{"id":580512,"date":"2026-02-19T05:19:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/580512\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T05:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:19:27","slug":"blue-jays-claim-ben-cowles-from-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/580512\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Claim Ben Cowles From Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">He\u2019s a lifetime .268\/.365\/.426 in four seasons of Minor League ball, with 30 home runs and 158 RBI in 1,128 at-bats. Not great, but not too shabby. He could hit 1-15 dingers in The Show, hit .250 or so, walk enough to be .300+ OBP man. He\u2019ll take a bag if he can. Cowles is a slightly-less-effective Nico Hoerner type. He\u2019ll back up or start at short\/second in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">His contact bat helps his cause, but Cowles just doesn\u2019t bring enough to the table to beat out the people in front of him. But he\u2019s a fine platoon partner with Triantos and backup at second and short, and can play third in a pinch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He\u2019s a lifetime .268\/.365\/.426 in four seasons of Minor League ball, with 30 home runs and 158 RBI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,4,282,70,17285,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-580512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-bluejays","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","14":"tag-toronto-blue-jays-news","15":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116095613215147629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580512","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=580512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}