The Cubs sent lefty reliever Tom Cosgrove outright to Triple-A Iowa, according to the MLB.com transaction log. He cleared waivers after being designated for assignment on August 31. Cosgrove was the 40-man roster casualty when the Cubs claimed Aaron Civale off waivers from the White Sox.
Chicago acquired Cosgrove from the Padres in the middle of April. He has spent most of the season in the minor leagues. The 29-year-old has made two big league appearances, allowing one run in four innings. The Manhattan University product has a 4.71 ERA across 42 frames with Iowa. Cosgrove has fanned a quarter of opponents but walked too many hitters, issuing free passes at a 14% clip.
Cosgrove pitched 51 1/3 innings of 1.75 ERA ball for San Diego two years ago. He hasn’t gotten much major league work since then. His Triple-A production over the past couple seasons has been middling as he has struggled to throw strikes consistently. This is Cosgrove’s first career outright assignment. He doesn’t have the requisite service time to elect free agency, so he’ll stick with Iowa as non-roster bullpen depth for the rest of the season. Cosgrove will become a minor league free agent at year’s end if the Cubs don’t call him back up.
Was great when he started with the Padres then just fell off a cliff out of nowhere.
Jedi-eye removes cosplay.
I propose another nickname for Hoyer, Hoy-koy, koy like the fish because he’s too busy playing with fishes to make good moves lol
Uncle Mike calls him Gollum so that’s probably worse lol
Why bother? Jedeye strikes again!
With jedeye u never know- maybe his plan is to dfa Horton so he can replace him with Ross in rotation down the stretch.
Who was it, that drafted Horton.
I just can’t remember? I’m sure you would know.
I’m not defender of Hoyer–but folks, ALL GM’s make these kinds of moves all the time. There’s nothing to react to here.
Hoyer’s problem isn’t the small moves he makes; it’s the big ones he doesn’t make.
Not sure why there’s no article but the Cubs also just signed Billy Hamilton 🤣
The armchair GMs over on Facebook think that’s he’s 55. He’s only 34. Bardgian Jed signing anyone to has a pulse.
The Santana signing was okay I think, and these pitchers he’s been signing to soak up innings is also sound, but Billy Hamilton? Oh boy 🤣
This team not capable of running off 10 or 11 wins in a row like the crew. 11 runs yesterday with the wind blowing out and barely a hit today. Wait till October when pitchers out perform any hitting and team needs to create runs without the long ball.
Why is turner still on team hitting in clutch position and why did the other oldie but goodie veteran Santana sign with team when counsell the genius plays him once a week to maybe pinch hit?
Bottom line looks like brewers 2 wins streaks of 11 and 10 games and then playing a little over good enough to win division while there are no such streaks coming out from the cubs.
And finally how many other teams can sport 6 players over 20 homers each and yet their teams overall record virtually average after first couple months? Remarkable!! Even the nurseries row Bronx bombers wiped out their completition with multiple titles then.