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

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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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Game 141 Thread/Cubs @ Pirates (2 of 3)

Submitted by Cubnut on
Game Chat : BR Preview : Game Notes Carlos Zambrano vs. Ian Snell Lineups:
Soriano LF Morgan CF
Theriot SS McLouth RF
Lee 1B Sanchez 2B
Ramirez 3B Bay LF
Floyd RF LaRoche 1B
DeRosa 2B Bautista 3B
Kendall C Paulino C
Jones CF Wilson SS
Zambrano P Snell P
Notes: We need this one. Man, do we need this one.

Comments

Submitted by Virginia Phil on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:37 pm

Len Kasper just announced a Tennessee win tonight. I don't know if Pittsburgh has any fight in them, but Soriano stood at home plate for a long time on the ball to the stands in left that McLouth could have caught in the pocket of his glove.

Submitted by Virginia Phil on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:35 pm

Kasper's really on a roll tonight. Go, Len! First he nails Kendall for turning his glove around--switching from the normal backhand catch to forehand while in the middle of catching a Zambrano curve--that cost Zambrano a strikeout in the seventh inning. (Kendall did it again to Marmol in the eighth.) Now in the bottom of the eighth, Kasper mentions that Marmol has become "slider-happy," and Brenly backs him up. I can't believe I'm hearing this! Someone is saying out over the airwaves what I've been writing here for weeks. First of all, it's a Kendall thing (or a lazy catcher thing). But Rothschild just sits there and watches it while Marmol morphs into Ryan Dempster. What was Marmol's fastball tonight, 91? Remember when he used to throw hard? All these pitchers could be good, including Wuertz, if we had a pitching coach.

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:01 pm

"I can’t believe I’m hearing this! Someone is saying out over the airwaves what I’ve been writing here for weeks." newsflash, kendall also hits singles. and lou is old and needs to shave. breaking news: neifi perez isnt a good hitter. im researching a rumor that nick punto may be having a bad year, i'll get back to you on that when i crunch the numbers.

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:07 pm

k, seriously...marmol throwing a slider isnt new, nor is him throwing a ton of them new. you seem to have a new thing with rothschild since you're on a 1-man campaign. should have been here 2 years ago when people still cared about wood/prior. btw... "What was Marmol’s fastball tonight, 91? Remember when he used to throw hard?" you know that's begging for a k.hill joke, right?

Submitted by Wes on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:14 pm

I just want to bang my head against the wall. Cooky theories formed in somebody's head are automatically the correct answer and 130 years of pitching are worthless. Flush 'em. We've formulated an entirely new theory. I've been waiting for this day all my life. Now I can throw 99 like everybody else.

Submitted by dave on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:18 pm

Now I can throw 99 like everybody else. Only if Koyie Hill is catching. He is so good that the Cubs minor league pitchers need him more than the Cubs big league pitchers.

Submitted by Virginia Phil on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:33 pm

Looks, it's simple common sense. You guys just like to argue. Hill didn't feed his pitchers HGH, but he called for more fastballs, and so they threw more, and they threw them on strike two, and they got in better shape to throw fastballs. Remember when it took Howry two months this season to get his fastball from 91 to 93-94? (Maybe you don't remember, because it's not in BR.) Well, it works the other way, too. If you don't use it, you lose it. Why do pitchers warm up, by the way?

Submitted by dave on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:42 pm

Why do pitchers warm up, by the way? Two different things. This just shows that you don't know what you are talking about.

Submitted by Wes on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:43 pm

No, it's not common sense. You have no idea what you're talking about. If you threw 95 yesterday, you throw 95 today. If you throw 95 in the first inning and don't throw another fastball until the fourth inning, you still throw 95. There is no, "if you don't use it, you lose it." If 95 is in your arm, it's not going anyway when you throw 11 pitches and 4 of them are fastballs as opposed to throwing 11 pitches and they're all fastballs. You warm up so you can throw 95. If Koyie caught every day, we wouldn't need to warm up. We could just come in cold and they'd already throw 95.

Submitted by mannytrillo on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:45 pm

Fuckin' STL, up 6-3. Both STL and MIL were down 3-0 at one point today. UGH!!!!!

