The Cubs will designate lefty Phil Coke for assignment, Jesse Rogers of ESPNChicago.com reports on Twitter. The move will likely occur officially tomorrow.
Coke, 32, made the club out of the spring after inking a minor league deal. His contract provided a $2.25MM big league salary. Coke has not managed to keep the runs off of the board with Chicago. Over 10 frames, he has permitted seven earned runs.
He does carry more promising peripherals: he has struck out nine and walked three, and carries a robust 63.6% groundball rate. Coke may have been somewhat unlucky to have permitted home runs on 20% of the flyballs hit off of him.