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

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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
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

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

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 
* Justin Steele, 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

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Mastrobuoni can't come back, yet

    Wisdom does have an option left. He can hide in Iowa if Jed DFA's someone else

    Does Brennan Davis get shown the door? I know it's too early for that, but these injuries are crunching the roster of a 12-7 team playoff demands and BDavis isn't going to help anytime soon.

    Someone has to go to add Peralta. And Canario isn't going to get to play everyday regardless of RHers or LHers. Neither is Tauchman. Also don't see PCA getting a chance over Peralta.

    If Jed does those moves:

    4 OF: Belli, Peralta, Canny, Tauch

    2 C: Gomes and Amaya

    2 DH: Cooper and Mervis

    5 INF: Busch, Nico, Dansby, Morel, Madrigal

    Little short on OF depth but two injuries will do that  

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I have had the pleasure of watching some of the young A's pitchers lately (first Joe Boyle the last day of Minor League Spring Training in March, and more recently Luis Morales last week and Steven Echavarria yesterday at Extended Spring Training), and it reminds me of the Miami Marlins a couple of years ago. A really nice collection of young pitchers. It will be interesting to see what the A's will get for two years of ex-Cub Paul Blackburn at the Trade Deadline (there should be a robust market for Blackburn). 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Good deal

    MB needs some talent infusion!

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Very possible. Suriel, too. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    DJL: if a pitcher is recalled to be the 27th man for a doubleheader and then is optioned back to the minors the next day, the 15-day "clock" does NOT reset. The one day call-up for the doubleheader is treated like it never happened with respect to a pitcher having to spend at least 15 days on optional assignment before he can be recalled. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Probably the only reason David Peralta is still in the organization (he is at AAA Iowa) is to be available in case anything bad were to happen to Ian Happ (which it just did). So if Happ needs to go on the IL, the Cubs can select Peralta to play LF, DFA Wisdom (and hope he and what remains of his $2.725M salary gets claimed off waivers), and recall Mervis to platoon at DH with Cooper (with Canario / Tauchman sharing RF), at least until Suzuki and Happ are back...

     

  • crunch (view)

    i'd just like to take a moment to express to the world i'm still pissed willson contreras is not a cub when the pricetag was 5/87m (17.5m/yr).

    it would be nice to have a legacy-type player to stick around, especially one with his leadership and the respect he gets from his peers.  cubs fans deserved more than 1 season of contreras + morel...that was gold.

  • crunch (view)

    happ, right hamstring tightness, day-to-day (hopefully 0 days).

    he will be reevaluated tomorrow.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    I guess I'm not looking for that type of AB 

    Just a difference of opinion

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    I don’t see Tauchman as a weak link in any position. He simply adds his value in a different way.

    I don’t know that we gain much by putting him in the outfield - Happ, Bellinger and Suzuki and Tauchman all field their positions well. If you’re looking for Taucnman’s kind of AB in a particular game I don’t see why it can’t come from DH.

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