{"id":299182,"date":"2025-11-22T07:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299182\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T07:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:41:11","slug":"report-cubs-agree-to-2-year-deal-with-phil-maton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299182\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Cubs agree to 2-year deal with Phil Maton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Cubs added some bullpen help Friday, agreeing to a two-year contract with right-hander Phil Maton, a source told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6828011\/2025\/11\/21\/phil-maton-cubs-contract\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Sammon of The Athletic<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Terms of the deal, which contains a 2028 club option, have not been reported.<\/p>\n<p>Maton split last season between the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers. He posted a 2.79 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, and 81 strikeouts over 61 1\/3 innings between the two clubs. <\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old has put together a nice nine-year career despite bouncing around in recent seasons, as the Cubs represent his fifth organization since 2023. Maton owns a 3.15 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 10.1 K\/9, 0.8 HR\/9 in 202 games over the last three seasons. <\/p>\n<p>While Maton doesn&#8217;t light up the radar gun &#8211; his cutter averaged 90.6 mph last season &#8211; he managed to rank 99th percentile in average exit velocity and hard-hit rate, 98th percentile in whiff rate, and 95th percentile in strikeout rate, per <a href=\"https:\/\/baseballsavant.mlb.com\/savant-player\/phil-maton-664208?stats=statcast-r-pitching-mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baseball Savant<\/a>. Maton did post a 3.38 BB\/9 but countered that by posting the 14th-best HR\/9 (0.44) among qualified relievers. <\/p>\n<p>Maton&#8217;s signing represents the first major addition to a Cubs&#8217; bullpen that&#8217;s seen a number of departures to open the offseason. Brad Keller, Drew Pomeranz, Caleb Thielbar, and Ryan Brasier are free agents, while Andrew Kittredge was traded to the Baltimore Orioles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Cubs added some bullpen help Friday, agreeing to a two-year contract with right-hander Phil Maton, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-299182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}