Chicago Cubs Lineup: The Static Lineup

Well, have yourself a day, Marcus Semien. The Rangers infielder is 3-3 with a home run, double, single, four RBI, and a run scored today against the Oakland Athletics, and they're only in the second inning! Semien led the game...

UPDATE: Cody Bellinger is officially back with the Chicago Cubs, having been called up after publication of this article. Original post follows. *** According to Taylor McGregor on last night's broadcast, we are maybe a day away from Cody Bellinger...

No point in burying the lede! The Chicago Cubs center fielder, Cody Bellinger, is officially back with the team just TWO WEEKS after fracturing multiple ribs on a collision with the center field wall. I'd say that's as "best case...

Sam Bernero has an eagle-eye and a steady camera, so when there are players newly in town around Wrigley Field, she is frequently the first person to have it. So it is today, with the return of Keegan Thompson to...

One of baseball's biggest surprises through six weeks? The AL Central has been pretty good this season. Plus, Walker Buehler returns to a major league mound after 22 months, Shōta Imanaga's four-seamer draws national attention, and more in today's MLB...

It's quite a jarring polarity right now between the Chicago Cubs' starting pitchers on the one hand, and the Chicago Cubs' relief pitchers on the other hand. The starters, obviously, have been unbelievably good. The relievers, by contrast, have struggled...

The Chicago Cubs minor league affiliates were off on Monday, so it's time to take stock of some recent hot (and not-so-hot) performers inside the Cubs Top 25 prospects down on the farm in today's Cubs Farm Report. Cubs Farm...

Well, my friends, we made it. Almost exactly one month after Brett's back surgery put him on the shelf, he's ready to come back full-time. I'm still your man today for bullets and game coverage, but I'll be handing the...

For the 5th time in his last 8 games, Christopher Morel homered last night. It was a particularly special one for the 24-year-old third baseman, as it was Morel's 50th career home run: https://twitter.com/WatchMarquee/status/1787657566895444414 https://twitter.com/WatchMarquee/status/1787829739496829379 Although the dinger did not...

It is not his main point. It is something he immediately tried to hedge as soon as he'd said it. BUT Jed Hoyer DID say it. So I'll lead with it. “I knew that trade was in the works,” Hoyer...