{"id":151630,"date":"2025-09-18T01:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151630\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T01:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:33:11","slug":"cubs-kyle-tucker-visits-florida-doctors-for-additional-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151630\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs’ Kyle Tucker visits Florida doctors for additional treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sep 17, 2025, 08:25 PM ET<\/p>\n

PITTSBURGH — Cubs<\/a> right fielder Kyle Tucker<\/a> traveled Wednesday to Florida for additional treatment on his injured left calf on the same day Chicago clinched its first playoff berth since 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Manager Craig Counsell said the four-time All-Star had plateaued in his recovery from the calf strain that has kept him out of the lineup since Sept. 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Counsell said a member of the Cubs medical staff accompanied Tucker to Florida to get treatment from a group that helped him work through a similar issue last season when he was with the Houston Astros<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“We’re aligned with Kyle, and this is the best way for him to make some improvements,” Counsell said. “Unfortunately, we’ve plateaued and we weren’t making progress. That’s frustrating for Kyle. … We’re hoping for the same success and hoping to get him back on the field.”<\/p>\n

The Cubs acquired Tucker from Houston in December, and he avoided arbitration by agreeing to a $16.5 million, one-year contract. He is hitting .270 with 22 homers and 73 RBIs in 133 games this season.<\/p>\n

Counsell said Tucker would rejoin the team in Chicago next week for a six-game homestand that will end the regular season. The Cubs open a four-game series at Cincinnati<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“We’re concerned because he’s not responding,” Counsell said. “I think we’re optimistic that he will play, but we are at the point where the calendar … the days are running out.<\/p>\n

“It’s important that he plays in regular-season games [before the playoffs]. … That’s why you’re kind of willing to go to this extra step here to try something. I think it’s important that he plays next week. And so we’re doing everything we can to make that happen.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 17, 2025, 08:25 PM ET PITTSBURGH — Cubs right fielder Kyle Tucker traveled Wednesday to Florida for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-151630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}