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Cubs Outright Dillon Maples

By Mark Polishuk | September 21, 2021 at 3:11pm CDT

SEPTEMBER 21: Maples cleared waivers and has been sent outright to Triple-A Iowa, Russell Dorsey of the Chicago Sun-Times was among those to pass along. He doesn’t have the requisite service time to refuse an outright assignment, so he’ll remain in the organization for the rest of the season. However, Maples will qualify for minor league free agency this offseason unless he’s reselected to the 40-man roster before the end of the year.

SEPTEMBER 19: The Cubs have activated Nico Hoerner and Keegan Thompson from the 10-day injured list.  To create two roster spots for the returning players, outfielder Nick Martini was optioned to Triple-A while right-hander Dillon Maples was designated for assignment.

Maples is out of minor league options, which is why Chicago had to take the DFA route to remove the 29-year-old from the active roster.  A veteran of parts of five MLB seasons, Maples had an 8.49 ERA over 23 1/3 career innings for the 2017-20 Cubs before posting a 2.59 ERA in 31 1/3 frames in 2021.

However, Maples has benefited from a .203 BABIP, as his SIERA is 4.64 and his walk rate is an ungainly 18%.  Control has been a persistent issue for Maples at both the Major League and minor league levels, and the Cubs seem to have seen enough.

“There’s some people in the organization that feel like we’ve just run out of time,” manager David Ross told NBC Sports Chicago’s Gordon Wittenmyer and other reporters.  “We wish [Maples] the best in his career and hopefully for his sake he catches on with somebody, and he’s able to have a long, successful major-league career.  It just doesn’t look right now at this time like it’s going to be with us.”

Thompson will start today’s game against the Brewers after missing a little over two weeks due to right shoulder inflammation.  The right-hander has shuttled up and down from Triple-A Iowa a few times this season, with a 3.54 ERA to show for his first 48 1/3 career innings in the big leagues.  Working mostly as a reliever, Thompson has managed that respectable ERA despite some unimpressive peripherals, including a 12.8% walk rate.

Hoerner suffered a right oblique strain at the end of July, and thanks to previous IL trips due to a left hamstring strain and a left forearm strain, Hoerner has played in only 39 games.  The former top prospect has at least hit decently well (.312/.388/.388 in 152 PA) when he has been able to play, and the Cubs will certainly be interested in evaluating Hoerner over the season’s last two weeks to help determine his role with the 2022 team and beyond.

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  1. quonset point

    4 years ago

    Good riddance, Maples. My son was born when he was drafted in 2011. My boy is now in fourth grade and Maples still hasn’t figured out where his stuff is going. Should’ve dfa’d him years ago.

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    • louwhitakerisahofer

      4 years ago

      Guessing you didn’t name your son Dillon…

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      • Sheep8

        4 years ago

        No, he named him Maples

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      • quonset point

        4 years ago

        Sometimes I want to put my son on outright waivers too.

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        • PeteWard8

          4 years ago

          Thank goodness. He must have been a great guy
          to have lasted so long.

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        • Curly Was The Smart Stooge

          4 years ago

          Do those waivers taste like Maple?

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        • Ghost of past pirates

          4 years ago

          Shemp was the best stooge

          Reply
    • johnk

      4 years ago

      He’s Baaaaack

      Reply
  2. Jwest001

    4 years ago

    I don’t get this. He’s actually been good this year, ERA under 2.6 (Admittedly seems to o be due for some regression with a FIP of about 4.6) but I bet someone will claim him off waivers. Maybe the Rays

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    • Lloyd Emerson

      4 years ago

      Have you watched Maples pitch?? Every freaking appearance is a high wire act. He’s got no control. His walk rate is abysmal. He’s had many chances to harness his stuff to no avail, and he was useless in high level situations. It’s about damn time they moved on.

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      • johnk

        4 years ago

        Yes he’s baaaack!

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    • rondon

      4 years ago

      I’m not sure I’ve seen a guy with better stuff who has constantly been as up and down as this guy. He’s unhittable one day and throwing BP the next. Unreal. It’s been time to move on for awhile now.

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      • KP23

        4 years ago

        Carlos marmol had the nastiest slider, and he had 2 excellent years. That was it though. Maples will have one here at some point. Just not sure what team it will be for

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  3. themed

    4 years ago

    Who cares. There the cubs

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    • cosmo1

      4 years ago

      they’re*

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      • KP23

        4 years ago

        Or if unsure- They are. Hide that ignorance a little bit longer. Too late now though!

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  4. TomL

    4 years ago

    Kinda BS move too, agree with the ERA showing hes getting the job done in the end.

    Hopefully now that he’s been fired he can stop worrying so much with his next club and just full embrace Mitch Williams style relief pitching. Was hoping he could have come out of the bullpen one of these days to “Wild Thing” but he wasn’t comfortable in his own skin.

    Will never forget that AB buckling Lorenzo Cain!

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    • TomL

      4 years ago

      There is absolutely no reason to have retained Rex Brothers, or even Martini. Maples should have gotten his chance and been trotted out night after night and yes THEN DFA him if and when his numbers catch up to the reasons. Even a Davies DFA makes more sense at this point in time of the season.

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      • quonset point

        4 years ago

        10 years in the system isn’t enough chances?

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  5. Tom Emansk1

    4 years ago

    I for one was looking forward to year 13 of pretending Dillon Maples was the future lol

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  6. Fred K. Burke

    4 years ago

    I think we can all agree that some team will give him a shot. Some team will see if they can fix his control issues.

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  7. tim815

    4 years ago

    Minor league contract in a few months.

    Reply
  8. Dumpster Divin Theo

    4 years ago

    Cub together

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    • johnk

      4 years ago

      Dumpster diving brought Wisdom, The Tank, Ortega. Looks like someone does it well

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