{"id":467152,"date":"2026-02-11T03:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467152\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T03:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:06:11","slug":"cubs-sign-mlbs-most-recent-20-game-winner-to-free-agent-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467152\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs sign MLB’s most recent 20-game winner to free agent contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cubs sign MLB’s most recent 20-game winner to free agent contract<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MLB’s most recent 20-game winner is someone you almost certainly don’t remember accomplishing the feat.<\/p>\n

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At the rate things are going, he might be the last 20-game winner for a while.<\/p>\n

Regardless of if you remember him, he’s now a member of the Chicago Cubs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kyle Wright is the answer, and he signed with the Cubs on Tuesday, according to Jon Heyman<\/a>. It’s a minor league contract with an invite to big league spring training.<\/p>\n

Wright, astoundingly, has 24 wins in his MLB career. He had 21 of them in 2022.<\/p>\n

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That season for the Atlanta Braves<\/a>, Wright went 21-5 with a 3.19 ERA.<\/p>\n

He hasn’t even made 10 starts in a single other major league season.<\/p>\n

Overall, Wright has appeared in six MLB campaigns, although not in 2024 or 2025.<\/p>\n

Wright is 30 now, a former No. 5 overall pick in 2017 out of Vanderbilt, and also a 2021 World Series champion.<\/p>\n

He has a career 4.45 ERA in 60 MLB appearances, 51 of those starts.<\/p>\n

Wright didn’t pitch at all in 2024.<\/p>\n

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In 2025, he was with the Royals’ organization, split between eight outings across Double-A and Triple-A. He had a combined 5.48 ERA.<\/p>\n

Wright has been battered by his injuries, and so it’s not clear he’ll ever be the pitcher he once was.<\/p>\n

But at least for now, he’s quite the answer to a trivia question.<\/p>\n

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