{"id":36615,"date":"2022-06-04T17:13:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T17:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/contreras-gomes-smyly-miley-alzolay\/"},"modified":"2022-06-04T17:13:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T17:13:27","slug":"contreras-gomes-smyly-miley-alzolay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/contreras-gomes-smyly-miley-alzolay\/","title":{"rendered":"Contreras, Gomes, Smyly, Miley, Alzolay"},"content":{"rendered":"
An array of Chicago Cubs injury updates for your Saturday morning\u2026<\/p>\n
Willson Contreras<\/strong> (HBP on the ankle) is expected to start at least one of today’s games, at least as of last evening. You’d certainly hope so, since PJ Higgins caught the last two games, and it’s hard to imagine he could follow that by catching two more full games today. The Cubs don’t have a back-up-back-up catcher active on the 40-man roster at the moment, so I’m sure they’d prefer not to have to add someone to the 40-man just to catch one of today’s games.<\/p>\n Speaking of the catching situation, no update on Yan Gomes<\/strong>‘oblique injury. He was placed on the IL 10 days ago, so he is eligible<\/em> to come off any time now, but there has been no indication that a return is close (and you wouldn’t expect it that quickly with an oblique strain).<\/p>\n The bad news on Drew Smyly<\/strong>‘s oblique injury is that the MRI \u201crevealed a more severe strain,\u201d so that’s going to have him out for a while. The good news is that he isn’t feeling pain, and has his normal range of motion. But no one wants him to push it, so he estimates (at best?) It’ll be three or four weeks before he can return. My guess is that it’ll be on the longer end of that, as the Cubs will want him fully healthy before returning in July – they’re going to want him to be able to make a handful of fully-healthy starts before the August 2 Trade Deadline just in case they want to \/ have the opportunity to trade him for a meaningful return. It really sucks, because he was quietly having a very solid back-of-the-rotation start to the year.<\/p>\n Better news on Wade Miley<\/strong> (shoulder), who has already thrown a bullpen, and who might be back sooner than July. There isn’t a specific timeline just yet, so we’ll wait and see. The Trade-Deadline-related implications are the same, though. The Cubs would ideally like to have Miley back for at least a decent stretch – at full health – before August 2 so that they have options.<\/p>\n Alec Mills<\/strong> will make at least one more rehab start on Tuesday before coming back to the big league team:<\/p>\n Alec Mills is here with the #Cubs<\/a>checking in before he makes his next rehab start Tuesday when he’s looking to go 5 IP \/ 75 pitches. <\/p>\n Mills is not sure of plans after that. He’s eligible to come off 60-day IL Monday.<\/p>\n\n