https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/62/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/justin-steele-lands-on-the-il-with-elbow-trouble-again-leaving-cubs-in-rotation-danger-r1664/  The Cubs placed lefthander Justin Steele on the 15-day injured list Wednesday, with elbow tendinitis. It's the second time in seven months that he's landed there with that very ailment, after he missed the first half of September 2024. Steele was also shelved with a forearm strain in June...1664Wed, 09 Apr 2025 15:57:50 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-cubs-bullpen-could-be-their-achilles-heel-who-will-step-up-r1662/Since dropping both games in the Tokyo Series, the Cubs are an exciting 9-3. The club leads the league in most offensive categories, including runs scored (94). What's more, the squad has a blistering combined OPS of .788. In the most simple terms: the batting is making up for the pitching....1662Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:51:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/can-kyle-tucker-break-the-cubs-record-for-statcast-recorded-barrels-r1659/I still chuckle a little bit each time I type "the Statcast Era," but there's a bit less irony in it than before. We're up to 10 full seasons over which every (or very nearly every) batted and pitched ball has been tracked by Statcast. We have 10 years of exit velocities, launch angles, spin rat...1659Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:29:51 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/mondays-win-sent-a-clear-message-the-cubs-will-take-what-you-cant-keep-from-them-r1657/With the air heavy and cold and the wind rushing down Kenmore Avenue to defend the left-field wall like a relief battalion in battle, the Cubs knew no one was hitting the ball out of the park Monday night. Justin Steele let the visiting Rangers take the mightiest swings they could muster, and Te...1657Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:34:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/updating-kyle-tuckers-contract-expectations-following-vladimir-guerrero-jrs-500-million-extension-r1656/Had you consulted any aggregate list of the "Top 2025 MLB Free Agents" prior to this past weekend, you would have invariably seen two names at the top: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Kyle Tucker. Well, you can consider Tucker the last man standing, now that Guerrero and the Toronto Blue Jays hav...1656Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:08:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/is-justin-turner-michael-buschs-backup-or-his-platoon-partner-r1654/On March 30th, Justin Turner got the start against the Arizona Diamondbacks' lone lefty starter, Eduardo Rodríguez. On April 4th, Turner pinch-hit for Michael Busch against Athletics reliever T.J. MacFarland in the seventh inning of a 6-4 game. The next day, it was Turner in the starting lineup...1654Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:13:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/third-pitch-or-none-ben-brown-lacks-the-command-required-of-a-big-league-starter-r1653/Through three appearances, there have been flashes of brilliance from Ben Brown. Overall, though, the righty has failed to prove he can consistently throw strikes or effectively locate his sharp curveball. The resulting line—11 runs, with 9 walks, 2 home runs allowed and just 15 strikeouts in 62 b...1653Mon, 07 Apr 2025 11:15:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/week-in-review-the-long-awaited-return-home-caps-impressive-week-for-cubs-r1650/Writing for this Cubs team of ours is a funny thing, as the inner struggle between ourselves as both diehard fan and objective observer rages on. After a week in which the Cubs put more runs on the board than Walter Payton, it's excessively difficult not to side with the whims of the former....1650Sun, 06 Apr 2025 21:33:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/matt-shaws-stance-is-weird-but-theres-a-method-behind-the-madness-r1649/Matt Shaw looks weird;. I said what I said, don't act like you weren't thinking it, too. That's not a personal attack against the Cubs rookie, either. I'm not making fun of his physical looks or anything else. It's just that when he hits, he looks weird. He has an incredibly odd setup where his...1649Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/brad-keller-is-a-new-man-and-the-cubs-have-a-new-relief-weapon-r1648/Brad Keller was ineffective over the last two seasons, bouncing between the Royals, Red Sox, and White Sox. Becoming a new pitcher at age 29 is always unlikely, but in his brief debut with the Cubs, anything appears possible. Keller is known as a ground-ball specialist whose fastball had se...1648Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:56:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/linking-kyle-tuckers-discipline-to-his-barrel-rate-r1647/Elite hitters are elite hitters for a reason. A rough spring or a stumbling out of the gate is rendered somewhat meaningless when you're talking about a 162-game season. And for the Chicago Cubs' star right fielder, that's exactly what we're looking at.  After starting the domestic slate 1-...1647Thu, 03 Apr 2025 17:31:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/i-dont-think-we-talked-enough-about-how-great-that-pete-crow-armstrong-throw-was-no-the-other-one-r1646/  I don't need to tell you that Pete Crow-Armstrong made an incredible throw to notch an outfield assist while the Cubs were in Arizona last weekend. You've probably barely stopped talking about it. It was a marvelous play, a combination of several things that make the young outfielder spec...1646Thu, 03 Apr 2025 11:53:35 +0000