Bryce Harper hit for the cycle on Saturday. The 11th time it’s happened in Phillies franchise history. And when reporters asked his manager if he could ever have pulled off the same feat back in his own playing days, Don Mattingly didn’t bother sugarcoating anything. The answer was instant. The answer was hilarious. The answer…
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…
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…
The Chicago Cubs’ disappointing 2026 season was highlighted again in Tuesday’s 5-2 loss to the Colorado Rockies, exposing many of the same problems that have followed the team all year. Another pitching injury surfaced when Edward Cabrera exited with a cramp in his throwing hand, while the offense failed to capitalize on scoring opportunities, going…
The Chicago Cubs have lost two straight to the Colorado Rockies and are staring down the barrel of a sweep in Denver. Not exactly the position a team with playoff ambitions wants to find itself in. So naturally something had to change — and Alex Bregman is right at the centre of it. The Change…
The Chicago Cubs have been quietly doing what the Cubs do best — picking up pieces nobody else wants and turning them into something useful. And their latest acquisition follows that exact blueprint to the letter. While the bigger headlines swirl around trade deadline rumours and playoff positioning, Jed Hoyer slipped in another low key…
The Chicago Cubs had a pretty decent Saturday. A walk off win at Wrigley, a series all tied up against the Giants, and somewhere in the middle of all that excitement — a quiet but interesting roster move that flew completely under the radar. Because the Cubs front office never really stops working. Even on…
When your two highest paid players aren’t delivering and the team is underperforming, that’s just how it goes — the criticism comes with the job title. But there’s one area where Hoyer keeps quietly proving his doubters wrong, year after year, and it’s time to give him his flowers for it. Building a quality bullpen…