Cubs right-hander Ben Brown underwent cervical spine surgery yesterday, reports ESPN’s Jesse Rogers. He won’t be cleared to throw until early next year. The organization hopes that he can be ready at some point in the first half of the 2027 season. Cubs GM Carter Hawkins told Marquee Sports’ Elise Menaker that the team was “likely to move forward with the surgical option” for Brown earlier this morning, but it seems the procedure had already taken place at that point.
Brown’s surgery only makes the Cubs’ rotation need more acute. Chicago saw Matthew Boyd, Kevin Gausman, Clay Holmes, David Peterson, Shota Imanaga and Colin Rea all become free agents at season’s end. Top starter Justin Steele hasn’t pitched since April 2025 due to UCL surgery and some setbacks during his 2026 recovery. Cade Horton, the 2025 NL Rookie of the Year runner-up, underwent his own UCL surgery this past April and will likely be sidelined into the ’27 campaign himself.
The Cubs will certainly hope that Steele will be ready to take the ball early next year, nearly two years out from surgery. It’s hard to know what kind of workload to expect from him, however. Edward Cabrera is slated to return to the rotation and will hope for better results than he delivered in an injury-ruined first year with Chicago in 2026. Swingman Javier Assad would be in line for rotation work right now, and the same could be true of deadline pickup Braxton Garrett. The Cubs only gave Garrett five big league innings after acquiring him from Miami, but the former No. 7 overall pick was a quality starter for the Marlins in 2022-23 before missing most of the 2024-25 seasons due to injury.
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