{"id":86180,"date":"2024-09-20T21:46:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T01:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=86180"},"modified":"2024-09-20T21:46:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T01:46:45","slug":"cubs-jordan-wicks-il-hayden-wesneski-activated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/20\/cubs-jordan-wicks-il-hayden-wesneski-activated\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs Shake Up Pitching Staff with Latest Roster Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With just eight regular season games left, the Chicago Cubs made a critical change to their pitching staff as their postseason hopes continue to grow slim. On Friday, southpaw <\/span><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wicksjo01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jordan Wicks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> went on the injured list, while the Cubs activated right-hander <\/span><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wesneha01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hayden Wesneski<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Chicago also recalled right-hander <\/span><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wingetr01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trey Wingenter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from Triple-A Iowa and designated right-hander <\/span><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/armstsh01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shawn Armstrong<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for assignment in corresponding moves.<\/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 activated RHP Hayden Wesneski from the 15-day IL and designated RHP Shawn Armstrong for assignment. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rh0IhnKVWe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/rh0IhnKVWe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cubs\/status\/1837149398226141587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Chicago Cubs today recalled RHP Trey Wingenter from <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IowaCubs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@IowaCubs<\/a> and placed LHP Jordan Wicks on the 15-day IL with a right oblique strain (retroactive to Sept. 18).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cubs\/status\/1837194812027719936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Cubs Activate Hayden Wesneski in Pitching Staff Shakeup<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wicks returned from a right oblique injury <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/08\/31\/jordan-wicks-set-to-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">on September 1st<\/a> after a two-month stint on the injured list, only to have a similar setback end his season. He made four starts, going 1-2 with a 7.50 ERA after returning from the injured list. In 11 games (10 starts) this season, the 25-year-old carries a 5.48 ERA with 42 strikeouts over 46 innings. Wicks also missed time in April because of a left forearm strain. Wingenter has made three appearances for the Cubs this season after being claimed off waivers from the Boston Red Sox in August. In three games with the Cubs, the 30-year-old has a 4.50 ERA. He sports a 2.79 ERA through 9 \u2154 innings with Triple-A Iowa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cubs also activated the 26-year-old Wesneski off the injured list on Friday. He had been sidelined with a right forearm strain since July 20th. In 25 games (seven starts) for the Cubs, Wesneski has posted a 3.94 ERA with 58 strikeouts. He began a seven-game rehab assignment with Triple-A Iowa earlier this month, pitching to a 3.45 ERA. Armstrong made eight appearances for Chicago after being claimed off waivers from the St. Louis Cardinals on August 30th. He posted a 4.91 ERA in eight appearances out of the Cubs bullpen. The 34-year-old has pitched for three teams this year, tossing 66 \u2154 innings with a 4.86 ERA.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After Friday&#8217;s results, the Cubs trail the New York Mets by six games in the National League Wild Card race.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Jeff Le-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just eight regular season games left, the Chicago Cubs made a critical change to their pitching staff as their postseason hopes continue to grow slim. On Friday, southpaw Jordan Wicks went on the injured list, while the Cubs activated right-hander Hayden Wesneski. Chicago also recalled right-hander Trey Wingenter from Triple-A Iowa and designated right-hander [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4975,"featured_media":86191,"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":[5883,5882,28672,28607],"class_list":["post-86180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cubs","category-mlb","category-news","tag-hayden-wesneski","tag-jordan-wicks","tag-shawn-armstrong","tag-trey-wingenter"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86180","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=86180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}