{"id":81682,"date":"2024-07-29T20:24:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T00:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=81682"},"modified":"2024-07-29T20:24:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T00:24:18","slug":"cubs-activate-cody-bellinger-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/29\/cubs-activate-cody-bellinger-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs Activate Star Outfielder From Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Less than three weeks after fracturing his finger, Chicago Cubs outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bellico01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cody Bellinger<\/a> has been activated from the injured list. He had<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0been <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/11\/cubs-cody-bellinger-injured-list-finger\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">sidelined since July 11th<\/a> after being hit by a pitch from Baltimore&#8217;s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/perezci01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cionel P\u00e9rez<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> resulting in a fractured left middle finger. Cubs manager <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/managers\/counscr01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Craig Counsell<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> had indicated Bellinger would be activated in the coming days, but after a hitting session on Monday, the 29-year-old is back on the active roster. Bellinger is not in Monday\u2019s lineup against the Reds, but he will be available off the bench.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cubs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Cubs<\/a> today reinstated OF Cody Bellinger from the 10-day injured list. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S3xhXtao0N\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/S3xhXtao0N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cubs\/status\/1818051539673505877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCody hit for a long time this afternoon,\u201d Counsell said of Bellinger\u2019s pre-game workout on Monday. \u201cIt went really well. He\u2019s going to throw here and then he\u2019s going to hit again. Really good day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Cody Bellinger Activated from IL<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given that he is still having some trouble gripping a baseball, Counsell suggested Bellinger would start as a DH before returning to center field. Hitting .269\/.331\/.410 with nine homers through 79 games this season, Bellinger\u2019s production has been solid but not spectacular. His 108 wRC+ is above league average, it&#8217;s well below the 134 wRC+ he posted in 2023. The two-time All-Star missed a few weeks earlier this year with a rib fracture. In the 57 games between his two injured list stints, Bellinger was batting .285 with four homers and 20 RBI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The former MVP has been the subject of trade rumors in recent weeks, but Chicago has yet to sell going into tomorrow\u2019s trade deadline. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/28\/cubs-trade-rays-isaac-paredes\/\" target=\"_self\">Cubs acquired<\/a> Tampa Bay Rays third baseman <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/paredis01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Isaac Paredes<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Sunday, a deal sending <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/morelch01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christopher Morel<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to Tampa. Bellinger signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/02\/25\/all-star-returning-to-chicago\/\" target=\"_self\">three-year, $80 million extension<\/a> last winter and appears to be part of Chicago&#8217;s plans for the future. Paredes has yet to be officially added to Chicago\u2019s active roster, so no corresponding roster moves were required.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than three weeks after fracturing his finger, Chicago Cubs outfielder Cody Bellinger has been activated from the injured list. He had\u00a0been sidelined since July 11th after being hit by a pitch from Baltimore&#8217;s Cionel P\u00e9rez resulting in a fractured left middle finger. Cubs manager Craig Counsell had indicated Bellinger would be activated in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4975,"featured_media":81693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1071,35],"tags":[258,6192,28331,899,2238,4076],"class_list":["post-81682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cubs","category-mlb","category-news","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-christopher-morel","tag-cionel-perez","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-craig-counsell","tag-isaac-paredes"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}