{"id":84435,"date":"2025-11-22T01:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T05:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/chicago-cubs-sign-reliever-phil-maton-to-a-two-year-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T01:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T05:09:10","slug":"chicago-cubs-sign-reliever-phil-maton-to-a-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/chicago-cubs-sign-reliever-phil-maton-to-a-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs sign reliever Phil Maton to a two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chicago Cubs Secure Phil Maton for Two Years<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Chicago Cubs have reached a two-year agreement with right-handed reliever Phil Maton, according to sources. The agreement confirms previous reports about the pitcher&#8217;s arrival.\n\nMaton, 32 years old, played for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Texas Rangers in 2025, maintaining an ERA of 2.79 in 63 games. The Illinois native has a career ERA of 3.98 in nine seasons in MLB, playing for seven different teams after debuting with the San Diego Padres in 2017.\n\nMaton uses a cutter and a curveball, throwing both with the same frequency, as well as a sweeper and a sinker. Last season, he accumulated 81 strikeouts in 61\u2153 innings.\n\nThe Cubs are looking to rebuild their bullpen, which saw several players become free agents, including left-handers Drew Pomeranz and Caleb Thielbar, and right-hander Brad Keller.\n\nMaton will cover the need for a pitcher for the final innings, more as a setup man than as a closer, as he only has 10 saves in his career.\n\nThe contract includes a club option for 2028.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Cubs Secure Phil Maton for Two Years The Chicago Cubs have reached a two-year agreement with right-handed reliever Phil Maton, according to sources. The agreement confirms previous reports about the pitcher&#8217;s arrival. Maton, 32 years old, played for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Texas Rangers in 2025, maintaining an ERA of 2.79 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2393,85,344,10539],"class_list":{"0":"post-84435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-bullpen","9":"tag-chicago-cubs","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-phil-maton"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}