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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL 

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, twelve players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, one player is on the 15-DAY IL, and one player is on the 10-DAY IL

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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Garrett Cooper
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
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 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 
* Justin Steele, P   

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Cubs @ Giants: Arrieta vs Peavy (Game 40)

Submitted by CTSteve on

All the lost souls welcome you to San Francisco.
CHC (28-11): RHP Jake Arrieta (7-0, 1.29)
SF (25-18): RHP Jake Peavy (1-4, 7.43)
First pitch: 9:15pmCST

Arrieta beat the Pirates (8 IP, 2 ER, 11 K, 2 BB) on Saturday. He’s 4-0 with a 0.90 so far this year on the road. He kept the Giants scoreless in two wins last year, and they are 18-74 (.243) against him overall. Pence, the Shia LaBeouf of baseball, and Duffy are both 3-7.

Peavy had one of his better starts of the season his last time out against AZ (6 IP, 1 ER, 5 K, 2 BB) but ended up with a no-decision. He’s 1-1 with a 5.32 at home so far this year. He was 1-1 with a 3.18 in two games against the Cubs last year, and they are 25-109 (.229) against him. Zobrist is 5-19 with 2 HR.

Lester (4-2, 1.88) versus Cain (0-5, 5.87) at tomorrow at 6:15pmCST.

Go, Cubs!

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Comments

Submitted by Old and Blue on Fri, 05/20/2016 - 05:23 am

Brewers pitchers were getting ahead on a lot of breaking stuff that was skimming the outskirts of the plate. That's how the Rockies beat the Cubs, too. Good strategy if you can pull it off, but I've seen other teams try it and not pull it off, and the results are usually about 10 runs for the Cubs. Stick with your game plan fellas.

Submitted by The E-Man on Fri, 05/20/2016 - 05:11 am

If you guys remember, Hendrix beat both Joe Ross (better than his brother, imo), and Grienke. To me, it has been a theme that 3rd time around he starts getting hit. And, current Pythagorean record should be 30-9.

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Submitted by Charlie on Fri, 05/20/2016 - 05:43 pm

I've been looking for some way to compare pitchers 3rd time through the order. The tOPS+ stat on Baseball Reference is useful for seeing what a pitcher does relative to his own averages in a given situation. For example, it shows that Hendricks dominates in low leverage situations and gets hammered in high leverage situations, producing tOPS+ of 73 and 131 respectively (Arrieta's career tOPS+ is 134 in high leverage situations--but I think it's been lower lately). His tOPS+ the third time through the order is 146, which looks bad. But then, what do other pitchers do? I can't seem to find any sort of league average for this. But here are the Cubs other 4 starters tOPS+ 3rd time through the order: Arrieta: 112 (actually 1 point lower than second time through order) Lester: 103 (his tOPS+ is close to 100 across leverage situations) Lackey: 110 Hammel: 106 In doing this, I wonder how much the limits of our sample for Hendricks skew the perception of how he performs third time through the order. It might be more appropriate to compare him to other pitchers with ~300 IP as starters. I'm sure there are some baseball reference tricks to do this quickly that I don't know. Edit: Checked out numbers by Alex Wood, Noah Syndergaard, and Jacob deGrom, figuring they are all at similar points in their careers. They have tOPS+ 3rd time through of 102, 149, and 118 respectively. So even among that group, Hendricks and Sindergaard are on the high side.

Submitted by jacos on Fri, 05/20/2016 - 05:12 pm

According to Wscr-670 Cubs hitting coach Malee has been working with Heyward on swing to generate power. Also there "is slight concern" at his hitting performance so far.

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Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Sat, 05/21/2016 - 05:51 pm

"slight concern" is ambiguous. Does it mean little concern or "a little," which would suggest that it is growing? In my own case, it's growing concern. If a guy with a slugger's profile sits on breaking balls, which Heyward seems to do, then he's feeding his OBP at the expense of SLG. If all they want is walks, they could bring up Zagunis tomorrow at the major-league minimum.

Submitted by Transmission on Fri, 05/20/2016 - 05:40 pm

I don't have anything better to do on my late-Friday night, so I think I'm going to recap this, 10pm start time, and all.  I'm assuming normal people either are out having fun or having quiet time with their families. All weirdos who aren't doing one or the other of those should cheer on Arrieta in Parachat.

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Submitted by Transmission on Fri, 05/20/2016 - 05:00 pm

Ip.

Submitted by Eric S on Fri, 05/20/2016 - 05:58 pm

Pirates win 2-1 over Rox. Gerrit Cole: 7IP, 10 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 0 K and a W - strange line but effective

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 05/20/2016 - 05:42 pm

heyward :( hopefully this injury is short-lived. walked off the field after crashing into the wall...trainer held his left arm the entire walk to the dugout.

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Submitted by Eric S on Fri, 05/20/2016 - 05:51 pm

Hell of a catch ... full speed diving effort about 420 ft from home plate. Head/neck hit awkwardly while sliding into the wall and somehow managed to hold onto the ball.

