The Cubs have selected the contract of right-hander Nicholas Padilla from Triple-A Iowa and appointed him as the 27th man for today’s doubleheader, per a club announcement. Jason Heyward was moved from the 10-day injured list to the 60-day injured list in a corresponding 40-man move. Chicago also formally announced its previously reported selection of righty Javier Assad and optioned righty Kervin Castro to Iowa. Chicago’s 40-man roster is now at capacity.
Padilla, 25, was selected by the Cubs out of the Rays organization in the minor league phase of the 2020 Rule 5 Draft. He’s never ranked among the top prospects in either organization but has set himself up for this call to the big leagues with a strong showing across three minor league levels in 2022.
In 43 innings between High-A, Double-A and Triple-A, Padilla has logged a collective 2.30 ERA and fanned 31.5% of his opponents along the way. His 13.8% walk rate, four hit batters (2.2%) and seven wild pitches highlight some command issues that have plagued him dating back to 2019. Padilla’s hefty 55.5% ground-ball rate this season has helped him to mitigate the damage from those free passes, however, and he’s yet to allow a home run on the year. Through 232 career minor league innings, he’s yielded just nine home runs (0.35 HR/9).
Heyward’s move to the 60-day injured list was a pure formality. The Cubs already announced that he wouldn’t return this season, and president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer revealed earlier this month that the Cubs plan to release Heyward at the end of the season.
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A fellow Nicholas in baseball.
As dumb as this may sound to the general public, even after the announcements that have been made, I was hoping that the Cubs would activate Heyward for the last, meaningless series at home against the Reds.
There is still a very loyal base of fans that will give everyone on the 2016 team lifetime passes.
I get it that it didn’t come out close to plan when he signed before 2016—but in a couple of ways it actually did.
One fluke year in the last 100 just get over it.
I’ll take one fluke year over 50 years of Milwaukee sucking
You’re just jealous nothing that good will ever happen to you. It was the best high that sports fandom could ever provide, we will never stop savoring it and you will never experience it yourself, sorry.
It wasn’t one fluke year.
1. They made the nlcs 3 straight seasons. Doesn’t matter if they only won one pennant. No one expected the cubs to get to that position for at least 2 more years.
2. Not a lot of teams can say they’ve advanced to the LCS 3 straight years. Yankees in the 90s won 4 straight pennants. Not even the high and mighty Dodgers have done that since 2017. The 3 pennants but lost 2 of 3 world series.
3. I never thought I’d ever see the cubs win. I’ll gladly take 1 world series championship. Any fan of any and all teams of all sports would 1000% be greedy and want more.
4. Best part about it is(besides the cubs winmimg), the Brewers haven’t won a pennant in 40 years..They all but collapsed after trading Hader whose shh the bed in SD(Which is hilarious.
Milwaukee baseball has sucked longer than 50 years….