{"id":621508,"date":"2026-03-13T09:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/621508\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T09:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:14:26","slug":"cubs-news-cubs-reduce-spring-training-roster-to-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/621508\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs News: Cubs reduce Spring Training roster to 46"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Chicago Cubs today announced that they have removed seven players from their Spring Training roster. Left-handed pitchers Luke Little and Ryan Rolison as well as outfielder Justin Dean were all optioned to Triple-A Iowa. Additionally, right-hander Vince Velazquez, catchers Ariel Armas and Casey Opitz, and outfielder Brett Bateman were all reassigned to minor league camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If you want to know the difference between the first three who were sent to Iowa and the other four, the first three are on the 40-man roster and the other four aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Of the 46 players left on the Cubs Spring Training roster, 25 are pitchers, four are catchers, ten are infielders and seven are outfielders. Thirteen of the 46 players are non-roster invitees: five pitchers, one catcher, four infielders and three outfielders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Cubs today announced that they have removed seven players from their Spring Training roster. Left-handed pitchers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,7407],"class_list":{"0":"post-621508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago-cubs-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116221108284365743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621508","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=621508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}