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PITCHERS: 15
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Caleb Kilian
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
Jameson Taillon
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

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

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Ben Brown, P 
Alexander Canario, OF 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Keegan Thompson, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

 



 

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Game 150 Recap: Cubs 2, Brewers 6

Wait 'Till... The Weekend

 

W - DiFelice (1-0)
L - Marquis (10-9), drinking champagne on a thursday afternoon

 

Things to Take from This Game

 

1.  Horrid first four for Marquis
Marquis loaded the bases with a single and two walks, and Fielder cleared them with a double.  After that, Marquis settled down well enough, but the Cubs never overcame the deficit

 

2.  Short-Sheeted
Ben Sheets left after two innings due to tightness in his right forearm.  The Brewers emptied the bullpen, and they pitched very well.  Six relievers in six innings, no runs added on to the solo homer Ramirez hit off of Sheets.  The Cubs manage one run off of Torres in the ninth, but there never really was a sense of an imminent comeback.  Before the ninth, the Cubs had eeked out just four hits on the game.

 

3.  Who Cares, Our Magic Number Still is 4.

 

The rather uninspired details, below...

 

Game Recap
Inning 1 - Top
  •  Hah.  Just as the game starts, my computer crashes.  Maybe it's an omen that tonight isn't the night for my return...
  • While it's rebooting, Cameron lines a 2-2 pitch into the left center gap.  Edmonds cuts it off, keeps him to a single
  • 2-0 on Durham, Soto goes out for a chat.
  • Cameron steals second.  Replay shows that Soto's absolutely perfect throw just did get Cameron at second, but he's called safe
  • and Durham walks.
  • as does Braun. This is not good.  Missing with the fastball.  The walk comes after a very, very generous strike call by Joe West on a 3-1 count.
  • Fielder then lines a double down the left field line, all three runs come around to score.  3-0 Brewers with no outs.
  • Hardy grounds out to third
  • and Hart K's swinging.  With that, I'm back up to speed.  phew.  stupid computer.
  • and Counsell K's swinging.  31 pitch first inning.  Yeah, I think it was an omen.
Inning 1 - Bottom
  •  Soriano bounces out to Counsell at third on the first pitch.
  • ESPN observes that Cameron has some sort of defensive positioning guide in his back pocket that he's consulting.  Their crew hasn't seen that before, neither have I.
  • Fontenot K's looking.
  • as does Lee.  easy first for Sheets, 14 pitches.
Inning 2 - Top
  •  Kendall grounds to Theriot.
  • As does Sheets.  trots down to first on what might have been a bit of a tough charging play for Theriot.
  • Cameron lines a fastball on the outside corner right to Fontenot.  Decent recovery inning for Marquis, only 11 pitches.

Inning 2 - Bottom
  •  Ramirez with a really funky home run.  Wails at the first pitch, an inside fastball that looks like it tied him up, and lines it on a frozen rope into the first couple rows of the bleachers, just to the right of the left-field well. Dave O'Brien is three types of astonished at how fast it left the park, says Braun didn't even get his head around before it was out of the park.  That's only a slight exaggeration.  3-1Brewers
  • DeRosa lines to Braun.
  • Sut thinks Soto is a top 10 MVP candidate
  • as Braun did, Soto begins trotting to first on ball four, only for Joe West to call it a strike
  • lines a drive to the right field warning track, Hart catches it.
Inning 3 - Top
  •  Durham taps one up the first base line.  Marquis fields, tags Durham out.
  • Braun fists one inside-out to the right-side hole.  Goes over Lee, but Fontenot makes a great diving catch on the shallow outfield grass
  • and wow, some no-name is warming up in the Brewers pen.  Must be something wrong with Sheets?
  • Fielder walks
  • Hardy lines one through Fielder's legs, as he leaps up to avoid it.  Single to right, Fielder to second.
  • Hart grounds into a 6-4 force.
  • Sheets appears to be leaving the game.
Inning 3 - Bottom
  • Mark DiFelice in to pitch. Sheet on the bench looking on.  
  • Theriot K's looking on what was also a check swing.  K-zone suggests, yet again, that Joe West missed the call.
  • Marquis lines a bouncer off Fielder's glove.  Recovers, takes it to the bag.
  • Soriano lines one to the warning track just left of center.  Cameron is there for the out.
Inning 4 - Top
  •  Report is tightness of right forearm for Sheets.
  • Counsell K's swinging
  • Kendall floats one to shallow right, Fontenot races out and to his left, makes a great diving effort, but it's just out of his reach.  A single.
  • DiFelice bunts Kendall over.
  • Cameron lines a sharp grounder to Fontenot's right, picks it easily, out at first.

