https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/67/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/lets-play-lineup-sudoku-with-the-2025-chicago-cubs-r1578/Building a batting order is a complicated business. There's emotion tied up in it, for players and for fans. There are interaction factors that make each decision about where to bat a given individual dependent (to one extent or another) on the decision about where to bat someone else. At the co...1578Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:13:58 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/watch-kyle-tucker-hits-first-home-run-as-a-cub-r1577/The early spring struggles of Kyle Tucker were starting to become a bit of a worry for some Cubs fans. Our very own Matt Trueblood dove deep into those struggles and found out that Tucker is usually quite good in Spring Training in his career and that has not yet been the case this year. Tucker,...1577Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:08:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/chicago-cubs-2025-position-analysis-third-base-r1576/Leading up to and well into the 2024 season, I spilled a lot of ink parsing through the Chicago Cubs’ situation at the hot corner. While a fan of the idea of giving Christopher Morel extended ride at the spot given his offensive profile, that experiment quickly wore itself out. The glove was bad...1576Mon, 10 Mar 2025 11:52:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/week-in-review-cubs-mean-business-as-tokyo-dodgers-come-calling-r1575/This week, as expected, the winning ways the North Siders have enjoyed nearly the entirety of spring subsided ever so briefly. Not only did they pick back up in front of record-setting crowds at Sloan Park, but we also witnessed a team and its message galvanize. The message? Cubs baseball and pl...1575Sun, 09 Mar 2025 18:10:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/lets-road-trip-cubs-2025-trip-14-one-more-dance-with-the-nl-central-r1553/Pittsburgh Pirates – September 15-17 PNC Park - Capacity 38,747 2024 Attendance: 1,720,361 (Averaged 21,239 - ranked 14th out of 15 NL teams, 25th overall MLB) When the Cubs invade Pittsburgh in April, they will be still formulating their rotation and lineup and will be trying to figure...1553Sun, 09 Mar 2025 17:15:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/chicago-cubs-2025-position-analysis-shortstop-r1562/Entering year three of Dansby Swanson's seven-year contract, the Cubs are in good hands at the position. Over his first two seasons with the Cubs, Swanson has been worth 8.2 fWAR, which is sixth in Major League Baseball, and has been the best defensive shortstop in terms of dWAR. This is especia...1562Sun, 09 Mar 2025 11:50:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/shota-imanaga-looks-like-he-is-ready-for-opening-day-r1569/Shota Imanaga will be looking to one-up himself this year, after a phenomenal rookie season. The left-hander went 15-3 with a 2.91 ERA across 173 innings last year. He finished fifth in Cy Young voting and fourth in Rookie of the Year voting, and will now try and build on that—or at least mainta...1569Sat, 08 Mar 2025 23:12:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/lets-road-trip-cubs-2025-trip-13-hotlanta-or-bust-r1552/Atlanta Braves – April 18-20 Truist Park - Capacity 41,084 2024 Attendance: 3,011,765 (Averaged 37,647 - ranked 4th out of 15 NL teams, 5th overall MLB) When the Cubs traveled to Atlanta in May 2024, they both entered the series with winning records. Atlanta shut out the Cubs in the fir...1552Sat, 08 Mar 2025 16:18:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/chicago-cubs-2025-position-analysis-first-base-r1572/What a difference a year makes. The first base position on the North Side was extremely uncertain ahead of the 2024 season. The Chicago Cubs had gone plug-and-play in the two years following Anthony Rizzo’s deadline departure. The 2022 group was led by Alfonso Rivas’ 81 games at the spot, with a...1572Sat, 08 Mar 2025 12:57:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-blueprint-for-a-90-win-cubs-team-in-2025-r1561/30 and 6: This is the number of starts Justin Steele needs to make for the season and in September, respectively. Steele has been a very good pitcher when he takes the mound. Unfortunately, he has not been healthy enough to make more than 30 starts in a season. Compounding this, his Septembers h...1561Fri, 07 Mar 2025 22:07:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/lets-road-trip-cubs-2025-trip-12-from-the-ocean-to-the-rockies-r1551/Los Angeles Angels - August 22-24 Angel Stadium: Capacity 45,517 2024 Attendance: 2,577,597 (Averaged 31,822, sixth in AL, 13th overall) When the Cubs entered Angel Stadium in June 2023, a healthy Shohei Ohtani, Mike Trout , and Anthony Rendon were there to welcome them rudely with a t...1551Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:23:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/pete-crow-armstrong-doesnt-have-to-lead-off-to-maximize-his-value-on-the-bases-r1570/By now, we're all well-trained students of the school of Sabermetrics 1.0, a movement that began in the 1970s and found its gear in earnest in the 1980s. One of the most famous of that first wave of data-driven insights into the game was the value of on-base percentage, as a better measurement o...1570Fri, 07 Mar 2025 12:45:00 +0000