With injuries piling up in the rotation, including setbacks to Edward Cabrera and Ben Brown, it seemed inevitable that Cubs president Jed Hoyer would have to act quickly on the trade market. Chicago was dealing with six starting pitchers on the injured list, creating an urgent need for reinforcements. That move came shortly after…
Jeff Passan is one of the most respected baseball insiders on the planet. He breaks trades, reports contracts, and generally operates with the kind of measured professionalism you’d expect from someone at ESPN. And then Wednesday night happened, the Mets committed six errors in a single game, and Passan looked at his keyboard and typed…
The Chicago Cubs won 9-6 against the Mets on Tuesday night in New York. A good result. A needed result. And then Craig Counsell stepped up to the microphone after the game and reminded everyone that nothing comes easy for this rotation in 2026. Edward Cabrera. Hamstring. IL. Again. What Happened Out There It was…
It’s not the splashy deadline move Cubs fans are desperately waiting for. Nobody’s printing a jersey. Nobody’s losing their mind on Twitter. But quietly, on a Monday afternoon ahead of a road trip to New York, Chicago dipped into the bargain bin and pulled out a name worth keeping an eye on — if…
The Chicago Cubs made a trade with the Houston Astros. Cue the excitement, right? Wrong. This is one of those deals that sounds promising in a headline and falls apart the second you actually read the details. Jed Hoyer has gone back to a familiar well — the Astros have quietly become one of his…
745 games. Over 3,000 plate appearances. Eight years grinding through Minor League ballparks most fans have never heard of. And on Friday afternoon at Wrigley Field, Justin Dean finally got the moment he’d been chasing his entire adult life. A three run triple. A lost helmet rounding second. A standing ovation from a crowd…
Two separate ten game winning streaks. And yet the Chicago Cubs sit at 39-36, third in the NL Central, eight games back of the division lead. That’s the kind of season that makes you scratch your head — flashes of brilliance buried inside a frustrating, inconsistent grind. The trade deadline is coming. And there’s no…
The Most Hated Man in Baseball Is Also One of the Best Funny how that works, isn’t it. Pete Crow-Armstrong is the crown jewel of Chicago, the guy Cubs fans would run through a wall for — and simultaneously, somehow, the most despised player in the sport to literally everyone wearing a different jersey. Both…
From Punching Bag to Praise Magnet — In One Offseason Remember when Kentucky fans couldn’t open Twitter without getting roasted? When every recruiting miss turned into another reason for the rest of college basketball to laugh at Lexington? Yeah. That guy is gone. Mark Pope spent the offseason quietly assembling a roster that’s now…
Andrew Painter’s nightmare season just got worse. And buried in the fallout of his demotion is a contractual detail that could force the Phillies into a roster decision they weren’t necessarily planning to make. Sometimes the most interesting moves in baseball aren’t the ones a front office chooses. They’re the ones a contract clause chooses…