{"id":23124,"date":"2025-07-31T07:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23124"},"modified":"2025-07-31T07:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:20:08","slug":"reinforcing-the-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/reinforcing-the-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"Reinforcing The Pen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23125\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/michael-soroka.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/michael-soroka.jpg 605w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/michael-soroka-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/>The Cubs made two moves to bolster their pitching corps last night, acquiring Michael Soroka from the Nationals and Andrew Kittredge from the Orioles.\u00a0 Soroka, who spent the 2024 season with the White Sox, can start or relieve while Kittredge is strictly a bullpen arm.<\/p>\n<p>For Soroka, who is due $3 million for the remainder of the season, the Cubs will send Triple-A outfielder Christian Franklin and rookie ball shortstop Ronny Cruz back to the Nationals.\u00a0 Franklin, 25, is eligible for the Rule V draft if he is not added to the 40-man roster following this season.\u00a0 Cruz, 18, was the Cubs&#8217; third round draft pick last year.<\/p>\n<p>Kittredge is due $9 million this year with a $9 million team option for next year.\u00a0 Wilfri De La Cruz, a 17-year-old shortstop signed during this year&#8217;s International Signing Period, is going back to the Orioles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cubs made two moves to bolster their pitching corps last night, acquiring Michael Soroka from the Nationals and Andrew Kittredge from the Orioles.\u00a0 Soroka, who spent the 2024 season with the White Sox, can start or relieve while Kittredge is strictly a bullpen arm. For Soroka, who is due $3 million for the remainder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[12099,12100,120,10806,117,50,12101,12102],"class_list":["post-23124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-andrew-kittredge","tag-christian-franklin","tag-cubs","tag-mike-soroka","tag-nationals","tag-orioles","tag-ronny-cruz","tag-wilfri-de-la-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23126,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23124\/revisions\/23126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}