Cubs Stuff

I tend to think that, whether it was by design because the Cubs slipped someone a few dollars in the scheduling committee, or if they just got lucky, the regular Thursday off day has been pretty amazing to help keep players and pitchers fresh amidst the rash of injuries the [...]

OSS: Yukon Cornelius walks it off! Three up: Justin Turner finally got his first extra base hit of the year, and it was a big one. Turner’s one-out, 2 RBI double in the bottom of the ninth was the game winner. I groaned when I realized he was coming up, but with [...]

On Monday night, Moises Ballesteros was in the Triple-A Iowa clubhouse, playing a videogame — as luck would have it, MLB The Show — when he got the news that he was headed to the real show. Ballesteros said he dropped the game controller on the desk when Iowa Cubs manager [...]

Commissioner Rob Manfred throws a bone both to fellow trash former human and to a different guy who probably actually loved baseball On Tuesday, Rob Manfred sent a letter to a lawyer to let lawbreakers loose after leaving the land of the living, leaving lifetime bans limited to the length of [...]

OSS: Cade Horton makes a solid debut Three up Cade Horton made his well earned debut, and looked like he belonged. Aside from a belt-high hung slider to Brett Baty he had a solid night, and got a strikeout looking on his first batter. I’m looking forward to seeing more of him, [...]

I was told that the Cubs had no hard series for the rest of the year, this is some bullshit. The Mets may have had one of the easiest strength of schedules on the year, but they are still quite a good team even with new signing Juan Soto “slumping” [...]

So Shota Imanaga is on the shelf for probably a month or so, and Justin Steele is out for the year, which means someone has to take over that open spot in the rotation. It appears that someone is top Cubs pitching prospect Cade Horton: Horton, Chicago’s No. 2 prospect and No. [...]

Yay, more divisional baseball! It doesn’t feel *too* weird that the first Brewers series isn’t until May, but it does still feel weird that it’s the second NLC series overall. Or that there’s no Cardinals series until the last week of June. I’m a broken record (that was shattered by [...]

N=1, sample size etc. [...]

The toughest* part of the Cubs schedule is finally behind them but they shouldn’t take their foot of the gas. And while the Pirates overall are a step down from the Dodgers et al., they do still have this Paul Skenes guy, who outdueled Yamamoto in his last start. The [...]

I was thinking about the season preview I did at the tail end of spring training, and as we look at the standings today, a day that the Cubs have off as they travel to Pittsburgh for another road trip that doesn’t suck as much as the last one (we [...]

This link takes you to the play in question, and keep in mind this isn’t the play that lost the game, as Julian Merryweather had uncharacteristically walked the world in stupid extras and coughed up a go-ahead run already. Per my observation, Vidal Bruján was playing kind of deep possibly [...]

Despite the toughest strength of schedule in the league through the first month, a bullpen that is still finding its footing, and the loss of one of their top starting pitchers, the Cubs are winning with regularity. So much so that they are the current easy favorites to win their [...]

Rain during baseball Should be illegal except In the World Series [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Baseball is a team game filled with personal milestones. In Saturday’s 7-1 win over the Padres, Ian Happ showcased some of both. Making his 1,000th career appearance for the Cubs, something only 31 other players in franchise history have done, Happ reached base twice and made a spectacular diving catch [...]

Opening Day. Two of the sweetest words in the English language. A… [...]

Did the Tokyo Series really even count? “Domestic” opening day seems like the perfect launching point of the Kyle Tucker era for the Chicago Cubs. The 2025 season is officially upon us, but before we get started, I asked the CHGO Cubs staff a few questions heading into Opening Day. Here’s [...]

Under different circumstances, an 0-2 start to the season for the Cubs — especially against the defending World Series champion Dodgers — wouldn’t be cause for alarm. Frustration, yes, but not real concern. That should probably be just as true now, but the Tokyo series has amplified the attention on [...]