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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full), plus one player is on the 60-DAY IL 

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, twelve players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, one player is on the 15-DAY IL, and one player is on the 10-DAY IL

Last updated 3-28-2024
 
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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
* 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: 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 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 1 
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 1 
Caleb Kilian, P 

 



 

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Game 25 Thread / Cubs @ Nationals (3 of 3)

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SP *Ted Lilly
SP
*John Lannan
  1-3, 7.30, 18 K, 11 BB
1-2, 3.42, 21 K, 10 BB
       
CF
Reed Johnson
2B
#Felipe Lopez
SS
Ryan Theriot SS
#Cristian Guzman
1B
Derrek Lee 3B
Ryan Zimmerman
3B
Aramis Ramirez 1B
*Nick Johnson
RF
*Kosuke Fukudome CF
Lastings Milledge
LF
Mark DeRosa RF
Austin Kearns
2B Ronny Cedeno
LF
Wily Mo Peña
C
Henry Blanco
C
Wi Nieves
P *Ted Lilly P *John Lannan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cubs go for the series win and a winning road trip (3-2).

Lilly is coming off his first win and best outing of the year, on Tuesday when he beat the Mets. Though his pitching line was pretty attractive--6IP, 4H, 1ER--he also walked four and needed a couple of key pitches to avoid some serious problems.

The Cubs may face a good test in young Lannan, who fanned 11 New York Mets in just six innings on April 17th, then blanked the Braves for seven innings this past Tuesday, on his way to a victory over John Smotz.

Ronny Cedeno, hitting .400 (10-for-25) over the last week, gets bumped up in the order to seventh, Henry Blanco gets the obligatory Sunday start for backup catchers, and Geovany Soto gets a much needed day off, during which he can contemplate an atrocity so awful, veteran baseball man Lou Piniella has never seen anything like it.



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Comments

8 strikeouts in a row is pretty awful, but I feel more confident that Soto will come out of it than I have many other rookies, because Soto has a history (dating farther back than just last year, his breakout minor league year) of showing pretty good plate discipline. His Ks have always been on the high side, but he's also typically shown the ability to take a walk. That means that at some point they'll have to throw him pitches in the strikezone, rather than bouncing pitches or throwing them over his head to get him out (ala Patterson/Pie/Soriano/Sosa/etc.). In other news: High-profile releases seem more common this year than in the past. Frank Thomas recently picked up by the A's after having been dumped by the Jays for purely financial reasons (Thomas seems likely to come out of his slump and continue to produce, and TCR recently predicted he would do better than Carlos Delgado this year). Today, the Pirates dumped Matt Morris and wrote him a check for $11 million. Sure, Matt wasn't going to help them do anything, but they could've hoped to pawn him off to a team that desperately desired a starting pitcher with some history at the trade deadline for some cash relief. I mean, that's how the O's and Steve Trachsel worked out, and Trachsel was never an especially good pitcher.

I have a friend who is a Pirates fan. I told him I was going to lay off teasing him about Aramis... and now I have a brand new thing to tease him about. (Especially since he said last year that the Morris trade wasn't a bad deal. Wait, what?)

from Wikipedia on Nats starter John Lannan...and his claim to fame: the Nationals... purchased Lannan's contract on July 26, 2007. In his debut, behind 3-2 with one out in the fifth inning, Lannan hit Chase Utley with a fastball (breaking Utley's hand) and then hit Ryan Howard on the next pitch, whereupon umpire Hunter Wendelstedt immediately ejected Lannan from the game; Lannan was the first Major Leaguer in a decade to be tossed from his debut.

fine line between winning and losing----Th vs Col, top of 8th, bases loaded, o outs score only 1 run-----Fri vs Wash, top of 8th, bases loaded 1 out score only 1 run---today 2nd and 3rd, 0 outs and 2nd and 3rd 1 out and score 0 runs---base hit in any of those situations would have resulted in leads and probably wins

Is it me or was the Nats game plan to off speed the whole team? We just can not handle a hefty diet of off speed. Look for this game plan to be copied big time over the coming weeks. Last place team gave up 10 runs in 3 games and 1 game we scored 7.

worse part of the game was the runs Lilly gave up (although he looked significantly better today). I think it was an 0-2 count he gave up the first run-scoring single. A play that Soriano probably throws out Johnson on. I think he was ahead of the count on the next hitter too and Felix Pie probably throws out that runner as well at the plate.

sans soriano... just noticed the team's hitters with 70-ish+ ABs (guys we'd consider starters at this point) are ALL .400+ ob% guys...except that lazy useless derosa and his .385-ish ob% (trade the bum). pie/fontenot lingering around 40ab's and we know what they've done...soriano had/has 57.

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    steele MRI on friday.  counsell expects an IL stint.

    no current plans for his rotation replacement.

  • hellfrozeover (view)

    I would say also in the bright side column is Busch looked pretty good overall at the plate. Alzolay…man, that hurts but most of the time he’s not giving up a homer to that guy. To me the worst was almonte hanging that pitch to Garcia. He hung another one to the next hitter too and got away with it on an 0-1. 

  • crunch (view)

    amaya blocked like 6-8 of smyly's pitches in the dirt very cleanly...not even an exaggeration, smyly threw a ton of pitches bouncing in tonight.

    neris looking like his old self was a relief (no pun), too.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    In looking for bright spots the defense was outstanding tonight. The “stars” are going to need to shine quite a bit brighter than they did tonight offensively though for this to be a successful season.

  • Eric S (view)

    Good baseball game. Hopefully Steele is pitching again in April (but I’m not counting on it). 

  • crunch (view)

    boo.

  • crunch (view)

    smyly to face the 2/3/4 hitters with a man on 2nd in extras.

    this doesn't seem like a 8 million dollar managerial decision.

  • crunch (view)

    i 100% agree with you, but i dunno how jed wants to run things.  the default is delay.  i would choose brown.

    like hellfrozeover says, could be smyly since he's technically fresh and stretched.

    anyway, on a pure talent basis....brown is the best option.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Use pitchers when you believe they're good. Don't plan their clock.

    I'm sorry. I'm simply anti-clock/contract management. Play guys when they show real MLB potential talent.

    If Brown hadn't been hurt with the Lat Strain he would've gotten the call, and not Wick.

    Give him a chance. 

    But Wesneski probably gets it

  • crunch (view)

    alzolay...bro...