Dansby Swanson didn’t want to comment on the trade deadline during this past homestand. As he pointed out, the deadline is still two months away (Aug. 1 this season). The Cubs are now only 55 games into their season, just over a third of the way through. “There’s a lot of baseball to be played,” Swanson said. With that in…
Among some of the impressive individual performances on the Cubs through the first two months of the season, the job Justin Steele has done has been arguably the most important. Now, it’s unclear when Steele will get back on the mound to continue his stellar 2023 season. Steele was removed from the Cubs’ 4-3 loss to the Rays on Wednesday…
Marcus Stroman delivered a complete game shutout when the Cubs badly needed it to avoid extending their losing streak.
When he addressed the media ahead of the start of the current homestand, Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer tried to shift the blame for the bullpen woes onto his shoulders — and off of manager David Ross’. “If I’m being candid, I feel like I’ve put Rossy in tough spot to a certain extent. That’s an area we’ve…
Jameson Taillon says he feels better about his pitching, but the Cubs need results to come quicker.
Even for a team that’s been beaten by 13 runs and that’s blown a late, five-run lead in heartbreaking fashion in just the last two weeks, it’s hard to argue the Cubs have had many lower points than Friday. In a 9-0 loss to the Reds, pretty much nothing went right for the North Siders: Justin Steele had his worst…
Back when Jameson Taillon was an opponent of Kyle Hendricks’, he didn’t really know what to think of him. From what Taillon could tell, Hendricks was a “mute,” a “robot,” someone who gives off a “super quiet, smart guy vibe” (and to be fair, many who don’t know Hendricks may believe something similar). Taillon’s perception changed pretty quickly when he…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7qr7iEOyNM It was easy for Tucker Barnhart to describe what worked so well for Marcus Stroman on Wednesday. He just had to call back to something Stroman said back in spring training. “The sinker was ‘sankin,’ right?” Barnhart said, referring to Stroman’s “sanker gonna be sankin'” preseason quote, following the Cubs’ 4-2 win over the Mets. It was about as…
Following a 7-2 win over the Mets on Tuesday, the Cubs finished the night 4 1/2 games back of the first-place Brewers in the National League Central. The Cubs are still very much in the race (they’re only three games out of an NL Wild Card spot, too) with 115 games left to play. But that doesn’t necessarily make Cubs…
The Cubs return to Wrigley Field to open a nine-game home stand Tuesday night, but obviously, they aren’t far removed from a disappointing nine-game road trip. There were some positives to come from it — especially in some individual hitting performances — but the overall negatives sunk them. They couldn’t get the offense, the rotation and the bullpen clicking at…
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