https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/51/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/should-the-chicago-cubs-buy-from-these-american-league-sellers-r1866/Even though the MLB trade deadline is still a ways off, it's starting to get late early for some teams across Major League Baseball. With July 31 serving as the league-wide trade ultimatum, we are roughly a month away from the hot stove reaching it's inferno. However, there are a handful of team...1866Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:57:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/jameson-taillons-consistency-is-more-important-to-cubs-than-dominance-r1865/Every season sports a stretch of demanding, mettle-testing contests that reveal the true identity of a professional baseball team. Weathering a squall of injuries to the starting rotation, the Chicago Cubs are in the midst of that stretch. Enter Jameson Taillon, the light house, the safe harbor...1865Sat, 14 Jun 2025 21:03:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-3-pirates-2-pete-crow-armstrong-got-freaky-deaky-on-a-baseball-thursday-night-r1863/I'm out of ideas. The league is out of ideas. At this point, as utterly ludicrous as this would have sounded just a month or two ago, maybe Pete Crow-Armstrong is just going to hit 40 home runs this season. He neither cuts that kind of figure in the batter's box, nor has the polished, impressive...1863Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:41:49 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-story-of-the-2025-chicago-cubs-rotation-and-its-future-r1855/How it Started: Or, I should say, where it ended. In 2024, the Cubs got at least 24 starts from five guys: Shota Imanaga, Justin Steele, Kyle Hendricks, Jameson Taillon, and Javier Assad. The hearsay suggesting there was little interest in re-signing Hendricks turned out to be true. As sad as...1855Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:55:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/jed-hoyer-on-the-trade-negotiations-that-netted-cubs-pete-crow-armstrong-and-more-r1858/Sometimes when negotiating, it's best to take the approach of letting the other side talk themselves into a bad decision. That's exactly what happened in 2021 when Chicago was able to acquire Pete Crow-Armstrong from the New York Mets. Appearing on the New York Post Sports YouTube channel and Th...1858Wed, 11 Jun 2025 16:05:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/key-questions-for-each-chicago-cubs-starting-pitcher-r1856/The Cubs are flying high, with a shiny 41-26 record and a five-game first-place cushion in the NL Central. It's a season with immediate and undeniable playoff vibes, one that harkens back to 1989, 1984, or 2008. With Kyle Tucker likely to walk at the end of the season, they can't waste this hot...1856Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:55:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/matt-shaw-continues-hyperspeed-evolution-into-offensive-catalyst-cubs-need-r1857/The halcyon days of the bottom of the Cubs batting order being an engine for the offense are drawing to a close. Pete Crow-Armstrong earned his way up to the middle of the lineup, which is the good kind of lost production from the lower third. Alas, the team has also seen the bad kind of diminis...1857Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:48:50 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-truly-mystifying-historic-starts-of-chris-flexen-and-drew-pomeranzs-cubs-careers-r1853/If the smoke doesn't clear and the mirrors don't break for just another week or so, Drew Pomeranz and Chris Flexen will stand alone in Cubs history. Even if their magic can't keep up any longer, though, they've already left a mark in the team's history books. Since 1975, the three longest scorel...1853Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:10:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/i-love-you-all-but-shut-up-about-michael-busch-and-left-handed-pitchers-r1852/Often, in life, we encounter moments when there's a real problem afoot. We have an issue, affecting ourselves and/or people we care about deeply. Alas, we can't bear to admit the nature or the scope of that problem to ourselves. It's too dangerous. Maybe that problem is so inextricably tied to a...1852Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:23:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-week-in-review-the-bullpen-becomes-the-steady-hand-this-club-needed-r1851/Approaching mid-June, every contending baseball club has an Achilles' heel holding it back. Up until very recently, one could emphatically proclaim the Cubs' bullpen as its most glaring vulnerability. A combination of Caleb Thielbar, Brad Keller, Drew Pomeranz, and others have helped the squad t...1851Sun, 08 Jun 2025 22:26:12 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/surprisingly-plus-changeup-a-level-changer-for-cade-horton-if-he-can-trust-it-more-r1850/Cade Horton induced 17 whiffs from the Tigers Sunday. He struck out six in five innings of work, and on nine swings against his ever-improving changeup, Detroit batters whiffed six times. This is no longer a dismissable fluke. Even looking purely at release point, movement and velocity different...1850Sun, 08 Jun 2025 20:00:43 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/seiya-suzuki-hit-two-home-runs-saturday-hed-never-have-hit-before-2025-r1848/Cubs slugger Seiya Suzuki has always found his power at the top of the strike zone. Since coming to the United States from NPB in 2022, Suzuki has hunted in the top half of the zone for balls he could elevate with his hard, level swing, sending line drives from gap to gap and occasionally sendin...1848Sun, 08 Jun 2025 13:13:46 +0000