https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/71/?d=7enhttps://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 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/verbalizing-some-last-minute-anxieties-about-the-2025-chicago-cubs-r1628/I catastrophize. Mostly over smaller scale, trivial things. But the physical response is the same as if it were a big thing. The anticipation element of the day before Opening Day stems from the fact that we don't actually know what'll unfold over the course of 162 games. While the postseason it...1628Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:20:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/some-perspective-on-cam-smith-and-kyle-tucker-r1626/Cam Smith, who was dealt (along with Isaac Paredes and Hayden Wesneski) for Kyle Tucker in December, burst onto the spring training scene. A .342/.419/.711 slash line with four home runs will garner attention for any prospect, even in the Grapefruit League. His callup was tear-inducing, and his...1626Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:13:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/call-to-the-pen-nsbb-writers-bold-predictions-for-the-2025-chicago-cubs-r1629/The 2025 Cubs will be a fascinating team, one way or another. They're at a stage of the competitive cycle wherein desperation is right at the doorstep, but they also have the talent required to win their division—and perhaps even make a deep run into October. Here are some of our writers' specif...1629Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:09:54 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/diamondcentric-staff-predicts-the-2025-mlb-season-r1627/Ok, soothsayers we (probably) aren't, but 33 writers across the DiamondCentric family of sites tried their hands at predicting the season to come. Here's how it shook out. The Standings AL East There's no question that the Red Sox won the winter, among the teams vying for supremacy in t...1627Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:01:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/ben-brown-wins-chicago-cubs-starting-rotation-battle-over-colin-rea-r1623/When I'm watching a Major League Baseball game, sometimes I am watching specifically for the arm up on the bump. Other times, I'm watching for the guys behind the arm, with the pitcher becoming a mere facilitator for the more interesting parts of the game—as the founders of the sport would have...1623Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:23:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/dansby-swanson-and-the-importance-of-being-early-when-youre-fast-r1624/In his second season with the Cubs, Dansby Swanson had very similar strikeout and walk rates to the ones he posted in his first campaign with them. He hit the ball hard more often (42.7%, up from 39.7%), and had a virtually identical average exit velocity. Based on raw batted-ball data, he shoul...1624Tue, 25 Mar 2025 22:05:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/with-de-facto-deadline-looming-cubs-remain-interested-in-padres-ace-dylan-cease-r1622/The Cubs are one of multiple teams still checking in with the Padres on Dylan Cease in the final hours before Opening Day, according to league sources. We already knew that the team had made calls to free agents Lance Lynn and Kyle Gibson this month, as they try to amass sufficient depth to surv...1622Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:56:00 +0000