The Cubs released well Chris FlexenAs thinks for the first time about the MLB.com transaction log. Chicago had appointed him last week for assignment. MLBTR has learned that Flexen refused an outright assignment, which led to the release. As a player with more than five years of service, Flexen will collect the remaining part of his $ 1.5 mm salary.
Flexen drew a Minor League deal outside season and was called at the end of April. That initially worked brilliantly. The 31-year-old fired 28 innings of 0.65 ERA ball during his first two months. Flexen’s 13.5% Strikeout percentage and the track record before 2025 suggested that he was in line for considerable regression. That arrived in July, when opponents shot six home runs and tanged him 15 points (13) by 15 2/3 innings. He allowed several runs in each of his last four performances.
The Cubs pulled the plug last week. Flexen concluded his organizational term of office with a 3.06 earned running average of more than 43 2/3 innings. Schatters such as Siera, FIP and Xera all found that his true level closer to allowing five earned points per nine – essentially a match for the 4.95 ER that he placed more than 160 innings for the White Sox a year ago.
Flexen has the possibility to log in or rebuild multiple innings from the bull pen as a rotation depth. That will at least be interested in a Minor League contract, and it is not excluded that he finds a main class deal. A signing team would only pay him the promoted part of the minimum of $ 760K League for the last few months. That would be deducted from the commitments of the Cubs.
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