{"id":266919,"date":"2025-09-30T16:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/266919\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T16:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:17:12","slug":"cubs-announce-full-2025-wild-card-series-roster-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/266919\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs announce full 2025 Wild Card series roster \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Cubs have announced their full 26-man roster for the 2025 National League Wild Card series against the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n<p>While some names were already revealed, other highly anticipated decisions were confirmed with the release. <\/p>\n<p>Since the Cubs will only be playing at most a three-game series, the team unsurprisingly announced 14 position players and 12 pitchers. <\/p>\n<p>The series marks Chicago&#8217;s first postseason appearance since 2020 and will determine who will face the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Division Series.<\/p>\n<p>Games 1 and 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/chicago-sports-bears-sox-cubs-bulls-blackhawks\/what-time-is-the-cubs-game-today-cubs-vs-padres-2025-start-time-channel-and-more\/3831368\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will begin at 2:08 p.m. CT on Tuesday and Wednesday <\/a>at Wrigley Field. Game 3 of the series, if necessary, would be played on Thursday, though a start time has not yet been determined.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the full roster: (To see how it compares to our predictions click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/sports\/mlb\/chicago-cubs\/cubs-playoff-roster-predictions-ahead-of-series-vs-padres\/3831257\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Pitchers<\/p>\n<p>16 \u2013 Matthew Boyd, LHP<\/p>\n<p>17 \u2013 Taylor Rogers, LHP<\/p>\n<p>18 \u2013 Shota Imanaga, LHP<\/p>\n<p>24 \u2013 Caleb Thielbar, LHP<\/p>\n<p>38 \u2013 Aaron Civale, RHP<\/p>\n<p>40 \u2013 Brad Keller, RHP<\/p>\n<p>45 \u2013 Drew Pomeranz, LHP<\/p>\n<p>48 \u2013 Daniel Palencia, RHP<\/p>\n<p>50 \u2013 Jameson Taillon, RHP<\/p>\n<p>53 \u2013 Colin Rea, RHP<\/p>\n<p>59 \u2013 Andrew Kittredge, RHP<\/p>\n<p>99 \u2013 Michael Soroka, RHP<\/p>\n<p>Catchers<\/p>\n<p>15 \u2013 Carson Kelly<\/p>\n<p>20 \u2013 Reese McGuire (L)<\/p>\n<p>25 \u2013 Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros (L)<\/p>\n<p>Infielders<\/p>\n<p>2 \u2013 Nico Hoerner<\/p>\n<p>3 \u2013 Justin Turner<\/p>\n<p>6 \u2013 Matt Shaw<\/p>\n<p>7 \u2013 Dansby Swanson<\/p>\n<p>29 \u2013 Michael Busch (L)<\/p>\n<p>Outfielders<\/p>\n<p>4 \u2013 Pete Crow-Armstrong (L)<\/p>\n<p>8 \u2013 Ian Happ (S)<\/p>\n<p>13 \u2013 Kevin Alc\u00e1ntara<\/p>\n<p>27 \u2013 Seiya Suzuki<\/p>\n<p>30 \u2013 Kyle Tucker (L)<\/p>\n<p>Infielder\/Outfielders <\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013 Willi Castro (L)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Cubs have announced their full 26-man roster for the 2025 National League Wild Card series against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":266920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,138400,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-266919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cubs-playoffs","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115294151952307582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266919","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=266919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}