We’ll track Monday’s minor moves from around the game here…
- Cubs outfielder Mark Zagunis has been outrighted off the 40-man roster, per the league transactions log at MLB.com. Zagunis, 26, was designated for assignment last weekend and went unclaimed on outright waivers. Once considered to be among the organization’s better prospects, Zagunis has had an ugly season in 2019. While his .294/.361/.475 batting line through 285 plate appearances in Triple-A appears sound, that was actually barely above the league average in this year’s explosive offensive environment (102 wRC+). Beyond that, Zagunis punched out in a third of his plate appearances and saw his offensive production buoyed by a .439 average on balls in play, suggesting that he’s highly unlikely to maintain that level of offense. A third-round pick in 2014, Zagunis has now appeared in parts of four Triple-A seasons and has typically handled himself well, but he’s a .200/.313/.273 hitter in a tiny sample of 64 Major League plate appearances and has fallen considerably down the organizational depth chart in the outfield.
Cubs will be sorry they released him
Yeah, soooooo sorry.
It won’t be because he didn’t get enough opportunity with them. 5 years is plenty for most. Hope he does well wherever he ends up.
Uh, they didn’t. He’ll stay at Iowa and just no longer be on the 40 man roster. He went unclaimed.
I think many people confuse the DFA and waiver rules and conflate them with being released.
Until the offseason when he will become a minor league free agent. It’s unlikely that Zagunis regains a reserve roster spot with the Cubs and probably any other MLB team at this point of his career.
I bet he can make a roster on another team. He tore it up in the PCL.
Outrighted does not mean released.
Not as sorry as your parents have been for several years now Bane.
I’ll always remember him for a game earlier this season where he started and ended a game with a boneheaded gaffe.
First pitch of the game, dropped an easy fly ball. And then ended the game by getting picked off 2B.
I hope one day he hits 30HRS to stick it to them.
well, he’s still on the team, so I hope you’re right. smh
Good-frickin-bye. What an embarrassment.