ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Cubs left-hander Matthew Boyd was placed on the 15-day injured list with a left biceps strain on Monday.<\/p>\n
Right-handed pitcher Javier Assad was recalled from Triple-A Iowa and will start in Boyd’s place against the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old Boyd, an All-Star last season for the first time in his career, was Chicago’s starter on opening day. He is 1-1 with a 6.75 ERA in two starts this season for Chicago. He has 17 strikeouts in 9 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Assad was 4-1 with a 3.65 ERA in eight games for the Cubs in 2025. He’s 18-12 with a 3.43 ERA in 78 games, including 54 starts, in four seasons.<\/p>\n
Boyd is the second starting pitcher to go down already for the Cubs. Righty Cade Horton was placed on the 15-day injured list Sunday because of a right forearm strain. He exited his start against Cleveland on Friday after facing just four batters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Cubs left-hander Matthew Boyd was placed on the 15-day injured list with a left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,161,4,68,2524],"class_list":{"0":"post-667176","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-chicagocubs","12":"tag-cubs","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","15":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116360137093201087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667176","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=667176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}