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5 Burning Questions Facing The Chicago Cubs As July Nears
July begins tomorrow as Cubs fans turn their attention to the Fourth of July, barbecues, and fireworks. Chicago Cubs baseball may be a distant thought to many, but the season is just halfway over with three more months of baseball on the docket. The Cubs, at 29-46, are 14 games back in the National...
The 2022 All-Chicago City Baseball Team
With the Cubs and White Sox set to continue their season series this weekend at Guaranteed Rate Field on the south side, there is no better time to unveil the All-City team than right now. The White Sox will wrap up their three-game series against the Boston Red Sox on Thursday, May 26 while the...
Cubs At The Quarter Mark: Team Awards After 40 Games
40 up, 40 down for the 2022 Chicago Cubs. It's always interesting to evaluate a team after a checkpoint has arrived, and 40 games seem like a good milestone for a baseball team. The Cubs, at 16-24, are in a tie for third place with the Pittsburgh Pirates and trail the division-leading Milwaukee...
Will He Be Dealt? Potential Landing Spots For Willson Contreras
The Chicago Cubs will soon have a big decision to make. What to do with Willson Contreras? Arguably the most well-known player on the 2022 roster, the two-time National League All-Star is enjoying perhaps his best season as a Cub. Contreras is showing no signs of slowing down at age 30 and is...
Cubs' Core No More: A Look At Baez, Rizzo, Bryant & Schwarber In 2022
Cub fans may never want to relive late July of 2021 ever again, as the team said farewell to Cub greats Anthony Rizzo, Javier Baez, Kris Bryant, and others. Fan-favorite Kyle Schwarber was already gone by that point, having played the entire 2021 season away from Wrigley Field (Schwarber was an...
30 Games In: NL Central Report Cards
With one month and change officially in the books for the 2022 baseball season, we are beginning to see teams and players round into form after a very strange and unique offseason. While there are still over 130 baseball games to be played by each team, we can begin to see who the contenders are,...
Saving The Day: Cubs Bullpen Off To Strong Start
As baseball's first month soon enters the rear-view mirror, the Chicago Cubs find themselves in a bit of a swoon, losing seven of their last nine games, with a daunting schedule still on tap that features the Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago White Sox, and Los Angeles Dodgers. In the season's first few...
Cubs Brace For Tough Upcoming Schedule
At 7-9, the Chicago Cubs find themselves in fourth place in the National League Central standings at the moment, behind the St. Louis Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers (both tied for first), and the Pittsburgh Pirates, who recently took three of four from the Cubs at Wrigley Field. The Cubs have...
Remembering Jake Arrieta's Top 5 Moments As A Member Of The Cubs
"It's just my time." On Monday, April 18, Jake Arrieta announced he'd be stepping away from the game of baseball while on Barstool Sports' "Pardon My Take" podcast, ending a 12-year pitching career. The 2015 National League Cy Young Award winner spent parts of six seasons on Chicago's north side...
Chicago Cubs Lead MLB In Several Surprising Categories
Yes, we are just nine or ten games into the 2022 season, so anyone can get carried away by such a small sample size. But when Cubs fans woke up on Monday, April 18, did they expect to see their squad atop the leaderboard of team On-Base Plus Slugging (OPS) Percentage? Probably not. Rest assured,...
Marcus Stroman Seiya Suzuki Impress In Season’s First Series
Three days into a season offers little information as far as projecting a full baseball season goes, and it’s easy to overreact and jump to enormous conclusions. But after one weekend of baseball, the Chicago Cubs got an intriguing appetizer from each of its two main off-season free-agent signings...
Strength Or Weakness? A Look At The Cubs' 2022 Bullpen
Welcome back, baseball. After plenty of uncertainty this winter regarding if and when baseball would be played in 2022, we now know that a full 162-game season is on the horizon. Questions remain for nearly all 30 teams as they'll soon navigate this very unique season after a shortened spring...
National League Central: Previewing The 2022 Season
Spring is in the air and April baseball is getting close. After plenty of uncertainty surrounding the 2022 season amid a lockout that lasted 99 days, we will officially see baseball beginning April 7. The Chicago Cubs have been quite busy in recent days, adding relievers, infielders, and prized...
The Best And Worst Case Scenarios For 2022 Cubs
Baseball is back and the free agency period is several days old, but the Chicago Cubs have not yet made a big splash in the free-agent waters (unless you count Andrelton Simmons and Jesse Chavez as big splashes). The Cubs, as currently structured, look to be a team on the outside looking in, as far...
Three Ways The Chicago Cubs Can Be Playoff Contenders In 2022
When–and perhaps if–we have a baseball season in 2022 (come on, players and owners, work with us here!), it will be a frenzied rush to sign free agents, fill rosters, and conduct some type of spring training for the 30 Major League Baseball clubs. It will be a constant barrage of player updates,...
Remember These Guys? Can the Cubs Count On This Trio Again?
What to expect from Patrick Wisdom, Frank Schwindel, and Rafael Ortega in 2022 Baseball fans have been in hibernation for months now, as they continue to patiently wait out the current Major League Baseball lockout, now at 90 days. Cubs fans, it seems, have been in hibernation mode since around...
Cubs Will Look To The 'Men In The Middle' In 2022
Baby steps, Cubs fans. The rebuild is here and Cubs fans everywhere have been placed in the all-too-familiar position of having to wait for meaningful baseball to return to Chicago’s north side. At this point, as Major League Baseball’s lockout hits the 75-day mark, we’ll settle for any baseball,...