Chicago Cubs Trades and Free Agent Signings Archives

Evan AltmanDecember 20, 2024

Cubs’ Abject Lack of Power, Velo Illustrated in Two Examples

Power and velocity aren’t everything, but they’re two of baseball’s most valuable commodities and choosing not to stockpile them isn’t…

Evan AltmanDecember 19, 2024

We’re early in a month-long quiet period for Japanese pitcher Rōki Sasaki, who has been posted and must now wait…

Evan AltmanDecember 19, 2024

Maybe it’s because the Marlins’ ask was too big or maybe it was a matter of Jed Hoyer using his…

Evan AltmanDecember 17, 2024

One of the ideas making the rounds as a Cody Bellinger trade to the Yankees remains in limbo over the…

Evan AltmanDecember 16, 2024

The Cubs weren’t able to make much progress on the Cody Bellinger-to-the-Yankees trade that felt like a foregone conclusion last…

Evan AltmanDecember 15, 2024

Rather than splitting these up across multiple posts, it seemed prudent to combine them and save us all a little…

Evan AltmanDecember 13, 2024

Kyle Freaking Tucker. King Tuck. Whatever you want to call him, just call him the Cubs’ best player. This whole…

Evan AltmanDecember 13, 2024

The Cubs had agreed to a deal with catcher Carson Kelly earlier in the week but needed to wait for…

Evan AltmanDecember 13, 2024

I’m late to the party on this one because I was in a tattoo chair when the news broke, and…

Evan AltmanDecember 13, 2024

Social media is no different from the playground in elementary school, with hearsay traveling like wildfire across a windswept plain…