{"id":626871,"date":"2026-03-16T19:29:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/626871\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T19:29:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:29:41","slug":"2026-chicago-cubs-player-profiles-ben-cowles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/626871\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Chicago Cubs player profiles: Ben Cowles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">26-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fplayer%2Fben-cowles-701496\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Cowles<\/a> has been on the Cubs, the Blue Jays, and the White Sox so far this year. The aim is obvious, to get him off the 40-man roster and onto the Triple-A team. If he gets put on waivers, someone claims him, and the circus is back in town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cowles can play a little bit. But not enough to claim a starting or utility spot on a team like Chicago, with championship ambitions. He\u2019s more of a fill-in or Quadruple A player. His lifetime .258\/.346\/.409 slash line in the minors over 459 total games in five seasons isn\u2019t going to get him anything but the taste of old coffee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I\u2019m not really sure why people keep claiming him, to be honest. He doesn\u2019t have anything that the Cubs don\u2019t have already but okay, let\u2019s play that game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Good luck to Ben. I hope he helps Iowa win it all. I suspect he\u2019ll be on the way to another team, but maybe this time we can get this published before it actually happens. (We originally had this scheduled to run on the very day he was claimed by the Blue Jays.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"26-year-old Ben Cowles has been on the Cubs, the Blue Jays, and the White Sox so far this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626872,"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-626871","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\/116240512698141873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626871","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=626871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}