After inking a contract with an other NL team on Monday, a former Philadelphia Phillies draft pick is giving his chances of making the Majors another go. The Athletic reports that Sam McWilliams, a right-handed pitcher, has signed a minor league contract with the Chicago Cubs. Phillies fans might not be familiar with him. However, he was the team’s eighth-round selection in 2014 after graduating from Hendersonville, Tennessee’s Beech High School. Afterwards, McWilliams has participated in six different clubs’ baseball programs, been traded twice, chosen in the Rule 5 Draft, designated for assignment once, and left the game in late 2022 to accept a position as a sales representative with Blast Athletics. The Athletic claims that assignment was what put him back on Major League teams’ radars. GCL, where despite going 0-2 in his seven starts, he managed to cut his ERA to 3.27. In 33 innings, he struck out 21 and walked five, indicating some promise. Maybe it had just enough potential to be exchanged. The Phillies traded him to Arizona that November in order to acquire pitcher Jeremy Hellickson, who ended up starting for them on Opening Day of 2016. That launched McWilliams’ nomadic career as well. He was traded by Arizona to Tampa Bay in 2018 as a player to be named later. Later that year, in the Rule 5 Draft, the Rays lost him to Kansas City. After a miserable Spring Training, the Royals sent McWilliams back to Tampa Bay, but he made it to Triple-A Durham. However, following his failure tothe Majors: He signed a Major League contract with the New York Mets after becoming a free agent in 2020, however the Mets designated him for assignment in June when he was still at Triple-A Syracuse. This caused him to begin the 2022 season with the Cincinnati Reds, where he pitched in Double-A before quitting baseball, and end 2021 with the San Diego Padres’ Triple-A affiliate in El Paso.