https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/page/33/?d=1News: Newsenhttps://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/chicago-cubs-minor-league-recap-nick-dean-deals-owen-miller-leads-winning-night-on-the-farm-r10626/Chicago Cubs Transactions Chicago Cubs signed free agent SS Luis Abreu to a minor league contract. RHP Jacob Wallace roster status changed by Chicago Cubs. Chicago Cubs signed free agent RHP Jacob Wallace to a minor league contract. Chicago Cubs optioned LHP Jordan W...10626Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:14:01 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/2026-mlb-mock-draft-with-the-23rd-pick-cubs-draft-a-towering-prep-lefty-r10614/I take MLB mock draft rankings from major industry outlets like MLB Pipeline, ESPN, The Athletic (and many others) to form a consensus board, with a working hypothesis that using this approach will eliminate some of the noise and variance in MLB Draft mock rankings. The Chicago Cubs’ first...10614Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:11:01 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/dansby-swanson-only-more-so-r10606/It's slightly inflated, this hot streak. It's easy to get a little carried away about it. Dansby Swanson is raking lately, to be sure, but the competition and the weather have conspired to make him look superhuman, instead of merely superb. He's hit five home runs in the last two games, taking a...10606Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:55:01 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/chicago-cubs-hitters-of-the-month-june-2026-the-month-pete-crow-armstrong-figured-it-all-out-r10591/After a horrendous month of May for the Chicago Cubs offense, the bats picked it back up in the month of June. Chicago rolled to a 16-10 record throughout the month, including winning eight of their last nine games. The June success can be attributed to timely pitching from unlikely heroes, as w...10591Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:11:01 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/cubs-minor-league-hitter-of-the-month-june-2026-r10577/  The Chicago Cubs have had an up-and-down season, winning 10, losing 10, hitting a billion home runs and going ice-cold. As the big-leaguers have ebbed and flowed, on the minor-league side of things, the team has been fairly consistent in terms of who's hitting and staying hot. June was ye...10577Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:06:01 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/cubs-minor-league-hitters-of-the-month-june-2026-r10617/The Chicago Cubs have had an up-and-down season, winning 10, losing 10, hitting a billion home runs and going ice-cold. As the big-leaguers have ebbed and flowed, on the minor-league side of things, the team has been fairly consistent in terms of who's hitting and staying hot. June was yet anoth...10617Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:06:00 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/after-david-peterson-trade-what-other-trade-candidates-make-sense-for-cubs-rotation-r10572/Last week, the Chicago Cubs made an early (but necessary) trade to address their pitching depth, acquiring left-handed starter David Peterson from the Mets. Peterson, the longest-tenured Met before he was dealt, is not having the year he would have hoped. He had been shuffled between the rotatio...10572Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:56:02 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/cubs-win-as-offense-stays-scorching-hot-r10559/The Cubs have won five games in a row; what do they need to do to keep the good times rolling? Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-north-side-baseball-podcast/id1798599313  Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/75wMGhBwlrDDYPt3kaF453 List...10559Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:22:01 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/hartshorn-mcgwire-to-represent-cubs-at-futures-game-in-philadelphia-r10557/Josiah Hartshorn and Mason McGwire have been selected to represent the Chicago Cubs organization in the 2026 MLB All-Star Futures Game. The event will take place on Sunday, July 12 at 12:00 pm EST, at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. If you want to watch the game, it will be carried live by N...10557Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:59:00 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/chicago-cubs-pitchers-of-the-month-june-2026-r10550/The Chicago Cubs pitching staff, to put it gently, is in shambles as June comes to a close. The fact that the team is ten games over .500 with five starters, their closer, the anticipated set-up man, and hordes of others on the injured list is quite remarkable. Even more so, the pitching staff,...10550Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:24:08 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/chicago-cubs-minor-league-report-sanders-fires-quality-start-for-iowa-ayers-puts-final-touches-on-incredible-june-at-knoxville-r10545/Chicago Cubs Minor League Report Affiliate Overview Triple-A Iowa Cubs Series at Toledo Mud Hens (Detroit Tigers): Cubs lead, 1-0 Season Record: 33–46-1 Double-A Knoxville Smokies Series vs. Columbus Clingstones (Atlanta Braves): Smokies lead, 1-0 Season Record: 44–32...10545Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:04:02 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/reviewing-the-chicago-cubs-2025-draft-class-r10531/Drafts are primarily judged on their first-round picks. Finding more than three big-league contributors in a draft is cause for celebration; most classes yield that many or fewer. Thus, if a team doesn’t find value at the top, it faces an uphill climb to be a fruitful draft. The Cubs signed 19 o...10531Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:58:02 +0000