{"id":701499,"date":"2026-05-17T17:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/701499\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T17:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:18:29","slug":"cubs-select-ty-blach-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/701499\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs Select Ty Blach &#8211; MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/author\/mark-polishuk\" title=\"Posts by Mark Polishuk\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Polishuk<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at May 17, 2026 11:02am CDT  <\/p>\n<p>The Cubs have selected the contract of left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/blachty01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-17_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ty Blach<\/a> from Triple-A Iowa.\u00a0 In the corresponding moves for the 26-man and 40-man rosters, right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/assadja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-17_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Javier Assad<\/a> was optioned to Triple-A, and right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/harvehu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-17_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hunter Harvey<\/a> was shifted from the 15-day injured list to the 60-day IL.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Mark Polishuk | at May 17, 2026 11:02am CDT The Cubs have selected the contract of left-hander&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,4156,159,1731],"class_list":["post-701499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-hunter-harvey","tag-javier-assad","tag-ty-blach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116591060844676131","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701499","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=701499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}