Normally, a team’s injury situation(s) immediately before the Trade Deadline are quite relevant to the moves that may or may not happen that week. For the Cubs this year, I don’t think that’s the case.
First, the updates:
#Cubs injury updates:-Porter Hodge and Miguel Amaya will play tonight for the Iowa Cubs. -Javier Assad will start tomorrow for the Iowa Cubs.-Jameson Taillon threw a 40 pitch live BP today.
— Taylor McGregor (@Taylor_McGregor) July 29, 2025Jameson Taillon threw a 40-pitch live BP earlier today. He’s scheduled to make a rehab start with Triple-A Iowa on Saturday, Craig Counsell said.
— Maddie Lee (@maddie_m_lee) July 29, 2025All great news, and I’ll add that things went well for Miguel Amaya in his first rehab game at Iowa:
“It was amazing to be back with the boys.”After a long stint on the injured list this season, Cubs catcher Miguel Amaya took a giant step forward Tuesday appearing in his first rehab game with the @IowaCubs. A look at how it went and what’s next. t.co/FoCLftDUPV
— Tommy Birch (@TommyBirch) July 30, 2025We can expect Amaya back with the big league Cubs in relatively short order if he recovers well from his next, say, two games at Iowa and has his timing back at the plate.
Because of the Ian Happ shin injury – which is reportedly could put him on the IL and have Moises Ballesteros coming up to replace him on the roster – I think the Cubs’ decision on the catching situation becomes extremely easy if it weren’t already: they’ll just carry three catchers when Amaya is ready. Amaya will come up, Ballesteros will go back down, and the Cubs will have all of Amaya, Reese McGuire, and Carson Kelly on the 26-man roster until Happ is ready to return. At that point, they’ll have to make a bench decision, but frankly, I don’t see how anyone else on the bench right now should bump McGuire from the roster. That would be true even if Happ does not go on the IL.
As for the pitcher notes, I circle back to my initial point in the post: nothing that happens with Javier Assad and Jameson Taillon should impact the team’s plans for the rotation at the deadline. The need is simply far too strong, and the questions about the existing group are going to persist even if both Assad and Taillon came back tomorrow.
So, you make the trade(s) for the guy(s) you want, and then when Assad and/or Taillon are ready to return in two or three weeks, you figure it out. It’s absolutely great news that they’re on track to return soon-ish, and they will be a boost to the roster one way or another. But the Cubs can’t let it change their course right now. (Though you can expect to hear leverage plays dropping in rumors like, “The Cubs don’t feel they need to go all-in to acquire a pitcher right now, knowing that they’ll be getting two back later this month …. “)
Similarly, by the way, I very much want Porter Hodge to be back, healthy, and dominant. But the Cubs can’t proceed at the deadline on the assumption that he will for sure be all three of those things.
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