're 14-19 in those games. Flip that record, and they'd be at least in contention fo...917Mon, 01 Jul 2024 13:13:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/trade-candidates-steele-hoerner-suzuki-happ-bellinger/Little mystery remains, because the choices the front office made this winter amounted to running back the same roster that won 83 games last season after a miraculous July turnaround that made them into contenders until the bottom fell out in September. The sample with which the Cubs front offi...916Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:18:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/rich-cohen-the-front-office-the-story-of-a-curse-still-being-written-r915/Perhaps one of the more reassuring aspects of Cubs fandom is this: there are many of us. Indeed, when you think of the most prominent and storyline-intensive franchises in all sports, our baseball team finds itself on a short list with the likes of the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and the L...915Sun, 30 Jun 2024 19:30:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-unexpected-revival-of-kyle-hendricks-r914/Amid a stretch where the Cubs have been entirely devoid of joy or positivity, it’s been hard to find something optimistic to write about. Not that everything I write has to be optimistic, but that also makes me, and hopefully you, feel good and helps give me something to look forward to when I t...914Sun, 30 Jun 2024 14:08:38 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/destination-the-show-episode-42-mlb-draft-demo-outfield-and-more-r911/911Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:11:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/trading-justin-steele-will-hurt-but-it-might-be-the-best-path-toward-sustained-contention-r913/Looking at the World Series winners from the past 20 years, all but one had either an MVP-level season or a Hall of Fame player on them. Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Corey Seager, David Ortiz, Jose Altuve, Clayton Kershaw, Max Scherzer, Juan Soto, and Buster Posey are the names from just the l...913Sat, 29 Jun 2024 13:15:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/trade-nico-hoerner-matt-shaw-james-triantos/There is, of course, the discussion as to whether the Cubs even have players of enough value worthy of selling. Given the volume of underperforming players on the roster, it's not an entirely unreasonable opinion. Those worth moving at the deadline are more likely to be players the team prefers...912Sat, 29 Jun 2024 11:50:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/minor-league-pitchers-cade-horton-michael-arias-jaxon-wiggins/When searching for reasons as to why the team dwells at the bottom of the NL Central, you can point to a plethora of factors: offensive futility with RISP, early-inning scoring droughts, and, of course, the Cubs’ abysmal bullpen. The bullpen has 17 blown saves, none currently more nausea-inducin...910Fri, 28 Jun 2024 18:11:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/what-to-know-about-the-brewers-in-the-cubs-weekend-series-r909/If there’s ever been a representation of a rivalry manifesting in two more opposite teams, I haven’t seen it. The Brewers are atop the NL Central, and the Cubs are dead last. The Brewers have cobbled together a piecemeal rotation headlined by Freddy Peralta and a mish-mash of whoever has been av...909Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:14:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/javier-assad-cubs-injuries-vinny-nittoli-porter-hodge/It was bad enough when Jameson Taillon had to open the season on the injured list, and then when he was joined there by Justin Steele after Steele's Opening Day hamstring strain. Barely a week later, Julian Merryweather was down with a serious ribcage injury, and the team has not been full stren...908Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:19:18 +0000