North Side Optimist

Love baseball, huge Cubs fan!

[Talkin' Baseball @TalkinBaseball_]

MLB is getting rid of the clock in the Home Run Derby, per @EvanDrellich

Participants will get 20 swings in the first round and 15 in the final two. On the last pitch of each round, they keep going until they don't hit a homer

[Elias Schuster @Schuster_Elias]

PCA CYCLE ALERT

WRIGLY FIELD GOES NUTS

[🅱️🚂 @blakecowellx]

You want some optimism?

Get to the All-Star Break 8-10 games above .500 …that’s it. That’s all I’m asking.

Then you’ll roll into the back half of July with Steele coming back. Boyd back. And hopefully a deadline arm.

Stay in the fight ladies and gents. Seasons far from over.

[Mike Petriello @mike_petriello]

🚨New metric release day from the Statcast factory at Baseball Savant

How much do pitchers miss the bat by? Is the bat over the ball or under? Tied up, or flailing? Is the batter early? Or late?

LEADERBOARD--> https://t.co/hEztM6Oe2e

[Cubs Zone @CubsZone]

Matt Shaw will be activated off the IL tomorrow, per @JesseRogersESPN.

[OBVIOUS SHIRTS® @obvious_shirts]

RETWEET IF YOU APPRECIATE JAVIER ASSAD!! #Cubs

[MLB @MLB]

Pete Crow-Armstrong

Game-tying homer in the 6th
Game-tying homer in the 9th
😤😤😤

[Thomas Nestico @TJStats]

Props to Pete-Crow Armstrong for making meaningful adjustments since the end of April to turn his season around. He slashed his O-Swing% drastically without any degradation in his batted ball metrics. He is walking more, striking out less, and consistently hitting the ball harder

[Just Baseball @JustBB_Media]

What a night for Ben Brown!

7 IP
3 H
1 ER
1 BB
6 K

He owns a 1.92 ERA on the season and a 1.73 ERA as a starter 🐻

[Caleb Williams @CALEBcsw]

😂😂

[Foul Territory @FoulTerritoryTV]

The "Tarps Off" section was chanting "OVERRATED" when Pete Crow-Armstrong was up.

He crushes a baseball to the section and gives them an imaginary t-shirt wave. 😎

(Via: @MLBONFOX)

[Underdog MLB @UnderdogMLB]

PCA crushes a homer 444 feet while Cardinals fans chant "overrated"

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

TARPS OFF. BALL GONE.

[Talkin' Baseball @TalkinBaseball_]

The Cubs won a ballgame

[Just Baseball @JustBB_Media]

Ben Brown since moving into the starting rotation:

19 IP
1.89 ERA
0.95 WHIP
.171 AVG
29.9 K%
23 K | 6 BB

Brown has been a key piece to the Cubs' pitching staff this season! 🐻

[Barstool Boilermakers @BarstoolPU]

Purdue baseball should’ve been in. BS

[Brett Taylor @Brett_A_Taylor]

The best version of the Chicago Cubs rotation this year would go:

Cade Horton (injured)

Justin Steele (injured)

Edward Cabrera (injured)

Matthew Boyd (injured)

Shota Imanaga (bubble-wrapped)

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

Last one at home.

Watch the game live on @WatchMarquee.

[Michael Cerami @Michael_Cerami]

Today's the day.

They will break out.
They will win.
They will go on a run.

Time for the Cubs to wake up. I think it starts now.

[Patrick Ebert @PatrickEbert44]

I think @PurdueBaseball has a worthy case for postseason inclusion, No. 5 seed in the Big Ten Tournament, gave No. 1 UCLA all they could handle in quarterfinals, hopefully the selection committee sees it similarly

More than anything else, the Big Ten deserves more than 4 teams in the field