https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/34/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/after-standing-firm-on-mois%C3%A9s-ballesteros-at-trade-deadline-will-cubs-install-him-full-time-in-2026-r2279/At the 2025 MLB trade deadline, the big hang-up the Cubs kept running into was simple: everyone wanted Moisés Ballesteros. The Nationals were interested in a package of Matt Shaw and Cade Horton in exchange for controllable southpaw MacKenzie Gore, but if Chicago wasn't willing to give up both o...2279Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:38:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/chicago-cubs-arbitration-decisions-projections-reese-mcguire-r2277/    C : Reese McGuire  Age on Opening Day 2026: 31 Service Time: 5.1 years 2023 Salary: 1,225,000 2024 Salary: $1,500,000 2025 Salary: $2,000,000 2026 Salary (Projection): $1,900,000 Background: Reese McGuire signed a minor league contract with the C...2277Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:54:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/revisiting-the-trade-deadline-players-the-2025-chicago-cubs-needed-in-october-r2273/Over the last week, Cubs fans got to enjoy the humbling of the Brewers, capped by Shohei Ohtani playing the greatest single game of baseball ever. However, that is a small consolation prize. Milwaukee sent the Cubs packing, after the North Siders were unable to carry the energy of Games 3 and 4...2273Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:09:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-week-in-review-club-mourns-seasons-end-turns-eye-toward-future-r2272/Suffering through the first week of this four-month long offseason, the Chicago Cubs organization, got a stern lesson. Our feelings of jubilation, fist bumps, and blue towel-waving earlier this month swiftly transformed into longing for next year. Compound that with the cocktail of jealousy, des...2272Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:10:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/north-side-baseballs-chicago-cubs-2025-minor-league-hitter-of-the-year-r2271/Depending on which prospect list you favor, the Chicago Cubs finished the year with somewhere between two and four top-100 prospects from their offensive ranks—players such as outfielders Owen Caissie and Kevin Alcántara, and catcher (or designated hitter) Moisés Ballesteros. The Cubs also saw o...2271Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:33:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-best-path-to-necessary-improvement-sign-a-slugging-third-baseman-trade-matt-shaw-for-pitching-r2274/If the Cubs were as good at scouting and player development as they keep telling fans (and themselves) they are, they'd have a pretty simple offseason ahead. They'd have amassed better homegrown pitching depth, and wouldn't be so obviously starved for swing-and-miss arms. They'd be in a position...2274Sun, 19 Oct 2025 23:11:42 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/grading-the-2025-chicago-cubs-bullpen-r2269/Pitching out of the bullpen is one of the more difficult things to quantify because they have the smallest sample sizes of almost any player, allowing for more wild swings in data, both year to year and month to month. There are also scoring rules that can hide poor performance, or instead, magn...2269Sat, 18 Oct 2025 11:58:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/how-much-extra-money-will-young-cubs-stars-make-based-on-new-mlb-rules-and-playoff-shares-r2270/As part of the current Collective Bargaining Agreement (which took effect in 2022), players throughout the majors who are not yet eligible for salary arbitration have some extra ways to accrue bonus pay and service time. Winning (or placing highly in the voting) for certain awards nets automatic...2270Fri, 17 Oct 2025 11:56:44 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/grading-the-2025-chicago-cubs-infielders-r2266/There are three components that make the infield collective of the Chicago Cubs perhaps the most stable aspect of their franchise ahead of 2026. The first is on the defensive side, where they succeeded at virtually every position in '25. As a collective, their work with the leather is some of th...2266Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:07:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/how-much-money-did-chicago-cubs-make-because-of-their-playoff-run-r2268/It was an extremely lucrative year for the Ricketts family, the owners of the Chicago Cubs, and there's a promise of more to come. The team hiked season-ticket prices, but still saw average attendance rise by over 1,200 fans per game. They got a windfall from the league in the form of reimbursem...2268Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:15:59 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/grading-the-2025-chicago-cubs-catchers-r2265/That the Chicago Cubs ended up with one of the best catching groups in all of baseball in 2025 isn't a surprise. How they got there, however, certainly qualifies as one.  Despite very mild rumblings about the team seeking to upgrade the position in 2024 and into the subsequent offseason, la...2265Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:53:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/priority-no-1-for-cubs-offseason-extend-nico-hoerner-r2267/Nico Hoerner's maturation as a hitter was one of the best stories of the Cubs' 2025 season. Hoerner, 28, made myriad adjustments in the penultimate season of the contract extension he signed in March 2023. Already an excellent contact hitter, he reduced his punchout rate to 7.6%, the best of his...2267Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:12:01 +0000