Thanks to a long history of position players either playing through nagging injuries or guys sitting out and unusable instead of hitting the Injured List, you can bank on circumspection any time a Cubs position player has a minor this or that and misses multiple days. It’s like, either he’s too hurt to play through it soon, or he should already be on the IL already so the team isn’t constantly playing shorthanded. I know you’ve heard – and thought! – this before. It’s just the MO of this group dating back to the start of the Epstein/Hoyer era for whatever reason. Maybe I’m just wrong, and it’s actually worked out a lot more than we know. It never feels like it.