2025 Cubs player profiles: Miguel Amaya

John Arguello Miguel Amaya is currently the Cubs’ No. 1 catcher. It took him a while to get there. The soon-to-be 26-year-old backstop slashed ,232/.299/.357 in 117 games in 2024, with eight home runs and 47 RBI. His OPS was .645.

He could use some improvement offensively. We have him following PCA but he could just as easily hit ninth. I just like Amaya hitting behind PCA, where he can benefit from that bat and Shaw can benefit from Happ following him. Either way could work.

He’s a decent defensive catcher, though he doesn’t get much help from Cubs starters, who have slow deliveries for the most part, and teams steal a lot of bases on him (78 — fourth. He accumulated 1.9 bWAR (0.7 fWAR) in…