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39 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (one slot is open), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL and one player has been DESIGNATED FOR ASSIGNMENT (DFA)   

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and nine players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are 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
* 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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Game preview: Dodgers (26-20) @ Cubs (22-25)

Submitted by Cubnut on

Going for two of three against the Dodgers and some semblance of momentum as the Cardinals come to town over the weekend.

Dodgers against Ted Lilly (1-4, 4.30):
Martin 2, Paul 9, Kemp 8, Blake 5, Loney 3, Johnson 7, DeWitt 4, Carroll 6, Ely 1 

Cubs against John Ely (3-1, 3.41):
Theriot 4, Castro 6, Lee 3, Byrd 8, Fukudome 9, Nady 7, Baker 5, Soto 2, Lilly 1

Lilly hasn't won since his first start of the year (4/24) in Milwaukee though he's coming off a strong effort last week against the Rangers: two runs on six hits over 6 2/3.

Ely, going for a fourth straight win, has sparkled for the Dodgers in his rookie season. Until issuing a first-inning walk last time out against the Tigers, he had gone 89 batters without giving up a base on balls and for the season, he has fanned 28 against just three unintentional walks.

The 24-year-old Ely also hails from Harvey, Illinois--former home of the great Lou Boudreau--but his wheelchair-bound father won't be in attendance.

"It's part mobility issues, because Wrigley isn't wheelchair-friendly," said Ely, "and partly because he's a die-hard White Sox fan and he doesn't come here."

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Comments

Submitted by Newport on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 05:19 pm

They have ramps, elevators, and special wheelchair seat for his dumb crippled ass. Not wheelchair friendly my ass, he sounds mentally handicapped as well. If he doesn't want to go see his son pitch in the show in his hometown against the Cubs, then he is just a terrible father.

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 05:50 pm

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/chc/ballpark/guide.jsp sure reads like they have plenty of wheelchair accessibility, although I'm sure it's not quite as convenient as most ballparks. Sounds more like Mr. Ely just needed an excuse not to go. the link Cubnut put up indicates it's more of the White Sox fan in him:
But his proud dad won't make the short drive. Being wheelchair-bound is part of the reason, given old Wrigley Field's access issues. A small part. The bulk of it is that Mr. Ely is a fan of the city's other team.
never know how much of that is the writer taking liberties or how it was conveyed to the writer by the kid that didn't make the quote.

Submitted by Rob Richardson on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 05:36 pm

Why doesn't he play more.

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Submitted by The Real Neal on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 05:43 pm

He's been pretty lucky on BABIP, but I think with more playing time he's probably going to strike out a little less. If you project his current rates over a 650 PA season it comes up to 181 strikeouts. If you slug .600, though, 181 strikeouts isn't the end of the world.

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Submitted by Tito on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 05:24 am

Muskat wrote in 2009: "His daughter, Jada, was initially misdiagnosed with LCA, and he and his wife Christina were told there was no cure. Jada now has been determined to not have LCA, an inherited form of blindness. The Lee family is still committed to helping identify the estimated 3,000 people who have LCA in order to offer genetic testing in an attempt to find treatment and a cure. "I'm excited to be part of this project at every level -- as a participant and, even more important, as a parent who knows how much it will mean to other families who are struggling with this devastating disease," Lee said in a statement." Last year, he also took part in introducing a wine where the sale proceeds were donated 100 percent to the charity. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-06-15/news/0906140181_1_tasting… Can you produce a source that says in the last year he's abandoned this charity effort?

Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 05:42 pm

if Jeff Baker (righty, 2B-3B-OF) hits the dl (I know it's too early to speculate) would it be Darwin Barney (righty) or Chad Tracy (lefty bat) who gets the call up? Methinks Tracy even though it makes the bench less balanced, but the ARam issues outweigh the lefty-righty ones.

Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 05:55 pm

Kyle Lohse out with forearm surgery > 2 months. http://twitter.com/Fox_Sports_MW/status/14860823226 it's an unusual diagnosis (because it's the upper extremity), Chronic Exertional Induced Compartment Syndrome in the forearm. I've seen this entity in the calf in marathon runners but it's rare in the forearm and apparently there are no comparisons in mlb level pitchers. The problem is a forearm muscle swells with exertion so that it makes the fascia that encases the muscle group so tight it cuts off blood flow to the muscle. It can be very painful but resolves with rest, unfortunately it returns with the exertion. The treatment is to divide the encasing fascia so that the muscle swelling doesn't affect the blood supply. here's a link to the diagnosis, symptoms, causes, etc (from Mayo Clinic website) http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/chronic-exertional-compartment-syndrom…

Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 05:31 pm

muskat's last two tweets http://twitter.com/CarrieMuskat/ 3B Jeff Baker examined by team eye doctor. He couldn't see out of right eye and pulled from game in 8th Cubs Carlos Zambrano hospitalized with lower abdominal pain today. He felt ill just before game. No word on if he'll be available Fri --- just saw the replay on the single that went to Baker's left. He didn't even reflexively move toward the ball so his depth perception must have really been gone, Lou in postgame said it was his right eye that lost vision ("no vision at all in his right eye") and is being evaluated by team opthalmologist. Bruce Miles article: http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=384094

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 05:23 pm

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100527&content_id=10504416&vk…
Said Lilly: "There were a couple times I would get it and throw it. I think I was a little bit ahead of the rubber. I don't know if it was that much. It wasn't one of those things where I was thinking about it. [First baseman] Derrek Lee told me what he was saying to the umpires. If I was doing that, I might have done that a couple times, but I wasn't real conscious of it. I was just trying to get good footing."
third base ump says he didn't see anything after Bowa asked him to look, from the replay at the link Lilly sure doesn't just get the ball and throw it, he digs in there pretty good when Blake notices it.

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    bases loaded for the cubs, 0 out...and no runs score.

    cubbery.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Walker was a complimentary piece who was well past his prime. Edmonds, Holliday, Ozzie Smith and a few others were good trades. Notably, they have almost always been quiet in the free agent market. But the fundamental workings of the organization were always based primarily upon the constant output of a well oiled minor league organization. That organization has ground to a halt. And when did that hard stop start to happen? Right at the beginning of the Goldschmidt/Arenado era, perpetuated by the Contreras signing, followed by the rotation purchases during the last offseason. The timing is undeniable and, in my mind, not coincidental.

    Again, we are all saying that player development became deemphasized. I’m just linking it directly to the recent trades and involvement in the free agent market. I don’t see how the two concepts can be decoupled.

  • Charlie (view)

    The Cards also traded for both Jim Edmonds and Larry Walker. It's the developing part that has fallen off. Of course, it could also be the case that there are no more Matt Carpenters left to pull out of the hat. 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Cubs sign 28 yr old RHRP Daniel Missaki. He was in MiLB from his 17yr old to 19yr old years and did pretty well.
    He's been in Mexico and Japan the last four years and has done well also.
    He's supposedly Japanese and Brazilian.
    Interesting sign. We obviously need to RP in the system
    Injuries are mounting everywhere!!

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Sure, they made generally short term trades for established players to enhance what they already had or traded for players early enough in their careers that they were essentially Cardinals from the start. What they never did was to try to use the more established players as foundational cornerstones.

    Essentially we’re saying the same thing. They have given up on player development to the point that even their prospects that make it to the bigs flop so that they have to do things like buy most of their rotation and hope for the best.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    I don’t buy that. They had been doing that for years.

    They did it with Matt Holliday. They did it with John Lackey. They did it with Mark Mulder. They did it with Jason Heyward, who had a great year for them. I’m sure there’s more but those come to mind immediately.

    I attribute it more to a breakdown in what they’re doing in terms of development than a culture thing.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    They won those trades and sacrificed their culture. That’s exactly their problem.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    The other part that’s kind of crazy is they made two very high profile trades, one for Goldschmidt and one for Arenado, and they very clearly won those trades. They just haven’t been able to develop players the last handful of years the way they usually do.

    I guess the moral there is it’s hard to stay on top of your game and be good at what you do in perpetuity.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Marmol was extended at the beginning of the year. Two years I believe.

  • crunch (view)

    Jesse Rogers @JesseRogersESPN
    Craig Counsell doesn’t have a timetable for Cody Bellinger who technically has two cracked ribs on his right side. CT scan showed it today.

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