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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

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

OPTIONED: 9 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 3
Kyle Hendricks, P 
* Drew Smyly, P 
* Justin Steele, P   

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P

DFA: 1 
Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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King for a Day: the Cubs' One-Time Game #1 Starters

Submitted by Cubnut on

As noted here and everywhere else yesterday, Lou Piniella has decided to give Carlos Zambrano the Opening Day assignment at Houston. It will be the fifth time Zambrano has had the honor; the Cubs have gone 2-2 in Z's previous Opening Day outings.

Fergie Jenkins started seven openers for the Cubs, while Rick Sutcliffe started five, and Rick Reuschel, four. The real fun in looking over this list at Baseball-Reference.com is noting which Cub pitchers got to go in Game #1 once, but never again. Here are the last ten such Cub pitchers:

 

Year
Pitcher
Opponent
Final Score
 1999    
Steve Trachsel
  Houston  4-2 (L)
 1998 
Kevin Tapani
  Florida 11-6 (L)
 1997 Terry Mulholland   
 Florida  4-2 (L)
 1996 Jamie Navarro
  San Diego  5-4 (W)
 1995 Jim Bullinger  Cincinnati     
 7-1 (W)
 1992 Greg Maddux
  Phillies  4-3 (W)
 1991 Danny Jackson
  Cardinals  4-1 (L)
 1990 Mike Bielecki
 Phillies  2-1 (W)
 1984 Dick Ruthven
  Giants  5-3 (W)
 1982 Doug Bird
 Reds  3-2 (W)

It's interesting to me that Maddux only got the nod one time and that Jim Bullinger ever got to start an opener. Looking back at the strike-shortened '95 season, however, Bullinger wasn't bad (12-8, 99 ERA+), and God knows he didn't cost the Cubs anywhere near as much as Danny Jackson did.

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Comments

Submitted by WISCGRAD on Fri, 03/13/2009 - 03:54 am

Navarro was actually one of the few good moves of the mid-1990s. 14-6 for just $1.3 million in 1995 and then re-signed to another one-year deal and went 15-12 for $3.6 million in 1996. The Cubs then let him walk and he signs a 4-year $20 million dollar contract with the White Sox, only to go 9-14, 8-16, and 8-13, with ERAs of over 6.00 in the last two years. He's then traded to the Brewers where he goes 0-5 with a 12.54 ERA before being released. Talk about getting out at the right time!!

Submitted by Ryno on Fri, 03/13/2009 - 03:01 am

I nominate Zambrano for "biggest waste of talent" on the Cubs. He has such good stuff but insists on overthrowing everything. You can see when he's struggling, he's just fighting himself. When he's pitching good, the ball is just flowing. Cubster: Jim Bullinger's ears were so big, they needed a wide angle lens when they took his picture for his baseball card Ha!

Submitted by WISCGRAD on Fri, 03/13/2009 - 03:19 am

Also, apparently Dempster doesn't give a shit whether Canadians are upset about him not playing in the WBC: "I don't pay attention to the WBC," Dempster said. "I haven't even seen who's winning. I know Canada's out because I saw Koskie's here. And I know the Dominican's out because I saw Marmol's here. But I haven't seen any other results. ... I've been golfing too much."

Submitted by carmenfanzone on Sat, 03/14/2009 - 03:36 am

I ran into Bullinger one time at Murphy's after a game. We talked for about a 1/2 hour about Cubs' catcher Scott Servais. He was pretty candid about how the Cub pitchers were put off by Servais bull headedness. He was like a little tattle tale kiss up to Riggleman and the pitchers resented him...

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  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

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  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

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  • crunch (view)

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  • azbobbop (view)

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  • Eric S (view)

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  • crunch (view)

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  • Charlie (view)

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  • crunch (view)

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