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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
* Pete Crow-Armstrong 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

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Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2
* Cody Bellinger, OF  
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

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Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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I'm Just A Fuzz Machine & I Don't Work For Nobody But You...

Submitted by Mike Wellman on

No official word yet as to whether or not the mysterious "fuzz machine" made the trip from Des Moines to Chicago along with Von [when there's somethin' wrong in the neighborhood who you gonna call?] Joshua. The unorthodox device is a pitching machine contraption that somehow both accelerates and decelerates a batter's swing, according to Carrie Muskat's expose earlier in the season. If Joshua couldn't get it through security at Des Moines International he may have just rented a car, thrown it in the trunk and headed east.

The Sun-Times has a piece this morning about "three Cubs to watch." In that spirit, here are three I-Cubs who currently bear a little closer watching:

1. Kevin Hart - Since moving from the bullpen, where he was struggling early in the year, to the Iowa rotation, Hart has found his groove. In five starts he's compiled a 1.38 ERA, a .128 BAA while permitting only 11 hits in 26 innings. He starts tonight in Oklahoma [kiss of death; watch him get hammered]. Remember; we got him for Fast Freddie Bynum...

2. J.R. Mathes - The old reliable of the staff has walked only 6 in 61 innings pitched this year while notching seven wins.

3. Sam Fuld - After a slow start, Fuld is hitting at a .419 clip in June. He's second in the PCL with 8 triples and has stolen 15 bases in 18 tries. The lefty-swinging Fuld is hitting .301 against southpaws; only .256 when facing right-handers.

Samardzija dropped to 3-3 in yesterday's 5-1 loss to the Redhawks. The game was scoreless into the bottom of the 5th when he was reached for four runs.

Jake Fox wasn't in the lineup. He may still have been catching his breath after legging out his 3rd triple of the year on Sunday.

Finally, fuzz machine notwithstanding, Joshua leaves behind a team whose three homers in the month of June rank last in the PCL...MW

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Submitted by Cubster on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 06:13 am

"the mysterious "fuzz machine"...he may have just rented a car, thrown it in the trunk and headed east. --- is there a blue flashing light on top of the car? --- Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. Jake Fox: Hit it.

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 06:56 pm

having a nice CWS http://muskat.mlblogs.com/archives/2009/06/616_cws_update.html DJ LeMahieu had three hits and scored two runs in LSU's 9-1 win over Arkansas in the College World Series Monday night in Omaha. LeMahieu, the Cubs' second-round pick in the June Draft, also stole a base. I believe he's the only Cub draftee playing right now..

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 06:00 pm

have you seen him pitch much Mike? curious on your take, his repertoire, etc?

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 06:03 pm

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=maisel_ivan&id=41… Wildcats athletic director Jim Phillips is in discussions with Cubs chairman Crane Kenney about moving either the Iowa or Illinois game in November 2010. Another possibility for Northwestern to play in Wrigley Field, according to sports information director Mike Wolf, is a home game in November 2011 against either Michigan or Rice. I know George Halas would build temporary bleachers to up the attendance when the Bears played, so I wonder what they would do to get more seats in if this happened? Or probably just double or triple the prices for a normal Northwestern game.

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Submitted by jacos on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 06:29 pm

And Papa Bear obviously did not mind the health of his players to get some extra bucks. According to Wiki- "The football field ran north-to-south, i.e. from left field to the foul side of first base. The remodeling of the bleachers made for a very tight fit for the gridiron. In fact, the corner of the south end zone was literally in the visiting baseball team's dugout, which was filled with pads for safety, and required a special ground rule that sliced off that corner of the end zone. One corner of the north end line ran just inches short of the left field wall. There is a legend that Bronko Nagurski, the great Bears fullback, steamrolled through the line, head down, and ran all the way through that end zone, smacking his leather-helmeted head on the bricks. He went back to the bench and told Coach "Papa Bear" George Halas, "That last guy gave me quite a lick!" That kind of incident prompted the Bears to hang some padding in front of the wall. " Doubt Big Ten would be as careless with their student-athletes, then again this is the NCAA. ~zing~

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Submitted by Chifan on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 06:58 pm

According to Wikipedia Ryan Field (where NW plays) holds 47,130, which is only 6,012 more than Wrigley. This isnt exactly like Michigan or Ohio St moving out of there stadiums that seat over or around 100k. They are only losing 12% of seating capacity and demand for tickets to the first game would likely justify a 25% increase over what Northwestern charges for admittance into Ryan Field.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 06:47 pm

cause I'm bored...

7 IP, 1 K, 0 BB for Carpenter...way to pitch to contact I guess

my boy Justin Berg with a shutout inning in relief, 3.18 ERA since returning from injury, 10 K, 7 BB, 3.44 GO/FO ratio...

Reinhard with a run allowed  in one inning of work, June ERA looking much better than May though and still K'ing everyone.

not a HR hit yesterday in the minors, Flaherty 1/3 with 3 RBI's though...Vitters is having a rough June.

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Submitted by The Real Neal on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 06:54 pm

Carpenter had a pretty good GO/FO ratio as I recall. Vitters isn't getting a lot of hits, but his K's seem to have come down as well. I was listening to the I-Cubs game yesterday (actually I think I cursed them, the Redhawks started scoring as soon as I turned it on) and the announcer said Reinhard had a gimmick pitch, which he didn't elaborate on, but it would explain his difficulty as a starter, I guess.

