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2025 Cubs player profiles: Gage Workman

Gage Workman is on the 26-man roster until something happens to impede or halt his progress, in a curious version of Newton’s First Law of Motion. Inertia aside, Workman will occupy a spot, due to his Rule 5 status.

Not that there aren’t other candidates for that spot with special qualifications of their own. The switch-hitting Vidal Bruján has good speed and defensive versatility as well, and has displayed that and occasional power this spring. Here’s a 2024 Workman three-homer performance [VIDEO].

Ben Cowles, who is 25 but like Workman has not advanced beyond Double A, would also seem viable, if less so than Bruján.