{"id":626938,"date":"2026-04-24T02:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/626938\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:05:11","slug":"rockies-trade-nicky-lopez-to-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/626938\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies Trade Nicky Lopez To Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rockies announced they\u2019ve traded minor league infielder\u00a0Nicky Lopez<\/a> to the Cubs for cash. He was on a minor league contract and will not immediately occupy a 40-man roster spot for Chicago.<\/p>\n

Lopez has been an organizational favorite of the Cubs as a depth infielder. He appeared in 14 MLB games for them last year between April and May. Lopez had also been with the club last spring on a minor league deal before being granted his release to pursue an MLB opportunity with the Angels. The Cubs waived him in late May but brought him back on a new minor league contract in August.<\/p>\n

The Naperville, Illinois native signed with Colorado in December. He\u2019s out to a nice start with Triple-A Albuquerque, batting .333 with a home run and a couple stolen bases over 15 games. Although the offense is surely inflated by playing in the Pacific Coast League, he\u2019s showing his typically strong bat-to-ball ability while playing in the middle of the diamond.<\/p>\n

Lopez is a lifetime .245\/.310\/.311 hitter in a little under 700 big league contests. He\u2019s a quality defender at any of second base, third base, or shortstop. If the Cubs wanted to call him back up, he could replace\u00a0Scott Kingery<\/a> (who still has a minor league option) as the team\u2019s utility infielder. Chicago would need to select Lopez onto the 40-man roster but essentially has a free roster spot with Porter Hodge<\/a> a lock to move to the 60-day injured list after this week\u2019s UCL surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rockies announced they\u2019ve traded minor league infielder\u00a0Nicky Lopez to the Cubs for cash. He was on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,303780,85],"class_list":["post-626938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-nicky-lopez","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626938","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=626938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}