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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 nine players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are 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
* 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
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 9 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 1 
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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Dodgers @ Cubs: Kershaw vs Quintana (NLCS Game 5)

Submitted by CTSteve on

LAD (3-1): LHP Clayton Kershaw
CHC (1-3): LHP José Quintana
First pitch: 7:08pmCST (TBS)

The Cubs avoid the sweep and survive to fight another day. To take the series back to LA, they have to face one of the best pitchers on the planet and win a game without their only effective bullpen arm. 

Game Five is a rematch of Game One, where both starters went five innings and gave up 2 ER—the difference being the Dodgers pen, which was able to keep it at that. LA ended up winning the game 5-2.

Davis faced 9 batters and threw 48 pitches last night and will almost certainly be unavailable. Hopefully, Lester will be able to pitch an inning or two out of the pen. Hendricks, too. Alternatively, our offense gets medieval on Dodger pitching and makes the whole point moot.

In any event, the prospect of a Yanks-Dodgers World Series makes me start thinking about what I could binge watch on Netflix, so let’s not have that.

There are 15,776 tickets available for Game Six, starting at $113. Gets yours now.

Go Cubs!

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Comments

Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:33 pm

Dodgers will want to take the series back to LA where they can celebrate in style and not in the dingy, ratty visitors' clubhouse in Wrigley. Advantage: Cubs

Submitted by The E-Man on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:49 pm

CUBS Fans come early and leave late DODGERS fans come in the 3rd and leave in the 7th. Advantage: Cubs

Submitted by Mike Wellman on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:15 pm

Cubs have been married to Chicago since forever. Dodgers divorced Brooklyn for a blonde on the beach. Advantage Cubs...

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:25 pm

game starting an hour earlier tonight (8pm EST rather than 9pm EST). sweet. oh, umm...advantage cubs.

Submitted by The E-Man on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:27 pm

AZ PHIL: How is Dillon Maples looking out there so far? Lord knows this team needs bullpen help in 2018. Any starters on the 40-man you think would be candidates? One thing about this Dodgers team is that Friedman and Co. have been very adept at targeting recent starters and throwing them in the pen, with tremendous success. Maeta, for example, the Cubs hammered in the NLCS last year. This year, they can't touch a thing. I happen to think they will be making a play for Darvish, Cobb, or possibly Jake on a shorter deal (unlikely). Maybe Cueto... But this bullpen - eesh.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Fri, 10/20/2017 - 10:59 pm

E-MAN: Depending on how he fares in Spring Training, Dillon Maples has a good shot at being in the Cubs Opening Day bullpen in 2018. What his exact role would be would depend on how much confidence Maddon has in him, and that is based on performance in games.   

Eddie Butler is out of minor league options in 2018 and so he'll probably be on the Cubs Opening Day 25-man roster no matter how he looks in Spring Training, either as a starter or reliever (TBD). Butler has a similar profile as a young Wade Davis before Davis was moved from the starting rotation to the pen, and I would not be surprised if Butler is moved to the bullpen in 2018. His stuff might actually play up better as a reliever than it has so far as a starter, and most MLB relievers (even some of the best ones) were starting pitchers in the minors and/or underperformed as a SP in the big leagues before being moved to the bullpen. 

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:01 pm

*frantically searching couch cushions* hey, did anyone keep that receipt for Q? we need to return Q and get eloy back. *continues searching*

Submitted by Lester's rattl… on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:13 pm

What a shit show! At the least the Dodgers spared any Cubs fans from getting their hopes up early on...

Submitted by Jim Hickmans Bat on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:28 pm

Well that escalated quickly. Yow. Putting in Rondon with the bases loaded, yeah, I'd delete that one from the iPad, Joe.

Submitted by blockhead25 on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:51 pm

ummm...think this goes far beyond Maddon. Putting Lackey in for game 2 was beyond stupid...but can't blame him for the entire bullpen being horrid, and offense being inept.

Submitted by billybucks on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:48 pm

And, sometimes you just lose to a better team. Better starting pitching, better bullpen, better closer, better hitters. We had to deal with Zobrist and Heyward in the lineup and they didn't. Our 2 best hitters were completely shut down by every one of their pitchers. They were the best team all year and will be 7-1 in the playoffs. And they didn't even have Corey Seager this series. Congrats and enjoy. I'm still pulling for the Astros, though. A very fun and exciting year, and the young core will return, hopefully a little better rested. To the off-season! Pitching is the order of the day, Theo -- lots and lots of pitching.

