{"id":37635,"date":"2025-02-28T15:25:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T15:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=37635"},"modified":"2025-02-28T15:25:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T15:25:53","slug":"cubs-top-prospects-injury-revelation-is-a-complete-180-from-prior-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=37635","title":{"rendered":"Cubs&#8217; top prospect&#8217;s injury revelation is a complete 180 from prior report"},"content":{"rendered":"<article><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Top-prospects-injury-revelation-is-a-complete-180-from-prior-report.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"Matt Shaw in a Chicago Cubs uniform with a red and white first aid symbol as shaw's injury status takes a new turn for opening day as the cubs continue spring training.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 2025 MLB season officially kicks off on March 18 when the Chicago Cubs take on the reigning World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the Tokyo Series. But the big question facing Chicago involves top prospect Matt Shaw\u2019s availability for the season opener.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday it was reported that Shaw received bad news regarding an injury that could prevent him from playing in Tokyo. However, the following day, the same reporter had a very different take.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatt Shaw told me\u2026 he will start playing in games the next few games with no hesitation or restrictions,\u201d 670thescore.com\u2019s Bruce Levine wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>That would put the Cubs\u2019 third baseman on track to make the trip to Japan in a couple weeks and play in the Tokyo Series after all.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Cubs hope to debut top prospect Matt Shaw in Tokyo<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3272266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3272266\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Matt-Shaw.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Matt-Shaw.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Matt-Shaw.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Matt-Shaw.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Matt-Shaw.jpg?resize=1024,576 1024w, https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Matt-Shaw.jpg?resize=150,84 150w\" alt=\"Cubs' top prospect's injury revelation is a complete 180 from prior report\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3272266\">Joe Camporeale-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>Shaw suffered an oblique injury in early February and has been hampered by it since. At the time, Cubs\u2019 manager Craig Counsell wasn\u2019t concerned with any long-term issues stemming from the ailment, telling reporters that he didn\u2019t \u201canticipate any problems\u201d as Shaw was \u201cresponding really well.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Two weeks later, the problem persisted and Shaw was in danger of missing his first major league start. Now, after the latest update in this injury saga, the 23-year-old infielder appears good to go.<\/p>\n<p>Shaw entered the offseason as the 19th overall prospect in MLB. He\u2019s, obviously, the top-ranked prospect in the Cubs\u2019 system. In two seasons in the minors, across four levels, Shaw has played in 159 games. He slashed .303\/.384\/.522 with 29 home runs, 28 doubles, 99 RBI and 105 runs scored to go along with 46 stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>While the Cubs pursued free agent veteran Alex Bregman this offseason, the team ultimately lost him to the Boston Red Sox. Although disappointing, missing out on the third baseman created a path to the majors for Shaw as Chicago will start their top prospect at the hot corner.<\/p>\n<p>Now he just needs to get healthy in time for the start of the season, which comes a week and a half earlier for the Cubs and the Dodgers than the rest of MLB. Baseball has held regular season games in Japan for 25 years and the Cubs actually played in MLB\u2019s Tokyo debut back in 2000. Now Chicago hopes to debut their exciting infielder in Tokyo on March 18.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cubs received bad news regarding their top prospect&#8217;s status for the season opener but just a day later the outlook has improved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[238,282,823,44,780],"class_list":["post-37635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-alex-bregman","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-craig-counsell","tag-mlb","tag-spring-training"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cubs&#039; top prospect&#039;s injury revelation is a complete 180 from prior report - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=37635\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cubs&#039; 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