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Last updated 3-26-2024
 
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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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Game 89 Thread / Astros @ Cubs (2 of 3)

Game Chat Roy Oswalt vs. Ted Lilly Lineups:
Burke 2B Soriano LF
Pence CF Izturis SS
Loretta 1B Lee 1B
Lee LF Ramirez 3B
Berkman RF Floyd RF
Ensberg 3B DeRosa 2B
Bruntlett SS Jones CF
Ausmus C Bowen C
Oswalt P Lilly P

Comments

OMFG, Izturis batting 2nd, OMG, OMG, OMG!!! Why? Why? Why? let's get that out of the way and agree to move on... A bit odd though and what happened to Godenot?

im floored. i live on the east coast and my fox "game of the week" for the first time in forever isnt a yanks/rsox/mets/braves game. i get cubs vs. astros! woo! everything's coming up millhouse.

check this out--arizona league today---starting pitcher, kerry wood---1 inning, 3 k's---how good would this be for our pen

Some notes from yesterday's game, in which I was in attendance: * It's been a long time since I've seen an entertaining game there... it was nice... guys were playing hard and scrapping. * Didn't miss the organ one bit. (If it was playing I didn't hear it) * Jason Jenning's changeup was *very* impressive. * If I'm a NL pitcher I wouldn't want the Stros defense behind me.

Gee Rob, whatever gives you that idea? This really blows. I just can't understand why we can't just watch the games we want to watch.

Gracie talking about Cuban owning hte CUbs. "Can you image, guys, a Chicago Cub ownership that cares about winning?"

it was weird how Fox was running his name as "terry ryan" though. wonder how that mistake gets made. im sure grace might have fun being a GM, but the age escalation might not be desired.

to be fair/etc/whatever...yeah the cubs skimped on the pay, especially in the grace era, but its hard to deny the team's been spending the past 3-5 years.

0-0 in the top 1st with a bunch of old men on the mics and annoyance going through the roof. maybe it'll start in 10-15 minutes.

Izzy .214 BA, 3 hits in 14 AB's as a lefty. Huh? Check this out: (with 34 AB's) AUGIE OJEDA is leading the NL in BA with .342 for the D-Backs! HA HA!!

Woops! Sorry. On my blackberry fighting London traffic and trying to keep up!

It's odd, he's only 1 for 3 with 2 Ks against Oswalt. Although he is a .348 career hitter in 69 ABs vs. Houston, so maybe we'll get lucky.

left shoulder strain...diving for a ball in the first that turned a single into a triple and then into a run.

hi from my seats at WF with iPhone...the wind is blowing hardbut right at the RF foul pole, so it looks like only lefty hitters have a shot at a homer, unless someone goes the opposite way. So it's looking like another smallball game. Lilly thru 6 has been terrific...not to mention an RBI. Even JJones has a hit! Oswald at 101 pitches in the 6th, that seemed to be the Old Cub MO. ...and finally a HR, Soriano! A Bomb...no wind issue on that one .

Awesome Kip Dynomite imitation by Rich Hill reading the lineup on Fox today. Hopefully it will be on You tube.

IF Floyd plays it on the hop and Lou Pa isn't such a scrooge, Ted Lilly probably throws a CG SHO. FWIW. Great game and as I mentioned in parachat over the last three starts for Ted Lilly: 3 - 0 22.1 ip 3 R. If he and Z keeps that up, we will win the central going away.

If anyone is interested, DirecTV (i don't know about cable) is running a free preview of the the EI package. The brewers are on tongiht 734. i will be in the chat room if anyone wants to watch the brewers lose.

And by the way Fox, no one outside of SF gives a shit about Bonds. Cut the split screen crap.

Was at the game today. News flash -- it was fun. Not sure if this showed up on TV, but the outfielders didn't even move on Sori's HR. That was mashed. High, far, deep, fun, neat, strong, enjoyable.

Sheets pulled in the 4th with an owie. The trainer tried to apply a Tampax but it didn't take. The Brewer plane is spiraling downward (metephorically) and one of the engines just fell off. FYI, the were working on Sheet's finger and it wasn't a blister. Or didn't appear to be one. Looked like a joint.