Inning 4 - Bottom
  •  Fontenot bounces out to Durham.
  • Lee K's on a low and away slider
  • Ramirez walks
  • Edmonds had been 0-21 against Sheets, now lines one up the middle for a single.  Ramirez to third.  Durham had shaded him way around towards first to pull.
  • DeRosa rolls into a 6-4 force out
Inning 5 - Top
  • Durham flies out to the wall, just short of the ivy in right.
  •  Braun also flies to DeRosa.
  • Fielder smokes one off the top of the ivy just right of center.  Hit very hard, Edmonds might have a shot at getting Fielder at second.  Makes a slight bobble in glove-to-hand, Fielder makes it in easily.
  • Hardy with a sharp liner into right, Fielder has to hold as DeRosa charges it well.
  • Hart with a lazy fly to right, Marquis escapes with no damage
Inning 5 - Bottom
  •  Todd Coffee in.
  • Full count, Soto walks.
  • Theriot with a shallow chop to third.  Counsell goes to second, can't get much on the throw, Theriot safe at first.
  • Sutcliffe mentions Z left the game today due to some concern with a grandparent.  Best wishes, Z.
  • Marquis with a nice bunt to third, Theriot to second.
  • Called strike to Soriano, who becomes the latest to lok back at Joe West's call.
  • swinging at a slider in the dirt, 0-2
  • and K's swinging at another bouncing slider.  Boo.
Inning 6 - Top
  •  Counsell with a sharp grounder to Lee's right.  Nice pick, throws to Marquis for the out, nicely executed.
  • Kendall walks.  Gyeh.
  • Joe Nelson in to pinch hit for Coffee, 2-0 count to start him out.
  • Kendall runs, Marquis with a wild pitch, and Kendall to third.  Infield comes in, 2-2 count on Nelson
  • and Nelson walks.  End of the game for Marquis, Angel Guzman in.
  • Sutcliffe compares Guzman to Mariano Rivera.
  • Cameron K's swinging at a high 96 mph fastball. 
  • Durham pops out just behind home place.  Another threat avoided.  Cubs really ought to pull this one out.

Inning 6 - Bottom
  •  Carlos Villanueva in to pitch.
  • Fontenot K's looking, insider fastball.  
  • Annnnnnnnnnnd we have our first Bartman reference of the night.  Everyone take a drink.
  • Cameron makes a nice running, shoe-string catch on a sinking line-drive by Lee.
  • Ramirez rips one past Counsell for a single.
  • Mitch Stetter in, a lefty to fast edmonds
  • Correction, a side-arming lefty.
  • Edmonds rolls out to second, inning over.
Inning 7 - Top
  •  Guzman hits Braun with a fastball, looks like it caught a forearm.
  • Fielder lines one into center, Braun to third.  Runners at corners, no outs.
  • Hardy hits one into the right field gap, Braun scores, Fielder to third, double for Hardy.  4-1 Brewers, nuts.
  • Kevin Hart warming up.  A sign LouPa is willing to treat this one as kind of over?
  • It might be. Corey Hart lines a single to left, Fielder and Hardy in, 6-1
  • Kevin Hart in.
  • Corey Hart runs, Counsell is HBP, but it sure doesn't look like it on the replay.
  • Kendal drops down a bunt, runners to 2 and 3.
  • Lamb hits for Mitch Stetter
  • Lamb flies to shallow-mid left, Soriano throws, Hart is called out. It's just another in a long line of calls that Joe West missed tonight.
  • Wow, was Hart safe.
Inning 7 - Bottom
  • Gagne relieves Stetter
  • DeRosa flies out to Braun.
  •  Soto looks at a curveball on the outside corner, strike three
  • Theriot grounds to short
Inning 8 - Top
  • Sean Marshall in.
  • Cameron with a sharp liner to Edmonds 
  • Durham hits a sharp one hopper at Ramirez that eats him up.  Generously ruled a base hit, although it was a tough play
  • Braun lines out to third
  • Fielder pops foul to third

Inning 8 - Bottom
  •  Mota in for Gagne, Hoffpauir hits for Marshall
  • and K's swinging
  • Soriano walks.
  • Fontenot flies to Braun
  • Lee with a nice single, Soriano to second.
  • and on the first pitch, Ramirez rolls right to hardy, 6-4

Inning 9 - Top
  • Randy Wells in.
  • Hardy K's swinging, Hart grounds to Theriot
  • Pujols tells us that we're getting bored with Pujols.  Speak for yourself.
  • Counsell grounds to Fontenot, very quick inning.
Inning 9 - Bottom
  •  Salomon Torres in, seventh reliever in seventh inning for the Brewers.
  • Edmonds rolls out to second
  • DeRosa singles sharply right up the middle.
  • Soto rolls one up the middle, first and third.
  • Theriot rolls into an easy 6-4-3, but Fielder drops the ball at first - it was a low throw, but didn't bounce, just sort of missed it off the tip of the glove.  Run scores, 6-2 game.
  • Ward hits for Wells
  • and weakly bounces out to Weeks.  Game over.

