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CUBS LINEUP — I don’t know if this really constitutes a shakeup, but it’s definitely a different-looking group (and order) than the Cubs lineups we’ve seen lately. Chicago Cubs Lineup: Nico...

Happy birthday, Evan, hope you like crap! That’s what the Cubs told me yesterday, but the truly unfortunate part is that they shared their poor play with all of us. Tuesday’s loss was the sixth...

Right fielder Frank “Wildfire” Schulte was born 9/17/1882 in Cochecton, NY, and died 10/2/1949 in Oakland, Ca. He was 67 years old. In between is the story. “Frank developed his rudimentary...

“Well I’ll be ridin’ on that bus ’til I Cadillac.” — Waitin’ for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago by ZZ Top We’ve seen this movie before, right? The Cubs are going to let the Brewers get an...

Casey at the Bat is an 1888 poem by Ernest L. Thayer, who wrote for the Harvard Lampoon under the pseudonym Phin. William Randolph Hearst had at one time been the editor of that periodical when he...

I would hardly give any pitcher too much of the business for giving up a home run to Nick Kurtz, much less a home run to Nick Kurtz at Wrigley Field to one of the spots where it would be a dinger...

I wouldn’t TYPICALLY write up and frame an entire post around a Chicago Cubs prospect reaching a particular – and arbitrary – spot in the rankings of one service. But here’s the thing. Josiah...

This All-Star pitcher would make sense in a Cubs trade.

I’m still thinking about that juuuuust-barely foul ball from the 9th inning last night. Outside of maybe Dansby Swanson, there’s no Cubs hitter who could’ve used a huge moment like that more than...

For a moment, I wondered if that headline should be a question. As in “Do the 2026 Chicago Cubs Even Have an Identity?” Or something to that effect. But that’d just be rhetorical. They do not....

While it was a tough day overall in the Cubs system, one of the biggest bright spots of this season, Josiah Hartshorn, starred yet again for South Bend. Elsewhere, Iowa was throttled while...

We recently ran a giveaway with FreshDCards that was aimed more at Mother’s Day, and now we’ve got one specifically for Father’s Day. FreshDCards offers team packs, player packs, starter sets, and...

Out since May 19 with a back issue, utility man Matt Shaw has started a rehab assignment at Triple-A Iowa. He played center field, got in three at bats, and hopefully is no worse for the wear....

Palencia is missing out on his main stat.

Ope, I guess June wasn’t immediately the magical corner turn … Nico Hoerner and Pete Crow-Armstrong reached base to open up the 9th inning. Nico Hoerner and Pete Crow-Armstrong reached base to...

The Chicago Cubs continue to be stuck in an offensive slump that has seen the club score three or fewer runs in 10 of its past 16 games.,The Cubs will

The Cubs started the new month pretty much the same way they ended the previous one, with a lackluster offensive performance against the Athletics Tuesday night. They suffered the loss despite a...

This may be a must for Jed Hoyer.

This could be beneficial for both teams.

Jo Adell has worked hard to shed his reputation as a defensive liability. He even robbed three home runs in a single game back in April. It was a moment. People talked about it. The narrative was...

Gage Jump pitched seven stellar innings in his second big league start and Zack Gelof had the decisive tiebreaking single to lift the Athletics to a 2

Gage Jump pitched seven stellar innings in his second big league start and Zack Gelof had the decisive tiebreaking single to lift the Athletics to a 2

Gage Jump pitched seven effective innings in his first major league win, and the Athletics beat the Chicago Cubs 2-1 on Tuesday night.

17-straight outs heading into the ninth inning. That’s when Nico Hoerner drew a leadoff walk (complete with not one, but two ABS challenges, one from each team, both wrong). After that, the PCA...

Edward Cabrera and Matthew Boyd are close to returning to the banged-up rotation for the Chicago Cubs after being sidelined by injuries.

Hooray! While the writing was on the wall with the most recent roster swap (Tyler Ferguson for Jordan Wicks), the news is now official: The Chicago Cubs are on the doorstep of getting not one, but...

The Cubs are playing a brand of baseball that looks more like 2012 than 2016, but they’re going to throw it all the way back to the 80s tonight. That’s because Gage Jump is on the bump for the...

The LG Twins of the Korea Baseball Organization are signing right-hander Yacksel Rios, per Korean news outlet Naver Sports. He’ll take the place of another former big league right-hander, Yonny...

Between two uncompetitive starts and Matthew Boyd‘s imminent return, it was clear Jordan Wicks wasn’t long for the roster. But the Cubs needed a live arm in the meantime, so they made a roster...

CUBS LINEUP — Okay, Cubs. No more messing around. It’s time to start winning. And what better time than now, against a below-average Athletics team starting a 23-year-old lefty who’s made just one...

A few weeks back, the Cubs went on quite a spree picking up depth arms for Triple-A, some of whom were waiver claims, some of whom were minor league signings. One of those pick-ups was former A’s...

Ah, it was a different time for Major League Baseball managers, wasn’t it? The days of the SCREAMING-IN-AN-UMPIRE’S-FACE, and kicking dirt, and generally making a hilarious scene? Can you imagine...

I saw a crazy statistic today that I wanted to share, and that, in turn, made me want to share a little more about just how good Pete Crow-Armstrong has been in center field. First, here’s what I...

A few viral blunders shouldn't take away from PCA's excellence.

If you didn’t already know otherwise, how many guesses would it take you to name Pete Crow-Armstrong as the Cubs’ leader in bat speed and exit velocity (both average and max)? Okay, maybe not many...

I think we could probably debate the extent to which this story “matters” to the Cubs and their fans. These are prominent figures who were previously in the organization, which matters. What...

We know that, if they should manage to stay in the playoff picture through July, the Chicago Cubs figure to be among the most aggressive buyers of pitching this season at the Trade Deadline. Their...

Cubs vs Athletics — This is the month for the Cubs. They’ve got a lot of things working for them, from a light schedule (start with these A’s at Wrigley), to starting pitchers returning, to some...

“And so it was later as the miller told his tale. That her face at first just ghostly turned a whiter shade of pale.” – A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum Yesterday was an emotional day here...

Kiley McDaniel of ESPN released his updated Top 10 prospects list for each organization on Monday, with the Cubs’ rankings featuring several breakout names from the first two months of the season....

The Cubs (32-28) finished a 3-4 road trip by dropping two of three to the Cardinals to wrap up a disappointing 13-16 month of May that included a 10-game losing streak. That slump erased a lot of...

Sometimes, you just want to see something funny. Good day, bad day, doesn’t matter. We probably don’t do enough around here to just keep things light every now and again. Thankfully, with so many...

I knew that the opening proposals and attendant lukewarm comments were too good to last. That’s just not how Collective Bargaining Agreement fights go. MLB Players Association Interim Director...

The Cubs lose 2-3 to the Cardinals, but at least some tarps off dweeb with a weak arm looked like a fool. We do some Cubs May trivia, Rakes/Flakes/Throws/Blows and of course a smelly visit from...

Today, I’d like to talk to you about black cocoa powder, and why it is superior to regular cocoa powder. Oh, I guess that’s the whole thing. If he finished the season at .259/.341/.364/103 wRC+,...

As their grip starts to slip in the NL Central race, the Chicago Cubs need one player to catch fire.