{"id":92109,"date":"2024-12-14T13:32:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T18:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=92109"},"modified":"2024-12-14T13:32:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T18:32:45","slug":"cubs-interested-mariners-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/14\/cubs-interested-mariners-starter\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs Pursue Sought-After Mariners Starting Pitcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/sports\/mariners\/what-were-hearing-on-mariners-trade-rumors-for-luis-castillo\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seattle Times<\/a>, the Chicago Cubs have joined in the mix of teams interested in Mariners starter pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=castilu02,castilu01,castil018lui,castil020lui,castil025lui,castil027lui,castilu03&amp;search=Luis+Castillo&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luis Castillo<\/a>. It was announced earlier this week that the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/11\/red-sox-eyeing-mariners-starting-pitcher\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> were also among the teams interested in the 32-year-old Dominican right-handed starter. The New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, and the New York Mets are also in the mix to land Castillo. The Cubs already got things rolling this offseason with a huge <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/13\/kyle-tucker-astros-cubs-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">blockbuster trade<\/a> involving the Houston Astros. The Cubs acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/tuckeky01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Tucker<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/paredis01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Isaac Paredes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wesneha01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hayden Wesneski<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=smith-014cam&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cam Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cubs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Cubs<\/a> have trade interest in one of the <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mariners?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Mariners<\/a>&#8216; top starters (and an old NL Central foe)<a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y372uSaFwi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/y372uSaFwi<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XJsXxFaQN7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/XJsXxFaQN7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB Trade Rumors (@mlbtraderumors) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlbtraderumors\/status\/1867998179427594384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Cubs Tackling Starting Pitcher Market Eyeing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=castilu02,castilu01,castil018lui,castil020lui,castil025lui,castil027lui,castilu03&amp;search=Luis+Castillo&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luis Castillo<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3>What Castillo Has To Offer<\/h3>\n<p>Castillo sported an 11-12 record with a 3.64 ERA along with 175 punchouts. The Cubs are in a good spot to take a crack at the starting pitcher market this offseason. The Cubs adding Castillo to their starting pitcher rotation would mean them acquiring a starter who has an effective and nasty changeup. Castillo has a lot going for him and he showcased this through solid 2024 stats. For example, Castillo made 30 starts and successfully pitched five or more innings in all but one start. This showcases his ability to pitch deep into games.<\/p>\n<p>Castillo also only surrendered three earned runs or less in 22 of his last 27 starts. Overall, he would be a suitable weapon in the Cubs&#8217; starting rotation. Castillo has lengthy experience in the majors with multiple seasons where he&#8217;s recorded 30 or more starts. In addition, since 2021 among starting pitchers with a minimum of 500 innings pitched Castillo has put up 753 strikeouts tied for 8th in MLB as well as 71 quality starts with a 13.2 WAR tied for 12th in MLB. Despite some decline in his numbers since 2023, Castillo in the last five seasons from 2019 to 2024 has ranked 8th in fWAR, 8th in bWAR, 5th in innings pitched, and 14th with ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: D. 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It was announced earlier this week that the Boston Red Sox were also among the teams interested in the 32-year-old Dominican right-handed starter. The New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, and the New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4831,"featured_media":92122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[24,1071,35,1],"tags":[240,28631,246,4076,2319,922,164,41,268,158],"class_list":["post-92109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cubs","category-mlb","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-cam-smith","tag-houston-astros","tag-isaac-paredes","tag-kyle-tucker","tag-luis-castillo","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-seattle-mariners"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92109","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\/4831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92123,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92109\/revisions\/92123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}