The MLB trade deadline arrives Thursday, and the Chicago Cubs have officially landed a pair of pitchers in the lead-up to 5 p.m. Central time.

On Wednesday night, the Cubs officially acquired pitcher Michael Soroka from the Washington Nationals. The team also reportedly made a deal to land pitcher Andrew Kittredge from the Baltimore Orioles Wednesday night, but the deal wasn’t made official until Thursday morning.

Soroka will be a free agent at season’s end, with the Nationals retaining $6.1 million of his $9 million salary, according to Spotrac.

He has posted a 3-8 record and a 4.87 ERA in 16 starts with the Nationals, though his Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP) of 4.11 indicates a degree of bad luck in that performance so far this season. He also leads Major League Baseball in hit batters with 14, but still boasts a 1.131 WHIP after slicing his walk rate in half this season, dropping it from 5.0-per-9 innings to 2.7.

He also has maintained a solid strikeout rate of 9.6 batters per 9 innings.

The Cubs sent outfield prospect Christian Franklin and shortstop prospect Ronny Cruz to the Nationals in the deal.

Kittredge is finishing up a 1-year contract he signed with the Orioles prior to the season, and has a $9 million contract option for next season. The Cubs also have a $1 million buyout on that contract.

In 31 games this season, Kittredge has a 2-2 record and a 3.45 ERA, with 32 strikeouts in 31.1 innings. He has a 2.3-per-9 walk rate, and his WHIP stands at 1.085, his best since the 2022 season with the Tampa Bay Rays.

The Cubs sent infield prospect Wilfri De La Cruz to the Orioles to complete the deal. De La Cruz signed with the Cubs out of the Dominican Republic over the winter for a bonus of $2.5 million. In 27 games with the team’s Dominican league squad, he had nine doubles and two triples to go along with nine stolen bases. He slashed .262/.442/.417 in those games.

The Cubs could still make other moves prior to the deadline, likely seeking to add additional bench bats and potentially another starting pitcher, with Jameson Taillon still working back from injury and a desire to limit innings for pitchers like Cade Horton, who has already thrown more this season than he has in any previous campaign.