Who steps up as Cubs closer with Daniel Palencia hitting the injured list?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes reacted to Cubs closer Daniel Palencia landing on the injured list and discussed how that will affect the team's bullpen.

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0:00.0	in Odyssey Sports Station.
0:03.2	This hour is being brought to by Bucie Bank, building business growing well since 1868.
0:11.5	Spiegel and Holmes.
0:12.8	Afternoons on the score.
0:14.9	One and two, the count, two outs.
0:17.5	Three two, Venezuela, U.S. batting last of the night.
0:22.6	Palencia set. The one-two pitch. Swang and a miss!
0:24.6	Venezuela wins the WBC!
0:28.6	Nine players fall to their knees.
0:34.6	They can't believe it.
0:38.6	They've done it.
0:40.6	They upset the U.S.
0:43.1	Venezuela is the 2026 WBC champions.
0:49.2	Daniel Palencia had been
0:51.3	throwing gasoline.
0:53.5	He's been great so far this season.
0:57.1	But he now is on the IL.
1:01.3	At some point, every single pitcher of the Cubs is going to be on the IL.
1:05.7	That's the law.
1:06.8	That's the law right now.
1:07.8	It seems like it.
1:08.9	It is the starters, the bullpen guys, Porter Hodge out for the year, all sorts of dudes out there and not available.
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