The Cubs are selecting catcher Erick Castillo to the big league roster, the team informed reporters (including Meghan Montemurro of the Chicago Tribune). Fellow backstop Austin Romine is headed to the COVID-19 injured list in a corresponding move.
Castillo is an organizational veteran, having joined the Cubs as an amateur free agent out of Venezuela during the 2010-11 international signing period. He has spent the past decade-plus climbing the minor league ranks, and he’ll be rewarded for his perseverance with his first major league call at age-28.
The right-handed hitting Castillo has never appeared on an organizational prospects list at either FanGraphs or Baseball America. That’s largely thanks to a general lack of production at the plate. Over nine minor league seasons, Castillo owns a .212/.281/.264 line with six home runs. He’s a .197/.288/.236 hitter in brief action over parts of three Triple-A campaigns. Clearly, Castillo won’t bring much power potential to the plate, but he’s generally done well to put the ball in play throughout his professional tenure. He’ll be on hand to back up Willson Contreras over the season’s final four games.
good for Castillo to finally make it
Yawn… Cub fans follow like sheep.
not a Cubs fan, just happy to see career minor leaguers like Castillo and Giambrone get a shot
Cubs are full of career minor leaguers now.
You should be very happy with the Cubs..
Pete, you’re a loser. All you do is troll on here. You bring nothing to the table. Your dad is probably super embarrassed.
And they are all big fans of your mother
Pete, Pete, you were a rational Sox fan, on here. What’s gotten into you, lol. Did someone steal your password.
I’ll give you a pass.
Dogbone- thanks for the pass, I will use it.
Desertbull- my mom passed away ten years ago.
Roy DeMeo- my dad left his family cold when I was seven.
I don’t care how he feels and neither should you.
I am not a loser and I would never call you a name
except maybe a sheep as Cub fans are
Your a good man, I must admit I have days like this too, lol.
And FWIW, I agree a little with you – because I can’t believe how many Cub fans give Ricketts a pass on this season. When Darvish was traded they should have kept going, last off season. Their returns would have been much better because the players they traded would have been dealt with a full year, rather than just 2 months of value to their new teams.
But Ricketts knew attendance would decline.
I picked Cubs to Win division and Cardinals second. I got it half right. I figured the boys would be motivated and as long as they kept winning they would stay but they stopped winning so they got what they could for them..Arenado Goldscmidt Septembers one for the books. Cards OF”s looking formidable too.
Sorry for your mom, but if she were alive, she would be ashamed of you…Such a name…
Well aren’t you just a ray of sunshine!
Nice to see a minor league vet get rewarded no matter what the circumstances. I hope he sees some game action.
Same as Giambrone.
Nice story and good for Castillo. But this Cubs season can’t end soon enough.
Eskeetit!!!
Just waiting for Sox fans to troll the cubs with this news instead of worrying about their team in the playoffs
They can’t help themselves. It’s like a genetic mutation.
Especially with them slumping n missing the play offs
Jeff luhnow for general
Manager
Thats the cubs 6th backup catcher this year.
One would have to believe this is a parting gift for Castillo. Career minor leaguer will be let go after season.
I was very happy to see that he got his first ML hit last night.
Castillo has been a great organizational soldier, he gets moved around a lot (mostly AA to AAA and back) and was essentially the successor to Taylor Davis in that role. I expect that he will caddy for Miguel Amaya next year at AAA, and then get a coaching role in the organization mentoring Venezuelan prospects at the Arizona complex.