{"id":711808,"date":"2026-04-07T20:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/711808\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:59:17","slug":"cubs-cade-horton-to-have-season-ending-elbow-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/711808\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs&#8217; Cade Horton to have season-ending elbow surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5cda5067-7075-66b1-4b94-2333ab8d9807\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chc\/chicago-cubs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> starting pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4692526\/cade-horton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cade Horton<\/a> will have season-ending surgery on his right elbow, manager Craig Counsell said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Horton, 24, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48404504\/cubs-cade-horton-placed-15-day-il-set-tests-arm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">placed on the 15-day injured list<\/a> Sunday with what the team called a strained forearm. He left in the second inning of Friday&#8217;s game in Cleveland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48388955\/cubs-rhp-cade-horton-leaves-forearm-discomfort\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after he felt discomfort<\/a> while throwing a 93.8 mph fastball &#8212; slower than normal.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48404504\/cubs-cade-horton-placed-15-day-il-set-tests-arm\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/r1635165_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Horton, who went 11-4 with a 2.67 ERA as a rookie last season, returned to Chicago to see team doctors on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Cade Horton will have season-ending surgery on his right elbow, manager Craig Counsell said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":711809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-711808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}