https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/59/?d=7enhttps://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 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/anatomy-of-an-at-bat-cade-horton-cuts-down-cj-abrams-r1845/Not every important plate appearance of the year comes in a critical moment, but it doesn't mean that something significant can't still occur. One of these moments happened during Tuesday's game against the Washington Nationals for Cubs' rookie starter Cade Horton. And even if it didn't have gam...1845Sat, 07 Jun 2025 11:55:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/building-a-trade-that-brings-a-former-world-series-champion-back-to-chicago-r1841/After struggling in a mighty way in the early part of the season, the Chicago Cubs bullpen has stepped up and become one of the best in baseball over the last month. They have put up excellent numbers despite losing Porter Hodge for a period and have gotten contributions from unexpected arms suc...1841Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:05:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/trade-rumors-sandy-alcantara-andrew-heaney-chris-sale-cubs/Although trade season tends not to get going until after the MLB Draft (pushed back, for the last several years, to the middle of July), the Chicago Cubs have kept in touch with several teams about starting pitchers who could bolster Chicago's push toward their first true postseason berth since...1844Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:21:19 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/nico-hoerners-throwback-season-has-catalyzed-lower-half-of-cubs-lineup-r1842/In the day and age where the long ball is king, what Nico Hoerner is doing in Chicago this season is quite the homage to baseball's past. Hoerner has shown an extreme lack of power this year, but he's been marvelously productive, nonetheless. When you talk about clutch hitters in the Cubs l...1842Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:16:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/why-and-how-chicago-cubs-trade-bat-speed-for-efficiency-at-the-plate-r1840/There's an old (probably overused) adage in the world of golf: drive for show, putt for dough. It speaks to the idea that sheer power will take you only so far. It's the efficiency on the backend that'll make the difference in matters of actually winning. It's not a like-for-like comparison with...1840Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:03:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/ben-brown-is-the-ceiling-for-this-cubs-squad-r1835/When the vibes for this club are as elevated as they are at this moment, it's hard to imagine what the comedown would be like—in the unlikely event it should come to that. Craig Counsell has his ball club playing at a level higher than the old Southwest Airlines Plane View Camera (RIP). There ar...1835Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:30:28 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/with-three-useful-lefties-in-their-bullpen-cubs-will-continue-using-openers-often-r1837/Rather than simply having Ben Brown start Saturday, the Cubs used Drew Pomeranz in the first inning, and had Brown come in to begin squaring off with the Reds in the second. With no starter officially announced for Colin Rea's rotation spot Thursday, expect to see an opener again. It could be Po...1837Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:08:20 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/while-matt-shaws-bat-has-gotten-better-by-numbers-his-glove-has-improved-by-eye-test-r1833/An unfortunate reality of analyzing defense in baseball is that, sometimes, you have to rely on the eye test before anything else. This is especially true when examining a small sample, wherein the metrics either don't convey reality or lack the volume of context needed to become meaningful. Luc...1833Tue, 03 Jun 2025 22:13:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/chicago-cubs-hitters-of-the-month-may-2025-r1832/May was a wonderful month for the Cubs fans, and also (not coincidentally) for the Cubs lineup. This is a contending team, one that measures up to any team in the National League.  So, specifically, who really leveled up in the past 30 days?  Hitter #3: Seiya Suzuki It's time to appr...1832Tue, 03 Jun 2025 17:07:02 +0000