It may not feel like it, but we’re only a month away from the Cubs’ first spring training game. A good number of players have already been working out at the team’s Sloan Park facilities in preparation for spring training and a very early start to the season as the Cubs will face the juggernaut Dodgers in Tokyo on March 18. Nico Hoerner is not among those who’ve resumed baseball activities because he’s still rehabbing from flexor tendon surgery in October.
The forearm issue that precipitated the procedure dogged him throughout much of the ’24 season, making his strong performance all the more impressive.