{"id":384247,"date":"2026-01-01T07:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/384247\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T07:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:17:09","slug":"reliever-hunter-harvey-and-the-chicago-cubs-finalize-1-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/384247\/","title":{"rendered":"Reliever Hunter Harvey and the Chicago Cubs finalize 1-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Right-handed reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/hunter-harvey-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Harvey<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/chicago-cubs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> finalized a one-year contract Wednesday,<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The addition of Harvey is the latest move in a bullpen makeover for the Cubs, who have added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/phil-maton-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Maton<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/hoby-milner-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hoby Milner<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/jacob-webb-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Webb<\/a> and re-signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/caleb-thielbar-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Thielbar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The 31-year-old Harvey was slowed by injuries last season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Royals<\/a>. He pitched in 12 games and was 1-0 with 11 strikeouts in 10 2\/3 shutout innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The 22nd overall pick in the 2013 amateur draft by Baltimore, Harvey is 10-11 with a 3.11 ERA in 182 games with 201 career strikeouts in 185 innings with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/baltimore-orioles-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orioles<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/washington-nationals-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Nationals<\/a> and Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Chicago is looking for a return trip to the postseason after it made the playoffs this year for the first time since 2020. Brad Keller and Drew Pomeranz \u2014 two key relievers for the Cubs \u2014 departed in free agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Right-handed reliever Hunter Harvey and the Chicago Cubs finalized a one-year contract Wednesday, The addition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-384247","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\/384247","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=384247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}