You have GOT to be kidding me.
According to Taylor McGregor, Matthew Boyd is getting surgery on his meniscus (knee) and “will be out for the foreseeable future.”
I don’t even know what to say, other than this seals it: This is the most unlucky and unfortunate injury-impacted season in recent Chicago Cubs memory.
I just … I really can’t believe I even have to write this. There is so much going well for the Cubs right now, even in the face of a bunch of significant injuries, but things just keep getting tougher. Almost unbelievably so.
First, Cade Horton went down for all of this year (and most of next year). Then, Justin Steele, who was weeks away from a return, had his timeline extended by a fresh arm injury. And now, Matthew Boyd, who already spent time on the IL earlier this season, is getting surgery, and it comes completely out of left field. I guess it’s good that it’s not an arm injury, but at his age and with his injury history, who knows when he’ll come back and how he’ll look when he does.
And while Boyd wasn’t the same guy this season as he was in the first half last year, the Cubs don’t have unlimited big league starters. And there were at least some positive signs on the whiffs and strikeouts.
Bottom line here, there is no team in baseball that will look the same after losing three of their very best starting pitchers, including the guy who was supposed to be the Ace last season (Steele), the guy who was the Ace last season (Boyd), and the guy who was supposed to be the Ace this season (Horton).
Fortunately, Justin Steele will be back at some point this year, not that we know how good he’ll be, while Shota Imanaga is pitching very well. But the margin for error at this point is basically non-existent.
In the near-term, you imagine this means Javier Assad rejoins the Cubs rotation, for a top-five of: Imanaga, Cabrera, Jameson Taillon, Colin Rea, and Javier Assad. If anyone else goes down … your guess is as good as mine.
And while they’re all capable starters, that is a dramatically different group than Horton, Imanaga, Cabrera, Justin Steele, Taillon, with Colin Rea and/or Assad in the bullpen.
It’s also possible the Cubs try Ben Brown out as a starter one more time, but he’s FINALLY settling in as a useful reliever, covering high-leverage innings, often multiple at a time. It would be such a shame to mess with that again, even if I remain ever curious (and greedy) for it to work.
Oh, and I almost forgot: the Cubs top pitching prospect, Jaxon Wiggins, has been hurt this year. And Jordan Wicks is out hurt, too. Truly horrific stuff.
At some point, you wonder if the Cubs look to swing a very early trade and/or sign some more pitching depth from whatever is left out there. Really wish they went out and got Lucas Giolito at this point.
Man, that is just such a bummer. Here’s hoping we find out his absence won’t be quite as long as we think. Because this is just brutal, brutal stuff.
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