 

Parachat Recap
Inning 1
  • How do we know it's really me?
    • Mockery ensues.
  • Palin
    • Mockery ensues
  • How do we know it's really Carlos?
    • Mockery fails to ensue.  What gives?
  • The Z/Fontenot routine.
  • huh?

Inning 2
  •  How's the economy treating you?
    • poorly.
  • That last pitch Wood threw to Fielder last night
  • The home run.
  • Proper uses of ~thunder~
  • Carlos claims to have seen a black neo-nazi.
Inning 3
  • RBI opportunity stats
  •  Fontenot's nice catch.
  • I am introduced to cakefarts.  No good comes of it.
  • Crunch helps the terrorists.
  • Conspiracies of cartographers.
Inning 4
  •  Brewers future
  • Super-sized Romo's relations with Jessica Simpson
  • Beer
  • Cheese.
  • With my cooking skills, someone will be lucky to have me for a wife. - Brick
Inning 5
  • Trans in love.
  •  WOMD.
  • Punctuality.
  • "Wrigley rotated a bit when Fielder put on the brakes." - brick.
  • Bad moments to be caught putting in your contacts in a restroom.
  • Likelihood of a Soriano homer.

Inning 6
  • Faux Cubs Pessimism from Whip.
  •  Rediscovering Angel Guzman
  • Does Marquis make the post-season roster?  (no.)
  • Parachat makes fun of my antiquated vocabulary.
  • The American League is the league of cutters.  They need help.  Brick is on fire, tonight.
  • Bonnie Tyler
  • Bonnie Rait
  • Steven Tyler
  • 80s female pop singers
  • Whip explains to us, once more, what good music is. :)
    • Air Supply, evidently.
  • Domo Aryagato, Mr. Fontenot.  And Aramis Morisette.
  • Yoko Ono
  • Seth McClung
    • Oddest Parachat pairing ever: Ono and McClung?
Inning 7
  • Rob's fantasy league.
  •  Porno Dave compliments me, and Rob shoots me down. Now I'm sad.
  • how dumb was it to send the runner on Lamb's fly ball?

Inning 8
  •  I fight Whip.
  • Things that have happened since I last did anything at TCR
  • oh god, not this cakefarts thing, again
  • The Mike C of Music?!?!!  ROFL.  God, the things I missed.
  • Trying to persuade me not to post this recap.
  • Who should rule TCR?

Inning 9
  • My Future. 
    • Reality TV
  • Carlos is a dirty terrorist with an ape's penis.
Cubs record in games recapped falls to 11-6 on the season.  How pathetic, I've only done 17...
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God had nothing to do with it. Satan put me on furlough. :) But glad I could show up. By next Monday, I'll disappear under a mountain of work again.

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    There are two clear "logjams" in the Cubs minor league pipeline at the present time, namely AA outfielders (K. Alcantara, C. Franklin, Roederer, Pagan, Pinango, Beesley, and Nwogu) and Hi-A infielders (J. Rojas, P. Ramirez, Howard, R. Morel, Pertuz, R. Garcia, and Spence, although Morel has been getting a lot of reps in the outfield in addition to infield). So it is possible that you might see a trade involving one of the extra outfielders at AA and/or one of the extra infielders at Hi-A in the next few days. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    18-year old SS Jefferson Rojas almost made the AA Tennessee Opening Day roster, and he is a legit shortstop, so I would expect him to be an MLB Top 100 prospect by mid-season. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I expect OF Christian Franklin to have a breakout season at AA Tennessee in 2024. In another organization that doesn't have PCA, Caissie, K. Alcantara, and Canario in their system, C. Franklin would be a Top 10 prospect. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    The Reds trading Joe Boyle for Sam Moll at last year's MLB Trade Deadline was like the Phillies trading Ben Brown to the Cubs for David Robertson at the MLB TD in 2022. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Javier Assad started the Lo-A game (Myrtle Beach versus Stockton) on the Cubs backfields on Wednesday as his final Spring Training tune-up. He was supposed to throw five innings / 75 pitches. However, I was at the minor league road games at Fitch so I didn't see Assad pitch. 