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Submitted by Charlie on Fri, 10/20/2017 - 10:32 pm

And sometimes you beat a better team due to flukes and idiosyncratic readings of technicalities: see NLDS 2017. Agreed with you on the pitching. Their ability to acquire effective starters might be the difference maker in terms of what they make out of the peak years for these young position players.

Recent comments

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Things I've been wrong about:

    -Tauchman is fine as a 4th OF. I knew that. I just want a better LH DH option and he was really the DH for us until Seiya got hurt. I'm glad Mervis is getting a chance at it. Caissie is coming for that job for sure. But Tauchman continues to be highly useful as a 4th OF with Seiya being hurt

    -I wanted Yency to go to get guys at Iowa a chance. Guys like Palencia and Sanders or RileyT. Maybe even Hodge! But Yency has been better the last two plus weeks. He did hit 96 the other day. He was 93 in Texas to open the season.

    -Leiter has his split working enough. It just needs to stay there

    -I was surprised Jed picked Wisdom over Cooper. I wonder if this happens if Seiya wasn't hurt. Wisdom has more power. Cooper is the better hitter. Jed picked Wisdom and Wisdom had an option left as well.

    -Palencia just doesn't miss enough bats. Similar to ManRod, just two yrs younger. ManRod is killing AAA for TB right now!

    Things I got right so far:

    -Hendricks. Sorry Kyle. You got paid though!

    Jed, you missed there.

    -Smyly. If Jed could've traded him before or during ST, then he should have and saved some cash.

    -Mastro.  Not a LH DH. Pinch runner. Defensive utility. Maybe he's better than Madrigal but didn't get a legit chance to prove it.

    -Luke Little is good. He's had one bad outing. That's it. Needs to get better entering with guys on base. But he needs to stay in MLB.

    -Oh yeah....Morel is doing fine at 3B! He'll get better as well!!

  • crunch (view)

    bellinger "right rib contusion"

  • Childersb3 (view)

    South Bend just lost the lead in the bottom of the 9th on the weirdest scenario, ever.

    It's absolutely pouring rain....men on 1st and 2nd, 1out....JPatterson asks for a new ball, but no time out was called....he throws the old ball toward the dugout (not sure if it rolled out of play).....the ump declares the runners get two bases each so one run scores. Then a single up the middle ties the game.

    The rain was coming down in buckets at this point.

    Just weird

  • crunch (view)

    ...and bellinger is gone in the 7th because of that 2nd blown chance and the wall he bounced off of...

    hopefully his rib cage/shoulder feels better tomorrow, we just got happ back.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Phil,

    Any thoughts on Y. Rojas' stuff and Y. Melendez's game (I believe I've asked about him before, sorry)?

  • crunch (view)

    wow, things are moving fast.  hopefully it continues.

  • crunch (view)

    morel with 4 clean plays in 4 innings...showed off his 100000000mph arm a couple times.

    cody bellinger not having a good 4th, though...5 run leads are handy when your CF is making your pitcher have a 5-out inning.  2nd blown chance was ruled a hit even though it went in/out of his glove...1st was lost in the lights, also ruled a hit.

  • crunch (view)

    welcome back happ!  double off the wall 1st PA back.

  • crunch (view)

    oh yeah, totally, i was just chiming about why i fan like i fan.

    i would like nothing more than hendricks to keep on hendricks'ing.  guys with his stuff can throw for a long, long time as long as it works.

    he velocity is actually up a minor amount this year.  it's really "damn" when a guy like him not only has gas in the tank, but it's looking like it was years ago.  he added a curve a few years ago and it helped a little bit, but he's throwing it less and less while the fb/change combo are less effective.

  • Alexander Dimm (view)

    CRUNCH—There is no one person in this community I’m talking about.  My remarks were not directed at you or anyone, but at a tone I’ve noticed lately. 

    You have a great, dry sense of humor and there is thought behind your comments.   You and I don’t always agree but I always understand your position.  

    Lastly, and I’ll be quiet, I agree with you on Hendricks.  We can dislike the recent performance but still love the guy.  Lots of questions about his future.
     

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