{"id":10504,"date":"2017-12-10T18:58:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T23:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/\/?p=10504"},"modified":"2017-12-10T19:49:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T00:49:26","slug":"chicago-cubs-sign-brandon-morrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2017\/12\/10\/chicago-cubs-sign-brandon-morrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs Sign Brandon Morrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, the Chicago Cubs have signed free-agent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/morrobr01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Morrow<\/a> to a two-year deal worth more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/21731198\/chicago-cubs-agree-terms-los-angeles-dodgers-reliever-brandon-morrow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$10 million a season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1>Chicago Cubs Sign Brandon Morrow<\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cubs, RHP Brandon Morrow reportedly agree to deal, pending physical. Club hasn\u2019t confirmed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zmws5dR66U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/zmws5dR66U<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HotStove?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#HotStove<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1v5GxSeHwe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/1v5GxSeHwe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/939963776652193795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>2017 Season<\/h2>\n<p>Morrow is coming off of a fantastic year where he pitched for the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/los-angeles-dodgers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>. In 2017, the relief pitcher posted a 2.06 ERA and a .916 WHIP. Morrow was also able to collect two saves, six wins and zero losses while pitching out of the bullpen for the Dodgers. His stellar performance with the Dodgers helped take Los Angeles to the postseason where he pitched against his new team in the National League Championship Series. Against Chicago, Morrow was stellar. He pitched in four games and and did not allow a single earned run, while collecting seven strikeouts in 4.2 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Morrow was not as good in the World Series. He pitched in all <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/2017\/11\/01\/houston-astros-win-2017world-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seven games in a losing effort<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/houston-astros\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Houston Astros<\/a> and had a 8.44 ERA and a 1.688 WHIP.<\/p>\n<h2>Chicago Cubs<\/h2>\n<p>Brandon Morrow will undoubtedly be a great addition to the Cubs bullpen. Though Morrow has a relatively high career ERA (4.05), he has been fantastic the last three years. Before coming to Los Angeles, Morrow pitched for the San Diego Padres for two season, and had a 2.39 ERA while with the Friars with 31 strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs will certainly need the help as their bullpen struggled in the postseason this year. Morrow will join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/chatwty01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyler Chatwood<\/a> as new additions to the Cubs bullpen as <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/chicago-cubs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago recently signed Chatwood<\/a> to a three-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs will be hopeful that their reformed bullpen will help them return to the World Series in 2018, after falling short in the NLCS in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"5Z7Sf5xsRHdY-ZFJGojE2Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/868798162\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'5Z7Sf5xsRHdY-ZFJGojE2Q',sig:'Bm9WPf8HbfpyYCQcYSY8fvuJ79kOqOu2K04-F3TW3yY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'868798162',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, the Chicago Cubs have signed free-agent Brandon Morrow to a two-year deal worth more than $10 million a season. Chicago Cubs Sign Brandon Morrow Cubs, RHP Brandon Morrow reportedly agree to deal, pending physical. Club hasn\u2019t confirmed. https:\/\/t.co\/zmws5dR66U #HotStove pic.twitter.com\/1v5GxSeHwe \u2014 MLB (@MLB) December 10, 2017 2017 Season Morrow is coming off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1397,"featured_media":10509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,35],"tags":[68,1807,941,69],"class_list":["post-10504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cubs","category-news","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-morrow","tag-latest-mlb-news","tag-mlb"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}