https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/83/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-week-in-review-bellinger-to-bronx-bombers-rotation-sights-set-higher-sosa-back-in-fold-r1345/Through playing the long game, Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer has the Cubs positioned for immediate postseason success. The latest evidence of this was in this week's inevitable trade of outfielder Cody Bellinger to the New York Yankees. In two seasons with the Cubs, Bellinger c...1345Sun, 22 Dec 2024 12:23:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/previewing-the-2025-nl-central-are-cubs-favorites-with-kyle-tucker-r1342/Since 2017, when the Cubs won the National League Central with a 92-70 record, there have been seven seasons, four of which ended with the Brewers atop the division. Only once since then have the Cubs finished the year in the top spot, and that was in the COVID-shortened 2020 campaign (which doe...1342Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:05:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-group-the-2025-chicago-cubs-will-go-to-war-with-r1335/In a recent podcast, Patrick Mooney of The Athletic made a comment about Isaac Paredes that was quite interesting. "He's more good at accumulating WAR than actually playing baseball," Mooney said. Is this a problem with the Cubs as a whole? Does their WAR reflect their true value on the fi...1335Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:07:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/should-cubs-engage-rays-on-shane-mcclanahan-or-shane-baz-r1343/Coming into this offseason, the Rays knew they needed to clear some payroll, and that the most sensible way to do so would be by trading from their pitching surplus. They traded Jeffrey Springs to the Athletics in a package trade several days ago, but they might still need to reconfigure their r...1343Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:24:32 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/sammy-sosa-admits-he-used-performance-enhancing-drugs-i-made-mistakes-and-i-apologize-r1341/Out of the blue, on a cold Thursday afternoon in December, Sammy Sosa struck like a lightning bolt—just as he did on so many warmer, semi-soporific summer weekdays throughout the 1990s and 2000s. He issued a statement that, if Tom Ricketts can be bothered to keep his word to Cubs fans, will pave...1341Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:38:20 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/mlbs-study-on-pitching-injuries-and-what-it-tells-us-about-cubs-offseason-r1338/It's all very interesting, and you can read all about the findings from Jeff Passan, David Adler of MLB.com, and basically any website that covers baseball at all. They have done a great job of explaining it, but what has this done to affect the Cubs and their offseason planning? The Cubs h...1338Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:48:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-challenge-before-matt-shaw-is-now-the-cubs-too-r1339/There was a point (roughly a week ago) where it looked like the Chicago Cubs might have to rely on multiple prospects to serve as an all-important “X-factor” for 2025. That term, of course, refers to a specific component of the roster that could yield important production despite not being one o...1339Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:15:39 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/where-cubs-can-pivot-after-jes%C3%BAs-luzardo-trade-falls-apart-r1337/After multiple reports throughout the last week that the Cubs were pushing to complete a trade for Marlins lefty Jesús Luzardo, Chicago baseball insider Bruce Levine gave word Wednesday evening that that deal is dead. It's a frustrating ending to an intriguing line of inquiry, but there were som...1337Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:38:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/what-the-cubs-see-in-and-expect-from-cody-poteet-r1334/Cody Poteet debuted with the Miami Marlins in 2021 as a starting pitcher. Fantasy players may remember debating the "realness" of this debut. His first start went five innings, allowing two earned runs. His next two starts were even more tantalizing, totaling 12 scoreless innings between them. H...1334Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:04:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/lets-sign-pete-crow-armstrong-to-a-contract-extension-together-r1332/Pete Crow-Armstrong may have had a bumpy start to his 2024 season, being thrust into the starting center field role (probably) before he was truly ready for it. Through his first 147 plate appearances, he had a paltry 47 wRC+, striking out over 27% of the time, walking about 4% of the time and g...1332Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:00:28 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-cubs-will-absolutely-unequivocally-re-spend-the-money-they-saved-on-cody-bellinger-r1333/Reaction to the Cubs trading Cody Bellinger to the Yankees Tuesday afternoon has been, on balance, pretty critical. While a significant share of fans have shrugged and acknowledged the inevitability of the move, another significant share—and, to my eye, a disproportionate number of takes from me...1333Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:08:22 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cody-for-cody-cubs-trade-cody-bellinger-to-yankees-acquire-reliever-cody-poteet-r1313/In order to add Kyle Tucker's projected arbitration salary (in excess of $15 million) and maintain the payroll flexibility they need to further supplement the roster thereafter, the Cubs needed to offload the hefty contract of Cody Bellinger. After acquiring Tucker Friday afternoon, the team sen...1313Tue, 17 Dec 2024 21:56:00 +0000