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The Chicago Cubs entered the All-Star break on a red-hot streak.,After a few days off, they will hit the play button and try to pick up from where the

The All-Star Break is a perfect time to catch your breath — to contextualize the season that has already transpired and think about what’s to come. The Cubs currently hold the top NL Wild-Card...

Today, Major League Baseball released the 2027 regular season schedule, and we all look at it thinking just one thing: please don’t let them have to make changes to this because of the lockout....

The good news is that, upon departing the Chicago Cubs after a reclamation year in 2025, Brad Keller got a very healthy two-year deal from the Philadelphia Phillies worth $22 million. That money...

We are just one week into raising funds for Make-A-Wish, and you’ve already pushed us one third of the way to our goal! A reminder that I’m offering to blog for 40 straight hours – NO SLEEP – at...

Two 10-game winning streaks helped fuel the Cubs' 27-12 start to the season, but a 7-26 mark over their next 33 games left Chicago with an even .500 record on June 10.  Just when things were...

Are you a star (or potential star) young player in the NL Central? Has your team extended you on a long-term deal? No? Then what the heck is the matter with you?! You must STINK! BECAUSE EVERYONE...

The Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox are set to resume play Friday after the All-Star break, with both teams currently in playoff position.

With a little time this week to digest the preceding weekend’s MLB Draft, various prospecting services are offering up evaluations of the Cubs’ draft (among others), and I thought I’d share some...

I am being so mean with that headline. It’s true! It’s explicitly and literally true! But it’s a little misleading. A Sun-Times article included discussions with a number of players about how they...

Chicago's front office has plenty of work to do.

The BN Blogathon is a little over two weeks away, and we’re raising funds for Make-A-Wish Illinois! Please check out the fundraiser details here if you haven’t, and consider making a...

“I wanna know what you’re thinking. There are some things you can’t hide.” – What’s on Your Mind (Pure Energy) by Information Society The best part of this week’s All-Star festivities was the...

The HR Derby is complete. The All-Star game is over. And there’s just one more day of rest before this machine fires back up. With a 5-game deficit in the division and just two-and-a-half weeks...

I don’t want to go on a rant here, but there has to be a better way. Fan voting isn’t optimal. Watching Andy Pages, a good fielder, eye a single that Pete Crow-Armstrong could/would have gathered...

Coming out of their pitching–heavy draft, the Chicago Cubs immediately went on a signing spree of positional undrafted free agents. There are two more names to add to the UDFA list, one of whom is...

A long-awaited appearance on The Lovable Reunion Podcast, with former Chicago Cubs President Theo Epstein talking all things 2016 Cubs with David Ross and Anthony Rizzo. Put it on and give it a...

Two things are true at the moment: (1) The Cubs need pitching — specifically, front-end starting pitching — as badly as any team in baseball. They’re not only contenders, they’re contenders with a...

It’s no secret that the Cubs need all the pitching help they can get this season. But while the lack of pitching is in focus as an issue this year, it also needs to be addressed for future Cubs...

Although the MLB All-Star Game is not the place where the league wants to get into the private acrimony of the Collective Bargaining Agreement fight, there was no chance it wouldn’t come up. The...

Chicago needs more rotation arms.

Forget the Home Run Derby or the All-Star Game itself, the best moment of the Midsummer Classic was Bruce Levine’s viral tweet. What appeared to have been a text message intended for a member of...

The Cubs youngster has an idea..

This trade has big “now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time” energy. Which means the Milwaukee Brewers are somehow about to score big. Long-time Houston Astros starting pitcher (long-time...

In case you missed the admittedly hilarious and incredible Bruce Levine social media gaffe this week, let me bring you up to speed (and explain why we didn’t cover it at the time). On Monday...

Do you count yourself among those who think Portillo’s has gone downhill since Dick sold the chain back in 2014 for a cool billion? I can see some differences, but I still get it all the time. And...

The city that booed Santa hosted All-Star festivities this year. The actual All-Star Game was Tuesday night on FOX, but the Home Run Derby was on Netflix. Confused? Yeah, me too. MLB is trying to...

Randall Sanders is back on the podcast to discuss the roller coaster Cubs season that is currently back on an upswing. Topics include; trying to find pitching help at the trade deadline, Pete...

OK. All-Star Game is over. Play baseball again, Cubs. Today. I’m ready. I do not need an additional two-day break. The National League managed just three hits total in last night’s Midsummer...

A couple Yankees, Cody Bellinger and Ben Rice, hit two-out, run-scoring singles in the 1st inning for the American League in the All-Star Game and that was juuuuuuust about it for the action....

Cody Bellinger drove in two runs in the top of the first inning off Cristopher Sánchez

The Cubs have run right-hander Jake Woodford unclaimed through outright waivers, according to the MLB.com transaction tracker. He has the right to elect free agency and explore other...

The 2026 MLB All-Star Game is set to thrill fans tonight with a lineup full of big names and a hometown crowd ready to roar. Phillies lefty Cristopher Sánchez will start for the National League in...

The Cubs enter the All-Star Break with some momentum.

Ahead of his appearance as the sole Chicago Cubs representative in this year’s All-Star Game, Pete Crow-Armstrong participated in the various pre-ASG festivities over the last 36 hours. Amid the...

The success or failure of the Chicago Cubs pitching staff, and how it weathers the constant storm of injuries, will continue to be a key story on into the second half of the season. With that in...

The lefty threw nine innings for Los Angeles.

Boy, it’s been a heck of a “first half” for the Chicago Cubs. I put “first half” in quotation marks because even though the Cubs are at the All-Star Break, the season is more than half over...

The market for Skubal, the back-to-back AL Cy Young winner, seems to be taking shape

With Owen Ayers (and Jace Beck) getting the long-awaited promotion from Double-A to Triple-A, the next guy on the “man, shouldn’t he get the bump soon?” list is probably outfielder Kane Kepley at...

Typically, when you think about a “one All-Star team,” you’re thinking about clubs that have underperformed, and get a representative at the Midsummer Classic by virtue of the rule that requires...

We knew for years that St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Jordan Walker had loads of power in his bat, but it wasn’t until this season that he finally tweaked his swing enough to actually show it in...