{"id":771205,"date":"2026-07-19T01:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771205\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T01:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:18:14","slug":"cubs-acquire-aaron-civale-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771205\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs Acquire Aaron Civale &#8211; MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cubs have agreed to a trade with the Athletics, landing righty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/civalaa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-18_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aaron Civale<\/a> for minor league pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=moffet000aid&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-18_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aiden Moffett<\/a>, the team announced. Chicago also received cash in the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The A\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/07\/athletics-to-designate-aaron-civale-for-assignment.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">designated<\/a> Civale for assignment on Wednesday. He scuffled to a 5.42 ERA in 16 appearances with the club. The veteran also spent time on the IL with a shoulder injury. Civale gave up eight earned runs over seven innings in his final two outings before the All-Star break. The A\u2019s added him on a one-year, $6MM deal in the winter. The cash heading to Chicago will presumably offset some of the remaining money on the contract.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll be the second tour of duty with the Cubs for the well-traveled Civale. He closed the 2025 campaign with the team. Chicago picked him up off waivers from the cross-town rival White Sox. Civale made five relief appearances for the Cubs over the final month of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Civale was a respectable innings eater as recently as 2024. He finished the year with the Brewers, where he posted a 3.53 ERA across 14 starts. He wasn\u2019t able to replicate those results last season and ended up bouncing to both Chicago clubs. Civale is the latest in a steady stream of veteran arms the Cubs have churned through recently. One of them, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/woodfja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-18_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jake Woodford<\/a>, just <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/07\/cubs-re-sign-jake-woodford-minors.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">re-upped<\/a> with the team on a minor league deal. Chicago is still without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/steelju01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-16_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Justin Steele<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cabreed02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-16_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Edward Cabrera<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=brownbe02,brown-016ben&amp;search=Ben+Brown&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-16_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ben Brown,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/taillja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-16_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jameson Taillon<\/a> in the rotation, in addition to a host of reliever injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Moffett was signed as an undrafted free agent out of West Virginia last summer. He\u2019s appeared in 17 games between the Complex league and Single-A this season. Moffett has struck out more than a batter per inning, but he also has a massive 34.1% walk rate. The righty has handed out 42 free passes in 22 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Photo courtesy of Sergio Estrada, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cubs have agreed to a trade with the Athletics, landing righty Aaron Civale for minor league pitcher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[97890,329203,99],"class_list":["post-771205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aaron-civale","tag-aiden-moffett","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771205","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=771205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}