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Reds @ Cubs - Desclafani vs. Arrieta; Game 7 Thread

Submitted by Rob G. on

The FIRST PLACE Cubs take on the NOT FIRST PLACE Reds.

Jake Arrieta vs. Anthony Spellcheck...

#Fowler CF#Hamilton CF
*Rizzo 1B*Votto 1B
Soler RFFrazier 3B
*Coghlan LFPhillips 2B
Castro SS*Bruce RF
*Montero CByrd LF
#Alcantara 2B#Pena C
Arrieta PCozart SS
Herrera 3BDesclafini P

No time for wittiness today (or lack thereof)...enjoy the game.

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Submitted by Old and Blue on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 04:49 pm

Dear Jon Lester. Please get batters out. We didn't pay you for your throwing to first prowess. Thanks, and enjoy watching Arietta smoke the Reds today.

Submitted by Carlito on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 04:40 pm

Look I agree with Theo et al but this is so crazy, Bryant contract issues are totally effecting the on field play. Olt is definitely playing hurt and would probably be on the DL. They can't pull up Valaika etc probably because of the fury it would cause. So now Coghlan is playing 2B and Olt is defending but he can't throw. Totally nutty.

Submitted by Carlito on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 04:51 pm

Must be nice to throw it 100 mph AND have the ump give you 3 inches off the plate inside on back to back pitches with two men on and 2 out in a 1 run game. #sourgrapes

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Submitted by Charlie on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:50 pm

But if the ump calls the real strike zone, then Olt gets credit for not swinging at those inside pitches (regardless of whether he could or could not have hit them). Then suddenly Olt is up 3-0 or I guess 3-1 instead of striking out swinging at that fourth pitch. Was Olt going to take Chapman yard or even get a hit if he were ahead in the count? Like you, I think that Olt's contact issues combined with Chapman's K-ability puts the odds against him. But Olt was perfectly willing to take a walk if the strike zone permitted it. This looks like the most patient Cubs lineup since at least 2008, but the umpires in the early going have not played to that strength.

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Submitted by Tito on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:55 pm

That's true, but those pitches were pretty close (not that it makes it right for the ump to call them strikes), and if it happens on the first pitch, you can probably guess it'll happen again. Really, I had no confidence Olt was going to make contact regardless, but that's just me. I like the idea of Olt, just not his results.

Submitted by mannytrillo on Tue, 04/14/2015 - 04:52 pm

Watching Baseball Tonight and Mark Mulder is like 2 feet taller than Joey Cora and Karl Ravich.

Submitted by Old and Blue on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:40 am

It was nice to see Crunch's boy Rosscup come in and do a good job yesterday. Phil Coke can't pitch in every game.

Submitted by Old and Blue on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:48 am

Question for Cubster - If Olt's hand got a bad bruise - and I haven't seen anything about this - is it possible for the injury to turn into a stress fracture of some kind if he keeps hitting balls? I'm wondering if the reverberation of the bat can finish a job fracture wise, or, if the x-ray is negative, that's it, end of story, he'll be fine. Kris Bryant tweeted me and asked me to ask you. Thanks.

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Submitted by Cubster on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:34 pm

re: Stress fracture. It could become one. If his hand/wrist continues to be sore they would get an MRI which is more sensitive for picking up a stress fx. In fact, the term stress reaction has become commonplace in the last few years. This is where an MRI picks up bone changes but nothing lnear to suggest a real fracture. The difference is subtle but in the old days they would just call it a bruise, tell the player to shake it off and get back in there with a sore hand. Now, there is much more salary (present or future) on the line.

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Submitted by Old and Blue on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:10 am

Stating the obvious again in a 3/44 kinda way, but If he keeps giving up the hits that result in having a bunch of runners on in the first place, that's a much bigger story to me, and I'll have to rant again about the merciless albatross that is modern free agency, especially when it comes to pitchers.

Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:51 pm

Nice outings last night by a couple of recently acquired starting pitchers--Ryan Williams for South Bend and Jonathan Martinez for Myrtle Beach. Something of a late bloomer at East Carolina, Williams was drafted by the Cubs in the 10th round last June. A big righty (6-4, 220), it's his BB column that draws attention: no walks last night (7 Ks) in 6 innings; and at Boise last year, in 24.2 innings he struck out 26 and walked 3. Martinez was acquired last year from the Dodgers for Darwin Barney. He's also stingy with walks. Last year in 129.1 innings in the Midwest League he struck out 106 while walking 21.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:59 pm

williams spent his first couple years playing 2-year-program ball as a reliever. ECU took a chance on converting him to a starter when he joined the program as a junior and reversed his role back to the pen in his senior year (where he was wildly successful). looks like the cubs are giving him a chance to try to be a starter again. neat.