It appeared to be the tip of Sheets fingers on his throwing hand, when the trainer did something to it, he noticably flinched and grimaced

Crunch, They had Terry Ryan's name under Grace today because Ryan was Grace's "goat" of the the 1st half for not resigning Hunter.

the Yahoo Box Score is calling it a blister for Sheets. Even a blister might require a DL stint. If the Brewers are going to stay around it looks like they will have to add an arm and the "best" ones on the market are Contreas, Vazquez, and Morris.

yeah, it was on the release of one of his pitches...release...shook his hand around and winced....etc etc.

if its a blister its gotta be pretty raw or they just popped it on the mound. he showed obvious physical pain reactions when the trainer was screwing with it.

i saw the whole thing and I don't think it's a blister. I could just be a sore finger, but they were sqeezing the tip his finger, on each side. Not only did that Hart HR tie the game, it broke up the no hitter.

"Pulling at his middle finger" that doesn't sound like a blister... sounds like he jambed something. But hey, I didn't see it so I don't know.

I had something happen to me today that's never happened before, maybe to any Cub fan, ever. I had only 3-4 minutes to watch part of the game. I turn on the TV, see Lilly smack a hard single to score a runner. Then Soriano came up and annihilated that ball for the 3-run shot. That was all I had time for, and it was maybe the best 3-4 minutes of Cub baseball all year.

soriano at the plate...izturis up next. bench consists of a bunch of soto/hill/theriot... do you pitch to soriano or walk him to pitch to izturis? im still blown away by that one.

1 out, runners on 2nd/3rd in that situation, btw... i just dont get it. the cubs would send up izturis with the bases loaded, force everywhere...*shrug*

Finger sprain for Sheets on his middle finger. He will undergo a MRI monday if he still is having trouble with it.

Crunch, Ward was still on the bench at that time. I think there stratagy was to throw stuff out of the strike zone and see if he'd swing. Oswalt mislocated the HR pitch. Ausmus's glove looked to be a few inches higher.

oswalt had a luck versus soriano up to that point and I think Garner had gone out to talk to Oswalt right before the AB. Probably let your ace make the call. Made a terrible pitch...

Tribune/Paul Sullivan...blame the Police concert for Floyd's shoulder injury? http://tinyurl.com/2l6p3y Cliff Floyd's status...he was not going to start Sunday vs lefty Wandy Rodriguez so they will reassess things sunday or monday. If he's sore tomorrow expect an MRI (haven't heard if they took any XRays). If he goes on the DL it might spare Koyie Hill or Rob Bowen's demotion, particularly since Dempster isn't quite ready but I was expecting Billy Petrick to be back for the Giants series (with one of the catchers going down).

from Yahoo sports -- Rockies & Brewers tied at 1 going into the bottom of the 10th . . . "Jenkins broke an 0-for-14 slump by hitting the first pitch in the 10th off LaTroy Hawkins (0-4) to the left-center field wall for a double. Tony Gwynn grounded out to second, moving Jenkins to third. With the infield in, Graffanino hit a soft fly that landed a few feet past the infield in center field, dropping easily for a single and allowing Jenkins to score. " Yeah, LaTroy still sucks. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap;_ylt=AnpyjRgA1WZKHzO5FsZ8flgRvLYF?gid…

Ah, Hawk, the best announcer in the business. The Orioles scored five runs in the last few innings and tied their game with the Pale Hose on a passed ball in the ninth, and Hawk spat out a "gawd... dammit!"

more spooky/haunting news...Corey Patterson scores in the 10th for a WSox loser.

Fireball: The Orioles scored five runs in the last few innings and tied their game with the Pale Hose on a passed ball in the ninth, and Hawk spat out a “gawd… dammit!” Yeah... love him or hate him he... uh... still sucks.

Bruce Wolfe on NBC news tonight: "...there's also a report the lame-duck Trib ownership of the Cubs could sign Carlos Zambrano to an extension soon." Anyone hear anything about this?

Brent, I think that comes from a Trib article that is posted in the last thread. Cubster, The scary part of the Floyd article is that Lou says he would use Ward in RF if Floyd lands on the DL. Also the Cubs had a week to resod the field from the concerts to the game yesterday and failed to do anything, but a paint job.

