{"id":365990,"date":"2025-12-23T18:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365990\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T18:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:33:11","slug":"news-cubs-sign-right-handed-reliever-jacob-webb-to-one-year-contract-north-side-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365990\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: Cubs Sign Right-Handed Reliever Jacob Webb to One-Year Contract – North Side Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOn Tuesday, the Chicago Cubs agreed to a contract with right handed reliever Jacob Webb, formerly of the Texas Rangers. The contact, as reported by Patrick Mooney, is a one-year deal with an option for 2027.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tJacob Webb had a successful 2025 season with the Texas Rangers, as the 32-year old posted a 3.00 ERA over 66 innings. Webb features a fastball that sits around 93-mph while featuring a changeup and a sweeper. The reliever saw his K% drop from around 24% to 21% last year but still gets a lot of weak contact and forces hitters to get under the ball. One thing the pitcher does well; he gets pop-outs<\/a>, inducing 21 of them last season.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWebb did a great job of limiting damage across all three of his offerings last season, with xwOBA’s on his three major offerings all under the .300 level with a .291 on the fastball, a .265 on his changeup, and a .257 on his sweeper. Because of his changeup, Webb actually had reverse splits last year, limiting lefties to a .243 wOBA in total (and has a better wOBA against LHH over his career).\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhile the team has not added a “major” reliever to their bullpen, the Cubs have added a handful of useful arms between Phil Maton, Hoby Milner, Caleb Thielbar and now Jacob Webb to help stabilize their pen. Webb likely won’t settle into a back-end role, but could help to stabilize the middle-innings and could give the Cubs more match-up-options with his reverse splits.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAs well, Webb represents another contract that should not break the bank at $1,500,000, allowing the Cubs the flexibility this offseason on who or what their “big additions” could be. Tatsuya Imai or Alex Bregman both remain more-than-in-play from a salary standpoint after this contract.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat do you think of the addition of Jacob Webb? Do you think he will help bring stability into the middle-innings? Sound off in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, the Chicago Cubs agreed to a contract with right handed reliever Jacob Webb, formerly of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-365990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}