Submitted by The E-Man on Fri, 05/20/2016 - 05:17 pm

Was this a Reed Johnson type injury? Any news on extent? I have not seen any videos online yet...

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Submitted by Cubster on Sat, 05/21/2016 - 05:47 am

Missed the catch live but saw replay on the internet. Watching without the twitter input I thought it might be a left shoulder or AC joint injury but twitter says abdominal or trunk/torso muscle injury. Looking closely at the replay, Heyward, after he's on the ground does reach with his left hand to his right mid trunk. I only saw this on the early portion of the replay as the repeats they show clip that part. Since he's left handed, it might still be large muscles in his trunk that affect his throwing shoulder, such as the lat dorsi or pectoralis (pec major). Both those muscles attach to the humerus (arm bone). Oddly, it was Jake Peavy (the SF starter) who tore his lat dorsi off the humerus and had surgery to re-attach it (still, an uncommon injury and surgery). The trainer having to support the left arm while he walked off the field suggested to me the AC joint initially but it could be just holding the arm protects the trunk muscles from having to work. Except the injury to the trunk seemed to be right sided. The trainer holding the left arm as he walks off the field (including one hand under the upper arm) doesn't make sense if the main injury is right sided trunk muscles. t can't imagine an outcome that doesn't take weeks to improve but it's always a tough call just on watching a video. Matt Szczur, welcome back. Tim Federowicz also probably gets a reprieve.

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Submitted by crunch on Sat, 05/21/2016 - 05:50 am

the trainer held/supported his left arm for the walk from the OF all the way to the dugout. it's one of those not-very-obvious things that will probably take until tomorrow, or even sunday, to get a full handle on it's severity. it'll probably be easier for you to make a prediction once it becomes more clear exactly what was screwed up. we all went from "this is a disaster" to "maybe not that bad" to "okay, it was the disaster we thought it was" with schwarber earlier this year based on reports vs what we saw on tv. hoping for the best...and given the length of the contract, REALLY hoping his shoulder is healthy.

Submitted by Cubster on Sat, 05/21/2016 - 05:34 am

I was listening to the game on a radio and inadvertently turned on the radio broadcast on the internet while following the mlb gamed data. Usually the internet has a slight delay (and gameday is also a step delayed further) but tonight the "live" local radio broadcast was 1-2 seconds behind the internet broadcast. Weird. I always feel like the version that is ahead is predicting the future. Hmmm. When I listen to the radio at Wrigley, the radio broadcast is (almost) never on a delay.

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I have had the pleasure of watching some of the young A's pitchers lately (first Joe Boyle the last day of Minor League Spring Training in March, and more recently Luis Morales last week and Steven Echavarria yesterday at Extended Spring Training), and it reminds me of the Miami Marlins a couple of years ago. A really nice collection of young pitchers. It will be interesting to see what the A's will get for two years of ex-Cub Paul Blackburn at the Trade Deadline (there should be a robust market for Blackburn). 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Good deal

    MB needs some talent infusion!

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Very possible. Suriel, too. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    DJL: if a pitcher is recalled to be the 27th man for a doubleheader and then is optioned back to the minors the next day, the 15-day "clock" does NOT reset. The one day call-up for the doubleheader is treated like it never happened with respect to a pitcher having to spend at least 15 days on optional assignment before he can be recalled. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Probably the only reason David Peralta is still in the organization (he is at AAA Iowa) is to be available in case anything bad were to happen to Ian Happ (which it just did). So if Happ needs to go on the IL, the Cubs can select Peralta to play LF, DFA Wisdom (and hope he and what remains of his $2.725M salary gets claimed off waivers), and recall Mervis to platoon at DH with Cooper (with Canario / Tauchman sharing RF), at least until Suzuki and Happ are back...

     

  • crunch (view)

    i'd just like to take a moment to express to the world i'm still pissed willson contreras is not a cub when the pricetag was 5/87m (17.5m/yr).

    it would be nice to have a legacy-type player to stick around, especially one with his leadership and the respect he gets from his peers.  cubs fans deserved more than 1 season of contreras + morel...that was gold.

  • crunch (view)

    happ, right hamstring tightness, day-to-day (hopefully 0 days).

    he will be reevaluated tomorrow.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    I guess I'm not looking for that type of AB 

    Just a difference of opinion

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    I don’t see Tauchman as a weak link in any position. He simply adds his value in a different way.

    I don’t know that we gain much by putting him in the outfield - Happ, Bellinger and Suzuki and Tauchman all field their positions well. If you’re looking for Taucnman’s kind of AB in a particular game I don’t see why it can’t come from DH.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Tauchman gets a pinch hit RBI single with a liner to RF. This is his spot. He's a solid 4th OF. But he isn't a DH. 

    He takes pitches. Useful. I still believe in having good hitters.

    You don't want your DH to be your weak link (other than your C maybe)

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