Lou says he would use Ward in RF if Floyd lands on the DL. ---- Yes, I heard him say that in today's postgame press conference (which they played on WGN radio), actually he said DeRosa/Ward in RF with Fontenot at 2B . Has Pagan worn out his positive karma with LouPa? ...All of which reminds me, does anyone have a clue as to when DLee is going to get nailed with his suspension? Cause that is also gong to get the DeRosa/Ward tag team as well.

ward in RF? hell, i think i'd rather see DLee in RF...and that's not far from being a joke/reality feeling. floyd in RF is bad enough...taking a clone of floyd only fatter/slower doesn't sound like a move in the right direction.

FWIW, Corey Patterson has gotten very skinny. VERY skinny. I make no assumptions but you can never tell about players.

With Floyd on the DL and Lee due for a suspension I would think one of the usual supsects would get called up from Iowa: Murton .297 .379 .505 Pie .378 .437 .563 Cedeno .364 .434 .579 Coats .323 .374 .489 Cedeno could play middle infield while DeRosa plays right.... That would actually give us a pretty sound defensive team, with the exception the arm in center. The other guys would take some 40 man manipulation: Kroeger .(Rob G's Favorite) .321 .404 .590 Patterson .301 .362 .480

Ward in RF? Please tell me Lou was just drunk when he said that. Derosa in RF makes much more sense. Then you put Fontenot or Theriot at 2B... Duh.

Ward in RF? Please tell me Lou was just drunk when he said that. Not sure why everyone is surprised about this. Ward started in RF just last week.

"blame the Police concert for Floyd’s shoulder injury?" Yes, because Floyd is the black Cal Ripken.

thing that scares me about this whole cuban thing... 1- he's seen a savior to a team already spending 100+m...and he wears a suit, not swings a bat or throws a ball 2- what is the motivation behind the cuban love? money in? an "owner who cares" (whatever that means)? i REALLY REALLY REALLY do *NOT* want to watch a gutless/heartless paid mercenary team of 200m soldiers out there "competing" with 50-100m teams. no, i don't care a single shred about the past 100 years...no, i dont care about 50, 10, or last year. i don't think the proper way to claim an end to a struggle is to "warchest up" on a team using money as a heavy handed tool to field a team to watch 162 games. yeah, i wanna win, but i don't wanna watch an all-star team play 162 games a year that was bought as a competition tool. 3- as much as i hate the "superstar manager" who's bigger than his team...the last thing i wanna hear about is another "superstar suit" who's even more separated from the game.

When Lee is supended, and we have 12 pitchers, does that give us 4 bench men? Will they be Izturis, Pagan, Bowen, and Floyd/callup?

don't think Canning has any ownership in the Brewers anymore after they sold it to Attanasio

soriano hitting... 5th? behind the guy with the sore legs?

Sorry the lineup post was so brief, was in my car... The lineup is from David Schuster, reporter from WSCR radio, so it's real (on the George Offman/Jesse Rodgers show). Apparently Lou was quoted saying it's an experiment vs leftys. Lou talked to Soriano about batting 5th before officially doing this, so Sori's on board with it.

One thing about Lofton, he seems to always wind up as a factor in the pennant races throughout his career, even as an oldster.

:D

"pwned" is a newish internet term used in place of "owned". For example when getting beat at some mulitplayer internet game someone may say to you, "You got pwned". So Fontenot, the savior will "pwn" the other team. SO... fpnty! Like, "you got fpntyed"

yeah Lofton's great at getting teams to the playoffs, he's also good at having his teams lose there.

ah, so I goofed up the 7/8 slot...could have sworn I heard Piniella say his catchers have nailed down the 8th slot.

Re: #79 chifan3887 -- "the Cubs had a week to resod the field from the concerts to the game yesterday and failed to do anything, but a paint job." __________ I believe the Cubs have sodded. I saw a photo (possibly in the Trib but I'm not sure) of a large freshly sodded area just in front of the warning track between the right field 'well' and RF foul line.

loose sod is more dangerous than a hard/intact sod'd surface where the roots have taken hold, imo. i dunno what the sod is laying on (given how complex the drainage system is for baseball fields that arent a thing like a front yard), though. if its not taken hold with its root system its just a floppy square of grassy/dirt mass with plenty of edges to catch a foot on.

crunch, 'the last thing i wanna hear about is another “superstar suit” who’s even more separated from the game.' I think what Cubs fans want is not to lose Greg Maddux to free agency - but if you prefer Guzman, that's cool. Just out of curiosity - has anyone ever seen Cuban in a suit? Chad, It's actually /pwned

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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.