https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/88/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-sign-starting-pitcher-matthew-boyd-to-two-year-deal-r1273/The Chicago Cubs agreed to a two-year deal with veteran left-handed starting pitcher Matthew Boyd, Jon Heyman reported early Monday night. The oft-injured southpaw will earn $29 million over two seasons, and the deal appears to be neither front- nor backloaded. All offseason, I have said th...1273Mon, 02 Dec 2024 09:11:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-week-in-review-righty-brooks-kriske-joins-phil-bickford-as-one-of-cubs-flip-projects-r1272/Everyone loves a good comeback story. This past year notwithstanding, Kyle Hendricks proved this on more than one occasion, especially in 2023. Now, there's no such thing as too much pitching, and that baseball adage is still valid, but the recent acquisition of Brooks Kriske and fellow reliever...1272Sun, 01 Dec 2024 22:36:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/youre-the-cubs-gm-plotting-my-offseason-apparently-i-shouldnt-trade-seiya-suzuki-r1241/This series of articles is a primer for the release of our new "You're The Cubs GM!" tool, where you play the role of Jed Hoyer and build your own Cubs offseason. Please visit the tool here and join in on the fun! Well, everyone, it’s my first day on the job running baseball operations for...1241Sat, 30 Nov 2024 14:17:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/have-some-fun-watching-this-old-cubs-dodgers-game-with-us-part-3-the-real-live-game-r1271/Today, at long last, I want to talk about Mike Harkey. In the first two installments of this semi-unintentional trilogy, I focused on the quirks and quiddities of the Cubs' broadcasts back in the heyday of Harry Caray and Steve Stone, assisted by Arne Harris; and then on the Dodgers' nifty, doom...1271Sat, 30 Nov 2024 12:38:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/have-some-fun-watching-this-old-cubs-dodgers-game-with-us-part-2-the-eye-in-the-sky-r1270/The funny thing about baseball is that every time a team tries something novel and interesting, they are lampooned for their ridiculousness, or else they instigate moral panic. Yet, everywhere you turn throughout the (more than) 150-year history of the game, there have been teams innovating, try...1270Fri, 29 Nov 2024 12:30:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/have-some-fun-watching-this-old-cubs-dodgers-game-with-us-part-1-the-broadcast-r1269/I refuse to be starved for baseball. It's healthy, sometimes, to deny oneself constant indulgence in vices, but I find my addictive love of the game too strong to stay away from it for long, now that the world wide web has made it possible to luxuriate in games anywhere from 10 to 45 years old a...1269Thu, 28 Nov 2024 12:38:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/free-agent-pitcher-emmanuel-ramirez-fastball-shape/By all rights, Emmanuel Ramírez should be out of professional baseball. The game has told him he's not good enough—and even that it was functionally done with him—more times than most players can bear. Signed out of his native Dominican Republic back in 2012, Ramírez was released by the Padres a...1267Wed, 27 Nov 2024 17:10:03 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/the-pitching-market-is-moving-will-it-compel-the-cubs-to-move-too-r1266/It's not quite December, when the hot stove tends to get up to full flame. Already, though, two top starting pitchers have found new homes. Neither is with the Cubs, though, and as some doors close, it becomes more urgent that Jed Hoyer and company position themselves for one of the viable remai...1266Wed, 27 Nov 2024 12:53:31 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/narrative-sifting-with-the-2024-cubs-an-offensive-roller-coaster-r1265/This affected my opinions for this past season. Some of the narratives around have been about the team's lack of star power and the lack of talent. Another one is that August didn't really matter, because it was garbage time. As something of an analyst, instead of seeing these narratives and rol...1265Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:09:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/daniel-palencia-figured-something-out-late-in-2024-and-could-emerge-as-a-relief-ace-in-2025-r1264/It doesn't require a bunch of squinting and fancy explanation to identify Daniel Palencia as a potentially elite relief pitcher. He throws a fastball that sits on the high side of 98 miles per hour and ratchets all the way up past 102 when he gets really juiced up—and Palencia seems to be juiced...1264Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:10:44 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/whenever-roki-sasaki-gets-posted-he-should-become-jed-hoyers-full-time-job-for-a-month-r1263/When it comes to running an MLB franchise, there are big moves, and there are small moves. The Roki Sasaki sweepstakes do not fall along the spectrum between one and the other. They are, instead, a degree of big not even captured by that word. Free-agent contests for top players are vital, becau...1263Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:06:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/after-another-signing-suggests-angels-are-serious-offseason-players-cody-bellinger-trade-seems-like-a-fit-r1261/Monday morning began with surprising news from Orange County, as the Angels agreed to a three-year deal worth $63 million with left-handed starter Yusei Kikuchi. It's their fifth notable move of the young offseason, already, after they traded for Jorge Soler immediately following the World Serie...1261Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:15:01 +0000