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39 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (one slot is open), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL and one player has been DESIGNATED FOR ASSIGNMENT (DFA)   

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and eight players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and two players is on the 10-DAY IL

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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Pete Crow-Armstrong 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 8 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2
* Cody Bellinger, OF  
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 3
Kyle Hendricks, P 
* Drew Smyly, P 
* Justin Steele, P   

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

DFA: 1 
Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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Cubs @ Dodgers: Arrieta vs Wood (Game 47)

Submitted by CTSteve on

CHC (25-21): RHP Jake Arrieta (5-3, 4.80)
LAD (28-20): LHP Alex Wood (5-0, 1.88)
First pitch: 9:10pmCST

Arrieta went 6 shutout innings to beat the Brewers on Sunday. Overall, the Dodgers are 10-66 (.152). Gonzalez is 6-21 with a HR. In four career starts, Arrieta is 1-2 with a 3.24 against the Dodgers, the most memorable being his August 2015 no-hitter.

Wood, who started 2017 in the bullpen, is having the best season of his career thus far. He's won his last four starts, including 7.1 scoreless innings against the Marlins his last time out. The Cubs are 13-49 (.265) against him. Bryant is 3-7 with a HR.

Lackey (4-4, 4.82) and McCarthy (4-1, 3.76) take the mound at 6:15pmCST tomorrow.

Go Cubs!
 

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Submitted by johann on Fri, 05/26/2017 - 05:01 am

Heyward is leading all Cubs on average exit velocity at 89.1 MPH! What a turn around there and he's just missed multiple HRs in the past week or so.

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Submitted by johann on Fri, 05/26/2017 - 05:23 pm

Well if he keeps hitting the ball hard those will come. There's only so much a batter can control outside of hitting hard. He has done most of his damage on the first few pitches he sees though so the thing I am waiting to see is if pitchers start trying to take advantage of his aggressiveness and how he responds.

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Submitted by Lester's rattl… on Fri, 05/26/2017 - 05:20 pm

I'm not too worried about pitcher's adjusting to Heyward's early swings. The fix in his timing means he doesn't have to commit to swinging quite as early as he needed to last season. It's amazing how much that extra split second to make the decision to swing or not will do for a batter. He's proven over the years that he's got a good eye and won't commit to pitches that are out of the strike zone. Last year he didn't have that because he knew he was behind on everything he swung at, so it forced him to speed up the decision making process on swinging the bat. Hence why he looked really bad. One interesting thing when looking at Heyward's numbers are that his BABIP is still rather low (almost as low as last year), so I'd even expect his BA to come up a little if his BABIP returns closer to the norm. For example last year his BABIP was .266, this year it's .275 so far. For his career, it is .301, which is right where we'd expect most player's BABIP to be.

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Submitted by johann on Fri, 05/26/2017 - 05:11 pm

Unlike last year I definitely agree his BABIP will go up because he's actually hitting the ball hard. Last year all his hits were soft grounders or popups so of course they weren't falling as often. This year I've seen multiple hard hit balls at people so yes if this continues his #s will go up and then because of his great base running very good things can happen. When you combine that with his once again elite defense he is going to more than live up to his contract.

Submitted by Eric S on Fri, 05/26/2017 - 05:09 pm

Did not think I'd be thinking more about Schwarber's swing than JHey's at this point in the season ... didn't Schwarber hit a few HR's to center and left-center field in 2015? All things being equal, I think I'd preferred him hitting one a few rows deep into the left center bleachers than the monster blast onto Sheffield. I'm sure he'll turn it around but yesterday's 4 Ks was a tuff one.

Submitted by Transmission on Fri, 05/26/2017 - 05:52 pm

Gonna try to stay up tonight on the East Coast for the West Coast game...  Coffee locked and loaded.

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