Cubs to sign Spencer Turnbull

The Cubs agree on a contract with the right -handed man Spencer Turnbullreports Jon Heyman from New York Post. He was published by the Blue Jays at the end of the last month. It is not yet clear whether the customer of the Boras Corporation is on the way in a large league contract or a minor League deal in the Cubs. In any case, it will give a certain depth of a rotation in which several injuries are recorded this season.

The 32-year-old gymnastics bull enjoyed a strong representation with the 2024 Phillies, which entered an ERA of 2.65 ERA in 54 1/3 innings, but was missing enough time on the injured list. During the entire low season, he lingered in the Free Agency and only signed in early May at Toronto, long after the season was in progress, for a 2 -mm content of $ 2 million. In the end, the Jays only received three appearances for this modest investment. Turnbull fought in the minors while he was climbing and could not get on the right track in his limited MLB work. He also achieved five runs with 12 goals and four walks with four strikes in 6 1/3 Big League frame.

Turnbull's speed never got up to its typical levels, although this is perhaps not a big surprise for a late signatories who went through a accelerated structure. The right-hander was 89.7 miles per hour with his four-seater and was noticeably up to 90.9 miles per hour of the 92 miles per hour in the majors per hour, which he had last year in Philadelphia and the 92.9 miles per hour, in which he was sitting with the Tigers in 2023.

Although this year's performance does not stand out, Turnbull was a generally productive jug when it is healthy enough to take the hill. In his first full season, he achieved a 4.61 ERA and 3.99 FIP with Detroit in 2019 and threw 148 1/3 frames. From 2020 to midnight, Turnbull improved to an ERA of 3.84 ERA with a striker rate of 22% and a walk rate of 9.4% in a sample of only 192 inning over this period of five years.

Injuries have regularly interrupted the path of turnbull to establish themselves as a credible Big League starter. He missed the entire 2022 season due to a Tommy John surgery and had remarkable IL stations in his career for lat, back, shoulder, forearm and neck injuries. Turnbull worked primarily as a starter in the majors -68 starts, 13 relief -outings -, but due to this flood of health problems, still has only 363 innings under his belt.

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