{"id":479803,"date":"2025-12-16T13:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/479803\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T13:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:34:11","slug":"wiggins-to-represent-chicago-cubs-in-all-star-futures-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/479803\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiggins to Represent Chicago Cubs in All-Star Futures Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.\u00a0\u2013 Former Razorback right-hander Jaxon Wiggins, the Chicago Cubs\u2019 No. 2 pitching prospect, will represent the team in the All-Star Futures Game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Wiggins, who was selected by the Cubs in the second round (No. 68 overall) of the 2023 MLB Draft, has made 13 appearances (12 starts) combined this year between High-A affiliate South Bend Cubs and Double-A affiliate Knoxville Smokies. He owns a 2.09 ERA and 74 strikeouts in 60.1 innings of work on the mound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Futures Game will be played at 3 p.m. Saturday, July 12 at Truist Park in Atlanta. It will be broadcast live on MLB Network and simulcast on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlb.tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB.TV<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2F&amp;xcust=__sb1214awD__24223020__________________google.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\">MLB.com<\/a> and in the MLB App with Melanie Newman (play-by-play), Yonder Alonso (analyst), Jonathan Mayo (analyst) and Sande Charles (reporter) on the call.<\/p>\n<p>For complete coverage of Arkansas baseball, follow the Hogs on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RazorbackBSB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@RazorbackBSB<\/a>), Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/razorbackbsb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@RazorbackBSB<\/a>) and Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RazorbackBSB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arkansas Razorback Baseball<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.\u00a0\u2013 Former Razorback right-hander Jaxon Wiggins, the Chicago Cubs\u2019 No. 2 pitching prospect, will represent the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,161,3750,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-479803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-chicagocubs","12":"tag-cubs","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115729509204611514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}