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Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
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Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

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Yan Gomes

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Garrett Cooper
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

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* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

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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 

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Seiya Suzuki, OF

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* Justin Steele, P   

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Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Game 90 Thread / Reds @ Cubs (1 of 3)

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SP Aaron Harang SP
Ryan Dempster
  3-10, 4.47, 102 K, 27BB, 118.2 IP
9-3, 3.24 ERA, 93 K, 43 BB, 111 IP
       
SS
 Jerry Hairston, Jr. SS
 Ryan Theriot
CF
 *Jay Bruce
 RF
 *Kosuke Fukudome
RF
 *Ken Griffey Jr.
 1B
 Derrek Lee
2B
 Brandon Phillips 3B
Aramis Ramirez
LF
 *Adam Dunn
 C
 Geovany Soto
3B
 Jeff Keppinger
 CF
 *Jim Edmonds
1B
 *Joey Votto
 LF
 Mark DeRosa
C
 *Paul Bako 2B
 *Mike Fontenot
P
 Aaron Harang
 P
 Ryan Dempster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With just one nightmarish half-inning having prevented them from a sweep of the Cardinals this past weekend, the Cubs return to the 33-10 Confines for three games against the Reds, who just completed a four-game sweep of the Nationals, which is very similar to winning four games from an actual Major League Baseball team.

Ryan Dempster puts his perfect record at Wrigley this season (9-0) up against Aaron Harang, who the Cubs have already thumped twice this year. (For that matter, Dempster had one of his lesser home starts of the season against the Reds back on April 15th, allowing five walks, five hits and four runs in a game the Cubs won anyhow, 9-5.)

In all, the Cubs and Reds have split six games this game, with each club taking two of three on its home field.

Dusty Baker Quote of the Day:
Speaking of journeyman and former Cub Jerry Hairston, Jr., who has hit in the leadoff spot for 10 of the past 11 Reds games while alternately playing shortstop and centerfield, Baker said:

"We wouldn't be where we are (without him)."


To be clear, the 43-47 Reds are in fourth place, 10 1/2 games behind the first-place Cubs and just two games ahead of the last-place Astros, and the team has been higher than fourth place for only seven days this entire season.

Go get 'em, Jerry.

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Submitted by crunch on Tue, 07/08/2008 - 07:58 pm

btw...jerry hairston's been playing some killer ball. he had persistant back problems for years in his career he thought was untreatable. when he finally got so sore/limited he got time to "rest" properly he got better. also during that time he found a better way to keep his back in shape. it wouldnt be too hard to see brian roberts-like production out of him for a few years...though he probably wont steal 50 bases or anything like that...or get hyped up on HGH to do it ;p

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Submitted by Doug Dascenzo on Tue, 07/08/2008 - 07:11 pm

Wasn't Hairston already linked to HGH? I might be making that up, but FWIW I saw him out in Scottsdale a couple years ago with Barry Lamar Bonds. They've never played on the same team, so I don't know how they'd know each other well enough to be hitting the clubs together unless they somehow know each other through their fathers (also never played together, although they came very close with the White Sox in '78). Anyway, hanging out with one of the biggest douchebags in baseball history is enough evidence for me to suspect you've been doing something unseemly.

Submitted by Little Nate Lewis on Tue, 07/08/2008 - 07:44 pm

To be fair to Dusty, I think the Reds are 9 games over .500 when Hairston is playing. Obviously he doesn't deserve all of the credit for that stat, but that won't stop Dusty from pimping one of his dawgs.

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  • 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)

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  • 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)

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    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 

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  • 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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