The Cubs announced Tuesday that theyve designated infielder for a signment. His spot on Andy Ibanez Jersey the 40-man roster will go to veteran utilityman , whose is now official. Vazquez, 25, was a 17th-round pick out of Puerto Rico who made his MLB debut with Chicago in 2024. He appeared in 11 games and went 1-for-12 in a total of 14 trips to the plate. The rest of Vazquezs season was spent in Triple-A, where he slashed .263/.347/.432 (104 wRC+) with the Cubs top affiliate in Des Moines. Vazquez has drawn walks at a stout 11.6% clip and fanned at a roughly average 22.5% rate over the past two seasons in Iowa. Hes shown off a bit of pop, swatting 17 homers in 543 plate appearances, and chipped in seven steals in 12 attempts. Vazquez has played the overwhelming majority of his profe sional games at shortstop, logging 4929 innings at the position compared to just 268 at second base, 186 at third base, two in right field and one at first base. among Cubs farmhands last winter and praised him as the best defensive shortstop in the system while also lauding an offensive breakout hed shown in 2023. He didnt quite sustain his 23 production this past year but did post slightly better-than-average offensive output in Iowa. With a quality glove at shortstop, a pair of minor league options remaining and a couple above-average seasons of production in the upper minors in 2023-24, Vazquez could well hold appeal to another club. Chicago will have five days to trade him. If theres no taker, hell be placed on waivers, at which point any other team could claim him. Waivers are a 48-hour proce s, so within the next week, therell be some resolution on the outcome of the slick-fielding shortstops DFA. Rocky Colavito Jersey