{"id":301434,"date":"2025-11-22T12:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301434\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:26:12","slug":"cubs-reliever-phil-maton-agree-to-2-year-deal-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301434\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs, reliever Phil Maton agree to 2-year deal, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jesse RogersNov 21, 2025, 11:52 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com.<\/p>\n

CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs<\/a> are in agreement on a two-year deal with right-handed reliever Phil Maton<\/a>, sources told ESPN on Friday, confirming multiple reports.<\/p>\n

Maton, 32, pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> and Texas Rangers<\/a> in 2025, compiling a 2.79 ERA in 63 games. The Illinois native has a career 3.98 ERA in nine MLB seasons while playing for seven different teams after breaking into the big leagues with the San Diego Padres<\/a> in 2017.<\/p>\n

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Maton features a cutter and curveball, both of which he throws equally to go along with a sweeper and sinker. He compiled 81 strikeouts in 61\u2153 innings last season.<\/p>\n

The Cubs need to rebuild a bullpen that featured several players who became free agents, including left-handers Drew Pomeranz<\/a> and Caleb Thielbar<\/a> and right-hander Brad Keller<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Maton fills a late-inning need as a setup man more than a closer, as he has just 10 career saves.<\/p>\n

The contract includes a club option for 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesse RogersNov 21, 2025, 11:52 PM ET CloseJesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-301434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}