The Cubs have selected the contract of middle infielder Mike Freeman from Triple-A Iowa, Sahadev Sharma of The Athletic tweets. He’ll take the place of Addison Russell on the roster, who’s on administrative leave amidst allegations of spousal abuse.
The 31-year-old Freeman is as much of a journeyman as any player you’ll see, having played for four clubs in the past three seasons. He’s likely more a depth piece for the Cubs as they await further word on Russell’s situation; Freeman owns a paltry .134/.211/.207 career batting line across 90 MLB plate appearances. That line comes with a 28.9% strikeout rate.
While his bat isn’t anything to fear, Freeman received positive ratings of his glove at shortstop last season with the Cubs and the MLB level. In a small sample of 54 innings, he earned a UZR/150 rating of 1.9. Defensive Runs Saved estimates that he helped them to the tune of one run above average. Originally an 11th-round pick of the Diamondbacks back in 2010, Freeman joined the Cubs for the first time in 2017, after he was designated for assignment by the Dodgers in order to make room for deadline acquisition Yu Darvish on the active roster.
Dmoestic abuse issues should be handled in a timely manner for the sake of both parties.
Ivestigate- get all you need- move forward with the decision.
They always seem to linger and take forever.
Getting 2the truth is all that matters for this alleged hideous crime against his wife! In this case to hell with baseball
Surprised that comments aren’t disabled for this article. It seems that the moderators at MLBTR don’t want any negative comments about Russell, Epstein, the Ricketts or anything related to the Cubs in general. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that the organization values trying to win over domestic abuse. Same story when they traded for Arnoldo’s Chapman
The Dodgerd passed on Chapman in 2016. Cubs did not. I’ll take the world series championship over whatever moral value you place on not trading for chapman
Hold on to that one championship in the last 110 years that you cub fans like to bring up on every article posted here. But you wife beating evil fans won’t be seeing any more World Championships for a long long tine.
Im a Dodgers fan……….
And Themed is a troll
Actually it’s one in the last two.
Yea, that’s really cute. Any time an article is posted related to the Cubs in any manner there are infinitely more trolls and idiots like you than meaningful discourse. But you already have your mindset and agenda set in place so I’m the even bigger idiot for even pointing it out
No we are not idiots who take one persons before hearing any evidence to the contrary. And I’m not worried he sucks anyway
I’m pretty sure the comments were disabled on the other article because of the immediate victim blaming in the second comment. I believe it was something like “that woman needs to calm down”. I highly doubt mlbtr was trying to protect the ricketts
Did you read the police report? You have evidence she’s the victim?
Ok, alleged victim. I’m not advocating blaming either side. I advocate patience. Lets wait and hear everyone out. People immediately assuming the (alleged) victim is lying and them getting abuse hurled at them is why so many people don’t go to police or wait a long time to do it
Nope but thanks. People like me have been accused of spousal abuse by an ex and it was not true and never found to be true. I know some people can you know lie to get their way
Mlbtr is the Cubs personal PR firm? The moon landing never happened too, right?
He’s a Sox fan. You have to explain the concept of moon landing to him first before he’ll deny it.
You’re confused
I hope he doesn’t get an at bat this week
Freeman is celebration insurance if they clinch the division. Someone has to play the day after.
Even the “the greatest there ever was” needs a day off under the maddon plan. Will probably only occur in next laugher during a late inning defensive double switch. Seriously need someone on roster that can play SS besides Bote and Ben.
It would be nice if someone would audit Javy’s stats before crowing him MVP.
Yuck.