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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
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

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

OPTIONED: 10 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2 
Seiya Suzuki, OF
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 2
* Justin Steele, P  
Jameson Taillon, P 

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




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Gameday Open Thread / Cubs @ Athletics

Submitted by Cubnut on

The Cubs play the A's this afternoon at 2:05 Central Time in Phoenix. You can hear the game via the mlb.com Web cast.

Jason Marquis starts for the Cubs against former White Sox farmhand and non-roster invitee Gio Gonzalez. The lefty led all of minor league baseball in strikeouts last season and fanned three Giants over two scoreless innings in his Oakland debut last Saturday.

Marquis also threw last Saturday and, you may recall, pitched like hell.

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Submitted by tbone on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:58 pm

I haven't posted since the change so I hope I'm doing it right and not breaking any new commandments. There's an interesting short piece on the state buying Wrigley Field in The Reader that came out today. Ben Joravsky, who has written a lot on Chicago's TIF (tax increment financing) says- "Under the plan the state would issue bonds to pay for rebuilding Wrigley... Here's the tricky part: sales taxes going to the city would be frozen and any increase in revenues spurred by the renovation (including extra seats) would go to the state to repay the loans. 'The city would have to give up their share of the sales tax increment for the next 30 years,' Jim Thompson said." A Joravsky correctly points out later in the article - money spent to refurbish Wrigley Field is money that can't be spent elsewhere. It's tied up in the park and will be slowly paid back from now until the year 2038. The needs of things like schools and parks will have to be payed for with money found elsewhere - probably through service cuts or tax hikes.

Submitted by CA-Phil on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:26 pm

Just read a Neyer note about how the injury to Alou might actually help the Mets in that it would force them to address their weak OF. They now have Beltran, Church and ?, with one of the ? being Angel Pagan. Seems like Matt Murton would be nice trade bait but I don't know enough about the Mets (other than the fact that I have hated them since 1969) to know whether they have anything we value or need to make them good trade partners. Perhaps someone is rotting on the bench behind Jose Reyes? I really like Murton and the Cubs may want the OF depth, but just curious.

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:53 pm

i suck at expressing myself today, evidently. i was talking totally separate of the cubs/mets possible trade...just stating endy's one of the guys that could fill in for some of those mounting injuries. i do think endy is a good 4th OF'r...even has a decent enough arm for the corners and could do CF in a pinch. team already has that guy in fuld, though.

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:43 pm

it's a 4th OF'r...he has the arm to play multiple positions and the speed to play CF if needed. im not talking about a guy you give 400+ab's to. the guy ive seen the past couple year is not the same guy who "ignored" working on his patience while being groomed to start. he's got no power vs. lefties (what little he has anyway) but he can hit righties/lefties. he's not a strict "face righties only" type. yes, fuld has more upside, but what do people expect outta fuld except a few more walks/steals than the player described above. btw...if anyone wants to attack the above giving historical stats i'm gonna lose that fight, but im not fighting that fight...

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:51 pm

ugg...now i follow. i miss the "thing youre quoting" followed by reply format...my brain is still trying to figure out who's talking to who 1/2 the time. TCR is the only msg board i use besides a horticulture board (which also follows a flat post format) so i'm not used to following the nesting boards with great scrutiny. i'll get used to it...blah blah etc. damn brain.

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:17 pm

yes...there's a nice one going on now about seed propagators and seed sellers re-naming and mislabeling seed and continuing to do so after being told its not cool by peers. stuff like calling a "potato leaf red brandywine" a brandywine at all when its not a true brandywine and other such crap i dont get involved with... OH THE HUMANITY!!!

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:15 pm

yeah, the only problem is like what i did above...mistake who's talking to who cuz people dont quote what theyre responding to as much. like: "blah blah blah" re: blah blah. i blah blah etc. i'll get the hang of it...it just takes adjustment time cuz im not used to it.

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Submitted by mannytrillo on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:31 pm

Yeah, on WFAN in NY they are all talking about how the have to go get a nice right handed bat for the OF. Murton might be a good fit for them, but I am not sure they have anything to give, and what they do have they aren't going to give up.

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:32 pm

A's announcers tearing down paul "you gonna finish that drink" sullivan over him blasting mark ellis (in a private convo, lighthearted, i believe). "brain roberts or mark ellis...what you want? c'mon?" also of note...gary hughes is in the A's booth. he just had to get on the broadcast with them (mic'd up now) to lightheartedly defend the cubs. hehe...

