This was announced late Saturday afternoon by manager Craig Counsell:<\/p>\n
Obviously, this isn\u2019t good news, though it seems possible that this IL stint won\u2019t last too long. Earlier the team had said the injury was \u201cminor,\u201d but they obviously aren\u2019t taking any chances.<\/p>\n
This means that possibly all three non-roster outfielders, Dylan Carlson, Chas McCormick and Michael Conforto, will make the team. Or, for a short-term bench player, perhaps Kevin Alc\u00e1ntara will break camp with the Cubs.<\/p>\n
Counsell has said Matt Shaw will start in right field on Opening Day if Suzuki wasn\u2019t available, which is now the case. Personally, I think this is a mistake. The eye test says Shaw doesn\u2019t take good routes to balls and his arm isn\u2019t what you\u2019d want from a right fielder. Granted, Shaw hasn\u2019t played much out there \u2014 which is, I think, good reason to start Carlson in right field, at least he\u2019s played there quite a bit and has decent range and a good arm.<\/p>\n
As always. we await developments. Today\u2019s game preview will post in 30 minutes at 6 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This was announced late Saturday afternoon by manager Craig Counsell: Obviously, this isn\u2019t good news, though it seems…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,7407,4245,161,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-636113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-chicago-cubs-news","12":"tag-chicagocubs","13":"tag-cubs","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116269583186954288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}