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Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
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Colten Brewer
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Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
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Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

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Yan Gomes

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Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

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Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

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Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

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Seiya Suzuki, OF

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Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Reds @ Cubs: Simon vs Lackey (Game 8)

Submitted by CTSteve on

With some late-inning heroics, Addison Russell gets the season’s first curtain call.

CIN (5-2): RHP Alfredo Simon (0-0, 1.80)
CHC (6-1): RHP John Lackey (1-0, 9.00)
First pitch: 7:05pmCT

Lackey didn’t pitch well (6 ER, 6 IP) but came away with a win on Thursday, thanks to the Cubs offense, which tattooed the D’Backs pitchers for 14 runs on as many hits. Hamilton is 6-18, and Bruce has a couple of homers off of him.

Simon, the former Oriole and Tiger, is back with the Reds, where’s done his best work. He gave up 1 ER over 5 innings on Friday and ended up with a no-decision against the Pirates. The Cubs are 15-59 (.254) against him. Rizzo is 5-15 with 2 HRs.

Iglesias (1-0, 2.31) vs. Hammel (0-0, 1.50) tomorrow.

Go, Cubs!

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Submitted by hellfrozeover on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 04:52 am

Unrelated to today's game, I was wondering if the good Dr. Hecht has thrown in his 2 cents on the potential for Schwarber's recovery from the ACL & LCL tear. Is there any precedent for recovery from this type of knee injury? I thought Zack Cozart of the Reds also tore both ACL and LCL last year, but I couldn't verify via a quick Google search. If that's the case, can we say there's reason to be cautiously optimistic that Schwarber could have a full recovery in 12 months? Cozart sure looked pretty nimble out there until his quad tightened up.

Submitted by Ryno on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 04:24 pm

The Cubs are 15-59 (.254) against him.
Slight correction: The 2008-2015 Chicago Cubs are 15-59 (.254) against him, the 2016 Chicago Cubs are 0-0 against him.

Submitted by cubbies.4ever on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 04:44 pm

As far as Schwarber's recovery time, I know it's a different game but Adrian Peterson tore his ACL and then next season came back fine and rushed for 2,100 yards at a position where much more stress put on the knee than a LF. Given Schwarber also has a LCL but those aren't as bad tearing the MCL or PCL at least

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 04:14 pm

ankle ligaments and broken leg, no knee. But don't get me wrong, Schwarber probably can make a full recovery and play behind there, at least for a few years, but nobody really wants him back there anyway. He's meant to be a DH/1B, but you'll probably live with the defensive liabilty in the OF if you have to...Reds did with Dunn for a helluva long time.

But I also wouldn't be surprised if they traded Schwarber sooner rather than later.

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Submitted by hellfrozeover on Thu, 04/14/2016 - 04:40 pm

Did a bit more digging around and it sounds like Chad Moeller had a similar injury early in his career and was able to come back and catch. But then, he was probably a heck of a lot better catcher than Schwarber ever was to begin with. I'd like to think though that he can come back to left field if all goes well.

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 04:40 pm

The Miami Marlins have claimed LHSP Eric Jokisch (Cubs 2010 11th round draft pick - Northwestern) off waivers from the Cubs. MLB Reserve List (40-man roster) now at 39 (one slot is open). 

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 04:03 pm

Four minor leaguers released by the Cubs during Minor League Camp have found new homes: 

2B Angelo Amendolare (Cubs 2015 27th round draft pick - Jacksonville U.) and C-INF Jordan Hankins (Cubs 2013 11th round draft pick - Austin Peay) signed minor league contracts with the Los Angeles Angels, while 1B Jacob Rogers (Cubs 2012 40th round draft pick - Mt. Olive College) and LHRP Matt Brazis (acquired by Cubs from Seattle Mariners for OF Justin Ruggiano in December 2014) went the independent league route, with Rogers signing with Winnipeg (American Association) and Brazis signing with Lincoln (American Association). Rogers joins ex-Cub minor leaguers INF Wes Darvill and C-1B Justin Marra in  Winnipeg. 

Also, Cubs 2011 7th round draft pick OF-1B Trevor Gretzky (traded to the Angels in March 2014, and then released by the Angels last month) has signed with Quebec (Can-Am). 

Submitted by JoePepitone on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 04:53 pm

Wow. That 49-pitch first inning by Simon was REALLY painful to watch. But it was a good kind of hurt.

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Submitted by johann on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 04:53 pm

You could sort of tell he was pitching around the top of the order but especially now with Bryant and Soler showing life that doesn't help and it's so easy to see the frustration level mount with pitchers. The best part of all this is it's going to be hell on bullpens and that will have an effect on later games. The worst part will be length of game lol.

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Submitted by Old and Blue on Thu, 04/14/2016 - 04:49 am

Games seem to be lasting 3 hours and I'm pretty much too busy to take in a whole game. The key seems to be making sure I can watch in the early innings. TCR should do a spreadsheet on when the Cubs will score 20 runs in a game first. Better hurry though. I reported during the winter that I had a dream the Cubs were 53-17 or some crazy record like that. It's starting to not seem too far fetched. Please Rizzo, stay healthy. Major key there.

Submitted by The E-Man on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 04:17 pm

Checking out some other offerings in the MLB package: Bucs losing, the Tigres have a nice offense also. I am pretty impressed with the Cards Japanese reliever, Oh. He has some damn good stuff. I also had forgotten we are at their (the Whine-birds) park the beginning of next week. It would be awesome to get in their heads with that series...

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