https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/82/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/do-these-national-league-sellers-have-anything-for-the-cubs-r1870/With the July 31 MLB trade deadline looming on the horizon, urgency will begin to mount for many Major League Baseball teams. While some clubs are firmly entrenched in playoff contention and will be looking to bolster their rosters, there is a distinct group already facing the reality of a lost...1870Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:03:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/jameson-taillon-continues-to-master-left-handed-hitters-by-mastering-his-kick-change-r1869/Back in April, I wrote about Jameson Taillon’s kick change, and how it was looking like it was going to be a game-changer for the veteran right-hander in his age-33 season for the Chicago Cubs. At the time, he had just a 6.06 ERA through his first three starts, and was throwing the changeup...1869Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:52:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-week-in-review-low-offensive-output-makes-for-pedestrian-week-r1868/Major League Baseball is one of the most fun leagues to watch, because nothing ever stays the same for long. A 162-game season means that the average fan of any given team will witness astonishing peaks and valleys. Even a contending squad like the Chicago Cubs is vulnerable to intermittent peri...1868Sun, 15 Jun 2025 15:07:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/should-the-chicago-cubs-buy-from-these-american-league-sellers-r1866/Even though the MLB trade deadline is still a ways off, it's starting to get late early for some teams across Major League Baseball. With July 31 serving as the league-wide trade ultimatum, we are roughly a month away from the hot stove reaching it's inferno. However, there are a handful of team...1866Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:57:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/jameson-taillons-consistency-is-more-important-to-cubs-than-dominance-r1865/Every season sports a stretch of demanding, mettle-testing contests that reveal the true identity of a professional baseball team. Weathering a squall of injuries to the starting rotation, the Chicago Cubs are in the midst of that stretch. Enter Jameson Taillon, the light house, the safe harbor...1865Sat, 14 Jun 2025 21:03:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-3-pirates-2-pete-crow-armstrong-got-freaky-deaky-on-a-baseball-thursday-night-r1863/I'm out of ideas. The league is out of ideas. At this point, as utterly ludicrous as this would have sounded just a month or two ago, maybe Pete Crow-Armstrong is just going to hit 40 home runs this season. He neither cuts that kind of figure in the batter's box, nor has the polished, impressive...1863Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:41:49 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-story-of-the-2025-chicago-cubs-rotation-and-its-future-r1855/How it Started: Or, I should say, where it ended. In 2024, the Cubs got at least 24 starts from five guys: Shota Imanaga, Justin Steele, Kyle Hendricks, Jameson Taillon, and Javier Assad. The hearsay suggesting there was little interest in re-signing Hendricks turned out to be true. As sad as...1855Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:55:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/jed-hoyer-on-the-trade-negotiations-that-netted-cubs-pete-crow-armstrong-and-more-r1858/Sometimes when negotiating, it's best to take the approach of letting the other side talk themselves into a bad decision. That's exactly what happened in 2021 when Chicago was able to acquire Pete Crow-Armstrong from the New York Mets. Appearing on the New York Post Sports YouTube channel and Th...1858Wed, 11 Jun 2025 16:05:01 +0000https://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 +0000