Submitted by The E-Man on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:59 pm

Two things from yesterday: - Don't know why in his previous AB's Coghlan had two consecutive first pitch outs and lazy flys at that. Poor Theo-ball.. - The new video board is amazing and disrupting at the same time. Our seats face directly towards it and the luminance output against the dark sky is startling. The clarity is totally top-end theater quality, however. Gonna take time to get used to it - if ever. It really is huge, btw.

Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:40 pm

http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2015-04-15/joe-maddon-pitchers-hi…

another pitching batting 8th article

pretty much sums up the reasoning if you're still wondering...

One is what Collins was talking about, the idea of having more runners on base when the team’s best hitters come to the plate, thanks to the No. 9 hitter having a bit more capability with the bat. There also is the fact that, in 2015, very few pitchers wind up taking all of their at-bats in a game. The No. 8 spot then gets more at-bats given to pinch-hitters, who presumably would be chosen to maximize efficiency in matchups.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:53 pm

why does it take something like this to excuse using your 2/3 slots like they are when the pitcher gets the 8 slot? this should have been done long ago whether the pitcher hits 8 or 9...and has been for some teams/managers. the effect of treating the 2/3 slots like this has way more of an effect than swapping a pitcher. discounting the double switch (which seems to be often discounted in these scenarios), we're talking about a couple dozen PA's advantage between the 8 and 9 slots over a season. what's going on in the 2/3 slot for the cubs is way more exciting to me than the 8/9 slot.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:08 pm

who are you bitching at? Dusty Baker.

Any sabr-friendly person was on this bandwagon 10-15 years ago...doesn't mean we need to repeat ourselves ad naseum about it. Doesn't change anything if we bitch about it endlessly on the Internet. But I'm glad you caught up. Welcome to the dark side. And now have warped yourself into believing that you've been championing it the whole time. You are a troll of the worst kind.

the effect of treating the 2/3 slots like this has way more of an effect than swapping a pitcher. discounting the double switch (which seems to be often discounted in these scenarios)

wtf are you arguing against? Is there an article, a quote, seriously what? Which scenarios discount the double switching? Give us some concrete examples if you actually want to discuss it. Don't bring up some stupid fuck generalization, from somewhere else or some random thread that you're probably misrepresenting and then knock it down like you've been right all this time. If it's something you read somewhere else, post the link and talk about it. Or preferably go there and talk about it.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:15 pm

bitching? no one. talking? whoever reads. yeah, i've been on this bandwagon for a long time, too. it'd be nice if we didn't have to base this around an argument over a couple dozen PAs (of which, the starting pitcher will still take up almost 1/2 of them) at the back of the lineup. i wish we didn't need to have a pitcher hitting 8th, and his couple dozen PAs in play, to get rid of the traditionally crappy 2 slot for legit hitters. christ...it's not world war f'n 3 over here. you posted the article.

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Submitted by Sonicwind75 on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:25 pm

After reading the article, I came away with the impression the primary cause driving this change is moving your best hitters to the 2/3 slots, not the novelty of batting the pitcher 8th. Moving the pitchers isn't the excuse to change 2/3 strategy. Changing the 2/3 strategy is what is causing the pitcher to move 8th. Managers are seeing the advantage of giving your better hitters more at bats; however they do not want a black hole of a pitcher in that close of proximity to their best hitters and mitigating that advantage. Therefore the pitcher bats 8th. Casual baseball fans and the media that panders to them only see the novelty of a pitcher batting 8th and that gets the attention. However, I believe that the sabermetric people agree with your line of thought Crunch, it is the media mucking up the reasoning of the change.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:36 pm

before this season even began and as soon as the season began all i cared about with this potential "pitcher bats 8th" thing is that they move the 2/3 slots up and get rid of the "traditional" 2-slot contact/2nd-speed-guy/few-more-walks/etc setup if it was going to be done. i'll take that tradeoff 10 times out of 10 compared to what's going on with the 2 weakest hitters on the team at the back of the lineup even if i like it marginally better without the pitcher swap. i think teams that don't buy into the pitcher hitting 8th thing should treat their 2 slot with a better hitter...it's a rather important slot going too often to end-of-lineup type hitters.

Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:53 pm

didn't realize Matuella had TJ surgery...Duke pitcher that was a #1 overall possibility. That leaves Aiken and Matuella as possibly dropping to Cubs if they want to take that chance.

Although I imagine they're still looking hard for the forgotten college bat.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:40 pm

I find this site is usually on top of it

http://www.baseballpress.com/lineups

They already have the Reds lineup.

funny thing MLB has bought a huge stake in DraftKings and obviously getting lineups early is a big thing in daily fantasy. I'm fairly certain they've not so subtly suggested to managers, teams and the team writers to get the lineups out as soon as possible. They seem to be coming out way earlier than in past years. It slowly started to build the last few years because of twitter, but the last 2 seasons it seems they're really getting them out quite early.

