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PITCHERS: 15
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Caleb Kilian
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
Jameson Taillon
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

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

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Ben Brown, P 
Alexander Canario, OF 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Keegan Thompson, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

 



 

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Cubs Trivia

In 1997, all Major League and Minor League teams retired uniform number 42 in honor of Jackie Robinson. Who was the last member of the Cubs to wear #42?
As always try to answer without a web search....

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The most recent #42 that comes to my mind was reliever Dave Smith... That wasn't anywhere close to '97, though. That had to be 1991.

I don't care if this is politically incorrect to say but if #42 is retired across baseball, then so should #3. Babe Ruth did more for baseball than any other player in it's history. It is quite possible that if not for Ruth, we would never know or care who Jackie Robinson was. #42 should be retired for the Dodger's but the rest of baseball? Horrible.

/rant

robinson's number has nothing to do with how good he was as a player. its a social thing. better off asking for an irish player (other early discriminated class of people in baseball).

thanks to a league-wide retiring of that number no one will ever forget baseball's past. part of the point...the scarlet letter. when someone asks about #42 at a ballpark sitting on a flag/circle in the outfield they get reminded in every city where baseball was and where it is now.

I assume we're not talking about Derek Lee and Cliff Floyd wearing it this last April. I'm going with Tom Trebelhorn, when he was manager.

I'm not saying they should or shouldn't, because I don't really care. But I do think baseball would never retire the number of somebody which such a poor image and character as Ruth. 30 years ago, maybe. But in today's era, they'd never enshrine somebody like that simply because of all the "what a great player, but what a crappy person" stories we'd get in the media.

While Robinson was a truly great player (a fact somewhat forgotten today), whose career totals are not as high as they would've been because a) he was invidiously barred from playing and b) his service in the army during the war would have intervened anyway, I tend to agree that it would've been nice if MLB had honored Ruth at the same time, with the same honor.

right or wrong about retiring the #...its done and not going back. the reasons for the retiring had little to do with robinson the player... if people start adding players according to their past performance to the #s list...well, that has nothing to do with robinson or the point of why his # was retired. they already got a place for honoring great baseball players in an exclusive manner...its a little building with a long hall up in podunk new york.

Crunch, I never said we should do it because of how great a player he was. I said it because of what he did for the sport. He is probably the reason that baseball is what it is today. He is the reason that baseball is the national pasttime. And I'm saying that if he never came along it is quite possible that baseball would never have been a national phenomenon and never been that popular. And Wes, sure he was a drinker and a womanizer but Ruth was loved and adored. He wasn't Ty Cobb.

you cant adopt another person's tribute and say "but what about the other guy" when the other guy has nothing to do with what the first person's honor is all about. its just weird you even have an issue with this or even need another qualifier at all, imo. i dunno what its got to do with being "un PC" if you wanna lay your qualifiers on it, either. horrible?

I'm usually really awful at these trivia questions, but I got a little lucky this time. First Cub game I ever went to was this one in 1991: http://baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=199106110CHN Maddux started against Bud Black. Didn't pitch well, but Paul Assenmacher and Heath Slocum held a 6-5 lead for us Dave Smith came in and blew it by giving up 1 in the eighth and then 2 more in the ninth. I was young enough that I didn't think managers were stupid. After he gave up the 1 in the eighth, Jim Essian ran him right back out there for innng #9. I do still hate Dave Smith, though. His #42 jersey is burned in my mind forever. And it finally paid dividends.

ya know what made baseball big? radio. know what made football big? tv. besides, connie mack was a superstar before babe ruth was, though ruth was a far more popular player (but not the nation-wide sensation he was) until the "live ball" era and radio was a more consistent part of the american landscape.

I'm not saying he wasn't loved and adored. I know he was. The first really great power hitter and a great ambassador at the time. But it ain't 1920 anymore. Baseball is so afraid of bad PR right now that they'd never do it. They'd never promote and celebrate somebody who, as you stated very well, was a drinker and a womanizer.

