Kyle Tucker’s lingering calf issue lands him on IL
ATLANTA – The manager of the Chicago Cubs, Craig Counsell, expressed Hope that his right -of -right star player was not going to need time on the injured list to allow a left calf number to heal completely.
But 24 hours later, the circumstances changed once Kyle Tucker’s calf did not progress after the more vigorous work on Monday on the field. The Cubs placed Tucker on the 10 -day Il before Tuesday’s match and recalled the holed uptake / receiver to Ballesteros. This decision is retroactive on Saturday, doing Tuesday next Tucker day to return.
“He didn’t really reach a point of a lot of efforts and was not comfortable playing, and so we just said well, we have to give a little more time,” said Counsell. “This is why we did a little more yesterday, to make it a little more effort and see how it will feel, and it did not answer it today.”
Tucker had tried to enter the match on Tuesday or Wednesday at Truist Park, but realized that it was unlikely after feeling pain in his left calf before Tuesday’s match which was not so easily dissipated.
“It was a little climbed as you go,” said Tucker on Tuesday. “Normally, as I move and do things, he would relax, probably doing blood, he is unleashed and everything today has not really done so.
“I was hoping to feel good today and enter, I hope to enter it. But obviously, it doesn’t really work like that. So, this part is a little frustrating, but I just have to take care of it from now on and come back every time I can. ”
Tucker did not place in his level of confidence as to whether it would be a minimum passage, saying that it is a daily process. The moment, on several levels, is not ideal. For Tucker, an imminent free agent, he had watched the plate better in the two weeks preceding his calf pain after a brief reset on the bench. In his last 11 games, Tucker hit 0.400 with a basic percentage of .489, four doubles, four circuits and 11 points produced.
Tucker left after the sixth round on September 2 due to the waterproofing of the calves and then missed five games before landing on the IL. The teams can go back to move up to three days, depending on the moment a player appeared for the last time in a big league match. If this injury had taken place earlier in the season, the Cubs would probably have put Tucker on the IL immediately to avoid playing in digital disadvantage. The additional position player on the bench due to the extended list of September made this less problem, said Counsell.
“You only collect information from all sources and try to make your best supposition,” Counsell said on Tuesday. “We did not think that the list was really going to be assigned to it. We thought we were in the range, and we understood the range of six similar days, and this is where the difficult call happens.”
Tucker should be able to continue to strike and throw while he is sidelined; He said that his calf only bothers him when he runs. It is too early to say if Tucker would need a short rehabilitation assignment to get bats before joining the Cubs. He noted that last year, when he left the IL with the Astros of Houston, he took a live striker and was ready to leave.
The Cubs will have 12 games to play in the regular season if Tucker is activated on September 16, his first day of eligibility.
“It sucks, I mean, you don’t want as a player who is missing at any time,” said Tucker. “In this aspect, a little frustrating, especially since you are in the team, you want to go there and help the team win, do what you can on the field and help everyone around you. So I mean, now I have to do it but without being on the field.”
