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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...
Make your voice heard and cast your ballot for the 2026 All-Star Game MVP starting in the 6th inning of the Midsummer Classic.
It’s the best Monday of the baseball calendar. The 2026 Home Run Derby goes down tonight at Citizens Bank Park, with eight of the game’s biggest boppers taking dead aim at the Philadelphia seats,...
The MLB Draft concluded yesterday, and with the Chicago Cubs adding so much pitching, they have moved quickly to add a whole lot of position players in free agency following the draft. While...
Given the outrageous number of injuries on the pitching side — plus their rival’s 100-win pace through the first half of the season — the 2026 Chicago Cubs are in a pretty good place here at the...
Tomorrow night in Philadelphia, the National League All-Stars will take on the American League All-Stars at Citizens Bank Park. And although we’re long past roster announcements (Pete...
Player development, we all know by now, is not linear. But can it be exponential? There’s a Cubs prospect I’ve been wanting to mention in here for a little while, but he kept on adding to the data...
It’s a small, but I think positive, update today on Chicago Cubs righty Ben Brown. The addition of a new sinker in the offseason helped Brown break out in the first half, first as a reliever, and...
No Cubs prospect may have risen further in the eyes of the industry than the Cubs 2025 sixth-round pick Josiah Hartsthorn, but Owen Ayers is having the biggest breakout of any player in the...
Five years ago, the Anaheim Angels went into the MLB Draft with a plan to add some pitching to their desperately pitching-thin farm system. They proceeded to draft … literally only pitchers. It...
The Cubs’ minor league squads wrapped up their first halves with a combined 1-3 record in their series finales on Sunday. Despite the losses, we did see some good things, especially from Iowa,...
Through his infamous and oft-cited first half of last season (2025), Pete Crow-Armstrong slashed .265/.302/.544 (131 wRC+) with 25 HRs and 27 stolen bases. At the time of the All-Star break, that...
“The first half” – it’s a phrase everyone uses to refer to the baseball season prior to the All-Star break, and I count myself among everyone. But obviously it’s not actually the first “half” of...
After drafting three college pitchers out of their first five picks in rounds 1-4, the Cubs continued the trend with 13 more arms over the final 16 rounds of the Draft. Only one of them, righty...
The Cubs ended the first half on a winning note, beating the Reds at Great American Ball Park on Sunday afternoon. The road team got some more production out of their third baseman, who suddenly...