Day-to-Day

149 players on the injured list.

About Day-to-Day

Keep track of Major League Baseball players' injuries with Day-to-Day! This site is an all in one place view of a team's injured list, with a timeline of events for each player so you get a clear picture of what's going on. The site is free to use and open source, and is not affiliated with Major League Baseball or any of its teams.

Where the data comes from

Roster moves (IL designations and rehab assignments) come from MLB's own transactions feed. The "narrative" stages come from reports, which are read by large language models and stored as a fixed progression. Every reported row links to the source it came from; check it out for more information or if something looks wrong. New updates are picked up hourly through the day.

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Reading the table

  • Injury is the injury as listed by the team, which is often vague. The site does not guess at what it is but rather attempts to categorize it. Sometimes said categorization is wrong; be sure to check the source for specific information.
  • Timetable is estimated time still out, not return date. A plain figure is something a reporter published. A muted, ~ figure is this site's own estimate from what the injury usually costs — worth reading as a ballpark. Hover any of them for information on what the figure is based on.
  • Updated is the date of the newest thing said about the player, which is often older than you would expect.

Player pages

Search by name in the bar, or follow any name in the table. The page shows where the player stands now, as well as the whole sequence of events for their current injured list stint. Tags on an event say how firmly it was reported (expected, rumored), whether it was a setback, and which row the outlook at the top was read off.

What this is not

Day-to-Day is not official, and not a betting tool. It is a reading of public reporting. Reporting is sometimes wrong. Language models are sometimes wrong. The site is not a substitute for local beat reporters.

Timeline

  1. MLBTR

    Rehab assignment setback source of the outlook above

    Elbow

    Recovering from elbow surgery with a previous setback during the recovery process, and maxed out at two innings and 36 pitches in Triple-A.

    Steele has pitched in four games with Triple-A Iowa.

  2. MLB.com

    Threw a bullpen

    Left elbow flexor strain

    Is available for the final series against the Red Sox, but Cubs are weighing multiple factors surrounding the lefty’s situation.

    Threw bullpen session on Sept. 23.

  3. Rehab assignment

    Chicago Cubs sent LHP Justin Steele on a rehab assignment to Iowa Cubs.

  4. MLB.com

    Faced hitters

    Left elbow flexor strain

    If Steele returns to Cubs this year, it will likely be in a relief role.

    Status: Threw two innings of live BP on Aug. 25 and was scheduled to pitch in a "bridge game" in Arizona on Aug. 29, per manager Craig Counsell.

  5. MLBTR

    Injured setback

    Will return as a reliever if he comes back.

    Justin Steele had a setback himself and will return as a reliever (if he comes back at all).

  6. MLB.com

    Faced hitters

    Left elbow flexor strain

    If he were to return to the Cubs this season, it would be in a relief role.

    Status: Threw two innings against live hitters on Aug. 25, which follows his first live BP session on Aug. 21 in Arizona.

  7. MLBTR

    Rehab assignment expected setback

    UCL surgery

    Has experienced setbacks in his rehab from last year's surgery.

    Justin Steele will only pitch out of the bullpen late this season — if he makes it back at all — after some setbacks in his rehab from last year’s UCL surgery.

  8. MLBTR

    Injured setback

    UCL

    Underwent UCL surgery and if he makes it back this year, it will be as a reliever.

    Justin Steele is trying to return from his own UCL surgery but has hit some setbacks.

  9. MLBTR

    Injured setback

    Elbow

    Justin Steele has hit a few setbacks in his attempts to return from last year’s elbow surgery.

  10. MLBTR

    Shut down

    Ulnar collateral ligament elbow injury and flexor strain

    Had surgery to address the ulnar collateral ligament in April of last year and suffered a flexor strain setback in late April.

    The southpaw has been cleared to progress to strengthening and then plyo balls but is still multiple weeks away from throwing a baseball.

  11. MLBTR

    Rehab assignment setback

    UCL injury

    Had a setback while rehabbing from his own UCL procedure performed last April.

    More recently, ace Justin Steele had a setback while rehabbing from his own UCL procedure, performed last April.

  12. MLBTR

    Injured setback

    Flexor strain

    Steele has hit a setback in his recovery from last year's elbow surgery.

    Manager Craig Counsell tells 104.3 The Score that Steele has a flexor strain and will be re-evaluated in a month.

  13. MLBTR

    Faced hitters

    UCL surgery

    Working back from last April's UCL surgery. Placed on the 60-day injured list.

    He has advanced to facing hitters in live batting practice sessions, according to the MLB.com injury tracker.

  14. Placed on IL

    Left elbow injury

    Chicago Cubs placed LHP Justin Steele on the 60-day injured list. Left elbow injury.

  15. MLBTR

    Threw a bullpen

    UCL revision surgery

    Performed by Dr. Keith Meister last year.

    Gonzales adds that Steele is stretched out to between 35 and 40 pitches in his bullpen sessions, while Bruce Levine of 670 The Score reports that Steele is on track for a return to the big leagues at some point in May or June.

  16. MLBTR

    Threw a bullpen

    UCL injury

    Steele underwent a UCL revision surgery last April that included the installation of an internal brace in his elbow.

    Justin Steele told Maddie Lee of the Chicago Sun-Times that his rehab work has progressed to 30-pitch bullpen sessions, and he is planning to return to the Cubs rotation in May or June.

  17. MLBTR

    Rehab assignment

    and even more help figures to be on the way when rehabbing southpaw Justin Steele returns at some point in the first half.