Cubs Stuff

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 chants started, and the Cubs center fielder laced one into right field. First and second, no outs. [...]

Pete Crow-Armstrong may be the new answer for the leadoff spot, where he's been delivering excellent results for the Chicago Cubs in recent weeks. [...]

The Cubs desperately need Jameson Taillon to get back on track. But can he do it? [...]

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 TWO starting pitchers back off the Injured List. Edward Cabrera and Matthew Boyd are [...]

Kyle Tucker is struggling mightily in his first season with the Los Angeles Dodgers, not even living up to what he did down the stretch with the Chicago Cubs. [...]

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 visiting A’s, which gives us oldsters some nostalgia for the Van [...]

The Chicago Cubs have seen enough. Well, really they just wanted a fresh arm ahead of Tuesday night's series opener against the Athletics, but it's safe to say [...]

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 Chirinos, who is being released. Rios had been with the Cubs organization, but the MiLB.com transaction log indicates that he [...]

The left-hander had allowed 11 runs in two recent starts. Right-hander Tyler Ferguson, acquired last month, called up. [...]

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 move. More on that in the press release below.ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(146); }); The Chicago Cubs today [...]

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 start in the big leagues and didn’t really have any success at Triple-A before getting the call. [...]

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 righty Tyler Ferguson, who was subsequently optioned to Iowa. If Sam Bernero is [...]

FINALLY. It’s been way too long since we had one of these. Last year, I think we did something like five or six watch parties throughout the Cubs and Bears season, but we haven’t had a single one yet here in 2026. Well, wait no more. Thanks to our partners [...]

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 Craig Counsell blowing a gasket, like, ever? I’m not saying it isn’t better to have replay review, ABS, etc., and [...]

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 saw that prompted my thinking: Ronald Acuña Jr. had a tough day [...]

What went wrong with the Cubs' process and Jordan Wicks? [...]

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 based on the way most of the hitters have been performing. And we already looked [...]

With Jameson Taillon and Shota Imanaga set to face the Athletics at Wrigley Field this week, there's potential for things to go sideways on the Chicago Cubs. [...]

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 happens to any other MLB organization at the highest levels always, in some sense, matters to the other [...]

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 needs are so crystal clear, their positional core so competitive, and their prospect pool so [...]