Today we look at the Cubs\u2019 left-handed flamethrower.<\/p>\n
Luke Little<\/a>, all 6\u20198\u201d, 220 pounds of him, just needs to throw strikes. In three seasons as a part-time Chicago Cub, he\u2019s thrown 35.1 innings. In those innings, he has struck out 44 batters. That\u2019s really good. But he has walked 28. That\u2019s really bad.<\/p>\n He\u2019s 3-1 with a 2.80 ERA in 39 games. Most of those games were in his pretty good 2024 season. He was hurt some of 2025 and spent almost the entire remainder of the season in Iowa. In his 43 games there, he was 2-1 in 59.2 innings, earned two saves, was the opener twice, had a 2.87 ERA, struck out 75 and walked 34.<\/p>\n Lifetime, he has amassed 0.6 bWAR<\/a> (0.2 fWAR<\/a>). The 25-year-old still has a little time before he\u2019s considered a suspect but he\u2019s on that track unless he makes a great showing in the spring. Projections do have him making the roster and throwing 30-ish innings, with his BB\/p shrinking to 3.9 in Baseball Reference\u2019s book. Zips has him garnering positive WAR and throwing 57 innings.<\/p>\n That would be okay. He could join the short\/setup group with those kind of walk numbers. Little throws HARD \u2014 he\u2019s reached triple digits more than once and sits 96+. He doesn\u2019t give up many long balls. The free passes will determine his financial future.<\/p>\n He could be a star in the league. The odds are against it at this late date, but we will await developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today we look at the Cubs\u2019 left-handed flamethrower. Luke Little, all 6\u20198\u201d, 220 pounds of him, just needs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,70392,4245,161,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-594501","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-player-profiles","12":"tag-chicagocubs","13":"tag-cubs","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116138363151222351","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594501","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=594501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}