Cubs Stuff

Baseball is a team game filled with personal milestones. In Saturday’s 7-1 win over the Padres, Ian Happ showcased some of both. Making his 1,000th career appearance for the Cubs, something only 31 other players in franchise history have done, Happ reached base twice and made a spectacular diving catch [...]

OSS: Nothing like a low stress win. Three up: Matt Boyd’s second start for the Cubs was even more solid than his first. Boyd pitched six shutout innings walking one and striking out five. Small sample size etc etc but the Cubs signing of Boyd might have been shrewder than expected. The [...]

The Cardinals placed Nolan Gorman on the 10-day injured list yesterday (retroactive to April 2), and called up infielder Thomas Saggese from Triple-A in the corresponding roster move.  Gorman is suffering from a right hamstring strain that he suffered while running the bases in last Tuesday’s game, though Gorman told [...]

The Cubs are on their fourth, and last, opener of the season as they play their first series at Wrigley in 2025. The weather looks slightly cooler than what they had in Phoenix/Sacramento, hopefully it doesn’t cool off the bats as well. Though if the bats cooled down to only [...]

Berselius is likely to have a series preview shortly, but in the meantime I thought I’d toss out some over/unders for you to have fun with. What’s your prediction? Are you also now singing an old Sesame Street song, one of Grover’s greatest hits? Added benefit is to see if [...]

This is partly inspired by a misunderstanding on the Facebook page… I usually try to write such that there is no pronoun ambiguity, but I mistakenly assumed most people who paid attention would know that the Cubs bullpen barely had to do anything while the A’s bullpen was ground into a [...]

The latest episode of the MLB Trade Rumors Podcast is now live on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your podcasts! Make sure you subscribe as well! You can also use the player at this link to listen, if you don’t use Spotify or Apple for podcasts. This week, host Darragh McDonald is joined [...]

I think I knew that the California League was traditionally a high offense environment but it seems the Cubs put that into practice. Anyway here’s the highlights. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlT3lo53jDg?si=faxtkN_BrRAe0BIl&w=560&h=315] [...]

OSS: TOOTBWIN Three up: The Cubs defense came up big with two huge plays in this one, most notably Dansby Swanson’s game ending TOOTBLAN. I guess a NALBTOOT from the Cubs side since it was the Dbacks runner that goofed. Heads up defense from the Cubs defensive captain. Or is he?The most [...]

The Orioles have acquired right-hander Cody Poteet from the Cubs in exchange for cash considerations, per an announcement out of Baltimore. Poteet had been designated for assignment by the Cubs prior to Opening Day to make room for right-hander Brad Keller on their 40-man roster. The righty has been optioned [...]

OSS: Cubs offense wakes up with a little help from the Dbacks defense Three up: Miguel Amaya had the Cubs biggest hit of the day with a three run double that blew the game open for the Cubs in the fifth inning. He got a bit of help from the Steel Gloved [...]

The Cubs sent reliever Keegan Thompson outright to Triple-A Iowa earlier this week, according to the MLB.com transaction log. Chicago had designated the right-hander for assignment as they set their roster for the Tokyo Series. Thompson had a tough Spring Training, surrendering three runs (all on solo homers) across 4 2/3 innings. [...]

Opening Day. Two of the sweetest words in the English language. A… [...]

The Cubs announced Thursday that they’ve designated right-hander Cody Poteet for assignment. His spot on the roster will go to righty Brad Keller, who has now formally been selected to the roster. The Cubs also placed righties Tyson Miller (left hip impingement), righty Ryan Brasier (groin strain) and infielder/outfielder Vidal [...]

We are back again! And not at 4am! Hopefully the results are a little better than Tokyo. The Cubs face a less daunting task than they did against the Dodgers, but the Dbacks are also a very good team. Somehow the Dbacks lined things up such that their big free [...]

Did the Tokyo Series really even count? “Domestic” opening day seems like the perfect launching point of the Kyle Tucker era for the Chicago Cubs. The 2025 season is officially upon us, but before we get started, I asked the CHGO Cubs staff a few questions heading into Opening Day. Here’s [...]

With Opening Day just over the horizon, teams all around the league are gearing up for another pennant chase in hopes of being crowned this year’s World Series champion. Of course, there’s still another seven months to go before someone raises the Commissioner’s Trophy. Until the playoffs begin, teams will [...]

The Cubs have informed Brad Keller that he has made the Cubs’ roster for domestic Opening Day. Manager Craig Counsell passed the news along to Maddie Lee of the Chicago Sun-Times. The Cubs will have to make a corresponding move to get him onto the 40-man. Also, per Sahadev Sharma [...]

In the midst of watching Clemson blow it as the better seed in the NCAA tournament, but the news from the comments in the last post showed that Jordan Wicks and Eli Morgan had been optioned to Iowa. We knew going in that the Cubs had an inordinate number of [...]

OK, so the Cubs didn’t do as hot as they could have in Tokyo. Those two losses count and won’t go away, so now they have to make the most of the remaining 160. I could just copy-paste what I wrote last time, but maybe just click over and see. [...]