Brown will start for the Cubs on Sunday versus the White Sox, Andy Martinez of Marquee Sports Network reports.

I missed basically a week of mostly bad Cubs baseball, other than one game started by Matthew Boyd. I suspect I’m going to have some words about Matthew Boyd, Cy Young dark horse before the end of the season.

Cubs right-hander Ben Brown had been happy with his changeup all game, but as the fifth inning continued to spin out of his control against the Royals, and with speedy Bobby Witt

In flashes, Brown has shown the top-of-the-rotation material the Cubs saw when they traded veteran reliever David Robertson to the Philadelphia Phillies at the 2022 deadline. Brown had been overlooked in the 2017 MLB Draft — the Phillies selected him in a 33rd round that no longer exists — but he popped up as a prospect that summer.

The Cubs’ starting pitching depth has been tested plenty this season. The front office may add external options as the July 31 Trade Deadline nears, but to help address the shortage now, the team brought back up one of its more intriguing young arms.

Here is the perfect trade offer that the Chicago Cubs should offer the Minnesota Twins for starting pitcher Joe Ryan.

The Chicago Cubs were always going to add a starting pitcher ahead of the MLB trade deadline, but after Ben Brown imploded in a loss to the Kansas City Royals on Monday night, that search just got much more desperate.

A bruised right knee kept Pete Crow-Armstrong out of the lineup for Monday’s game against the Kansas City Royals.