https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/160/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/who-will-make-up-the-cubs-new-core-r168/Chicago sports are no exception. The Bulls dynasty of the 1990s had theirs. The Blackhawks teams of 2010 to 2015 had their core. The last great Cubs team featured an extensive one, with a core group that consisted of Anthony Rizzo, Kris Bryant, Javíer Baez, and Willson Contreras, among position...168Tue, 04 Jul 2023 12:31:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/what-in-the-world-are-the-cubs-doing-with-miguel-amaya-r164/A concussion suffered by Yan Gomes forced the Cubs to call up Miguel Amaya from Double-A Tennessee in early May. That stay on the roster only lasted about a week, but Amaya got the bump to Triple-A Iowa thereafter. Three weeks later, he was back with the parent time, this time thanks to his own...164Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:16:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cant-win-for-losing-r169/The Cubs started what is, technically, the second half of their season Sunday night with a game that neatly summarized their first half. It was, in turns, infuriating, depressing, wildly exciting, and then deflating. The ultimate culprit in their failure was bad luck, but that didn't change the...169Mon, 03 Jul 2023 12:45:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-hitter-june23-hoerner-morel-dansby-swanson-ian-happ/With April being a solid offensive month and May disappointing, it was nice to see the Cubs show a semblance of balance and produce a middle-of-the-pack performance in June. Despite starting the month off relatively slow, the Cubs picked up the pace toward the end, leading to an overall fun mont...166Mon, 03 Jul 2023 12:08:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/nick-madrigal-has-earned-a-shot-r167/Like most who follow the Cubs closely, my reaction when I read that the Cubs were going to be giving Nick Madrigal reps at third-base during Spring Training was to laugh. Most third basemen are large, slugging types–like Patrick Wisdom, for instance. Madrigal, at 5’8”, 175 lbs, and with two majo...167Mon, 03 Jul 2023 06:49:17 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-cubs-have-three-players-headed-to-the-2023-all-star-game-r165/  Remarkable even in the absence of anything truly spectacular, Dansby Swanson has come exactly as advertised this season. Of the stars the Cubs could have signed to big deals to be their shortstop over the last two winters (Trea Turner, Xander Bogaerts, Carlos Correa, Javier Baez, Corey Se...165Sun, 02 Jul 2023 22:53:44 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-pitcher-of-the-month-june-2023-r162/How did the Cubs provide a winning record in June after floundering in May? Dropping your team ERA from 4.73 to 3.43 sure doesn't hurt! Strike outs per nine innings, team FIP, and team WAR on the pitching side of the ledger didn't improve drastically, but overall consistency from game to game a...162Sun, 02 Jul 2023 16:19:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-phantom-game-on-mothers-day-2003-was-bonkers-r160/On Mother's Day 2003, the Cardinals and Cubs were set to play the rubber match of a three-game series. Chicago had won the previous day on a walkoff to go up 1.5 games on St. Louis, in what would prove to be a pivotal matchup. The day before, Sammy Sosa was placed on the disabled list after gett...160Sun, 02 Jul 2023 12:38:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/misinformation-is-justin-steeles-third-pitch-r161/I've written more than once about Justin Steele's fastball this year. Way back In April, I first documented the fact that his cut-ride fastball really lacked what we would typically call 'ride'. Last week, I wrote about Steele again in advance of his start in London, with the new information tha...161Sat, 01 Jul 2023 12:30:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/would-you-trade-pete-crow-armstrong-for-pete-alonso-r153/Of course, it would cost quite a bit to acquire Pete Alonso. The Mark McGwire-shaped first baseman broke Aaron Judge's short-lived rookie home run record in 2019, and felt more like the right spiritual successor to McGwire, who had held that record for 30 years before Judge. He's more or less ke...153Thu, 29 Jun 2023 12:14:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/jameson-taillon-brandon-marsh-and-the-lost-art-of-reading-swings-r152/It seemed like Brandon Marsh spotted something extremely early against Jameson Taillon. Over a month in to a fairly grisly slump, Marsh suddenly found the aggressive, powerful swing that went missing for him during that period of struggle. He hit two home runs against Taillon, accounting for ove...152Wed, 28 Jun 2023 12:22:46 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/3-hitters-the-cubs-could-target-at-trade-deadline-r149/It's probably surprising to some to hear that the team is above-average in run scoring, at least on the senior circuit. They went through a long fallow period at the plate, and their weaknesses (being on the wrong side of average both in strikeout rate and in power) can make them disproportionat...149Tue, 27 Jun 2023 12:35:08 +0000