Marcus Stroman will be out for the forseeable future with a rib cartilage fracture on his right side.
"We had no idea what it was," President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer said."It’s not your usual pitching injury. It’s not an arm. It’s not a shoulder. It’s not an elbow."
The Cubs want Stroman to be symptom-free before he resumes baseball activities, and they aren’t sure when the All-Star might get to that point — given the unusual injury for a pitcher. So Hoyer and Ross had little to offer when asked for a potential timeline for Stroman’s return. "We don’t really know at this point," Hoyer said."I think we’ll obviously give him a real rest period and see how he feels. But again, it’s not a real common pitching injury. I’ve never seen that before, so for me to speculate, would be just false."
The 32-year-old Stroman, who can become a free agent after the season, had a 2.28 ERA after his first 16 starts this year. But he had struggled before his IL stint, going 1-4 with a 9.00 ERA in his last nine games.
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