https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/67/?d=7enhttps://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 +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 +0000