https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/page/70/?d=1News: Newsenhttps://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/cobbling-together-the-best-chicago-cubs-uniform-combinations-r6272/Uniforms are an integral part of sports. It may not have started out that way, but today, a team's uniform fleshes out an entire identity. Some teams are able to transcend on-the-field success into off-the-field relevancy simply because of the uniforms they have created (e.g., the Oakland/Los An...6272Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:54:00 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/3-cubs-non-roster-invitees-who-will-break-out-this-spring-r6261/Spring training is finally here, and the non-roster invitees for every big-league team see it as a prime chance to break into The Show. For the Chicago Cubs, there are three non-roster invitees who could be in line to make some extra noise and contribute on the north side of Chicago in 2026. ...6261Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:08:02 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/chronicling-the-1918-cubs-part-9-the-world-series-part-1-r6254/Welcome to part nine of North Side Baseball’s offseason series covering the 1918 Chicago Cubs. You can find the first eight parts here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 When we left off, the National League an...6254Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:04:01 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/cubs-spring-training-preview-new-faces-wbc-participants-r6411/The Chicago Cubs won't have Alex Bregman for most of spring training as he plays for Team USA in the WBC, but newcomer Edward Cabrera and others will finally make their organizational debut. View the full article6411Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:41:02 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/cubs-spring-training-preview-new-faces-wbc-participants-r6247/The Chicago Cubs won't have Alex Bregman for most of spring training as he plays for Team USA in the WBC, but newcomer Edward Cabrera and others will finally make their organizational debut. View the full article6247Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:41:02 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/one-thing-each-cubs-hitter-can-improve-upon-in-2026-r6242/The Chicago Cubs enter 2026 as a team that looks largely the same offensively. Some dynamics will shift, of course. Alex Bregman is replacing both Matt Shaw and Kyle Tucker, in two different ways. Moisés Ballesteros is likely to get the first shot as the team's designated hitter, and the platoon...6242Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:34:01 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/the-cubs-have-to-add-a-left-handed-bat-and-have-waited-too-long-already-r6237/For all the good Jed Hoyer does as the president of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs, he makes some big mistakes, over and over. He's a good seeker of bargains in free agency and a tough negotiator. He's assembled an improved scouting and player development infrastructure. He assiduously...6237Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:08:02 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/cubs-bullpen-will-be-better-because-the-front-office-abandoned-their-usual-practices-this-offseason-r6228/As observers of the Chicago Cubs, we've all become accustomed to their standard process in building a bullpen. It's the waiver claims, the projects, and the last-chance veterans. Somehow, they've made it work. In the face of that success, though, Jed Hoyer and Carter Hawkins chose to revamp the...6228Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:08:45 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/is-jameson-taillon-underappreciated-r6412/Is Jameson Taillon underappreciated? The Cubs starter recently responded to a Twitter poll referring to Taillon giving up a home run to Alex Bregman as the former Pittsburgh Pirate being in midseason form. This got our wheels turning and gave our team a jolt of inspiration to highlight just how...6412Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:46:01 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/is-jameson-taillon-underappreciated-r6225/Is Jameson Taillon underappreciated? The Cubs starter recently responded to a Twitter poll referring to Taillon giving up a home run to Alex Bregman as the former Pittsburgh Pirate being in midseason form. This got our wheels turning and gave our team a jolt of inspiration to highlight just how...6225Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:46:01 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/jameson-taillons-current-skill-set-makes-him-ideal-for-2026-cubs-r6223/No starting pitcher has thrown more innings for the Chicago Cubs over the last three years than Jameson Taillon. In fact, his 445. 1/3 innings since 2023 lead the group by a healthy margin. The gap is due to a combination of injury and turnover, and while those mitigating forces constraining oth...6223Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:55:00 +0000https://diamondcentric.net/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/grading-the-chicago-cubs-2025-2026-offseason-r6214/With spring training games mere days away, the 2026 season is officially underway for the Chicago Cubs. Last year's group carried plenty of intrigue with Kyle Tucker in the mix and the emergence of Pete Crow-Armstrong among the storylines, but it was always a team that felt incomplete. This wint...6214Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:13:01 +0000