{"id":705936,"date":"2026-05-22T18:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/705936\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:21:21","slug":"cubs-put-matt-shaw-on-injured-list-call-up-pedro-ramirez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/705936\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs put Matt Shaw on injured list, call up Pedro Ramirez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO &#8212;<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chc\/chicago-cubs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> INF\/OF <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4867667\/matt-shaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matt Shaw<\/a> was placed on the injured list with back tightness, the team announced Friday. Shaw, 24, first experienced soreness Tuesday, which did not subside after a couple of days of treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;It kind of went back and forth the last couple of days,&#8221; manager Craig Counsell said. &#8220;Woke up today, it didn&#8217;t feel good. So we&#8217;re going to give him some time to heal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Shaw was hitting .242 with three home runs in limited playing time before getting hurt. The team called up infielder Pedro Ramirez to take Shaw&#8217;s place on the roster. Ramriez impressed the Cubs during spring training, earning a promotion after a strong start to his Triple-A season. He was hitting .312 with nine home runs before getting called up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">&#8220;It&#8217;s probably going to be a shorter stint,&#8221; Counsell said of Ramirez. &#8220;It&#8217;s also good for him to get exposure to the major leagues, get exposure to the group, get exposure to the schedule, so if we run into a situation where it is a lot of playing time, that he doesn&#8217;t have to go through it for the first time while playing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8212;Chicago Cubs INF\/OF Matt Shaw was placed on the injured list with back tightness, the team announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[88720,5,138,24,4245,161,649,4,169,88719],"class_list":["post-705936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-88720","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-espn","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-shaw-matt"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116619620096541347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705936","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=705936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}