Dave Smith was one of the worst free agent signings in history. (Geez, that sounds like an ST assertion.) The Cubs looked at his low ERAs, totally incognizant of the facts that they were largely due to pitching in the Astrodome and that he pitched about 60 innings a year, and concluded this 36 year-old was just the guy to bring in and be the closer.

but Dave Smith was an All-Star... :) anyone know what happened to him? After a disastrous 1991, he seemed to doing okay in 1992 with a 2.51 ERA in 14.1 IP. I assume an injury?

Crunch, without Babe Ruth, people wouldn't have tuned into baseball games. And you assertion about football, it firmly believed that if the 1958 Championship game was a stinker, football may not have caught on. TV or no.

"besides, connie mack was a superstar before babe ruth was..." Did you mean to write "Ty Cobb"? Mack was no star as a player, and certainly was not as big a public figure as a manager as John McGraw.

Here's a fun game: Name me 50 guys in the MLB today who AREN'T partiers and womanizers? Oh crap....I can't prove that with statistics. Just never mind then.

"Crunch, without Babe Ruth, people wouldn’t have tuned into baseball games." you should really check some attendance numbers from the 1900-1920 era. baseball wasnt exactly some side show. it was drawing 10s of thousands, had commercial products all over the country, and drew huge at championship games when the venue allowed it. connie mack was just as big of a superstar as a superstar as babe ruth before the nation's media and consumer goods transit routes got bigger. if babe was playing in his prime 1900-1920 in the dead ball era he may still be a pitcher. either way he most likely one have been one of the best hitters and/or pitcher based on the skills he showed. i believe ruth was the greatest player who ever played the game cuz he could do it from both sides. the guy was the game's first megastar. but baseball wasnt a dirt-lot do-nothing side attraction until ruth.

mack was a superstar manager. the guy was the representive of baseball to many and was pretty much a superstar in the late 00s/early 10s. yeah, it was his teams doing the work, but mack was the ambassador. this fame lasted well through the 20s/30s even after the 1915 firesale blunder. he's a baseball legend in japan for his barnstorming he did there in the 20s/30s/etc.

"yeah, it was his teams doing the work" i guess i should say the teams and the media (and the public's appetite for the popular philly A's team of the times). he has more than a few "bigger than life" stories pumped up the media that made him seem a bit larger than life than he really was.

Babe Ruth brought Baseball to a new level. Baseball was extremely popular in the 1900-1920's, absolutely. However, the 1919 Black Sox scandal rocked the league, and there were other less publicized fixing scandals as well...the 1918 Red Sox for example. His display of power was like nothing the baseball fans of the time had ever seen before. It helped baseball move on from that scandal, and move into the "live ball" era.

"connie mack was just as big of a superstar as a superstar as babe ruth before the nation’s media and consumer goods transit routes got bigger" Upon what do you base this? I don't think anyone ever bought a ticket to see a manager, even before the the media and transit routes got bigger. Baseball was filled with stars and drawing cards (Wagner, Cobb, Baker, Waddell, etc) before Ruth ever hit the majors. I do question whether Connie Mack was one of them.

"Upon what do you base this?" dude, connie mack got more ink than his players even with eddie f'n collins around.

"Babe Ruth brought Baseball to a new level." babe ruth was the man, period. pitching, yup. hitting, yup. and not just average...above average pitcher and one the best hitter's ever who should be on even the most hater-laden's top 2 hitter's list. that said, he wasnt the game's first superstar. first megastar? yeah. but connie mack got ink, commercial products, and was seen as an ambasador of the game not only abroad, but locally. he had the "tommy lasorrda" effect for a good chunk of time on a much larger scale.

CRUNCH: "ya know what made baseball big? radio." Having read several esoteric studies of this very topic while pursuing my Master's, there is quite a bit of data to support this. The era of celebrity, starting with George Washington as the Nation's first, and into the early part of the 20th century where starlets captivated all, baseball players and teams grabbed our attention mightily through the golden radio era and into tv's world in 1958.

