{"id":494273,"date":"2026-02-23T14:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494273\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:44:08","slug":"report-cubs-agree-to-minor-league-deal-with-conforto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494273\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Cubs agree to minor-league deal with Conforto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Cubs agreed to a minor-league deal with outfielder Michael Conforto, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JesseRogersESPN\/status\/2025936674627231890\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN&#8217;s Jesse Rogers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Conforto spent last season with the Los Angeles Dodgers and struggled immensely. The 32-year-old hit .199\/.305\/.333 with 12 home runs and 36 RBIs in 138 games while providing minus-five defensive runs saved in left field.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers left him off every one of their postseason rosters.<\/p>\n<p>Before last season, Conforto had never recorded an OPS+ below 100. His best campaigns came with the New York Mets, as he posted an .824 OPS with 132 homers between 2015-2021.<\/p>\n<p>If Conforto makes the team, he should give the Cubs an additional outfield option alongside starters Ian Happ, Seiya Suzuki, and Pete Crow-Armstrong. He could also provide them with reps at designated hitter, where youngster Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros is expected to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Cubs agreed to a minor-league deal with outfielder Michael Conforto, reports ESPN&#8217;s Jesse Rogers. Conforto spent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-494273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494273","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=494273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}