Nico Hoerner

Hoerner (ankle) has been cleared to resume baseball activities and is building up in his running progression, but he's without a clear timeline to return from the 10-day injured list, Andy Martinez of Marquee Sports Network reports. The fact that Hoerner hasn't been shut down from baseball activities since landing...

Things could get worse for the Chicago Cubs before they get better. The team has struggled out of the gate, going 12-20 through the first six weeks of the season, falling to fourth in the NL Central. They’ll have to navigate the next couple of series without their starting shortstop Nico Hoerner, who was placed on the 10-day injured list with a right ankle sprain.

The Cubs announced to reporters that shortstop Nico Hoerner has been placed on the injured list with a right ankle sprain retroactive to May 12, per Meghan Montemurro of the Chicago Tribune. Swapping places with Hoerner is shortstop Andrelton Simmons, who will come off the injured list. It’s surely a...

The Chicago Cubs have a clearly flawed roster. Even before the season began, we knew it would take just about everything breaking right for this team to surprise folks and make a run at a spot in the expanded postseason. But things haven’t gone that way – and the injuries...

After the freak accident that saw Nico Hoerner collide with an ump in the outfield, spraining his ankle in the process, it felt like nothing was going right for the Cubs. They would go on to win that game earning a series win over San Diego, so not all was lost. However, we now have word that Nico Hoerner is being placed on the 10-day IL retroactive to May 12.

Cubs shortstop Nico Hoerner sprained his right ankle Wednesday afternoon in San Diego in one of the weirdest ways possible, colliding with umpire Dan Iassogna [VIDEO]. Nico hasn’t played since then and now he’s headed to the injured list. The IL placement is retroactive to Thursday, May 12, so he’ll be eligible to return a week from today.

Hoerner to IL after umpire collision, Simmons activated originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago. The Cubs got good injury news Sunday, but along with it came more bad news on that front. Nico Hoerner landed on the 10-day injured list with a right ankle sprain Sunday, an injury he sustained...

Although Seiya Suzuki was not forced to miss significant time with his ankle injury, Nico Hoerner is not as lucky. The Cubs are sending their starting shortstop – who hurt his ankle while getting tangled up with an umpire – to the injured list. And in his place,...

I’ve long been a backer of Alfonso Rivas – I used to watch him play at the University of Arizona, where he was a blue-chip stock. In addition to his prowess with the bat and the glove, he’s also a good bet for the Anthony Rizzo spot in the bullpen, though he throws harder than the former Cub. He was all over the field in college, though admittedly first base is his best position.