{"id":747683,"date":"2026-06-19T23:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/747683\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T23:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:27:08","slug":"cubs-outright-doug-nikhazy-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/747683\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs Outright Doug Nikhazy – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Left-hander Doug Nikhazy<\/a> went unclaimed on waivers after being designated for assignment by the Cubs, per the transaction log at MLB.com<\/a>. He\u2019s been assigned outright to Triple-A Iowa. It\u2019s the first outright of Nikhazy\u2019s career. He won\u2019t have the option to reject the assignment in favor of free agency.<\/p>\n

Chicago designated Nikhazy for assignment earlier this week in order to create roster space for trade acquisition Yosver Zulueta<\/a>. Nikhazy was a waiver claim out of the White Sox organization back in April. (The Sox had previously claimed him from the Guardians.) He hasn\u2019t pitched for the Cubs\u2019 big league club yet, instead spending his entire time with the club with their Triple-A squad in Des Moines.<\/p>\n

Nikhazy, 26, was Cleveland\u2019s second-round pick out of Ole Miss back in 2021. He\u2019s pitched only six major league innings to date \u2014 four with the Guards, two with the Sox \u2014 and been tagged for seven runs on six hits and eight walks with six strikeouts.<\/p>\n

From 2021-24, Nikhazy generally posted solid minor league numbers. Heading into the 2025 season, Baseball America ranked him 16th in a strong Cleveland farm system. He wound up taking a step back, however, logging a 5.02 ERA in 86 Triple-A frames. His performance this season has deteriorated even further. Nikhazy has logged an ERA north of 8.00 with the Triple-A affiliates for both Chicago organizations. Overall, he\u2019s sitting on an 8.51 ERA in 37 frames. He\u2019s walked 14% of his opponents against a 22.5% strikeout rate and been tagged for an alarming seven homers (1.70 HR\/9) in this time.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a tough couple seasons for Nikhazy, but he\u2019s not all that far removed from looking like a possible back-of-the-rotation starter. If he can get his command back on track, there\u2019s still a path to him realizing that potential, or at least emerging as a possible swingman\/middle reliever, but he has his work cut out for him at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Left-hander Doug Nikhazy went unclaimed on waivers after being designated for assignment by the Cubs, per the transaction…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,288212,591,85],"class_list":["post-747683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-doug-nikhazy","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747683","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=747683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}