https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/2/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/moises-ballesteros-swing-changes-portend-a-very-bright-cubs-future-r2749/Moises Ballesteros entered 2025 as a top prospect who had already performed at the Triple-A level at 20 years of age and looked primed to make an impact with the big-league club. After a very brief and less-than-stellar debut in May, he rejoined the club in September and put together a .999 OPS...2749Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-porter-hodge-injury-is-another-blow-to-the-cubs-right-handed-bullpen-depth-r2746/The injured list keeps getting longer for the Chicago Cubs. The focus over the past few weeks has been the starting rotation—mainly the news that righthander Cade Horton will be out for the remainder of the season. The impact of an injury to a pitcher like Horton, who was on his way to being one...2746Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:39:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/michael-confortos-regression-to-the-mean-is-all-the-cubs-really-need-r2744/I hate cliches, except for when they're true. Especially in the sports world, one hears the phrase "all hands on deck" so often that it starts to lose its meaning. Phrases like this are deployed by their users almost like a blanket defense mechanism to explain the unexplainable. Even for a franc...2744Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:04:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/just-how-good-is-michael-busch-r2742/Cubs fans are waiting out an exceptionally cold stretch from Michael Busch, but it's one he will likely shake soon. The beginning of the season has made his incredible 2025 fade into memory. Busch, though, didn't just have a good 2025. For the season, he hit at the level of a top-10 offensive pl...2742Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:15:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/jameson-taillons-homer-happy-ways-are-back-what-can-the-cubs-do-to-help-him-adjust-r2738/Jameson Taillon is not off to the start the Chicago Cubs had envisioned. A free agent at the end of the year, Taillon’s importance to the team's playoff hopes greatly increased with the early season injuries to Matthew Boyd and Cade Horton, the latter of which is of the season-ending variety. Is...2738Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:10:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/carson-kelly-for-10th-man-of-the-year-r2743/In the last decade—and especially on this side of the COVID-19 disruption—we've seen MLB teams move from the traditional starter-backup catching arrangement to one much closer to an even timeshare. The Cubs signed Carons Kelly in late 2024 to accommodate their move toward that very model. With M...2743Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:46:05 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/shota-imanaga-is-better-than-hes-ever-been-in-a-cubs-uniform-r2740/Shota Imanaga is back. Both literally, since he signed a qualifying offer this past offseason to remain with the Chicago Cubs, and performance-wise, as he has  2.81 ERA through his first three starts in 2026.  Of course, the same caveat that comes with every piece of baseball analysis in mi...2740Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:10:04 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-cubs-are-executing-their-plan-at-the-plate-its-not-working-r2741/Last season, no team in baseball topped the Chicago Cubs when it came to lifting the ball to the pull field. The North Siders pulled and elevated 21.8% of their batted balls. It's their signature skill, because they don't like to emphasize raw bat speed and the line-to-line lethality that comes...2741Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:10:26 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/nico-hoerner-is-approaching-truly-elite-territory-in-terms-of-overall-value-r2732/Anybody who's watched Chicago Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner play baseball for even a fragment of time knows that he is as close to a complete player as one may find in the sport. "Perfectly solid" is how his blend of contact, defense, and baserunning might be described. You don't necessarily...2732Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:57:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-week-in-review-carson-kellys-walk-off-salvages-the-record-vibes-r2733/However hard it is to keep a good team down, it's even harder for said good team to find itself in a groove. With eight current big leaguers on the Chicago Cubs' roster currently on the IL, Lady Luck has been less than kind to Craig Counsell's ball club in the early going. With Cade Horton out f...2733Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:02:22 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/should-the-cubs-make-a-call-to-lucas-giolito-r2737/It isn’t even halfway through April, and the Chicago Cubs’ pitching depth is already noticeably depleted. We got the news last week that the Cubs would be without sophomore starter Cade Horton for the rest of the season, due to a UCL injury. That came after the team placed Opening Day starter Ma...2737Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:11:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/a-failure-on-every-level-how-bad-fundamentals-and-bad-roster-construction-cost-cubs-saturdays-game-r2736/The first problem is that Tyler Austin got hurt. That's outside Jed Hoyer's control, except in that signing a player who was compelled to seek his baseball fortune on another continent half a decade ago and who's now well into his mid-30s was an embrace of some injury risk. Austin's knee injury...2736Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:48:00 +0000