{"id":757747,"date":"2026-06-24T19:17:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757747\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:17:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:17:56","slug":"cubs-to-select-vince-velasquez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757747\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs To Select Vince Velasquez"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cubs will select the contract of righty Vince Velasquez<\/a> from Triple-A Iowa today, per Taylor McGregor of Marquee Sports<\/a>. Chicago also plans to bring reliever Tyler Ferguson<\/a> up from Des Moines to serve as the 27th man for today\u2019s twin bill against the Mets.<\/p>\n

Velasquez will take the active roster spot of righty Edward Cabrera<\/a>, who\u2019s going on the 15-day injured list due to a hamstring strain (as announced by skipper Craig Counsell<\/a> last night). The Cubs still need to make a 40-man roster move.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the second big league stint of the season for Velasquez. The 34-year-old tossed 2 1\/3 scoreless innings in a mop-up appearance against the Dodgers on April 25. That marked Velasquez\u2019s first big league appearance in three seasons. After a few years holding a rotation spot in Philadelphia, Velasquez has bounced around as a journeyman. He spent a couple days on Cleveland\u2019s MLB roster last year without getting into a game and finished the season in Korea with the Lotte Giants.<\/p>\n

Velasquez has started six of 10 appearances with Iowa. He has a 6.15 earned run average, negating a strong 26% strikeout rate by walking more than 16% of batters faced. The results haven\u2019t been great, but he\u2019s working 3-4 inning stints and hasn\u2019t pitched in five days. If either game of the doubleheader gets out of hand, he could eat a few innings.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible this will be a one-day stint on the roster. Matthew Boyd<\/a> will come back from the injured list tomorrow to start the finale of the four-game set. Velasquez has sufficient service time to decline a minor league assignment and would need to be designated for assignment to be pushed off the MLB roster.<\/p>\n

Bringing up a fresh arm seems likely to cost someone else their 40-man spot. Transferring either Jameson Taillon<\/a> or\u00a0Daniel Palencia<\/a> to the 60-day injured list would rule them out into August. The Cubs have a handful of relievers on optional assignment (Gavin Hollowell<\/a>,\u00a0Antoine Kelly<\/a>,\u00a0Eduarniel Nu\u00f1ez<\/a>,\u00a0Christian Roa<\/a>,\u00a0Yosver Zulueta<\/a>) who occupy 40-man spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cubs will select the contract of righty Vince Velasquez from Triple-A Iowa today, per Taylor McGregor of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,16075,591,85,305924],"class_list":["post-757747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-edward-cabrera","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-vincent-velasquez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757747","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=757747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}