"dude, connie mack got more ink than his players even with eddie f’n collins around." And again, upon what do you base this? Any source? Reach Guides of the day? A biography of Mack? That Connie Mack was a famous manager and ambassador for baseball in his day is beyond dispute. But to suggest he was a "superstar" is questionable under any definition of the word. Again, no one ever bought a ticket to see a manager.

"And again, upon what do you base this? Any source? Reach Guides of the day? A biography of Mack?" well, its just a lotta stuff written about him that ive read. i got no specific book cuz none are popping to mind, but i know i got a few on my shelf that attest to his stardom. dude got ink and national magazine covers. he was larger than the players on his own team. yeah, a lot was overblown by a media that blew him up and the public that wanted to consume it, but it doesnt make it less of what he was. the presentation of a young game to a young-of-knowlege general population made it easier to paint the manager of the game on the field as being as large or larger than his players.

even today when we hear/think about the 1900-1920s era...we know managers/owners, generally. the mcgraws, the macks...etc etc... these were the guys who had the money and will to travel the country to put a face on baseball. the guys who took cap anson's thunder and put it on the railways to sell it to other areas.

OK, Crunch. Thanks. On a somewhat related note, people today forget that Stan Musial was far more respected as a ballplayer and a man in his day than Ted Williams ever was. Musial had the relative misfortune of not having played in New York or Boston, so the memory of him has faded. If you watched the Ken Burns Baseball series you quickly realize that to Mr. Burns, if it didn't happen in New York or Boston, it's not worth mentioning. A lot of people have this attitude. Until the day he died, Harry Caray said the best ballplayer he ever saw was Musial. He saw a lot of them. Sorry if this historical stuff is boring to a lot of you. It's a passion to me.

#43...i seriously cant recall a source. sorry i cant. im not trying to blow the issue off...its just one of things ive read about and my understanding is that it was a product of the time and how the media handled sportswriting at the time. i wasnt there. heh.

Mario Mendoza made baseball what it is today. Without him, there would be no "line" at .200. Maybe Ruth is the root of baseball's popularity, but this game is very hard to kill -- drug scandals, cancelled World Series, steroids, A-Rod's wife wearing a "F You" shirt in the family section -- and attendance keeps booming.

"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, it's part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. Oh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come."

For my money, Musial and Frank Robinson are the two most under-rated players in history.

Crunch, no need to apologize; I accepted your answer in 41. I wasn't dismissing it.

"Now Commander... that torpedo did NOT self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull, and I... was never here. "

Re 49: I'd add Honus Wagner, Darrell Evans, Dwight Evans and Stan Hack off the top of my head.

Sorry if that may be a little obscure for most of you. That is from one of the best bit parts I have ever seen in a movie, even if the movie itself really kind of sucked ass... Anyone else know what movie I'm talking about?

Walter Johnson. Honus Wagner. Christy Mathewson. Babe Ruth. Ty Cobb. These were the first 5 guys put in the HOF for a reason. The Big Train's career in particular, it is so crazy off the chart. The guy could even HIT like an all-star. If he played for someone like the Yankees, Cubs or Giants in his career instead of the putrid Senators, his numbers would be untouchable. As it is, he is the greatest pitcher of all time, and I think without much debate. All of this "Barry Bonds is the greatest hitter" crap is so dumb and myopic. Ruth, Williams, Cobb, Wagner and Gehrig, the line starts there. Bonds is low top-10 to me maybe, top 15 certainly. No better.

Since I know you are all on pins and needles to find out.... My list of the top-10 hitters post-WWII: 1. Musial 2. Bonds 3. Aaron 4. Brett 5. Gwynn 6. A-Rod 7. Mays 8. Boggs 9. Mantle 10. Carew

dude: You have a short-sighted list. Ted Williams hit .400+ THREE times. LIFETIME BA of .344 in 19 seasons.

If Williams was cryogenically unfrozen today I bet he could still hit .320. Not sure if he could beat Ditka in a fight though.

