https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/63/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/so-far-homer-problems-are-the-price-justin-steele-is-paying-for-continued-evolution-r1644/Over his first three starts of 2025, Justin Steele has averaged just 91.1 miles per hour on his cutter—the famous "Mississippi fastball" Steele thinks of as a four-seamer, but which still moves more like a cutter more often than not. He's losing velocity; that's not up for debate. Lea...1644Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:25:14 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/dont-freak-out-about-pete-crow-armstrongs-slow-start-at-the-plate-r1642/Chicago ambushed Athletics pitching on Monday night to the tune of 18 runs, and then posted another 7 tallies in Tuesday's victory. Everyone got involved in the act. Reserve catcher Carson Kelly decided it was as good a night as any to hit for the cycle. Dansby Swanson looks revived at the plate...1642Wed, 02 Apr 2025 13:35:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/statcast-indicators-in-cubs-early-performances-r1640/Dansby Swanson Sprint Speed 2024: 63rd percentile 2025: 89th percentile Dansby Swanson is healthy to start the season. Watching his speed on plays like this and his agility on double plays shows just how much his knee and core muscle problems were affecting him last season....1640Tue, 01 Apr 2025 23:13:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/carson-kelly-hits-for-the-cycle-and-the-cubs-sure-look-poised-to-get-more-from-the-catcher-spot-in-2025-r1639/It was a fun, unexpected, special moment when Carson Kelly bounced and rolled into third base late in Monday night's blowout Cubs win over the A's. By reaching third base on a fly ball that bounced off the wall and got away from the Sacramento defenders, Kelly became the first player in over thr...1639Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:16:16 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-cubs-are-right-behind-the-yankees-on-the-cutting-edge-of-the-torpedo-bat-revolution-r1638/The New York Yankees made headlines this weekend after they hit 15 home runs in their opening series against the Milwaukee Brewers. The headlines were both because those dingers tied the record for the most in a team’s first three games in MLB history, and because some of them were hit using new...1638Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:27:39 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/data-shows-a-steady-major-transformation-in-kyle-tuckers-approach-r1637/The new batter stance and contact point data that went up on Baseball Savant one week ago include several pieces of information. We don't yet have access to pitch-by-pitch data on contact point or stride length for individual events, but we do have each player's average: Depth in the bat...1637Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:04:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/its-not-too-late-to-call-david-robertson-but-the-cubs-shouldnt-do-so-just-yet-r1636/For some fans, the juttering destabilization and freefall of Sunday's blown lead against the Diamondbacks brought a far-too-familiar-tasting portion of their stomach up to the back of the throat. The game felt so much like late 2023, when no lead the lineup built could be enough. It felt, most o...1636Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:21:14 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/week-in-review-cubs-notch-first-wins-of-season-r1633/To see the transition to championship-caliber baseball Cubs fans yearn for requires patience. As they showed in their first win of the season (a 10-6 romp over the Arizona Diamondbacks that wasn't as close as the final score indicates), the Cubs have what it takes to go far in 2025. As skipper C...1633Sun, 30 Mar 2025 21:15:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/two-cubs-hitters-swing-speeds-are-trending-in-opposite-directions-early-on-r1634/There can be some value in early season statistics. Certain numbers can portend future success, or failure. Kyle Tucker only had two hits in his first 19 plate appearances? That stinks. I also don’t care. I won’t pretend to know for sure what kind of season Tucker will have, however, I am certai...1634Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:01:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/shota-imanaga-is-living-in-the-shadows-whether-you-like-it-or-not-r1632/In my years of following the great game of baseball, I can scant remember a time that the sport was in better shape than it is now. With an elite collection of generational talents such as Juan Soto, Fernando Tatis Jr., Tarik Skubal, and Garrett Crochet, baseball fans have a lush of options to k...1632Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:18:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-designate-cody-poteet-for-assignment-leaving-some-big-questions-r1630/Are you old enough to remember the word "boof?" It was a baseball term when I played growing up, used in the context of messing up an easy play. If you "boofed" it, you let a grounder hit your glove, dropped an easy fly, or something similar. It's not a compliment. Jed Hoyer and the Cubs mi...1630Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:06:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/wide-awake-this-time-cubs-bats-secure-the-teams-first-win-of-2025-r1631/There are questions hanging over this Cubs season that can't be answered in just a few games. After a pair of disappointing showings and a week's wait for another game that counted, though, the team had to withstand a rising tide of criticism and pessimism among fans and media members. A single...1631Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:37:44 +0000