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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

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Garrett Cooper
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

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* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
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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* Justin Steele, P   

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Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Tigers @ Cubs: Norris vs. Lester (Game 118 Thread)

Submitted by CTSteve on

DET (57-61): LHP Daniel Norris (2-2, 4.24)

CHC (67-50): LHP Jon Lester (8-8, 3.21)

First pitch: 7:05pmCT

Davis cf

Kinsler 2b

Cabrera 1b

Martinez, J rf

Castellanos 3b

McCann c

Iglesias ss

Gose* cf

Norris* p        

  

Fowler# cf

Schwarber* lf

Bryant 3b

Rizzo* 1b

Soler rf

Castro 2b

Ross c

Lester* p

Russell ss

After going winless for more than two months, including a loss in Detroit (4.1 IP, 5 ER) in June, Lester is 4-0 over his last 5 starts, including his last three in a row. He beat the Brewers (6 IP, 2 ER, 10 Ks) on Thursday. The Tigers are 55-157 (.350) against him, with the usual suspect Cabrera (14-25, 1 HR, .560/.667/.840) doing the most damage. Victor Martinez is 8-19 (.421), and Davis is 14-44 (.318).

Norris, the second-most interesting man in the world, came to the Tigers in the David Price trade with Toronto. In his three starts with Detroit, he has gone 1-1 with a 4.76 ERA. He had a no-decision in KC in his last outing (6.1 IP, 3 ER). Coghlan and Soler have each had an AB against him. Soler has a hit.

Lester leads the majors with 35 SBs allowed but has been working on his throws to 1B. Detroit is ranked 12th in baseball with 68 SBs, so they are not a huge threat. (The Cubs are 6th with 78.) I’d be more worried about Cabrera’s bat than his legs.

The Braves are in tomorrow: Foltynewicz vs. Arrieta, Miller vs. Hendricks, Perez vs. Haren, and Wisler vs. Hammel.

Go Cubs!

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Comments

Submitted by crunch on Wed, 08/19/2015 - 08:06 pm

cubs sign t.cahill to a minor league deal...for some reason. i hope he has a fun 2 weeks and stays the hell away from the MLB club.

Submitted by crunch on Wed, 08/19/2015 - 08:35 pm

j.lester gives up a HR to a dude who's getting his 1st ever professional AB...as a minor leaguer or a major leaguer. le sigh.

Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 08/19/2015 - 08:35 pm

OK, Cubs, let's get ALL of this crap out of your system now. Hammel, Strop, Lester. No more of this.

Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 08/19/2015 - 08:43 pm

Maybe Lester needs to worry less about throwing to first and focus more on throwing to home plate.

Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 08/19/2015 - 08:14 pm

Ouch -- bases loaded, one out, Rizzo and Soler up -- gotta score there. 2 pop-ups ain't gonna cut it, boys. Bleccchh.

Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 08/19/2015 - 08:18 pm

Can we go back to playing the Brewers, please? We look much better against really, really bad teams.

Submitted by crunch on Wed, 08/19/2015 - 08:52 pm

this game is a giant bag of dicks. also, deno is warming up in the pen. deno comes in with 2 outs...throws 2 pitches in the mid-50mph range...gets a ground out to end the inning...and unlike the other pitchers, he doesn't give up 21 hits and 15 runs. deno and ross could rebuild this pen.

Submitted by Old and Blue on Thu, 08/20/2015 - 08:45 am

Have I mentioned that I hate modern free agency? Really, I hate it all to hell. So far, Lester has been a good pitcher half the time he's been out there. He's had two good months and two bad. Yesterday was just awful. $150 million for that? But it isn't Lester I'm annoyed by as much as the whole free agency scam. Now the baseball pundits are talking about Fowler being a $100 million man because of his second half. I love how Fowler is playing but can't these idiots devise a system that rewards players for consistency and not one good season or in Fowler's case, one absolutely great half season? What's worse is that I think they should pony up for it. There's nobody really in the minors ready to take over the role. What's even worse than that is they'll pony up for it and he'll revert to pre-All Star game numbers. Ughh. I hate free agency. I'm so glad TheoCorp has taken the slow approach of growing from within as much as possible. Hopefully some pitchers are coming up the pike soon. Looks like we need 'em.