Chad — July 3, 2007 @ 1:46 pm "If the history of the game bores you, you are not a fan of it." Chad, thank you so much for telling us what one of the qualifications for being a fan of baseball are. Truth be told, I couldn't care much less about the history of baseball. This does not make me less of a fan. Some of you deify these old ballplayers as though they were the coolest people ever. They were good at baseball. Neat. Just because the history of the game is somewhat boring to me doesn't make me less of a fan of the current game. I dislike people qualifying who fans are and who fans aren't. I hear people say "You can't be a Sox fan and a Cubs fan." Or "You can't be a Cubs fan unless you root for the Cubs blindly." "You have to go to three games a year to be a fan" or "Real fans wouldn't spend money at the ballpark and support the losing ways of this franchise." Get real, you don't make the qualifications for fans, Chad. Dork.

NO - Don't be so f-ing sensitive. Why does that have to be taken personally? If you don't agree with it, fine. You don't need to come back at chad and call him names. RELAX!

damn...lineups out kinda f'n early. no aram...no pie. A. Soriano lf R. Theriot ss D. Lee 1b C. Floyd rf M. DeRosa 3b M. Fontenot 2b A. Pagan cf K. Hill c

Eric......I have personally seen every player on your list and the greatest pure hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.

My list off the top of my skull: Barry Bonds Ted Williams Mickey Mantle Stan Musial Willie Mays A-Rod Henry Aaron Frank Robinson Wade Boggs Ralph Kiner

Okay, again, why the hell is Lou letting Pie rot on the bench??? Redding is a VERY HITTABLE righty. Why not put Pie in the lineup and let him build some confidence....

Robr - Thanks for that. I don't get how sitting Pie down for awhile will get the cobwebs out, but at least that's an explanation of what's going on...

Yeah, Wild Thing. I'm glad that I wasn't totall off of everyone's radar. That scottish father in that movie was an absolute classic, even though the movie overall pretty much sucked. Anyone who hasn't seen it should rent it, and skip everything but the scenes with him in it...

(So I Married An Axe Murderer.) (And I agree - lame movie, but that character was awesome.) (Pants. Now.)

that movie marked the beginning of Ned's Atomic Dustbin's last days of being taken seriously when they contributed "Saturday Night" to that soundtrack.

Great... I'm glad that I'm not as far outside the mainstream as I thought. One of the WORST concerts I have ever seen was Ned's Atomic Dustbin opening for Jesus Jones. It was in Rochester, NY in fall 1991. Ned's set was by far the lowlight of the evening, WHICH IS SAYING A LOT!!!

I was gonna argue that "So I Married an Axe Murderer" wasn't a bad movie, but now that I think of it... I can't remember anything outside of the Scottish Father/Son interaction, and the main character's beatnik songs. "Harriet, sweet Harriet - hard-hearted harbinger of haggis."

Yeah, Wild Thing, it was a terrible movie, with an absolute classic character taking up an appaulingly small amount of the story. I confess that I actually saw it in my hometown theater as part of a "2-for-1" deal. It was the only time my hometown theater EVER did a 2-for-1, which should have tipped me off that the movies weren't going to be good. What was the other movie I saw that day? Weekend at Bernie's 2!!!

"You know, what tipped it for me was something your wife said while we were in bed together." "Oh? And what was that?" "Curiously, she said we had roughly the same build. From the waist up, I imagine." how about this one, from one of my favorite movies of all time

Well, I'm not even sure that's a crime anymore. There've been a lot of changes in the law.

"Oh that stunned him, he going to go cry in the great terrible pillow of his."

To No: If you don't care for the history of the game then you don't like the game. The game is not just what you see before you. It came from somewhere, it evolved, it changed and it became the very thing it is today. Without a past, there is not present and no future. I can't imagine someone saying that they like the United States of America but are no interested in its past. But whatever. Without any perspective you can't have a clear idea of what you are looking at. NEXT! Ted Williams played 3/4ths of his career after the WWII. He never once hit below Barry Bond's career batting average of .299. Oh, Williams slugging percentage is higher than that 'all time home run leader to be's' FYI.

