Michael

Hermosillo

Harrison Bader’s injury wasn’t enough to get Hermosillo a spot. The former Angel and Cub was 3-for-22 in spring games.

The deal doesn’t appear to include an invitation to spring training. Hermosillo provides the Yankees with some excellent organizational outfield depth heading into the 2023 season. The 27-year-old outfielder, who has 103 games of big-league experience under his belt, struggled in 31 games last season for the Cubs. He’ll aim to revive his career at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre this upcoming season.

The 27-year-old outfielder was sent outright to Triple-A Iowa at the end of September. He hit a paltry .115/.250/.148 in 78 plate appearances with the Cubs during the 2022 campaign. It’s likely that Hermosillo will have to settle for a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training this winter.

The 27-year-old outfielder had been designated for assignment earlier in the week, but he passed through waivers unclaimed and will continue to function as extra depth for the Cubs at Triple-A. Hermosillo slashed a paltry .115/.250/.148 in 78 plate appearances at the big league level this season.

Hermosillo, 27, had batted just .115/.250/.148 in 31 games (78 plate appearances) this season with Chicago. He heads into DFA limbo with a career .550 OPS in 229 total plate appearances at the MLB level.

The 27-year-old outfielder smacked a two-out single off of Mitch Keller in the second inning, then dashed around to score on Christopher Morel’s two-run double. He then plated a run of his own with an RBI single off of David Bednar in the seventh -- extending the Cubs lead to 3-1. With the two-hit attack, he’s now hitting .127/.273/.164 with no homers and four RBI in 67 plate appearances on the year.

It sounds like a non-COVID-19-related illness, so we’ll consider him day-to-day. Michael Hermosillo has taken Velázquez’s spot in the lineup.

Finally recovered from the severe left quad strain that originally sent him to the IL back in May, Hermosillo could get a handful of starts in the Cubs’ outfield as they play out the string here in 2022. The 27-year-old is just a .170/.272/.303 career hitter in 89 total major league games.

Hermosillo continues to work his way back from a left quad strain that has kept him sidelined since early May. It doesn’t seem like he’s too far off from rejoining the Cubs as a reserve outfielder.

Hermosillo has been playing at Triple-A Iowa for a few weeks as he continues to work his way back from a left quad strain. It seems highly likely that he’ll return to the Cubs’ lineup card in a bench role next week once rosters expand.