{"id":588451,"date":"2026-02-23T15:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/588451\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:08:15","slug":"the-cubs-are-signing-michael-conforto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/588451\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cubs are signing Michael Conforto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It wouldn\u2019t seem as if the Cubs need any more outfielders at this point in Spring Training, but now they reportedly have one:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is all the information we have about the Cubs signing Michael Conforto at this time. We don\u2019t know if this is a minor-league deal or a major-league deal. If the latter, the Cubs do have two players (Shelby Miller and Justin Steele) who could go to the 60-day injured list to make room. I\u2019ll update this post when we know more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Conforto turns 33 next Sunday. With the Dodgers last year he batted .199\/.305\/.333 with 12 home runs in 418 at-bats over 138 games. The Dodgers left him off their postseason rosters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">From 2017-19 Conforto was a pretty good player with the Mets. Over that span he batted .257\/.363\/.492 with 88 home runs. But since he missed the entire 2022 season with a shoulder injury, his production has declined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With several Cubs about to head out for the World Baseball Classic, Conforto might simply be in camp to fill in for them. Seems doubtful he\u2019d actually make the Opening Day roster. But, as always, we await developments. (He\u2019ll have to change that number if he does make the team.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UPDATE: This is a minor-league deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wouldn\u2019t seem as if the Cubs need any more outfielders at this point in Spring Training, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,7407,4245,161,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-588451","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\/116120578104023291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588451","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=588451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}