Chicago Cubs Skipper 'optimistic' after the first injury test of Shota Imanaga

The Chicago Cubs were on a role to start the season, but they seemed to be a bump against the Milwaukee Brewers last Sunday when Star Pitcher Shota Imanaga had to leave the game early on.

The team later announced that Imanaga had suffered a thigh pollution and would place him as a result on the 15-day injured list.

After this announcement, speculation began to circling the severity of the injury quickly and how long the star would take to recover completely.

Manager Craig Punsell has some of these concerns after the 9-2 victory of the Cubs about the San Francisco Giants on Monday evening, as he said to Chicago Sun-Times' Maddie Lee that the first imaging shows the stress that the stress is “very mild” and that the team is “optimistic” about its reprocessing.

Consell added that Imanaga will probably miss two weeks, but the first tests still delivered a massive relief for the club.

Every time the best pitcher in the team has to disconnect the hill in obvious discomfort, the natural instinct is to take over the worst.

Chicago had already bitten the injury error this year, and Justin Steele had to undergo an elbow surgery at the end of the end of the season.

Therefore, it would have been a very significant blow for this team to lose interior for a longer period of time, since their two aces would have been on the shelf.

In his second season, Imanaga grew at MLB level to one of the best pitchers in the game. Including his injury -lasting appearance on Sunday, the left has collected a 2.82 ERA and 1.097 whip over 44.2 Innerings. He also knocked out more than twice as many batteries as he went.

This is followed by his outstanding rookie campaign last year, in which he was appointed all -star, and ended the Top Five in NL Cy Young Voting.

Simply put, Imanaga has become a piece that the Cubs cannot afford to lose, which makes his initial forecast for both the team and fans.