{"id":689807,"date":"2026-05-04T04:48:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/689807\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T04:48:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:48:49","slug":"cubs-claim-luis-peralta-from-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/689807\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs Claim Luis Peralta From Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cubs have claimed left-hander Luis Peralta<\/a> off the Cardinals\u2019 waiver wire, according to Taylor McGregor of the Marquee Sports Network<\/a>.\u00a0 St. Louis designated Peralta for assignment on Friday.\u00a0 Peralta has been optioned to Triple-A Iowa, and a 40-man roster move wasn\u2019t require since the Cubs only had 39 players on their 40-man.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the second time in less than a week that Peralta has changed teams via the waiver wire.\u00a0 He was designated for assignment by the Rockies on April 21 and was claimed by the Cardinals on Monday, only for the Cards to return Peralta to DFA limbo when a 40-man roster spot was needed to select Jared Shuster<\/a>\u2018s contract from Triple-A.<\/p>\n

Peralta\u2019s tenure in St. Louis ends without even a minor league appearance, so his 2026 numbers remain just the ugly 17.18 ERA he posted over six appearances and 7 1\/3 innings for the Rockies\u2019 Triple-A affiliate.\u00a0 Peralta has a 10.26 ERA over 43 career Triple-A innings, with the caveat that he has worked only in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League.<\/p>\n

The southpaw\u2019s time in the majors hasn\u2019t been much better.\u00a0 Peralta had an impressive 0.73 ERA across 12 1\/3 innings after he made his MLB debut with Colorado in 2024, but he came back to earth with a 9.47 ERA in 19 frames of work in 2025.\u00a0 Peralta allowed six homers in that 19-inning sample, with more walks (18) than strikeouts (16).<\/p>\n

Control has been a persistent issue for Peralta throughout his career, and the problem worsened to the tune of 13 walks allowed over his 7 1\/3 innings in Albuquerque this year.\u00a0 Despite his strong strikeout numbers, it will be hard for Peralta to stick even as minor league bullpen depth if he can\u2019t get the ball over the plate.<\/p>\n

Chicago becomes the latest team to see if it can solve Peralta\u2019s control woes, and any kind of extra arms are helpful given how the Cubs have six relievers currently on the injured list.\u00a0 Left-handers Caleb Thielbar<\/a> and Riley Martin<\/a> are among that sextet, so Peralta can add some depth behind the bullpen\u2019s current southpaw pairing of Hoby Milner<\/a> and Ryan Rolison<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cubs have claimed left-hander Luis Peralta off the Cardinals\u2019 waiver wire, according to Taylor McGregor of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,41325,4],"class_list":["post-689807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-luis-peralta","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116514505621552597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689807","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=689807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}