{"id":588109,"date":"2026-02-23T10:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/588109\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:23:13","slug":"michael-conforto-agrees-to-contract-with-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/588109\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Conforto agrees to contract with Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little over a month until MLB Opening Day, the Chicago Cubs<\/a> have reportedly agreed to sign Michael Conforto<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Baseball insider Jon Heyman posted on X<\/a>, formerly Twitter, early Monday morning that Conforto, who spent last season with the Los Angeles Dodgers, was Chicago-bound. At the time of writing, no further information has been reported, including the terms of the reported contract.<\/p>\n

Conforto, 32, has been in the majors for more than a decade. Debuting for the New York Mets during the 2015 season, the former 10th overall pick played seven years with the Mets. During that stint, he set career-high marks that included a .322 batting average and .412 on-base percentage (both set in the shortened 2020 season), as well as .555 slugging percentage and .939 OPS back in 2017.<\/p>\n

After the 2021 season, during which his numbers sank to .232 AVG, .344 OBP, and .384 OPS, Conforto sustained a shoulder injury that required surgery and kept him off a MLB roster for the entirety of the 2022 season. Once healthy, he signed a two-year, $36 million contract<\/a> with the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n

Conforto’s numbers did not improve much in his two seasons with San Francisco, and last offseason, he signed with the Giants’ NL West rival, the Dodgers, on a one-year, $17 million deal. Despite several other free agents performing well for the World Series-winning Dodgers, Conforto was not one of them, as he set new career lows in every major batting statistical category. As a result of his poor play, Conforto was left off the team’s postseason roster<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In his career, Conforto has 179 home runs and 556 RBI. He exclusively played in left field last season but has also played in center and right and as a designated hitter in his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A little over a month until MLB Opening Day, the Chicago Cubs have reportedly agreed to sign Michael…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,161,111,4,2046],"class_list":["post-588109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-michael-conforto","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116119457219173728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588109","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=588109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}