Daniel Palencia Returns To Cubs' Injured List With Elbow Inflammation

[Steve Drumwright]

 

For the second time this season, the Chicago Cubs are down their closer.

Right-hander Daniel Palencia was placed on the 15-day injured list Tuesday by the Cubs with inflammation in his right elbow. Right-handed reliever Gavin Hollowell was called up from Triple-A Iowa.

Palencia went on the 15-day IL on April 16 with a mild strain of his left oblique. It was a short stay there as he returned to the Cubs on May 3. Palencia appeared in Monday's game, pitching the ninth inning of the Cubs' 5-4 walk-off victory over the Colorado Rockies. He walked one and struck out three.

The 26-year-old has a 3.46 FIP (2.70 ERA) in 19 games and 16⅔ innings, with a walk rate of 8.5% and a strikeout rate of 26.8%.

Hollowell is up for the second time this season. In a one-day call-up, he appeared in the May 7 game against the Cincinnati Reds, pitching 1⅔ innings, giving up two runs on two hits, including a homer, with four walks and a strikeout. In 15 games at Iowa this year, he has a 3.63 ERA with 14 walks and 27 strikeouts in 17⅓ innings.

 

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[NorthsideAvenger]

I am beginning to think this might not be the Cubs year. 

[Andy]

This team is having unfathomably bad luck with pitching injuries this year.

[UMFan83]

When the training staff went to check on him yesterday, were they looking at his elbow or something else?  Assuming elbow.  If so, did keeping him in there make things worse?  How incompetent does our training staff look?

[Derwood]

[Stratos]

Storybook first half.

[Post Count Padder]

27 different pitchers used already. We used 31 all of last season. The amount of injuries is ludicrous. 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

is there any precedent that elbow inflamation calms down in 15 days, because this really sucks

[Wilson A2000]

8 minutes ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

is there any precedent that elbow inflamation calms down in 15 days, because this really sucks

Things often calm down right after Tommy John surgery when the anti-inflammatories start to kick in 😢

[Stratos]

48 minutes ago, Post Count Padder said:

27 different pitchers used already. We used 31 all of last season. The amount of injuries is ludicrous. 

So we're on pace to use 60 pitchers this year?  That's not so bad.

[Wilson A2000]

6 minutes ago, Stratos said:

So we're on pace to use 60 pitchers this year?  That's not so bad.

Hey, look on the bright side they’re all going to be fresh at the end of the season and be well under their normal innings pitched. Except our only good starting pitcher in Ben Brown! 

[We Got The Whole 9]

59 minutes ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

is there any precedent that elbow inflamation calms down in 15 days, because this really sucks

Braves just put Strider on there for the same thing and theyre saying 4 weeks is the hopeful timeline