{"id":522379,"date":"2026-01-15T22:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/522379\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T22:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:18:14","slug":"cubs-claim-ben-cowles-on-waivers-from-white-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/522379\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs claim Ben Cowles on waivers from White Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is a transaction you did not expect to read about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Cubs have made a waiver claim on infielder Ben Cowles. This transaction fills the 40-man roster, for now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cowles came to the Cubs, along with Jack Neely, in the Mark Leiter Jr. trade July 30, 2024. Neely pitched in six games for the Cubs in 2024, but Cowles never appeared in the majors for the Cubs before he was designated for assignment Sept. 1, 2025, when the Cubs claimed and activated Aaron Civale \u2014 ironically, from the White Sox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cowles played in 15 games for Triple-A Charlotte in the White Sox system last year after the deal, and the Sox DFA\u2019d him last week when they claimed catcher Drew Romo on waivers from the Mets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This isn\u2019t the sort of deal that makes any real waves in the organization and I wouldn\u2019t be surprised to see Cowles DFA\u2019d again before the 2026 season begins. If nothing else, he\u2019ll be around to play some Spring Training games while some Cubs regulars are off playing in the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cowles turns 26 next month and batted .238\/.304\/.382 with nine home runs at Triple-A Iowa last year. It could be he winds up as roster depth at Iowa again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In any case, again (for now), the Cubs\u2019 40-man roster is full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is a transaction you did not expect to read about. The Cubs have made a waiver claim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,7407,2561,4,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-522379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-chicago-cubs-news","12":"tag-chicagowhitesox","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-white-sox","15":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115901438847577970","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522379","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=522379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}