https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/49/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/seiya-suzukis-sights-are-set-too-low-r2179/The Chicago Cubs need something more than an offensive spark. Here and there, over the last month and change, they have found a spark, with Dansby Swanson, Ian Happ and Nico Hoerner passing in and out of hot streaks that have helped the team push across just enough runs to win some games and loc...2179Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:35:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/even-as-they-limp-toward-october-chicago-cubs-have-a-threat-in-their-step-r2176/There's no better place on planet Earth than Chicago when the city's North Side ball club bops its way into postseason contention. That's where Craig Counsell's highly capable, talent-rich club finds itself right now. The going has been tough, with the team encountering (and eventually prevailin...2176Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:52:21 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/comparing-pete-crow-armstrong-to-christopher-morel-r2151/  Cub fans can be a cynical lot. The second half of Pete Crow-Armstrong's 2025 season feeds into that. He's been bad in the second half. He has a woeful .259 on-base percentage and a lousy .352 slugging average in the second half, a far cry from the first half (.302 and .544). Memories of 2...2151Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:06:10 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/matt-shaws-timing-is-disastrous-lately-r2177/For the first month of the second half, Matt Shaw's bat was almost carrying a limping Cubs lineup. Craig Counsell stubbornly resisted the temptation to move Shaw up to the middle of the batting order, but even though he was getting fewer plate appearances than any other regular, Shaw was a vital...2177Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:39:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-week-in-review-the-north-siders-are-in-the-postseason-but-venue-will-determine-for-how-long-r2175/Clad in Cubbie blue, I've traversed the streets of Milwaukee this summer, doing my level best to conjure up a playoff run for the Chicago Cubs in 2025. By clinching their first postseason berth since the pandemic-shortened 2020 season (which didn't count, anyway), the team made that dream (and m...2175Sun, 21 Sep 2025 22:05:04 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/kyle-tuckers-price-tag-is-plunging-but-cubs-still-shouldnt-pay-it-r2174/There was a movement, perhaps 20 or 30 years ago, to banish the notion of players being 'injury-prone' from discourse around baseball. It emanated, at least in part, from an admirable desire to thwart owners and front offices who sought to deflate players' earning power by slapping that label on...2174Sun, 21 Sep 2025 14:09:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/turns-out-moises-ballesteros-might-be-really-good-at-baseball-r2170/Moises Ballesteros was always expected to hit. Young catchers rarely, if ever, show any level of advanced feel with the bat in their hands, but Ballesteros was an exception from the moment the Cubs signed him as a teenager. In 2022, his first full season of pro ball, an 18-year-old Balleste...2170Sat, 20 Sep 2025 11:52:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/andrew-kittredge-has-been-extra-strength-nasty-as-cubs-newest-relief-ace-r2172/To some extent, Andrew Kittredge is your standard-issue 2025 relief pitcher. He's big and hirsute and a sinker-slider guy. Specifically, before the Cubs dealt for him at the end of July, he was a "95-and-a-slider" guy, which is the get-in cost for a modern high-leverage arm. Everyone throws 95 a...2172Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:03:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/ian-happ-is-commanding-the-zone-creating-his-own-batted-ball-luck-r2169/It turns out that when a hitter creates high-quality contact, good things tend to happen. Ian Happ is learning as much here in the month of September.  Obviously, Happ was trying to do that all along, even during a sleepy first half. It just wasn't happening for him. Compound some brutal lu...2169Thu, 18 Sep 2025 22:05:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/we-dont-do-losing-it-took-three-years-but-dansby-swanson-made-cubs-his-team%E2%80%94and-his-teams-win-r2167/The words should have sounded trite, or at least overconfident. When most players talk about winning as much as Dansby Swanson did upon his introduction as a Chicago Cub in January 2023, it comes off as blather. They mean it, of course, but they usually mean it in a slightly self-serving way, or...2167Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:36:34 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/should-chicago-cubs-reach-nlds-they-will-beat-the-brewers-r2159/The so-called "I-94 Rivalry", which pits our Chicago Cubs against the Milwaukee Brewers, is one of the more underrated matchups in baseball. Even in an historic campaign for the Brewers—one no doubt given extra fuel in the wake of the legendary Bob Uecker's passing—the Cubs have more than held t...2159Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:10:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-stand-hilariously-close-to-playoff-clinch-after-securing-third-straight-series-win-r2165/The Cubs didn't sit around in a visiting clubhouse with plastic on the walls Tuesday night. They have a day game Wednesday, and it made much more sense to go get a good night's sleep at the team hotel. In beating Paul Skenes and claiming their third straight series win by taking the first two ga...2165Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:01:05 +0000