Submitted by The Joe on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:58 pm

That discussion of Fuld got me wondering. Does anyone know who holds the record for most major league ab's without ever getting a hit? I assume it's a pitcher, but I'd be curious what the positional record would be.

Submitted by SheffieldCornelia on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:15 pm

At least Marquis refrained from blowing again.

Submitted by Hobart Mike on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:30 pm

Lou's going to back the truck up here pretty soon and load it up with a few pitchers... I hope WGN will show a game this weekend. I did get to see the Mariners/Cubs on Fox sports Northwest earlier this week. My first post on the new site. Great job , Rob and anyone else who helped. Mike

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Submitted by Wes on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:09 pm

That's a good point. Our young arms (Ceda, Ascanio, Cotts) are indeed struggling. I thought our starters have looked pretty good through a start for the most part. I was pleased that Marquis bounced back today. Z, Lilly, and Hill looked good. Dempster's been not too bad. Still about 10 more innings for each of those guys. Also, a lot of our guys are swinging it well through 15 ABs or so. The CF race and D-Lee aside, I've been pretty pleased with how everybody looks. But, that'll change as opposing pitchers start getting in the groove.

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:09 pm

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 5:51pm.

 i miss the "thing youre quoting" followed by reply format...my brain is still trying to figure out who's talking to who 1/2 the time.

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CRUNCH: If you or anyone else wants the comments to look like they did at MVN, set your "COMMENTS VIEWING OPTIONS" (see above) to "FLAT LIST - EXPANDED" and "DATE - OLDEST FIRST" and then save the settings.

I guess it would probably help if a comment featured a quote from the relevant earlier comment (or at least quoting part of the earlier comment). I haven't been doing that here, but I will try to do so from now on.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:56 pm

yeah, there's a "patch" that supposedly lets me put it on a timer. Tried to apply it but gave me an error message somewhere else on the site. The patch was a little dated for an older version of our software, so I'll have to sitdown and figure it out myself or find someone to help me figure it out. Since I know it's possible at least, I'm sure it's also fixable.

Submitted by CUBBY on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:17 pm

something i forgot to mention about the K-fuk interview the other day. they also interviewed the organist at hohokam! guy named George Kiefer (Keifer?). It was his idea to play "sukiyaki" whenever k-fuk comes to the plate, it being the only japanese language hit in the U.S. (#1 in like 1965 or something). anyway if anybody at the games was wondering why k-fuks tune sounds familiar, now you know.

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    he's a low-level cubs star in the modern history of the cubs (c.zambrano, k.wood, r.dempster, etc), but that star has dimmed...and has been dimming since 2021.

    2024 has been ugly the whole way and we're only in mid-april.  homers aside (even though there's been 7 in 17ip) he gave up 29 hits in 20 spring innings and 31 in 17 regular season innings.

    he's pretty much only got 2 pitches at this point in his career and the mix isn't fooling anyone.  he threw a noticable amount more curves in his last start to add to the mix and it didn't help his issues.  he don't have many moves left to break out.

  • Eric S (view)

    Definitely needs a 10 day stint for the hangnail - have to nip those things in the bud or suffer the consequences (ie, more opponent home run derby, etc)

  • Eric S (view)

    Thanks for checking and yeah, that’s a double ouch

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Believe you are correct, checked and appears Cubs have a $2.51 million obligation to Barnhart this season per Cot's Contracts.  Also paying Trey Mancini $7mil this season.  Ouch.  

  • crunch (view)

    m.busch had 0hr and 2 doubles when he was last at wrigley.

    we'll probably see a few more of his jerseys in the seats when they return tomorrow.

    wonder who will go down for taillon.  hey hendricks, you got a hangnail or something?

  • Eric S (view)

    Nice work by Wesneski with some solid defense behind him and the late tack on runs were welcome. Gladly take a 5-4 West Coast swing, particularly down two key starting pitchers … Now just don’t get swept by the Marlins for Pete’s sake. 

  • crunch (view)

    dansby takes the team lead in SB today after a SB with 2 SB total.  the team has 3.  madrigal has the other one.

    cubs also have 7 triples, 7 players each.

  • crunch (view)

    sure am ready for p.wisdom and m.masterboney to swap roster spots.

  • Eric S (view)

    The fifth inning has not been kind to Wicks this season. Giving up leadoff doubles to Tucker Barnhart is also not good for business. IIRC, the Cubs are on the hook for the majority of Barnhart’s salary this season to add insult to injury (could definitely be wrong here). 

  • Cubster (view)

    Kris Bryant to IL with low back strain. He’s keeping the Rockies docs busy.

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