The Cubs added to their emergency bodies by acquiring Andrew Kittredge, an old lift of the stars, Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday evening.
The end of evening agreement comes less than 24 hours before the commercial deadline on Thursday at 6 p.m. HM.
Jon Heyman from the New York Post was the first to report news on Twitter / X.
Kittredge, a 35-year-old right-hander, has a 2-2 sheet with a 3.56 MPM in 30 games with Baltimore this season, and 25-14 with an MPM of 3.45 in 285 career games with the Rays de Tampa Bay (2017-23), St. Louis Cardinals (2024) and O.
Andrew Kittredge # 39 High Fives Catcher Maverick Handley # 98 Des Baltimore Orioles after the eighth round against the Chicago White Sox at Oriole Park in Camden Yards on June 1, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Kittredge will become the second veteran launcher acquired by Cubs as we approach the deadline. The right-hander Michael Soroka has gone from the nationals of Washington to Chicago in exchange for the Ronny Cruz stop and the left-hand player Christian Franklin earlier on Wednesday.
The Cubs drag the Brewers of Milwaukee by a match for the head of the National League after having beat them 10-3 on Wednesday. With two months in the regular season, they are in pole position for the best place in the NL.
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Chicago signed the president of the Jed Hoyer baseball operations on Monday to a contract extension. He hopes to constitute a team that will end the drought in eight years of the Cubs, if not win his first championship since 2016.
Kittredge could play a small but important role by helping them get there. Cubs succession launchers have an MPM of 3.86 this season, 13th in MLB. But several of their high -level right -handers did not work as planned.
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Porter Hodge experienced an MPM of 6.85 in 26 appearances before landing on the injured list due to a shoulder problem. The veteran Ryan Pressly, acquired in an off -season business with the Houston Astros who also brought the star Kyle Tucker outfit in Chicago, lost the work of the closest at the start of the season and allowed races in each of his last three outings.
The right -hander Daniel Palencia (14 stops) has acclimatized to the work of the closest, but the Cubs naturally want insurance for their 25 -year launcher for the section.
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Enter Kittredge, who was a battle horse (74 games, 70.2 innings) in 2024, his only season with the cardinals. The Orioles signed it for a one -year -old free agent contract and $ 10 million in January.
The lead / Kittredge cursor directory is generally associated with the induction of bullets on the ground, but it also has a respectable withdrawal rate of 25.2% in addition to the stifling power (percentage of the punch of adversaries .399, by Statcast).
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