{"id":3058,"date":"2025-11-22T06:01:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2025-11-22T06:01:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:01:28","slug":"cubs-to-sign-reliever-phil-maton-to-two-year-deal-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=3058","title":{"rendered":"Cubs to sign reliever Phil Maton to two-year deal: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/cubs\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Cubs<\/a> have begun rebuilding their bullpen. They are in agreement with right-handed reliever Phil Maton on a two-year contract with a third-year club option, according to multiple reports Friday night. Further terms of the deal were not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs don\u2019t often commit multi-year contracts to relievers. The pact reflects how highly they think of the 32-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Maton is set to the Cubs with nine years of major-league experience under his belt, spanning seven different organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he posted a 2.35 ERA with the Cardinals before they sent him to the Rangers at the trade deadline for a pair of minor-league pitchers and international draft pool money.<\/p>\n<p>In Texas, Maton improved his strikeout rate from an already strong 30.4% pre-trade, to 36.7% in the last two months of the season. And though his ERA (3.52) was higher with the Rangers, he held opponents to a .179 batting average. Maton finished the season with a career-best 2.79 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Maton doesn\u2019t throw particularly hard \u2013 his cutter, averaging 90.6 mph, is his highest-velocity pitch \u2013 but he mixes a four-pitch arsenal to keep hitters off balance.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs are starting almost from scratch with their bullpen. Young right-handers Daniel Palencia (52 \u2154 innings) and Porter Hodge (33 innings) are the only returning full-time relievers who threw at least 15 innings for the Cubs last season. Neither spent the entire year in the majors, but Palencia served as the closer for much of the year, and Hodge had a stint in that role as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/cubs\/2025\/11\/21\/cubs-to-sign-reliever-phil-maton-to-two-year-deal-reports\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cubs have begun rebuilding their bullpen. They are in agreement with right-handed reliever Phil Maton on a two-year contract with a third-year club option, according to multiple reports Friday night. Further terms of the deal were not immediately clear. The Cubs don\u2019t often commit multi-year contracts to relievers. The pact reflects how highly they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}