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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner is on track to be an All-Star

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner's terrific start to the 2026 season. Will he earn All-Star honors this season?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Horner swings and it's a high fly ball deep left center field racing over Kemp at the track near the wall

0:06.7

it's gone. Niko Horner leaves the yard two run home run and the Cubs add on to their lead

0:14.7

five to one over the Phillies here in the fifth I don't know if you could be any hotter than

0:20.0

Nico Horner he you put men out there on the bases and I don't know if you could be any hotter than Nico Horner.

0:24.7

You put men out there on the bases and he's driving them in.

0:25.7

Here we go again.

0:28.7

Base hit down the right field line, Nico Horner.

0:30.6

Two more are coming.

0:32.6

Have a night, Nico.

0:33.4

Yeah, boy.

0:36.3

He is becoming an RBI machine.

0:38.9

Five RBIs in this game.

0:41.9

He leads the team with 18 for the year.

0:45.0

Good win, great night for Nico as he continues.

0:49.1

His red hot start with a career high five runs batted in.

0:58.1

Nico Horner is a bit of an enigma as a player, which we celebrate on this show, and I think in this city, like how good of a just all-around baseball player Nico Horner is.

1:04.0

I think that's being celebrated all around the game these days as part of an enigma

1:08.2

anomaly.

1:09.0

Especially with his contract and people being like, wow, if you're not paying attention

1:14.7

to Nico Horner, you're like, that's interesting that the Cubs did that.

1:18.2

If you are paying attention to Nico Horner, you go, look at this dude.

1:22.3

Everything that he does got rewarded by the Cubs.

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