Moisés Alejandro Ballesteros (Ortega)...Made his Major League debut in his fifth professional season in 2025...Has spent his entire career with the Cubs...Made his Major League debut on May 13, 2025 vs. the Marlins and played 20 games with the Cubs last season...At the beginning of the 2025 season, was ranked by MLB Pipeline as the Cubs' No. 4 prospect and the No. 69 overall prospect in baseball...Was named the Cubs Minor League Player of the Year in both 2023 and 2024...Participated in the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game in 2024...Was named an MiLB.com Organizational All-Star following the 2023 campaign...Was signed by the Cubs as a non-drafted free agent Jan. 15, 2021.
2025
Split the 2025 season between Triple-A Iowa (114 games) and the Cubs (20)...Began the season with the I-Cubs, appearing in 34 games prior to having his contract selected on May 13...At the time of his promotion, led all qualified Triple-A hitters in batting average (.368) and ranked seventh in OPS (.942)...Made his Major League debut May 13 vs. the Marlins at 21 years and 186 days old, becoming the youngest player to make his debut since Pete Crow-Armstrong (21 years, 180 days)...Recorded his first Major League hit and first two RBI in his second game on May 16 vs. White Sox...Was optioned to Iowa May 19 and batted .308 (62-for-201) with 19 doubles, five home runs, 39 RBI and an .853 OPS in 52 games from May 21-July 29...Tallied an RBI in six of seven games from July 23-29...Was recalled by Chicago July 30 and played in the game that day in Milwaukee, recording a three-run double in Chicago's 10-3 win...Was optioned to Iowa Aug. 1...Recorded an eight-game hitting streak from Aug. 15-24, batting .303 (10-for-33) with an .880 OPS during the run...Was recalled by the Cubs on Sept. 9 and spent the rest of the regular season with the club...On Sept. 12 vs. Tampa Bay, recorded his first career triple and his second career multi-hit game (also May 19 at Miami)...Blasted his first career home run on Sept. 13 vs. Tampa Bay, an opposite field homer...His first career homer glanced off the hands of former Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo, who was sitting in the bleachers during the game...Hit his second career homer on Sept. 17 in Pittsburgh...The ball was hit at 112.8 mph, the hardest-hit ball of his career and third-hardest hit homer by a Cub in 2025...Made his first Major League career appearance at catcher during the final game of the regular season, Sept. 28 vs. St. Louis...Made three pinch-hit appearances during the postseason.
2024
Moisés in 2024 was named the Cubs Minor League Player of the Year for the second-straight season, combining to bat .289 (131-for-454) with 24 doubles, one triple, 19 home runs, 78 RBI and an .826 OPS in 124 games between Double-A Tennessee and Triple-A Iowa...Led all qualified Cubs minor leaguers in average (.289), was second in RBI (78), third in SLG (.471) and OPS (.826) and tied for fourth in home runs (19)...Began the campaign with Tennessee, batting .299 (58-for-194) with nine doubles, one triple, nine home runs and 43 RBI in 56 games...Posted a .301 average (44-for-156) with seven doubles, six home runs and 35 RBI in a 41-game span from May 1-June 15...Was named Southern League Player of the Week June 16 after going 8-for-21 (.381) with two home runs and nine RBI during the week...Was promoted to Iowa June 18, where he spent the remainder of the season...Began his Triple-A career by hitting safely in eight of 11 games from June 18-July 1, batting .378 (17-for-45) with five doubles, one home run, three RBI and a .972 OPS...Participated in the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game in Arlington, Texas...On Sept. 1, was named the International League Player of the Week, after going 10-for-17 (.588) with one home run and five RBI during the previous week...Was promoted to the I-Cubs Aug. 6 where he finished the season...Played in 19 games for Mesa in the Arizona Fall League, batting .317 (25-for-79) with four doubles, five home runs, 16 RBI and a .933 OPS...Following the campaign, was awarded All-MiLB Prospect Second Team.
2023
Reached three levels of the Cubs organization in 2023, spending time at Single-A Myrtle Beach, High-A South Bend and Tennessee...Hit .285 (120-for-421) with 27 doubles, 14 home runs and 64 RBI in 117 games, earning the Cubs Minor League Player of the Year honor...Among Cubs minor leaguers (min. 400 AB), ranked among the leaders in average (second), walks (63, fifth), OBP (.375, fifth) and OPS (.823, seventh)...In 17 games in April, batted .300 (18-for-60) with one double, four home runs and 12 RBI...Following his June 19 promotion, hit .301 (61-for-203) with 15 doubles, six home runs and 31 RBI in 56 games in South Bend...His .368 average (25-for-68) and .444 OBP in July both ranked second among Midwest League qualified players...Played in four playoff games with the Smokies, en route to the Southern League championship...Was named MiLB.com Organizational All-Star following the season...Finished the season ranked as the Cubs No. 7 prospect per MLB Pipeline.
2022
Batted .257 (53-for-206) with 12 doubles, 10 home runs and 33 RBI in 63 games with the ACL Cubs and Myrtle Beach...His seven home runs with the ACL Cubs were the most on the team and were tied for the second-most in the ACL at the time of his promotion...Finished the season ranked as the No. 15 prospect in the Cubs organization per MLB Pipeline.
2021
In his first professional season, batted .266 (41-for-154) with 10 doubles, three home runs and 25 RBI in 48 games with DSL Cubs Red.
