Sources: Cubs acquire pitcher Soroka from Nats

The Chicago Cubs person acquired pitcher Mike Soroka from the Washington Nationals for 2 prospects, sources told ESPN connected Wednesday night.

Soroka, 27, is 3-8 with a 4.87 ERA successful 16 starts portion starring the league successful deed batsmen with 14.

Soroka is simply a six-year veteran, having begun his vocation with the Atlanta Braves successful 2018 earlier pitching for the White Sox past play and past signing a one-year woody with the Nationals for 2025. The righty didn't transportation successful 2021 and 2022 due to the fact that of repeated Achilles issues. He has a vocation 3.91 ERA successful 85 games, including 68 starts.

The Cubs are looking for arms up of Thursday's commercialized deadline, arsenic they've been without the services of Justin Steele for astir of the play portion pitchers Jameson Taillon (calf), Javier Assad (oblique) and Porter Hodge (shoulder) are connected the mend. All 3 are owed backmost soon.

Soroka provides some extent successful the rotation and the bullpen arsenic the squad DFA'd righty Chris Flexen connected Tuesday up of the woody for Soroka. There's country to adhd adjacent much implicit the last time of MLB trading.

While Soroka's wide numbers don't look bully this season, his expected stats are overmuch better, including his expected ERA, which is 3.32.

The Cubs are sending Triple-A outfielder Christian Franklin and 18-year-old infielder Ronny Cruz backmost to Washington successful the deal. Both prospects fertile extracurricular the Cubs' apical 10, according to ESPN's Kiley McDaniel. Franklin, 25, was hitting .265 with 8 location runs for Iowa portion Cruz had 2 location runs, 10 stolen bases and a .270 batting mean successful the Arizona Complex League.