https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/page/93/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/2024-north-side-baseballs-minor-league-all-star-team-part-one-hitters-r1192/The Chicago Cubs’ year didn’t end how fans were hoping, with another barely-.500 season in the books. There remain some pressing questions the front office will have to answer this offseason, namely: is this current core good enough to not just make the postseason, but actually win when the ligh...1192Tue, 29 Oct 2024 11:34:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/baseballs-two-best-strikeout-artists-are-available-which-should-cubs-target-r1189/Sometime in the next 10 days, free agency will officially open, and Blake Snell will opt out of his contract with the San Francisco Giants. Snell, 32 in December, hit the open market on the heels of his second Cy Young-winning season last fall, but he languished seemingly unwanted until the endg...1189Mon, 28 Oct 2024 13:25:46 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/moises-ballesteros-continues-to-terrorize-arizona-fall-league-and-cubs-might-have-an-arm-there-too-r1188/1188Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:10:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-week-in-review-hoerner-hurt-undergoes-surgery-a-pair-of-coveted-minor-leaguers-earn-honors-bellinger-mulls-opt-out-r1187/Cubs' President of Baseball Operations, Jed Hoyer, can be frustrating, off-putting, and certainly unrelatable. But one thing he is not: dumb. Whether you listened to him throughout the 2024 season on 670 The Score or digested his press clippings on this very esteemed website, Jed Hoyer insists t...1187Sun, 27 Oct 2024 23:05:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/theres-a-very-real-chance-cubs-luxury-tax-status-depends-on-cody-bellingers-opt-out-r1183/Whether or not the Cubs went over the first competitive-balance tax threshold by spending more than $237 million in annual average value salaries and benefits for 2024 matters. It matters quite a bit, for multiple reasons. Firstly, if they did go over that threshold, they did it by a very small...1183Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:15:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/cubs-could-target-adolis-garc%C3%ADa-in-trade-as-texas-rangers-cut-payroll-r1181/It's a bloodbath. That's the best way to describe the financial landscape for many MLB teams heading into this offseason. The owners are crying poor more ardently than they have in a long time, and while those cries are still hollow and false, they stand on a firmer foundation of fact than in th...1181Thu, 24 Oct 2024 23:10:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/nico-hoerner-arm-injury-flexor-tendon-surgery-trade-rumors/We don't know for sure, but it seems very possible this is related to when Nico Hoerner was hit by a pitch on the right hand on Jun. 7. A quick search shows that a forceful blow to the hand can result in a flexor tendon injury, and a direct hit on the hand by a pitched baseball by Hunter Greene...1173Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:16:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/trade-rumors-dylan-cease-michael-king-javier-assad/Most Cubs fans are acutely aware of the twists and turns of Dylan Cease's career. The former Cubs farmhand went to the White Sox organization in the José Quintana trade in 2017, and his successes and failures have been newsworthy on both sides of town ever since. In March, the White Sox dealt Ce...1179Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:07:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/how-aggressively-should-cubs-pursue-npb-starter-tomoyuki-sugano-r1178/In an offseason that looks to be relatively rich with starting pitchers available in free agency, there will be less attention on aging Japanese righthander Tomoyuki Sugano than there might have been if he had come over two or three years ago. However, Sugano, 35, is likely to sign with an MLB t...1178Wed, 23 Oct 2024 21:17:12 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/how-to-build-a-200-game-bullpen-starring-the-2025-chicago-cubs-r1177/There are 162 games in a regular MLB season. As the playoffs expand, it has become possible for a team to play as many as 22 gmaes in the postseason. Add in the bloated but certainly necessary spring training schedule, and teams have to play more than 200 games to get from one end of a champions...1177Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:17:23 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/isaac-paredes-needs-to-get-back-to-what-made-him-successful-with-the-rays-r1175/The thought process behind the move was clear when the Chicago Cubs acquired Isaac Paredes from the Tampa Bay Rays on July 28. Viewing from afar, the Cubs were swapping out an underperforming third baseman with a very high ceiling in Christopher Morel for an overperforming one who has probably a...1175Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:58:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/chicago-cubs/free-agent-relievers-ryne-stanek-matt-moore-kirby-yates-tommy-kahnle-jose-leclerc/As happens almost every year, the Cubs found their way to an effective mix of relief arms in the second half in 2024. By then, though, that unit had cost the team several games, and they were unable to make up the gap down the stretch. Next season, they'll try to carry a deeper, more stable bull...1176Tue, 22 Oct 2024 23:07:02 +0000