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…
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…
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…
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…
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…