https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/page/58/?d=1News: Newsenhttps://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/cubs-week-in-review-carson-kellys-walk-off-salvages-the-record-vibes-r7809/However hard it is to keep a good team down, it's even harder for said good team to find itself in a groove. With eight current big leaguers on the Chicago Cubs' roster currently on the IL, Lady Luck has been less than kind to Craig Counsell's ball club in the early going. With Cade Horton out f...7809Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:02:22 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/the-real-reason-michael-busch-is-struggling-r7806/Cubs' starting first baseman Michael Busch is hitting well below .200 to start the 2026 season. While he had an exciting RBI knock in the Cubs' come-from-behind win to cap off a series with the Pirates, will Busch break out of this dry spell? We dove into his advanced analytics to find out how p...7806Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:29:00 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/episode-48-cubs-slow-start-nothing-to-panic-about-r7804/What have we made of Jameson Taillon so far? How good has the starting rotation been? And a preview of Cubs vs. Phillies! Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-north-side-baseball-podcast/id1798599313  Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/75wMG...7804Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:17:02 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/should-the-cubs-make-a-call-to-lucas-giolito-r7800/It isn’t even halfway through April, and the Chicago Cubs’ pitching depth is already noticeably depleted. We got the news last week that the Cubs would be without sophomore starter Cade Horton for the rest of the season, due to a UCL injury. That came after the team placed Opening Day starter Ma...7800Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:11:01 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/a-failure-on-every-level-how-bad-fundamentals-and-bad-roster-construction-cost-cubs-saturdays-game-r7791/The first problem is that Tyler Austin got hurt. That's outside Jed Hoyer's control, except in that signing a player who was compelled to seek his baseball fortune on another continent half a decade ago and who's now well into his mid-30s was an embrace of some injury risk. Austin's knee injury...7791Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:48:00 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/cubs-lineup-woes-are-the-result-of-navigating-the-perils-of-a-sequential-offense-r7780/Caveats abound at this early stage of the season, but the Chicago Cubs are, at present and at best, a mediocre offensive team. A number of components will even out as the sample grows, but it's a hard idea to deny for a team that ranks 19th in runs scored, 24th in isolated power, and 22nd in wRC...7780Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:54:02 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/cubs-hunter-harvey-lands-on-il-with-triceps-injury-r7762/  Perhaps now we know why Hunter Harvey was struggling in the early stages of the season. The Chicago Cubs' right-handed reliever was placed on the 15-day injured list Sunday due to right triceps inflammation. Left-handed reliever Charlie Barnes was promoted from Triple-A Iowa and adde...7762Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:19:47 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/matt-shaw-is-swinging-slower-and-finally-looks-like-the-top-prospect-the-cubs-were-promised-r7744/Earlier this week, our Matt Trueblood took a look at how a change in stance has allowed Nico Hoerner to tap into more practical power. However, Hoerner is not the only Chicago Cub in 2026 who has bucked conventional trends yet produced much better results based on a stance change. Enter Matt Sha...7744Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:32:01 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/cubs-seiya-suzuki-activated-set-to-make-season-debut-r7714/  Right fielder Seiya Suzuki is making his much-anticipated return to the Chicago Cubs' lineup Friday. Suzuki was activated from the 10-day injured list following his sprained right posterior cruciate ligament during the World Baseball Classic while playing for Japan. Outfielder Dylan...7714Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:20:00 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/can-miguel-amaya-be-an-effective-hitter-if-his-bat-speed-never-rebounds-r7695/Hitting is problem-solving. After all, you're standing there in a box, not allowed to move beyond it, armed with a seemingly powerful but unwieldy club, and you've got a projectile coming at you at bone-breaking speed. You can't be sure where it'll be when it passes you, or even that it won't co...7695Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:38:02 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/the-five-stages-of-relief-r7671/As we await the return of Justin Steele and weather the losses of Matthew Boyd and Cade Horton to the injured list, I considered the grief of being a Cubs fan through this early part of 2026, and recalled the infamous "Five Stages of Grief" in trying to process my feelings. Known as the Kubler-R...7671Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:35:01 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/how-a-slight-stance-change-has-allowed-nico-hoerner-to-aim-for-the-corners-better-r7666/Back in May 2024, I wrote about Nico Hoerner's potential (or, as I myopically believed back then, lack thereof) to hit more doubles. The issues I noted at the time are still real and salient: that hitting the ball to center and right field, while good for a batter trying to maintain a high conta...7666Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:56:33 +0000