Report: Matt Shaw Not Expected to Be Ready for Japan

We’re a week into spring training and the Cubs are sitting at 6-0. Almost all the regular starters have seen playing time, except for Nico Hoerner and Matt Shaw. Both are recovering from different issues that have kept them out of action to this point. Shaw injured his oblique shortly before games began and has only been taking swings in the batting cage. With less than three weeks until the Cubs travel to Tokyo, the odds he’s available are getting very slim.

Bruce Levine of 670 The Score reported on Wednesday morning that Shaw most likely will not make the trip to Japan.

“There’s no way he’s going to be ready to go there and compete,” Levine told Mully & Haugh. “You want him for the other…