https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/page/16/?d=1News: Newsenhttps://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/what-is-the-cubs-future-at-the-catcher-position-r7050/The Chicago Cubs are undergoing somewhat of a changing of the guard at the catching position. Carson Kelly, coming off a career year, is a season away from a mutual option. Miguel Amaya showed more pop in 2025, but he lost some playing time to Kelly. Moises Ballesteros, the top prospect and man...7050Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:13:00 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/chicago-cubs-2026-position-analysis-catcher-r7043/The catching position is as involved as any in baseball, seeing that whoever is behind the plate factors into every single pitch. The Chicago Cubs’ catching position has everything from a grizzled veteran who is coming off of a career year to up-and-coming talents with varying levels of upside....7043Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:51:01 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/shota-imanagas-mound-move-and-his-lively-stuff-outweigh-ugly-spring-results-r7027/In a perfect world, you could fly to the ballpark every day to watch your favorite team fire a perfect game against their chief rival. Your favorite pitcher would never give up a hit or a run, and you'd win every game by 18 runs. But that would be dreadfully boring, after no more than a week. I...7027Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:02:02 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/chicago-cubs-2026-position-analysis-shortstop-r7024/The Chicago Cubs came into this offseason with questions. They'll enter the next one with different questions. None of those, however, surround the shortstop position. For the last three years, and at least for this next one, the position belongs to Dansby Swanson.  Swanson had an interesti...7024Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:09:04 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/can-daniel-palencia-become-one-of-the-top-closers-in-baseball-r7015/Daniel Palencia just did what many thought would be impossible; he slammed the door on a loaded Team USA lineup to take them out in the WBC title game. Palencia logged five shutout innings and struck out nine on a run that Venezuela fans will not soon forget. What did his showcase on the worldwi...7015Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:42:00 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/chicago-cubs-2026-position-analysis-third-base-r7002/As stable as the collective lineup has been for the Chicago Cubs over the last handful of seasons, third base has been a position more commonly associated with turnover than performance. It was Christopher Morel before it was Isaac Paredes before it was a smattering of below average options — Ga...7002Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:08:02 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/how-to-use-north-side-baseball-as-an-app-on-your-iphone-ipad-or-android-device-r6992/How To Install On iPhone or iPad How To Install On Android Device Developing a pure, native app for either Android or iOS is a breathtakingly expensive endeavor, which is why we haven’t done it, despite so many requests over the years. Thankfully, technology has met us halfway, and PWAs (...6992Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:36:56 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/seiya-suzukis-timeline-is-relatively-clear-once-you-remove-the-bad-data-r6982/Seiya Suzuki suffered a sprain of the posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, the Cubs announced this week. It's not great news, in that Suzuki has a tangible injury that will require recovery and a slight reset of his preparation for the regular season, but the diagnosis could be far wor...6982Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:03:59 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/2026-chicago-cubs-positional-analysis-second-base-r6973/With Opening Day hurtling toward us, Nico Hoerner enters his eighth (and possibly final) season as a Cub. The impending free agent will look to have a great season, to set himself up for a lucrative contract—barring an extension with the Cubs yet this spring. This year, though, his defense and u...6973Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:58:01 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/chicago-cubs-2026-position-analysis-center-field-r6958/The Chicago Cubs enter 2026 in a rather interesting position in center field.  On the one hand, they have Pete Crow-Armstrong entrenched as the anchor of the outfield grass. His speed, obscene glove, and baserunning acumen will keep him in the lineup even when the bat is being pinned down b...6958Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:10:40 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/cade-hortons-fourth-pitch-has-become-his-best-and-is-the-key-to-his-cy-young-potential-r6949/No pitcher in baseball last season produced as much horizontal separation between their four-seam fastball and their changeup as did Cubs righthander Cade Horton. What he calls a four-seamer (but which, in fairness, Pitch Info tags as a hard cutter) is a pitch with an extreme amount of relative...6949Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:32:00 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/let-the-gasolina-flow-daniel-palencia-has-to-be-on-the-mound-if-venezuela-needs-him-tonight-r6937/Daniel Palencia has pitched seven scoreless innings this spring. The first three were virtually meaningless Cactus League warmups. The last four have been some of the biggest games of his life, serving as the closer for Team Venezuela in its first-ever run to the finals of the World Baseball Cla...6937Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:16:06 +0000