Submitted by Wes on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:22 pm

Allow me to amend #23 slightly. Every day is not identical. Some days your velocity is down, and some days your velocity is up. Multiple factors determine that, however. None of which include pitch selection, which was my original point. Things like the weather, if you pitched yesterday, if you've pitched a lot in the last week, your confidence, how good/bad your arm feels. how long you had to warm up, and game situation/nerves (among other things) all effect how hard you throw. I can promise you this VA Phil. Throwing sliders does not make your arm go cold. And it really puzzles me why you think that they do. How can Marmol throw 91 in the 7th, SIT DOWN FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES, then come out and still throw 91-92 in the eighth? If he can do that, how in the world does throwing three sliders in a row make your velocity go down? I've yet to see you provide a physical explanation for this. It's all "it just does." No mechanical reasons. It just does. Tell me, what happens in his arm? Why does it do that? Educate me, coach.

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:44 pm

todd wellemeyer still rules..ARZ up by 2 in the top (STL) of the 5th.

Submitted by Ryno on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:20 pm

VA Phil: I don’t know if Pittsburgh has any fight in them, but Soriano stood at home plate for a long time on the ball to the stands in left that McLouth could have caught in the pocket of his glove. No, it's only the San Diego Madres that are sensitive to those things.

Submitted by Rob G. on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:03 pm

Moore hit a granny against the suddenly struggling Dice-K, Leicester with the win and Cherry with 2 scoreless. Go Cubs Minor League Power!!!

Submitted by iowaCub on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:17 pm

Game over, Rover - byebye Birdies!!! Brew-screw and Cubs up 2 on the Cards. How are things on the West coast? I'd say they're doing just fine.

Submitted by Wrigley's Beli… on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:18 pm

Nice to see Arizona fight back. Cincy is fucking worthless ... contract the Reds. Preferably before our next series against them.

Submitted by sedagive on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:20 pm

Valverde just rocked the Tards to sleep. he made Edmonds look old. Older than usual I should say. Despite the fact that the Brewers won tonight, watching Fielder run the bases gave me a good laugh.

Submitted by iowaCub on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:29 pm

I dumped David Weathers' pasty ass in my fantasy league months ago. If only the Reds had such clairvoyance. Shiner Bock, Modest Mouse, Interpol, Kaiser Chiefs, yeah, that's how I roll.

Submitted by chifan3887 on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:51 pm

Odd game tonight in AZ 17 runs scored in the 1st half of the game and 0 in the last 4.5 frames. Hopefully we win tommrrow and STL loses to give us a 3 game cushion on them. Also with Trax and Matt Morris going tommrrow, I wonder what going to happen 1st: A. The Cubs game ends B. Hester returns a kickoff for a TD C. Grossman drops a snap D. LT2 scores a TD E. Tony Romo throws a pass (DAL is the NBC game this week)

Submitted by chifan3887 on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 09:56 pm

Va Phil, Considering Soriano looked to be more upset about not hitting the ball well enough than gloating over a HR I dont think they will be. Ryno, Dont forget Edgar "the clothsline" Renteria and Jim "mindreader" Wolf.

Submitted by dc60124 on Sun, 09/09/2007 - 09:11 am

#14- Has this blog always run on Mountain Time? when koyie hill posts here, his entries show up on central time. * * * * * * * was awful nice to see dr. zambrano instead of mr. carlos. although i would also have been screaming at the plate ump; if the inside corner is too inside, and the outside corner is too outside, as it was for (at least) carlos' final hitter, something ain't right. and i would not mind having my catcher get tossed for pointing that fact out. with an extra catcher on the bench, why not?

Submitted by mannytrillo on Sun, 09/09/2007 - 09:35 am

IowaCub: "Brew-screw and Cubs up 2 on the Cards." Yeah, but only 1 in the loss column. That 4-game series next weekend will be a huge determination as to how the rest of the season goes. The Cubs really need to split with STL in those games.

Submitted by Dmac on Sun, 09/09/2007 - 09:45 am

"I wonder what going to happen 1st:" Traschel throws only 85 pitches in 7 innings - but takes over 120 minutes to do so. BTW, did anyone else notice how much Z speeded up his time b/w pitches last night? The guy was getting set up for his next pitch almost as soon as the previous one was in the catcher's mitt - it worked for him, maybe that's been the flaw all along.

Submitted by cubswinthepennant on Sun, 09/09/2007 - 09:12 am

If the Cubs are smart they won't "insult" Kendall with an offer for what he's worth. And with Kendall's contract winding up at $13 million this year, how low an offer can a team make for him?

Submitted by Rob G. on Sun, 09/09/2007 - 09:38 pm

team can offer him anything unless they offer him arbitration which obviously they won't.

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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