Capuano only lasted 3 1/3 IP giving up 2 runs on 5 hits...relieved by Gallardo. Not sure if it was the pitch count (84 pitches/52 strikes) or something regarding his injury...but he left with 2 runners on and one out in the 4th. Game tied 2-2 after 4 innings.

my well worn VHS copy of Ned's "Nothing Is Cool" still gets occasional play around my household. first few albums were fun stuff, imo.

I will only accept defenders of Ned that have seen him live, and can still say that they liked him...

In the immortal words of George Costanza, "It was like a full body dry heave set to music"

my well worn VHS copy of Ned’s “Nothing Is Cool” still gets occasional play around my household. and you didn't Kill Your Television? I'm here all week...

Why is there an UPPER CASE NO and uh, me? I was here first, I believe. Anyway: *my well worn VHS copy of Ned’s “Nothing Is Cool” still gets occasional play around my household. first few albums were fun stuff, imo.* They only released 3...that's not even a "few". Ned's poseur, you. And Rogers Hornsby spits on all your lists.

So I Married an Axe Murderer, is definelty Mike Myers' best film. The best quote is 'HEED, PANTS, NOW!'

well how about the compilation of singles/EPs that hit the US shores before their major label debut? sure, its not technically an album, but neither was Lush's "Gala" album. sue me. hehe...

"Bite" is the name of the album..."aim" and "terminally groovie" are classics...messier, but more aggressive veryson of "kill your television" (the remix is really just an extended play version, really...nothing special). 1 Aim 2 Plug Me In 3 Grey Cell Green 4 Terminally Groovie 5 She's Gone 6 Old New 'Un 7 Kill Your Television 8 That's Nice 9 Sentence 10 Kill Your Remix

Retiring 42 across baseball gives Joe Morgan something to talk about during every game. The whole thing is a shameless political ploy that caters to a group of people that complain a lot about race.

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Javier Assad started the Lo-A game (Myrtle Beach versus Stockton) on the Cubs backfields on Wednesday as his final Spring Training tune-up. He was supposed to throw five innings / 75 pitches. However, I was at the minor league road games at Fitch so I didn't see Assad pitch. 

  • crunch (view)

    cards put j.young on waivers.

    they really tried to make it happen this spring, but he put up a crazy bad slash of .081/.244/.108 in 45PA.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Seconded!!!

  • crunch (view)

    another awesome spring of pitching reports.  thanks a lot, appreciated.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Here are the Cubs pitchers reports from Tuesday afternoon's Cardinals - Cubs game art Sloan Park in Mesa:

    SHOTA IMANAGA
    FB: 90-92 
    CUT: 87-89 
    SL: 82-83 
    SPLIT: 81-84
    CV: 73-74 
    COMMENT: Worked three innings plus two batters in the fourth... allowed four runs (three earned) on eight hits (six singles and two doubles) walked one, and struck out six (four swinging), with a 1/2 GO/AO... he threw 73 pitches (52 strikes - 10 swing & miss - 19 foul balls)... surrendered one run in the top of the 1st on a one-out double off Cody Bellinger's glove in deep straight-away CF followed one out later by two consecutive two-out bloop singles, allowed two runs (one earned) in the 2nd after retiring the first two hitters (first batter had a nine-pitch AB with four consecutive two-strike foul balls before being retired 3 -U) on a two-out infield single (weak throw on the run by Nico Hoerner), a hard-contact line drive RBI double down the RF line, and an E-1 (missed catch) by Imanaga on what should been an inning-ending 3-1 GO, gave up another run in the 3rd on a two-out walk on a 3-2 pitch and an RBI double to LF, and two consecutive singles leading off the top of the 4th before being relieved (runners were ultimately left stranded)... threw 18 pitches in the 1st inning (14 strikes - two swing & miss, one on FB and the other on a SL - four foul balls), 24 pitches in the 2nd inning (17 strikes - three swing & miss, one on FB, two SPLIT - six foul balls), 19 pitches in the 3rd inning (13 strikes - seven swing & miss, three on SL, two on SPLIT, one on FB - three foul balls), and 12 pitches without retiring a batter in the top of the 4th (8 strikes - no swing & miss - four foul balls)... Imanaga throws a lot of pitches per inning, but it's not because he doesn't throw strikes...  if anything, he throws too many strikes (he threw 70% strikes on Tuesday)... while he gets a ton of swing & miss (and strikeouts), he also induces a lot of foul balls because he doesn't try to make hitters chase his pitches by throwing them out of the strike zone... rather, he uses his very diverse pitch mix to get swing & miss (and lots of foul balls as well)... he also is a fly ball pitcher who will give up more than his share of HR during the course of the season...   
     
