https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/page/22/?d=7enhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/cubs-minor-league-starting-pitcher-of-the-month-may-2024-r851/  The Cubs had a few minor league pitchers who had strong months in May. In fact, we have an Honorable Mention who had a 0.00 ERA! In addition, the minor leagues are filled with intriguing stories and varying level of "prospect." This list contains four names. There are players who have bee...851Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:15:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/cubs-minor-league-hitter-of-the-month-may-2024-r845/Honorable Mentions C Moises Ballesteros: 124 wRC+, 9.2 BB%, 12.8 K%, 5 2B, 2 HR Ballesteros followed up his Player of the Month-worthy April with a very strong May, continuing to show his incredibly advanced plate discipline for such a young age, especially at Double-A Tennessee.  OF...845Sun, 02 Jun 2024 11:58:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/what-does-the-future-hold-for-brennen-davis-r824/Before the 2022 season, outfielder Brennen Davis was a consensus top-30 prospect in baseball: Baseball America had him ranked 16th, MLB Pipeline placed him in 15th, and Baseball Prospectus put him all the way down at 27th. At the time, he was coming off a tremendous 2021 season in which he ascen...824Sun, 26 May 2024 11:57:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/with-five-graduations-six-new-names-appear-in-north-side-baseballs-updated-top-20-cubs-prospect-rankings-r825/Over the past couple of weeks, we have had open prospect voting for Northside Baseball writers and for the community. The results of the rankings have now been updated on the site. Here is a brief summary.  The last time that we had a vote for North Side Baseball Top 20 Prospect rankings wa...825Sat, 25 May 2024 16:19:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/iowa-cubs-talk-with-alex-cohen-r813/Alex Cohen became the Iowa Cubs' top voice in 2017, but he has called games all over the globe, including a winter in Australia. Get to know a little bit about him, and then hear us discuss some really exciting players on the Triple-A roster.  Obviously, we encourage you go watch the full v...813Mon, 20 May 2024 21:08:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/cubs-milb-reliever-aprn2024-frankie-scazp-eduardniel-nunez-michael-arias/Often relief pitchers are overlooked. They aren't often talked about at any level unless they don't do their job. That's a tough spot. So when they have some extended success, they deserve to be recognized. Today, we will highlight the top four relief pitchers in the Cubs minor league system. Be...793Wed, 08 May 2024 14:10:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/minor-league-recap-another-week-another-strong-showing-for-cubs-prospects-r790/Iowa Cubs (1-5) Rough week for the Iowa Cubs, as they were on the road facing the first-place Omaha Storm Chasers. The series loss dropped the team below the .500 mark on the season. Next up: a home series against bottom-feeding Columbus to (hopefully) reset the team. RF, Owen Caissie: 15...790Tue, 07 May 2024 22:11:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/destination-the-show-episode-34-r781/In episode 34 of Destination: The Show, Jeremy and Jamie sit down with Joe Doyle, Senior Analyst at FSS and host of Over Slot, an MLB Draft Podcast. The guys talk through the top of the 2024 draft class, including asking Joe who he’d take at 1:1 before talking about some specific demographics an...781Sat, 04 May 2024 15:12:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/cubs-milb-hitter-april-2024-moises-ballesteros-james-triantos-jefferson-rojas/April is always a fun month and full of hope. For the Cubs, it also saw the promotion of some of it's biggest name prospects. Luckily for the Cubs, their farm system is stacked with interesting prospects to follow. Also luckily for the Cubs, many of their best prospects had big first months of t...775Thu, 02 May 2024 16:14:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/cubs-milb-sp-april-2024-cade-horton-juan-bello-sam-armstrong-thomas-pannone/It is always interesting to see the different types of pitchers that show up on these monthly reports. You will often have a veteran in Triple-A, and you’ve got a couple of lower-level prospects who haven’t been talked about enough yet. And there is usually at least one elite prospect to make th...776Thu, 02 May 2024 11:15:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/positive-vibes-prevail-on-cubs-farm-despite-losses-r769/Iowa Cubs (2-4) The Iowa Cubs are a shell of what they were on Opening Day. With Ben Brown, Alexander Canario, Hayden Wesneski, Pete Crow-Armstrong and Matt Mervis all on the Chicago Cubs instead, the team is missing much of their firepower. After dropping four of six to Buffalo, Iowa heads ho...769Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:36:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/cubs-minor-league/does-porter-hodge-throw-enough-strikes-to-be-effectively-wild-r753/There's no beating around the bush: Porter Hodge had a kind of miserable, no-good 2023 season. On the heels of a breakout 2022, the then-22-year-old starting pitcher started the season on a rough 12-start stretch. Plagued by walks, he could never seem to string two good starts together, as he wo...753Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:15:01 +0000