26-year-old Ben Cowles has been on the Cubs, the Blue Jays, and the White Sox so far this year. The aim is obvious, to get him off the 40-man roster and onto the Triple-A team. If he gets put on waivers, someone claims him, and the circus is back in town.
Cowles can play a little bit. But not enough to claim a starting or utility spot on a team like Chicago, with championship ambitions. He’s more of a fill-in or Quadruple A player. His lifetime .258/.346/.409 slash line in the minors over 459 total
games in five seasons isn’t going to get him anything but the taste of old coffee.
I’m not really sure why people keep claiming him, to be honest. He doesn’t have anything that the Cubs don’t have already but okay, let’s play that game.
Good luck to Ben. I hope he helps Iowa win it all. I suspect he’ll be on the way to another team, but maybe this time we can get this published before it actually happens. (We originally had this scheduled to run on the very day he was claimed by the Blue Jays.)