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Submitted by Tito on Thu, 08/20/2015 - 08:39 am

He's had about seven bad starts out of 24. I'm no math expert, but that's less than half. You could throw in maybe 3-4 other starts that weren't up to par, and it's still less than half. He hasn't been as consistently dominant as hoped, but I'm not that disappointed. I did see where Jesse Rogers speculated Fowler could get $15-$20 million a year. I like Fowler, but pass.

Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 08/20/2015 - 08:02 am

Javy Baez went 3-4, 3 singles, 1 run, 1 rbi, 1BB, No K. Now hitting .302. The I-Cubs are in Salt Lake City. Might be a good way to save airfare when the Cub get to SF next week. Thrifty.

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Submitted by WISCGRAD on Thu, 08/20/2015 - 08:49 am

Olt on the other hand has really struggled the past week+ with lots of 0-fers. I thought he might be able to help a bit in September, but he has to start hitting AAA pitching before we can expect him to be successful against big league pitching in pinch-hit appearances and spot starts.

Submitted by Simba63 on Thu, 08/20/2015 - 08:13 am

Ok, I’m just gonna rant a little and everyone can flame me if you want. Am I the only one who is annoyed that we catapulted Edwin Jackson to the sun. I know the guy was horrible the last two years, but THIS year he was actually serviceable. And now we are paying him millions to pitch for Atlanta to the tune of 2.80 ERA. I for one, would rather have kept him and used him rather than the crapfest that is Motte, Wood, Hunter, Rosscup, Russell, Haren, Coke, Soriano, Medina, Schlitter, Germen, Beeler, and Roach. He also has performed better than Richard. Feel free to blast me now with “Small Sample Size”, “Low Leverage Situations”, blah, blah, blah…

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 08/20/2015 - 08:54 am

getting rid of ejax to keep c.richard was weird...but so is paying wada $4m a year to sit in AAA when he's totally healthy. they didn't need a lefty (or a lefty long man with t.wood around) and though ejax wasn't setting the world on fire he wasn't doing bad out of the pen and hadn't given up a HR in 31 IP. ultimately, ejax was not a high leverage or high value guy, but getting rid of him seemed like totally unnecessary roster shuffling without much upside.

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Submitted by Tito on Thu, 08/20/2015 - 08:11 pm

First appearance came when they were losing 6-0. Second appearance came in the last inning of a 9-0 loss. Clearly, they're relying on him heavily. In the spirit of small sample size, he did pitch the 8th inning the next night with the Braves losing 3-2. (The Cubs aren't paying all of his salary, BTW.)

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Submitted by WISCGRAD on Thu, 08/20/2015 - 08:47 pm

Well, half of those guys you list are gone too, either released completely (like Coke, who was dropped early) or relegated to AAA (like Schlitter), so its not like the Cubs chose any of them over Jackson. Wood has been solid and Haren has a 3.63 ERA in 144 IP as a starter this year, I can't imagine you would be advocating Jackson as the 5th starter in a pennant drive or being used like Wood has been out of the pen instead of those guys. Russell actually had a 3.34 ERA prior to last night's turdfest. Regarding Jackson's stats in low leverage long relief situations (consider yourself blasted!) compared to Motte, Soriano, and Hunter, at least those guys have the ability to be dominant when they are on. Jackson really doesn't have that ability out of the pen. If even one of those guys "finds" it during this last month, the pen could be dominant with Rondon-Strop-Grimm already doing well. Jackson just didn't have anything the Cubs need now. 

Recent comments

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Mastrobuoni can't come back, yet

    Wisdom does have an option left. He can hide in Iowa if Jed DFA's someone else

    Does Brennan Davis get shown the door? I know it's too early for that, but these injuries are crunching the roster of a 12-7 team playoff demands and BDavis isn't going to help anytime soon.

    Someone has to go to add Peralta. And Canario isn't going to get to play everyday regardless of RHers or LHers. Neither is Tauchman. Also don't see PCA getting a chance over Peralta.

    If Jed does those moves:

    4 OF: Belli, Peralta, Canny, Tauch

    2 C: Gomes and Amaya

    2 DH: Cooper and Mervis

    5 INF: Busch, Nico, Dansby, Morel, Madrigal

    Little short on OF depth but two injuries will do that  

  • 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.

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