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The Cubs will not be getting reliever Julian Merryweather back from the injured list for the last weeks of the season as they had originally hoped.
Merryweather is scheduled to undergo season-ending knee surgery Friday, manager Craig Counsell announced Thursday. The team anticipates Merryweather recovering from the procedure, a right patellar tendon debridement, in time for spring training.
“The knee has been an issue for most of the season here,” Counsell said Thursday before the Cubs opened a four-game series against the Nationals.