Chicago Cubs
Brett Taylor
•Apr 25, 2025
The Cubs and Phillies waited out a long rain delay before kicking off today’s game, which featured some particularly ugly conditions for the offense (the gusts coming in from left reached 50 mph at times). Still the Cubs found a way to get on base a ton, and to score here and there, despite leaving 12(!) on base through eight innings. Some days are like that, and you just have…
Chicago Cubs
Brett Taylor
•Apr 25, 2025
[danleys] With the Cubs clinging to a 3-0 lead in the 7th, and with Brad Keller trying to wriggle out of a jam, Trea Turner hit one up the middle. Sure, Dansby Swanson could get to it – he’s got that range – but you could tell immediately that he’d have no play on Turner, what with his speed. And because the grounder had taken him so deep up the…
Chicago Cubs
Michael Cerami
•Apr 25, 2025
CUBS LINEUP — Friday, 1:20, Wrigley Field, and a winning record. All we need is about 20 more degrees of warmth, and it doesn’t get much better than that. Here’s a look at the Chicago Cubs lineup for the first of three games against the Phillies at Wrigley Field. Chicago Cubs Lineup: Ian Happ, LF Kyle Tucker, RF Seiya Suzuki, DH Michael Busch, 1B Dansby Swanson, SS Nico Hoerner, 2B…
Chicago Cubs
Brett Taylor
•Apr 25, 2025
Due to the nature of oblique injuries in baseball players, I’m generally pessimistic anyway when it comes time to find out or calculate or reflect upon how much time a player will miss or has missed. But when it’s a setback as a guy was already on his way back from an initial oblique injury, I get all the more dour. It’s just such a slow process to get back…
Chicago Cubs
Brett Taylor
•Apr 25, 2025
I’ll never hate Willson Contreras, no matter how much time he spends with the St. Louis Cardinals. He’ll always be a Cubs hero to me. But I will admit, when he was transitioning to the Cardinals a couple years ago, it did really rub me the wrong way when Contreras said that he was joining the “better organization.” Time has not exactly borne that out, and it certainly made it…
Chicago Cubs
Michael Cerami
•Apr 25, 2025
Cubs vs Phillies — So far, the 2025 Chicago Cubs have proven to be just as formidable as pretty much any other team in the league. But that doesn’t change the fact that the Philadelphia Phillies represent yet ANOTHER tough matchup on the early season. And although the Cubs are missing Zack Wheeler, they are getting a resurgent Jesus Luzardo (… probably shoulda traded for him), a bouncing-back Taijuan Walker…
Chicago Cubs
Brett Taylor
•Apr 25, 2025
We have a bunch of Pillsbury cinnamon roll tubes – purchased not by me, so I don’t even know where they came from – that we need to use sooner rather than later. I could, of course, just make the cinnamon rolls, but I have become a cinnamon roll snob and I don’t think they’re all that good AS cinnamon rolls. So I kinda want to use them to make…
Chicago Cubs
Brett Taylor
•Apr 24, 2025
There is no Chicago Cubs game today – watch the NFL Draft instead! – but helping fill in the gap, the Milwaukee Brewers were playing the San Francisco Giants. We could root for the Giants. And if you had been, you would’ve been treated to a particularly rewarding conclusion. This was the play on which the Giants broke a 5-5 tie in the 8th inning: They don’t ask how… pic.twitter.com/qz2S4OfyHi—…
Chicago Cubs
Brett Taylor
•Apr 24, 2025
Some Chicago Cubs prospect bits for your off-day consumption … Cade Horton’s latest start for Iowa was once again another very good one: After posting 4 2/3 scoreless frames for the @IowaCubs today, @Cubs No. 2 prospect Cade Horton lowered his ERA to 1.06 this season 😯 pic.twitter.com/6P9EZAwDEX— MLB Pipeline (@MLBPipeline) April 23, 2025 Horton is at that 75-ish pitch plateau, is using all of his pitches with some success,…
Chicago Cubs
Michael Cerami
•Apr 24, 2025
Episode 9 of the Bleacher Nation Cubs Podcast is officially live! In this week’s episode, Brett and I talk about the two big comebacks the Cubs have delivered in the last week, as well as the impact (both mathematically and emotionally) of beating the Dodgers. We also get into the rotation before briefly discussing who, if anyone, in the bullpen is trustworthy. And then, for this week’s game, Brett put…
