We’re not even two weeks into the 2026 MLB season, but one of the Chicago Cubs’ best players, and one of baseball’s brightest young stars, will miss the rest of the campaign. Cubs starting pitcher Cade Horton was declared out for the rest of the season by manager Craig Counsell on Tuesday. Horton left Friday’s start in the second inning due to discomfort in his right forearm, and that injury will end his sophomore season just two starts in.
In the top of the second inning versus Cleveland, Horton’s 17th pitch was a 94 mph fastball called for a strike. But he looked a bit uneasy afterwards, which prompted Counsell, catcher Carson Kelly, and Cubs’ medical personnel to immediately go to the mound. That led to the pitcher being lifted, and he walked off the mound toward the dugout with his head down.