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Submitted by mannytrillo on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:22 pm

Yeah Draft Kings is where I get my lineup from. They are on it usually 3 hours before game time at least. But in the past most lineups are made and posted in lockers rooms 3-4 hours before games so when players come to the ballpark they know their role. It is just getting the right reporter and now with twitter, Facebook, etc getting that news out faster and easier than they could before.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:39 pm

double header in New Orleans tomorrow and then first home game on Friday for Iowa, might as well just go straight to Chicago.

If they do it Friday, it would be a home debut vs. James Shields, so I'm sure with the day off they're hoping Olt is ready to go.

If they go Monday @ Pittsburgh, I believe he'd get Burnett unless Pitt juggles their rotation with an off-day tomorrow.

If they wait until next Fri @ Cincy, he probably would face Mike Leake

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:47 pm

I think they want Olt to get better or Denorfia to come off the DL. They call him up the first day, but still dragged it out so he'd miss the service cutoff when the injuries were lingering, looks really obvious...makes the eventual grievance filed look more legit. Which it is of course, but Cubs can't own up to it. At least Bryant has made a few errors and not drawn a walk so they can half-heartingly cite baseball reasons at the eventual inquisition.

Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:22 pm

still no Olt

#Cubs lineup Fowler CF, Riz 1B, Soler RF, Montero C, Coghlan LF, Castro SS, Alcantara 2B, Wood P, Herrera 3B

Good news is Jason Marquis is on the mound for Reds and Wood's bat makes up for Olt's.

I'm sure Marquis will throw 6 shutout innings now and hit 2 HR's, but it should be a good thing.

Submitted by John Beasley on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:22 pm

Bruce Miles ‏@BruceMiles2112 1m1 minute ago #Cubs Wednesday: Fowler CF, Rizzo 1B, Soler RF, Montero C, Coghlan LF, Castro SS, Alcantara 2B, Wood P, Herrera 3B

Submitted by John Beasley on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:53 pm

42 CF 42 1B 42 RF 42 C 42 LF 42 SS 42 2B 42 P 42 3B

Submitted by mannytrillo on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 04:25 pm

Anyone else play on Draft Kings? I started up last week before the Masters. They had a great deal to match your initial deposit and give you a free entry into the Millionaire Maker contest. I won $100 in that contest with the free entry (placed 648 out of 125,950). And have had good luck playing $3 and $5 entries in some of the daily baseball contests, really good day today in the early games! I like the idea that they break it up into early game contest, all-day contests or night games contest or late games contests. Wondering if anyone else has tried it out and what they think?

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  • crunch (view)

    he's a low-level cubs star in the modern history of the cubs (c.zambrano, k.wood, r.dempster, etc), but that star has dimmed...and has been dimming since 2021.

    2024 has been ugly the whole way and we're only in mid-april.  homers aside (even though there's been 7 in 17ip) he gave up 29 hits in 20 spring innings and 31 in 17 regular season innings.

    he's pretty much only got 2 pitches at this point in his career and the mix isn't fooling anyone.  he threw a noticable amount more curves in his last start to add to the mix and it didn't help his issues.  he don't have many moves left to break out.

  • Eric S (view)

    Definitely needs a 10 day stint for the hangnail - have to nip those things in the bud or suffer the consequences (ie, more opponent home run derby, etc)

  • Eric S (view)

    Thanks for checking and yeah, that’s a double ouch

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Believe you are correct, checked and appears Cubs have a $2.51 million obligation to Barnhart this season per Cot's Contracts.  Also paying Trey Mancini $7mil this season.  Ouch.  

  • crunch (view)

    m.busch had 0hr and 2 doubles when he was last at wrigley.

    we'll probably see a few more of his jerseys in the seats when they return tomorrow.

    wonder who will go down for taillon.  hey hendricks, you got a hangnail or something?

  • Eric S (view)

    Nice work by Wesneski with some solid defense behind him and the late tack on runs were welcome. Gladly take a 5-4 West Coast swing, particularly down two key starting pitchers … Now just don’t get swept by the Marlins for Pete’s sake. 

  • crunch (view)

    dansby takes the team lead in SB today after a SB with 2 SB total.  the team has 3.  madrigal has the other one.

    cubs also have 7 triples, 7 players each.

  • crunch (view)

    sure am ready for p.wisdom and m.masterboney to swap roster spots.

  • Eric S (view)

    The fifth inning has not been kind to Wicks this season. Giving up leadoff doubles to Tucker Barnhart is also not good for business. IIRC, the Cubs are on the hook for the majority of Barnhart’s salary this season to add insult to injury (could definitely be wrong here). 

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    Kris Bryant to IL with low back strain. He’s keeping the Rockies docs busy.

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