Cubs Stuff

Looking at each defensive position on the Chicago Cubs, we break down the strengths and weaknesses around the diamond heading into the 2025 season. [...]

Right-hander Jorge Lopez, who got his career back on track after joining the Chicago Cubs last season, is moving on, signing with the Washington Nationals. [...]

The Chicago Bulls gave DeMar DeRozan an extra warm welcome on Sunday afternoon. Returning to the United Center for the first time since joining the Sacramento Kings, DeRozan received the tribute video treatment. The Bulls thanked the 35-year-old forward for his three seasons during a first-quarter timeout. Beginning with his [...]

The final pages of the Chicago Cubs offseason are yet to be written, but the story so far is very confusing, with a big trade followed by marginal additions. [...]

Here’s an interesting new rumor for Sunday morning. According to Ken Rosenthal at The Athletic, the Chicago Cubs are one of the teams who’ve checked in on free-agent left-handed reliever Brooks Raley – he of a 2.58 ERA over his last 115.1 IP in the big leagues. In fact, the [...]

Just when was the Cubs Hall of Famer signing these autographs? Hey, it’s Ernie Banks autograph-signing weekend here at the sleuthing desk, so after yesterday’s photo of Ernie signing at Wrigley Field, here’s another one featuring the Cubs Hall of Famer. That’s definitely Ernie Banks, and he’s definitely signing for fans. [...]

Thoughts are still with the folks out west, dealing with the terrible wildfires. Scary to hear that more winds are coming once, which could exacerbate things again. Hopefully there will be enough respite soon to get these under control. The 2025 International Free Agent period opens up on Wednesday, January [...]

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The Chicago Cubs currently have a healthy farm system, with seven players in MLB Pipeline's Top 100 Prospects, even after trading Cam Smith earlier this winter. [...]

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Everyone is understandably looking for tea leaves in the Roki Sasaki sweepstakes, and one of the most obvious ones we all pointed out to anticipate was the breaking of handshake deals with International Free Agent signings. If a team started dumping its 2025 IFA agreements, which are supposed to be [...]

Left-hander Brooks Raley is drawing interest from clubs as he continues rehabbing from Tommy John surgery over the summer, according to a report from Ken Rosenthal and Will Sammon of The Athletic. The Cubs and Yankees are among the clubs to have reached out and some teams have discussed multi-year [...]

The Chicago Cubs missed out on another potential bullpen target, and the three-year deal explains why the team was probably not interested in Jeff Hoffman. [...]

The Cubs signing Colin Rea should have given me enough to write about for at least three days, but I’m going against my better judgment to cover two other topics that are only tangential to our namesake club. That’s because, monster Rea deal aside, Jed Hoyer hasn’t really done much [...]

The New York Yankees seem willing to do just about anything to unload former Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Marcus Stroman before Opening Day. [...]

By the time the Cubs had added Colin Rea, or even earlier with the Eli Morgan trade or the Cody Poteet acquisition or the Matt Festa claim or the Caleb Thielbar signing or some combination of those plus the many reclamation moves, I had figured a reunion with Jorge Lopez [...]

In some early 2025 predictions, MLB Network believes the Chicago Cubs are going to punch their postseason ticket for the first time since 2020. [...]

Bettman Archive Just when did the Cubs Hall of Famer sign these scorecards? Getty Images says: Chicago Cubs shortstop Ernie Banks signs autographs at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Banks would go on to win the Most Valuable Player award in the 1958 and ‘59 seasons. Okay, so [...]

I believe I have shoveled more in the last week than I did all winter before this week, plus last winter, combined. I don’t really hate it THAT much, at least now that I have a much better back situation, and it occurs to me now as I type this [...]

With a core led by Kris Bryant, Javier Baez and Anthony Rizzo, the 2016 Chicago Cubs made history - but never materialized into the dynasty we hoped for. [...]