{"id":519527,"date":"2026-01-14T06:59:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/519527\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:59:25","slug":"cubs-claim-outfielder-justin-dean-on-waivers-from-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/519527\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs claim outfielder Justin Dean on waivers from Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Cubs added a spare-part outfielder, Justin Dean, on a waiver claim from the Giants today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Dean is 29 and made his major league debut last season with the Los Angeles Dodgers and appeared in 18 games, recording one stolen base and going 0-for-2 in his only plate appearances of the season. As part of the Dodgers\u2019 2025 World Series Championship run, he made 13 appearances, all as a defensive replacement in centerfield, and recorded six putouts with one stolen base and one run scored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Giants claimed Dean on waivers from the Dodgers in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Dean was the Braves 17th round pick in the 2018 draft out of Lenoir-Rhyne University in North Carolina. He is a good defensive outfielder who hit .289\/.378\/.431 with 29 stolen bases for Triple-A Oklahoma City last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He has options remaining so he\u2019s a guy who will likely spend 2026 at Triple-A Iowa as a guy who could be called up in case of injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With this claim the Cubs\u2019 40-man roster stands at 38. The signing of Alex Bregman has not yet been officially announced by the team; when it is, that will make 39.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cubs added a spare-part outfielder, Justin Dean, on a waiver claim from the Giants today. Dean is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,7407,4245,161,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-519527","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-chicago-cubs-news","12":"tag-chicagocubs","13":"tag-cubs","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115892162760531424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519527","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=519527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}