    JOE NAHAS
    FB: 90-92 
    SL: 83-85 
    CV: 80-81 
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day... relieved Imanaga with runners at first and second and no outs in the top of the 4th, and after an E-2 catcher's interference committed by Miguel Amaya loaded he bases, Nahas struck out the side (one swinging & two looking)... threw 16 pitches (11 strikes - two swinging)...   

    YENCY ALMONTE
    FB: 89-92 
    CH: 86 
    SL: 79 
    COMMENT: Threw an eight-pitch 5th (five strikes - no swing & miss), with a 5-3 GO for the first out and an inning-ending 4-6-3 DP after a one-out single... command was a bit off but he worked through it...   

    FRANKIE SCALZO JR
    FB: 94-95
    CH: 88 
    SL: 83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 6th inning... got the first outs easily (a P-5 and a 4-3 GO) on just three pitches, before allowing three consecutive two-out hard-contact hits (a double and two singles), with the third hit on pitch # 9 resulting in a runner being thrown out at the plate by RF Christian Franklin for the third out of the inning... 

    MICHAEL ARIAS
    FB: 94-96
    CH: 87-89
    SL: 82-83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and allowed a hard-contact double on the third pitch of the 7th inning (a 96 MPH FB), and the runner came around to score on a 4-3 GO and a WP... gave up two other loud contact outs (an L-7 and an F-9)... threw 18 pitches (only 10 strikes - only one swing & miss)... stuff is electric but still very raw and he continues to have difficulty commanding it, and while he has the repertoire of a SP, he throws too many pitches-per-inning to be a SP and not enough strikes to be a closer... he is most definitely still a work-in-progress...   

    ZAC LEIGH: 
    FB: 93-94 
    CH: 89 
    SL: 81-83 
    CV: 78
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and tossed a 1-2-3 8th (4-3 GO, K-swinging on a sweeper, K-looking on another sweeper)... threw 14 pitches (11 strikes - one swing & miss - eight foul balls)... kept pumping pitches into the strike zone but had difficulty putting hitters away (ergo a ton of foul balls)... FB velo is nowhere near the 96-98 MPH it was a couple of years ago when he was a Top 30 prospect, but his secondaries are better...   

    JOSE ROMERO:  
    FB: 93-95
    SL: 82-84
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 9th (14 pitches - only six strikes- no swing & miss) and allowed a solo HR after two near-HR fly outs to the warning track, before getting a 3-1 GO to end the inning... it was like batting practice when he wasn't throwing pitches out of the strike zone...

  • crunch (view)

    pablo sandoval played 3rd and got a couple ABs (strikeout, single!) in the OAK@SF "exhibition"

    mlb officially authenticated the ball of the single he hit.  nice.

    he's in surprisingly good shape considering his poor body condition in his last playing seasons.  he's not lean, but he looks healthier.  good for him.

  • crunch (view)

    dbacks are signing j.montgomery to a 1/25m with a vesting 20m player option.

    i dunno when the ink officially dries, but i believe if he signs once the season begins he can't be offered a QO...and i'm not sure if that thing with SD/LAD in korea was the season beginning, either.

  • crunch (view)

    sut says imanaga getting the home opener at wrigley (game 4 of the season).

  • crunch (view)

    cubs rolling out the who's who of "who the hell is this guy?" in the last spring game.

  • videographer (view)

    AZ Phil, speaking of Jordan Wicks having better command when he tires a bit, I remember reading about Dennis Lamp 40 years ago and his sinker that was better after 3 or 4 innings when he would tire a bit and get more sink with a little less speed on the pitch.  The key for Lamp was getting to the 4th inning.