Cubs 2027 Schedule features bizarre Padres wrinkle during brutal stretch

Leave it to Major League Baseball to pick a random day to release the schedule for upcoming season. Most leagues opt to do so after the current season has concluded, but that's never been MLB's cup of tea. The Chicago Cubs 2027 schedule is out, and it once again features quite the stretch of games during the back-half of April. That isn't the only oddity surrounding the schedule.

The Cubs have a ten-game West Coast trip in June that includes stops against the Colorado Rockies, San Diego Padres, and San Francisco Giants. Now, at the moment, the series against the Rockies and Giants appear to be games where the Cubs should have the better team, but the series against the Padres has a bizarre feature: a scheduled doubleheader.

Yes, on June 22, the Cubs are playing a scheduled doubleheader against the Padres in San Diego. It's worth noting that they have an off day immediately after.

One of the most interesting, and likely toughest, parts of the Cubs’ 2027 schedule is a three-city, 10-game West Coast trip in June to Colorado, San Diego and San Francisco that includes a scheduled doubleheader against the Padres. https://t.co/QtCUzBdr3I
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There's an oddity in the Cubs 2027 schedule, assuming there's actual baseball to be played

Of course, the caveat in all of this is that it's very possible, if not likely, that the Cubs schedule next season will look very different. The current expectation is that the 2027 season will not start on time, and that likely is going to lead to shifting parts.

Way back when, scheduled doubleheaders used to be common practice. Though in recent CBAs, they've been worked out of the schedule. Of course, for rainouts and other postponements, doubleheaders still are a fairly regular thing during a baseball season, but this is the first time in recent memory that the Cubs have had a scheduled one ahead of time.

Part of the reason why doubleheaders aren't scheduled ahead of time is that it strains a team's pitching staff. If there's a silver lining to this one against the Padres next season, the Cubs can plan ahead of time.

On a very optimistic scale, the end of June next season can be when the Cubs start mapping out a potential return of Cade Horton. No, it seems unlikely that Horton will be an option in the Cubs' rotation by the time they play that doubleheader, but the hope is that his throwing program will have resumed by then.

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