For the first 35 games of the season, seven times through a five-man rotation, the Cubs have used the same five pitchers, in the same order (with the sole exception of Jen-Ho Tseng’s start Tuesday against the Marlins): Jon Lester, Kyle Hendricks, Yu Darvish, Jose Quintana and Tyler Chatwood. This was true even with all the postponements and off days in April.
That’s going to change next week:
If the Cubs were to keep on rotation as I noted above, Darvish’s turn would come up Monday in the makeup game against the Braves at Wrigley Field.