https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/80/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-to-sign-starting-pitcher-colin-rea-and-the-temperature-is-rising-under-jed-hoyer-r1387/Let's start with the basics: the Cubs have agreed to a one-year, $5-million deal with Colin Rea, a veteran right-handed starter who has been both a recent member of the Cubs organization and a recent member of a Craig Counsell-managed starting rotation. The deal was reported by MLB Trade Rumors'...1387Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:58:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/how-much-does-chicago-cubs-failure-to-reach-agreement-with-kyle-tucker-matter-r1385/It's important that you understand this: Thursday's news was not important. The only thing that matters about the Cubs and Kyle Tucker filing proposed salaries of $15 million and $17.5 million, respectively, for Tucker in 2025 is that you grasp the pivotal fact that it doesn't matter. This is a...1385Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:47:41 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-acquire-rangers-reliever-matt-festa-say-goodbye-to-miles-mastrobuoni-r1384/The Chicago Cubs sent cash to the Texas Rangers Thursday, in exchange for right-handed reliever Matt Festa. To facilitate Festa's addition to their already-full 40-man roster, the team designated utility man Miles Mastrobuoni for assignment. It's the end of an era, in one small, annoying way, as...1384Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:24:36 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/alexander-canario-is-intriguing-but-not-confidence-inspiring-even-as-a-backup-r1380/The starters are locked in. Kyle Tucker will man right field, Pete Crow-Armstrong patrols center, and Ian Happ will post up in left. Seiya Suzuki looms as the designated hitter and sometimes outfielder. The gamble is, what if Crow-Armstrong struggles again? Who fills in if someone is injured? ...1380Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:05:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/jeff-hoffman-is-the-potential-cubs-free-agent-target-we-should-mention-more-r1382/After the Cubs signed Caleb Thielbar on New Year's Eve, it seems safe to guess that they won't also pony up what could be $15 million or more per year on a four-year deal to land Tanner Scott. They needn't eliminate the idea of signing a lefty reliever altogether, but the gap between Scott and t...1382Thu, 09 Jan 2025 12:15:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/2025-zips-projections-paint-chicago-cubs-path-to-being-elite-r1378/Chicago has had an active offseason thus far. At the midpoint of winter, let’s see where they stand, so we can understand the stakes of their efforts to make more key moves. ZiPS is in Love With the Cubs Lineup ZiPS is bullish on the Cubs lineup, valuing the balance of bats and elite defe...1378Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:10:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/how-ian-happ-can-help-us-all-understand-bat-tracking-data-better-r1381/A decade ago, we were living through the offseason between 2014 and 2015. Statcast data was not yet widely available, but it had been introduced. The system was implemented in select parks in the second half of 2014, and the league began to release (and attempt to contextualize) the incomplete b...1381Wed, 08 Jan 2025 18:29:24 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/why-ha-seong-kim-makes-more-sense-than-alex-bregman-for-the-chicago-cubs-r1379/As Alex Bregman’s free agency continues on into the new year, his name has floated into close-ish proximity to that of the Chicago Cubs. It’s logical. The Cubs don’t technically have a third baseman and thanks to the Cody Bellinger trade, they do have some extra cash to spend. Bregman is a third...1379Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:29:08 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/chicago-cubs-2025-opening-day-roster-projection-version-10-r1371/With big-name free agents like Tanner Scott, Justin Verlander, Jurickson Profar and more still out there, it's a bit difficult to determine who will be on which rosters come Opening Day. We're going to try our best to predict the Chicago Cubs' 26-man Opening Day roster, though. Here's what it co...1371Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:14:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/pete-crow-armstrongs-base-stealing-bravado-comes-from-the-most-aggressive-leads-in-baseball-r1377/Released just last month, Baseball Savant now has what they are calling the Baserunning Run Value Leaderboard. The headliner within this leaderboard is the Baserunning Runs metric, which combines both runs added via stolen bases and those added via extra bases taken, to give us one all-encompass...1377Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:09:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/heres-why-the-cubs-arent-waiting-on-roki-sasaki-even-as-they-hope-to-land-him-r1375/Although the new signing period for international amateur free agents begins in nine days, we could be as much as a fortnight from the resolution of Roki Sasaki's free agency. The famous 23-year-old Japanese righty is slowly paring down his options and considering further meetings with intereste...1375Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:53:59 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/caleb-thielbar-splits-cubs-bullpen-depth-chart-role/You might not have noticed it as you celebrated the holidays, but last week, the Cubs signed Caleb Thielbar to a one-year deal worth $2.75 million. This didn’t generate many headlines, but it addresses something that the team struggled with after the trade deadline. On Jul. 30, 2024,...1374Mon, 06 Jan 2025 14:13:01 +0000