The Cubs won’t be seeing Kyle Hendricks on the mound anytime soon. The veteran pitcher is expected to return in late August at the very earliest.
Hendricks’ injury means more starts for right-hander Adrian Sampson and continued opportunities for left-hander Justin Steele and righty Keegan Thompson to prove they’re everyday starters.
“They’re doing a really nice job of that,” Ross said. “And so it’s the next-guy-up kind of mentality. It sucks for Kyle, it stinks for us, but we’ll go about our business and he’ll get back as soon as he can.” Four Cubs starters — Wade Miley, Marcus Stroman, Drew Smyly and Hendricks — will have missed more than a month this season because of various injuries. Stroman and Smyly returned last weekend in Los Angeles, while Miley, who has been on the IL since June 11 with a left shoulder strain, has progressed only to playing catch.
The Cubs expected to rely heavily on that veteran foursome coming into the season, potentially making the rotation a strength after last year’s lackluster production from their starters. However, Hendricks, Miley, Stroman, and Smyly have combined to start only 40 of the Cubs’ 88 games with a combined 4.56 ERA in 199⅓ innings.
“If you want to go down that road of, well, if everybody was healthy, we’d be really good — I don’t care to play that game,” Ross said. “Everybody goes through adversity and we’ve got to figure out a way to win. It gives other guys opportunities.”
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