Cubs Stuff

April 17: Counsell tells the Cubs beat that Horton required a full UCL reconstruction (i.e. Tommy John surgery) rather than an internal brace (via Marquee’s Taylor McGregor). The surgery was performed yesterday, and the team projects a recovery period of at least 15 months. April 7: Cubs right-hander Cade Horton will [...]

Hoo, boy, this ain’t fun. The Chicago Cubs today placed right-handed pitcher Daniel Palencia on the 15-day injured list with a left oblique strain (retroactive to April 14).ezstandalone.cmd.push(function () { ezstandalone.showAds(146); }); Palencia, 26, is 1-0 with a 0.00 ERA with one save in five relief appearances this season. He has allowed [...]

The Cubs announced that right-hander Daniel Palencia has been placed on the 15-day injured list, retroactive to April 14th, with a left oblique strain. A corresponding move was not announced and the club’s Friday afternoon game is about to start, so it appears they will play short-handed. It’s yet another blow [...]

Cade Horton underwent surgery on Thursday, and the Chicago Cubs confirmed the 24-year-old had the Tommy John procedure. Horton previously underwent Tommy John s [...]

The Cubs are playing their best baseball of the season, and now they’re back home for a Friday afternoon matchup against the Mets. The wind is expected to pick up throughout the afternoon, building to 19 mph with gusts in the 20s as the game goes on. After facing mainly [...]

The Chicago Cubs can keep momentum rolling against the New York Mets this weekend, which would put them in a prime position to close April with a bang. [...]

The Cubs (9-9) bounced back from a blowout loss on Monday to win the next two games and take the series from the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. The offense scored a total of 21 runs in those two victories, and now they return to Wrigley Field for a three-game [...]

Coming off a confidence-building series against the Phillies, the Chicago Cubs still have a few key players who need to start turning things around soon. [...]

Bleacher Nation’s Michael Cerami wrote a kids book called “My First Trip to the Bleachers”, and joins us to discuss the Cubs as well. And another .500 week leads to facing the Mets where we welcome Britt from the App Fanarchy to talk about the sliding New Yorkers 8 game [...]

Porter Hodge is done for the year. The Cubs already weren't counting on him, but their depth just keeps getting shallower. [...]

The Chicago Cubs are back to .500 on the season, and their series victory over the Philadelphia Phillies could serve as an early turning point for the year. As [...]

Michael Conforto has turned around a frigid start with the Cubs, but is what he's doing sustainable? Do the Cubs even need it to be? [...]

Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer admitted the organization may need to do a 'deep dive' following a recent string of arm injuries. [...]

It seems like each day brings word of a new injury to a Cubs pitcher, with news of Porter Hodge‘s season-ending UCL surgery and Jaxon Wiggins‘ elbow inflammation dropping on Wednesday. The long list of casualties has set off alarm bells across Cubdom, and it’s gotten reporters asking questions about [...]

More depth for a beleaguered pitching staff. [...]

The tone surrounding the Chicago Cubs and Lucas Giolito appears to have shifted this week. In the immediate aftermath of Cade Horton's injury, the impression wa [...]