{"id":106669,"date":"2025-07-31T04:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T04:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106669\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T04:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T04:47:13","slug":"cubs-acquire-mike-soroka-from-nationals-for-two-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106669\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs acquire Mike Soroka from Nationals for two prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753937233_39_rogers_jesse.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Jesse RogersJul 30, 2025, 10:45 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5cda5067-7075-66b1-4b94-2333ab8d9807\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chc\/chicago-cubs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> have acquired pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/34984\/michael-soroka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Soroka<\/a> from the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a73e1046-e9aa-ef6b-4e0d-2a7c808cb284\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-nationals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Nationals<\/a> for two prospects, it was announced Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Soroka, 27, is 3-8 with a 4.87 ERA in 16 starts while leading the league in hit batsmen with 14.<\/p>\n<p>Soroka is a six-year veteran, having begun his career with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"122673a3-bf06-4432-6950-b8a32e52ac2e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-braves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Braves<\/a> in 2018 before pitching for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chw\/chicago-white-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White Sox<\/a> last season and then signing a one-year deal with the Nationals for 2025. The righty didn&#8217;t pitch in 2021 and 2022 because of repeated Achilles issues. He has a career 3.91 ERA in 85 games, including 68 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/45852318\/mlb-trade-deadline-2025-intel-rumors-updates-buster-olney-jeff-passan-eugenio-suarez-dylan-cease-steven-kwan\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1525536_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/45861009\/cubs-ian-happ-says-il-not-needed-fouling-ball-shin\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1525711_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs are looking for arms ahead of Thursday&#8217;s trade deadline, as they&#8217;ve been without the services of <a data-player-guid=\"3e57eb1b-fa85-6d99-1bae-704764ee9d9f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41022\/justin-steele\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Steele<\/a> for most of the season while pitchers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/31258\/jameson-taillon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jameson Taillon<\/a> (calf), <a data-player-guid=\"2041a02c-f442-32f2-9113-46727181011a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5002950\/javier-assad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Javier Assad<\/a> (oblique) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5185133\/porter-hodge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Porter Hodge<\/a> (shoulder) are on the mend. All three are due back soon.<\/p>\n<p>Soroka provides both depth in the rotation and the bullpen as the team DFA&#8217;d righty Chris Flexen on Tuesday ahead of the deal for Soroka. There&#8217;s room to add even more over the final day of MLB trading.<\/p>\n<p>While Soroka&#8217;s overall numbers don&#8217;t look good this season, his expected stats are much better, including his expected ERA, which is 3.32.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs are sending Triple-A outfielder Christian Franklin and 18-year-old infielder Ronny Cruz back to Washington in the deal. Both prospects rank outside the Cubs&#8217; top 10, according to ESPN&#8217;s Kiley McDaniel. Franklin, 25, was hitting .265 with eight home runs for Iowa while Cruz had two home runs, 10 stolen bases and a .270 batting average in the Arizona Complex League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesse RogersJul 30, 2025, 10:45 PM ET Close Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-106669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114946037994222334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}