{"id":624886,"date":"2026-03-15T10:51:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/624886\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T10:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:51:47","slug":"2026-chicago-cubs-player-profiles-jordan-wicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/624886\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Chicago Cubs player profiles: Jordan Wicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jordan Wicks<\/a> has been a bit of an enigma for the Cubs. When he first came up, he was an effective lefty starter, but those results haven\u2019t been consistent, and he keeps getting hurt. He\u2019s starting this season on the IL<\/a>, along with Porter Hodge, who didn\u2019t look good. Neither injury is said to be long-term, but you never know. Wicks hasn\u2019t pitched yet this year.<\/p>\n

Wicks is still just 26 but the clock is running and the luster has been worn off of the #21 overall pick in 2021. He\u2019s pitched to a lifetime 6-6 record, with a ghastly 5.21 ERA and 1.516 WHIP and 0.5 bWAR<\/a> (0.3 fWAR<\/a>).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to pinpoint what exactly the problem is. His stuff is not bad. He clearly puts in the effort and the coaches says he puts in the work. His K\/9 is in the eights. He gives up around 1.5 HR\/9.<\/p>\n

Projections have him as a spot starter, and that\u2019s probably his future, if he gets into major-league games at all. Wicks might be better off in another organization where he\u2019ll have more chances to throw in the bigs, but he\u2019s a tough sell right now, and teams hate to give up on first-rounders historically, because of their potential.<\/p>\n

Wicks has a five-pitch mix \u2014 FB, sinker, slider, curve, change. He\u2019s also thrown a cutter in the past but not in 2025. Let\u2019s hope that the Cubs\u2019 coaches can determine what the issue(s) is\/are, and Wicks can regain the effectiveness that got him drafted in the first round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Wicks has been a bit of an enigma for the Cubs. When he first came up, he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624887,"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-624886","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\/116232817419910189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624886","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=624886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}