After giving him a few days to bounce back, the Cubs have placed Ian Happ with a left rib contusion suffered in a collision with Nico Hoerner last Sunday. Happ went low and caught Hoerner’s knee right in the chest, after which Hoerner hit the ground and injured his arm. Why Happ wasn’t placed on the IL immediately would be a mystery if it didn’t fit all too well with the Cubs’ past decisions.
This isn’t as egregious an oversight as some in the past because they’re able to backdate Happ’s IL stint to May 4, meaning they really only missed one day.