Cubs Stuff

The latest episode of the MLB Trade Rumors Podcast is now live on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your podcasts! Make sure you subscribe as well! You can also use the player at this link to listen, if you don’t use Spotify or Apple for podcasts. This week, host Darragh McDonald is joined [...]

Back-to-back dominant performances from Porter Hodge should be enough for Craig Counsell to name him the Chicago Cubs closer moving forward. [...]

The Cubs announced Wednesday that they’ve signed infielder Nicky Lopez to a big league deal. Infielder and Rule 5 pick Gage Workman was designated for assignment to open a spot on the roster. Photographer Sam Bernero first spotted Lopez heading into Wrigley Field this afternoon and tweeted out a photo [...]

The Cubs have agreed to a minor league deal with right-hander Michael Fulmer, per Tommy Birch of the Des Moines Register. The BBI Sports Group client is headed to Triple-A Iowa for the time being. Fulmer was designated for assignment by the Red Sox last week and recently rejected an [...]

OSS: Another wild comeback with the wind blowing out Three up: It was a great night to be a hitter at Wrigley. Miguel Amaya had the biggest shot of the night, a solo homer in the bottom of the ninth against Tanner Scott that was worth a whopping .490 WPA. PCA and [...]

MLBTR continues our division by division look at next year’s team/mutual option class with the NL Central. Virtually all of the mutual options will be bought out by one side. Generally, if the team is willing to retain the player at the option price, the player will decline his end [...]

The slog through the NL West continues, and the Cubs get to close out their regular season games with the Dodgers. When I first saw that the Cubs were the ‘home’ team in Tokyo I was a little annoyed, both because of who the real home team would be with [...]

The Cubs have signed right-hander Peter Solomon to a minor league deal, reports MLBTR’s Steve Adams. The O’Connell Sports Management client will report to Triple-A Iowa and provide the Cubs with some non-roster depth. Solomon, 28, has a bit of major league experience. He tossed 14 innings with the Astros in [...]

8:14pm: While the team announced that Pomeranz would report to Triple-A Iowa, that’s evidently a temporary assignment. Patrick Mooney and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic report that the Cubs are likely to call him up on Wednesday. 7:47pm: The Cubs officially announced to media (including Marquee’s Taylor McGregor) that they’ve acquired [...]

The Cubs lost ace southpaw Justin Steele for the year last week when it was announced he’d need season-ending elbow surgery, but Steele didn’t actually go under the knife until Friday. Prior to today’s game against the Diamondbacks, manager Craig Counsell updated reporters (including MLB.com’s Jordan Bastian) on Steele’s status [...]

Since spring training, Craig Counsell has stressed the importance of having a Cubs pitching staff that can cover all the innings of a 162-game season. Through good and bad days, long starts and short ones, there’s a lot that goes into planning which pitchers to use when from Opening Day [...]

Especially that eighth inning, I mean what the hell (dying laughing) [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6jmMj7M9NI?si=jQmwGPY85zQgggUh&w=560&h=315] I was pretty annoyed at the top half like everyone else, but the bottom half made sitting in traffic seem not so bad after all. Elmo broke Twitter a long time ago, but yeah that is one hell of [...]

Luckily the MLB schedulers decided to get my Arizona-based blackouts out of the way by mid-April this year. The Cubs split their four game series in the desert, though they had the final game in hand until the Cubs bullpen melted down on getaway day. These are the last scheduled [...]

The Cubs re-signed righty Caleb Kilian to a minor league contract, reports Tommy Birch of The Des Moines Register. He’ll return to Triple-A Iowa after being released over the weekend. Chicago designated Kilian for assignment last Thursday when they acquired Tom Cosgrove in a trade with San Diego. Kilian was on the minor [...]

A .500 West Coast road trip, a division-leading performance so far anyway despite this April madness, and also someone told me it was International Haiku Poetry Day, so… Gauntlet halfway done Cubs leading division still Unbelievable [...]

The Cubs’ rotation took a huge hit recently with Justin Steele requiring season-ending elbow surgery. However, they don’t plan to rush out and scramble for external options. Per a report from Patrick Mooney of The Athletic, the club is focused on internal solutions for now. That’s a fairly understandable position to [...]

The Cubs have optioned third baseman Matt Shaw to Triple-A Iowa, reports Keith Law of The Athletic. That’s part of a larger slate of moves, relayed by Jordan Bastian of MLB.com. Infielder Vidal Bruján has been reinstated from the 10-day injured list. On the pitching side, the club recalled left-hander [...]

OSS: Against all odds, the Cubs pull one out late on the west coast. Three up: Nico Hoerner hit a go-ahead triple in the 10th inning, scoring the Manfred Man to put the Cubs ahead for the first time. It was a solid game overall for Nico at the plate, where [...]

Today is April 15, which happens to be tax day (hope you remembered to file before now because who knows if you’re going to get a refund these days), and it also happens to be the league-wide celebration of one of the most iconic players in MLB history, Jackie Robinson. [...]

In a massive blow to the Chicago Cubs’ season aspirations, they’ll be forced to go the rest of the way in 2025 without ace Justin Steele. Steele, 29, will require season-ending reconstructive elbow surgery on his left arm, per manager Craig Counsell. It is unclear whether the operation will be Tommy [...]