Andrew PetersFebruary 20, 2024
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Free-agent outfielder David Peralta consented to an agreement with the Chicago Cubs on Monday, per FanSided’s Robert Murray. ESPN’s Jesse Rogers reported that it’s a minors offer.
The New york city Post’s Jon Heyman reported that the Cubs are likewise getting initially baseman Dominic Smith on a minors offer and have actually extended him an MLB camp welcome.
Peralta, an 11-year veteran, invested last season with the Los Angeles Dodgers, striking.259 and notching 102 hits and 7 crowning achievement.
Smith, who invested last season with the Washington Nationals, struck.254, tape-recording 134 hits and 12 crowning achievement.
Peralta went through offseason lower arm surgical treatment to fix a torn flexor tendon, so he will likely rehab in the minors and sign up with the big league lineup when he makes a complete healing.
The offer comes in the middle of the Cubs’ interest in resigning free-agent outfielder Cody Bellinger. Group owner Tom Ricketts stated, per Rogers, that they are “waiting” for the star’s side to participate in talks.
“I’m like everybody else,” Ricketts stated. “We’re simply waiting. Waiting on whenever he and his representative are going to engage. It might be at any time now or it might be in a couple of weeks. We’ll see where it goes.”
In his very first year with the Cubs last season, Bellinger struck a career-high.307, notching 153 hits and 26 crowning achievement on his method to making the league’s Comeback Player of the Year Award. Following completion of the season, Bellinger decreased a $25 million alternative for 2024 to check the marketplace, and the seventh-year gamer is still waiting as spring training nears.
The Cubs are coming off an 83-79 project that saw them miss out on the postseason for a 3rd straight year, though they wish to end that streak in 2024.
