{"id":773595,"date":"2026-07-02T05:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/773595\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T05:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:10:17","slug":"christian-roa-elects-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/773595\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Roa Elects Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cubs sent relievers\u00a0Christian Roa<\/a> and\u00a0Eduarniel Nu\u00f1ez<\/a> through outright waivers on Wednesday, according to the MLB.com transaction tracker<\/a>. Both pitchers were designated for assignment a week ago.<\/p>\n

Roa, who has been outrighted multiple times in his career, declined the minor league assignment in favor of free agency. This is the first time that N\u00fa\u00f1ez has cleared waivers, so he doesn\u2019t have that right. He\u2019ll remain in the organization.<\/p>\n

Roa and N\u00fa\u00f1ez were both in-season waiver claims. The former began the year with his hometown Astros and bounced to the Twins and Orioles before landing with Chicago. Roa gave up five runs over 8 2\/3 big league innings with Houston, walking seven batters and hitting three more. He has otherwise spent the season in Triple-A.<\/p>\n

It hasn\u2019t been a good year in the minors for the 27-year-old righty. Roa has surrendered 17 runs over 15 1\/3 Triple-A frames. He has issued another 10 free passes and given up 21 hits. Roa had impressed in Astros camp with a dominant Spring Training but has been unable to carry that over. The Texas A&M product has an ERA close to 5.00 over 185 2\/3 innings at the Triple-A level.<\/p>\n

N\u00fa\u00f1ez has had a similarly rough year in the minors. He has given up 16 runs across 19 2\/3 frames, walking 20 batters between stints in the A\u2019s, Orioles, and Cubs systems. N\u00fa\u00f1ez, an ancillary part of the Mason Miller<\/a> trade return, made a brief MLB debut with the A\u2019s last year. He averaged 98 mph with his heater in the big leagues but is down three ticks in Triple-A. N\u00fa\u00f1ez, who began his career as a Cubs signee in 2017, was at their Arizona complex for mechanical work when he was designated for assignment. It\u2019s not clear if the Cubs will keep him there or now send him back to Triple-A Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cubs sent relievers\u00a0Christian Roa and\u00a0Eduarniel Nu\u00f1ez through outright waivers on Wednesday, according to the MLB.com transaction tracker.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,87616,367249,591,85],"class_list":["post-773595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-christian-roa","tag-eduarniel-nunez","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773595","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=773595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}