Submitted by Ryno on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 06:41 pm

Hilarious that the Cubs dumped Perry and called up Von Joshua to "change the voice". Yet, in the article MW links to (written 5/5/09) Ryan Theriot says this: "The cool thing is Gerald and Von are close and share stuff," Theriot said. "It's a perfect scenario for guys coming up to the Major Leagues to have the same message." Tell me dumping Perry was nothing more than a PR move and I'll sell you some beach-front property in Florida.

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Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 06:00 am

I don't believe Wilken says, "Let's draft athletes over baseball players." He does draft two-way players, because the Sings, Dopiraks, Duboises, Murtons, EPats, Hoffpauirs, Foxes et al. ad nauseum are very hard to place in the majors. Wilken didn't draft Felix Pie, who might be a good example of a non-ballplayer. "Athletes vs. ballplayers" suggests track stars. The only Wilken draftee who steals a lot of bases is Tony Campana (27 steals), who got a quick promotion from Peoria and is hitting .275 in high-A Daytona after being drafted last year.

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Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 06:02 pm

I think a 2-1 K/BB ratio is typical of young two-way players who have slugging propensities. I don't know how many names it would take to convince you that "controlling the strike zone" is not the holy grail, but the first two that I looked at were Justin Upton and Ryan Zimmerman. Zimmerman didn't spend long in the minors but while he was there, he struck out 41 times and walked 17. In four+ seasons in the majors, in which he has hit a very respectable .285/.346/.468(/.814) while anchoring third, he has struck out 377 times versus 189 walks (1.99). Justin Upton has a .958 OPS this season, while striking out 62 times versus 30 walks. I thought Evan Longoria would help your case, but no: in the majors he has 183 Ks to 76 BBs. Chase Utley started to get his Ks under control when he was 28. Before then, his Ks-to-BBs were 303/158 = 1.93. Derrek Lee, I'm sure you know, has always had high counts for both strikeouts and walks. The career totals are 1308/716 (= 1.83). I'd like to think that this is the kind of player that Wilken is drafting, not just slow-footed sluggers that pitchers don't mind walking.

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Submitted by Old and Blue on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 06:50 pm

I'm using the Google home page, not Google Reader and am having the problem but I suspect it is a Google bug. Techwise, it is probably because Google is cacheing some feeds. They've probably built their own Akamai-like service and it's serving up these cached feeds. The last feed I've got is "Miles Activated; Fox Trots to Iowa". If others have the same then that means I'm right. Clearing your browser cache won't help. The cache is server side on Google's servers (or whatever cacheing service they use). I've had trouble with other feeds in the past on Google home page. Sorry for the tech speak. I'm at work and just in that zone. Which is better than being in Amy Winehouse's zone.

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Submitted by Wedge2 on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 06:45 am

Rob, I added via your URL, but no luck. I am using the iGoogle homepage, so its probably their problem as mentioned above. iGoogle was having problems all last week. I thought it was fixed over the weekend, but I guess not for all sites.

Recent comments

  • CubbyBlue (view)

    Incredible moment. Huge part of the fun of working there is when something magic like that happens, and you get to interact with baseball fans. 

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    That bear hug was indeed awesome. Word is that Dansby has become an outstanding clubhouse leader and that moment really demonstrated it. That reaction was one of a proud coach/mentor who’s student just excelled. I’m not even sure who was more overjoyed, Dansby or PCA. A veteran expressing that kind of unabashed support and enthusiasm for a struggling rookie is beyond fantastic to see.

  • CubbyBlue (view)

    BAHAHA! I've actually not seen a single fight, but can't wait to see 70 degrees for sure!

  • crunch (view)

    next time i roll up into wrigley i'll try to start a fist fight and maybe we'll meet.

    be prepared.  i'm gonna make you earn your money.

    seriously, though...that's a cool as hell "retirement" assignment.  i imagine it will be better with warmer nights.

  • Cubster (view)

    I was there for the PCA homer as well. 50 degree baseball is no longer fun when sitting in the shade (knit hats, scarves and gloves are football gear) but I agree it’s one of those really cool moments. I loved the bear hug given by Swanson at home plate and of course the added impact that the PCA homer became a game winner.

     

  • Cubster (view)

    Holy Screaming Bananas

  • CubbyBlue (view)

    In honor of dispatching with the Astros, this painting is titled “The Sweep”. 
    I retired a couple years ago, and took a job at Wrigley as a security guy. SO cool having Wrigley as your office. SO cool being there when PCA got his first hit. 
    “The Sweep” happens at the end of every game - the security staff sweeps through the ballpark making sure it’s empty.
    (Hopefully I’ll be putting this painting up often this year.)
    Lastly, because working for the Cubs, they understandably don’t want you voicing opinions on social, which is why I’m only painting the banners here. 

  • First.Pitch.120 (view)

    Honorable mention to Jim Bullinger via BleedCubbieBlue: 

    Bullinger, a converted shortstop, had pitched in three games before he came to the plate. He had entered the game to relieve starter Shawn Boskie after four innings, and came to the plate to lead off the fifth, and hit Rheal Cormier's first pitch over the left-field wall to give the Cubs a 1-0 lead; they eventually won the game 5-2 in 14 innings. Of the 129players to homer in their first MLB at-bat, Bullinger is one of just 32 to hit that blast on the first big-league pitch he saw (including Contreras) and one of just six pitchers to do so.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Most of this activity will lead nowhere, of course, but it is fantastic that they’re looking for talent in every nook and cranny. You never know where that can lead, and virtually nothing is lost if if leads nowhere, as long as no one of superior talent and potential is losing an opportunity.

  • First.Pitch.120 (view)

    Fun 1st Hit / HR Fact…


    Recent Cubs players to have HR as 1st MLB hit:

    PCA

    Morel

    Happ

    Contreras

    Baez

    Soler

    Castro

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