How Are the Ex-Cubs doing? – Trade Deadline edition

A semi-regular feature showing how former Cub players are doing.

I had to add Vidal Brujan to the list of former Cubs hitters (although he could, theoretically, accept a demotion to Iowa) and Chris Flexen to former Cubs pitchers. The other big news is the major hamstring injury to Isaac Parades, that is rumored to have ended his season.

Ex-Cubs Position players:

#	Name	Team	WAR	PA	HR	RBI	OPS	wRC+
1	Kyle Schwarber	PHI	3.7	477	37	86	.966	164
2	Cody Bellinger	NYY	3.5	418	20	61	.848	133
3	Isaac Paredes	HOU	2.7	409	19	50	.829	133
4	Zach McKinstry	DET	2.7	368	9	36	.797	122
5	Willson Contreras	STL	2.1	432	14	61	.790	124
6	Javier Báez	DET	1.5	311	10	41	.721	100
7	Cam Smith	HOU	1.4	370	7	44	.716	103
8	Mike Tauchman	CHW	1.2	221	7	29	.836	134
9	Victor Caratini	HOU	0.6	278	10	36	.732	103
10	Miles Mastrobuoni	SEA	0.3	169	1	12	.620	85
11	Tomás Nido	DET	0.2	37	0	2	.704	101
12	Tucker Barnhart	TEX	0.0	15	0	0	.564	71
13	Travis Jankowski	3 Tms	0.0	50	0	2	.575	56
14	Luis Vázquez	BAL	-0.2	13	0	1	.154	-69
15	Nick Castellanos	PHI	-0.2	433	14	57	.739	103
16	Gage Workman	2 Tms	-0.2	17	0	2	.485	39
17	Vidal Bruján	CHC	-0.2	47	0	3	.523	42
18	Nicky Lopez	2 Tms	-0.3	28	0	1	.220	-21
19	Alexander Canario	PIT	-0.3	172	3	13	.599	68
20	Jorge Soler	LAA	-0.3	315	12	34	.680	88
21	Christopher Morel	TBR	-0.4	210	7	19	.655	82
22	Nick Martini	COL	-0.4	111	1	4	.582	50
23	Matt Mervis	MIA	-0.4	134	7	14	.637	72
24	Kris Bryant	COL	-0.5	41	0	1	.400	-4
25	Jason Heyward	SDP	-0.5	95	2	12	.494	38
26	Jeimer Candelario	CIN	-0.7	91	2	10	.410	10
27	Martín Maldonado	SDP	-0.8	157	4	12	.560	58
28	Joc Pederson	TEX	-1.0	155	2	6	.475	41

Obviously, the biggest news is Parades: Parades injures his hamstring

Meanwhile, Kyle Schwarber, fresh off his All-Star Game heroics, has been on fire in July with a 1.3 WAR and slash line of .276/.382/.759. Cody Bellinger also has a 1.3 WAR in July, and a .322/.351/.667 line.

Willson Contreras continue his post-April production with a .905 OPS in July.

Meanwhile, Nick Castellanos has had an awful July, with a 0.5 WAR and .506 OPS. He is currently underwater in total WAR for the season. Former Cubs favoritte, Christopher Morel has also been ice cold in July, slashing .074/.194/.185.

Javy Baez has also cooled off since starting the All-Star game, with a .193/.193/.263 slash line in July.

Ex-Cubs Pitchers

#	Name	Team	WAR	G	IP	ERA	xERA
1	Aroldis Chapman	BOS	1.6	46	42.0	1.29	2.20
2	Jeremiah Estrada	SDP	1.2	52	48.2	2.59	2.58
3	Trevor Williams	WSN	1.2	17	82.2	6.21	4.36
4	Trevor Megill	MIL	1.1	40	37.0	2.19	3.09
5	Brendon Little	TOR	1.0	50	47.2	2.64	2.85
6	Phil Maton	STL	1.0	40	38.1	2.35	2.56
7	Kyle Hendricks	LAA	0.9	20	106.2	4.73	3.91
8	Jason Adam	SDP	0.8	51	51.1	1.93	3.02
9	Chris Martin	TEX	0.7	39	34.1	2.36	3.67
10	Mark Leiter Jr.	NYY	0.7	41	34.1	4.46	3.57
11	Shawn Armstrong	TEX	0.6	46	48.1	2.98	3.05
12	Shelby Miller	ARI	0.6	37	36.1	1.98	3.25
13	Pierce Johnson	ATL	0.5	41	38.2	2.56	2.83
14	Jorge López	WSN	0.3	26	24.2	6.57	5.49
15	Tommy Nance	TOR	0.2	5	6.2	1.35	1.73
16	Hayden Wesneski	HOU	0.2	6	32.0	4.50	4.39
17	Jesus Tinoco	MIA	0.2	20	19.1	5.12	3.28
18	Andrew Chafin	WSN	0.1	26	20.0	2.70	3.80
19	Nick Burdi	BOS	0.1	4	5.1	0.00	4.48
20	Héctor Neris	3 Tms	0.0	30	22.0	6.14	4.39
21	Scott Effross	NYY	0.0	11	10.2	8.44	4.82
22	Rob Zastryzny	MIL	0.0	15	13.1	2.03	3.11
23	Craig Kimbrel	ATL	0.0	1	1.0	0.00	13.93
24	Michael Fulmer	2 Tms	0.0	3	5.2	4.76	10.32
25	Yu Darvish	SDP	0.0	4	16.2	9.18	5.78
26	Codi Heuer	TEX	-0.1	1	1.1	6.75	4.79
27	Carl Edwards Jr.	LAA	-0.1	2	3.0	9.00	4.24
28	Marcus Stroman	NYY	-0.1	8	34.0	6.09	5.56
29	Wade Miley	CIN	-0.1	3	12.0	6.75	8.30
30	Rich Hill	KCR	-0.2	2	9.0	5.00	6.60
31	Hunter Bigge	TBR	-0.2	13	15.0	2.40	6.16
32	Génesis Cabrera	3 Tms	-0.2	23	27.1	5.60	3.72
33	Richard Lovelady	2 Tms	-0.3	8	8.1	10.80	6.94
34	Chris Flexen	CHC	-0.3	21	43.2	3.09	5.05
35	Jesse Chavez	ATL	-0.3	4	8.0	9.00	6.44

Not much changing on the pitching side, with Aroldis Chapman still leading the way, and Trevor Williams inexplicably at a 1.2 WAR with a 6.21 ERA.

Estrada and Megill had the strongest July, with a 0.7 and 0.5 WAR respectively.

Recently released Chris Flexen had a -0.6 WAR in July. So despite all of his good early work, he finished his time with the Cubs at a -0.3 WAR.

Rich Hill came back to the majors for a couple games with the Royals before being DFA’d, and Jesse Chavez retired.

Yu Darvish is finally back from injury, but has not been very effective in his first 4 starts.