  • crunch (view)

    cards put j.young on waivers.

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    Seconded!!!

  • crunch (view)

    another awesome spring of pitching reports.  thanks a lot, appreciated.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Here are the Cubs pitchers reports from Tuesday afternoon's Cardinals - Cubs game art Sloan Park in Mesa:

    SHOTA IMANAGA
    FB: 90-92 
    CUT: 87-89 
    SL: 82-83 
    SPLIT: 81-84
    CV: 73-74 
    COMMENT: Worked three innings plus two batters in the fourth... allowed four runs (three earned) on eight hits (six singles and two doubles) walked one, and struck out six (four swinging), with a 1/2 GO/AO... he threw 73 pitches (52 strikes - 10 swing & miss - 19 foul balls)... surrendered one run in the top of the 1st on a one-out double off Cody Bellinger's glove in deep straight-away CF followed one out later by two consecutive two-out bloop singles, allowed two runs (one earned) in the 2nd after retiring the first two hitters (first batter had a nine-pitch AB with four consecutive two-strike foul balls before being retired 3 -U) on a two-out infield single (weak throw on the run by Nico Hoerner), a hard-contact line drive RBI double down the RF line, and an E-1 (missed catch) by Imanaga on what should been an inning-ending 3-1 GO, gave up another run in the 3rd on a two-out walk on a 3-2 pitch and an RBI double to LF, and two consecutive singles leading off the top of the 4th before being relieved (runners were ultimately left stranded)... threw 18 pitches in the 1st inning (14 strikes - two swing & miss, one on FB and the other on a SL - four foul balls), 24 pitches in the 2nd inning (17 strikes - three swing & miss, one on FB, two SPLIT - six foul balls), 19 pitches in the 3rd inning (13 strikes - seven swing & miss, three on SL, two on SPLIT, one on FB - three foul balls), and 12 pitches without retiring a batter in the top of the 4th (8 strikes - no swing & miss - four foul balls)... Imanaga throws a lot of pitches per inning, but it's not because he doesn't throw strikes...  if anything, he throws too many strikes (he threw 70% strikes on Tuesday)... while he gets a ton of swing & miss (and strikeouts), he also induces a lot of foul balls because he doesn't try to make hitters chase his pitches by throwing them out of the strike zone... rather, he uses his very diverse pitch mix to get swing & miss (and lots of foul balls as well)... he also is a fly ball pitcher who will give up more than his share of HR during the course of the season...   
     
    JOE NAHAS
    FB: 90-92 
    SL: 83-85 
    CV: 80-81 
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day... relieved Imanaga with runners at first and second and no outs in the top of the 4th, and after an E-2 catcher's interference committed by Miguel Amaya loaded he bases, Nahas struck out the side (one swinging & two looking)... threw 16 pitches (11 strikes - two swinging)...   

    YENCY ALMONTE
    FB: 89-92 
    CH: 86 
    SL: 79 
    COMMENT: Threw an eight-pitch 5th (five strikes - no swing & miss), with a 5-3 GO for the first out and an inning-ending 4-6-3 DP after a one-out single... command was a bit off but he worked through it...   

    FRANKIE SCALZO JR
    FB: 94-95
    CH: 88 
    SL: 83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 6th inning... got the first outs easily (a P-5 and a 4-3 GO) on just three pitches, before allowing three consecutive two-out hard-contact hits (a double and two singles), with the third hit on pitch # 9 resulting in a runner being thrown out at the plate by RF Christian Franklin for the third out of the inning... 

    MICHAEL ARIAS
    FB: 94-96
    CH: 87-89
    SL: 82-83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and allowed a hard-contact double on the third pitch of the 7th inning (a 96 MPH FB), and the runner came around to score on a 4-3 GO and a WP... gave up two other loud contact outs (an L-7 and an F-9)... threw 18 pitches (only 10 strikes - only one swing & miss)... stuff is electric but still very raw and he continues to have difficulty commanding it, and while he has the repertoire of a SP, he throws too many pitches-per-inning to be a SP and not enough strikes to be a closer... he is most definitely still a work-in-progress...   

    ZAC LEIGH: 
    FB: 93-94 
    CH: 89 
    SL: 81-83 
    CV: 78
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and tossed a 1-2-3 8th (4-3 GO, K-swinging on a sweeper, K-looking on another sweeper)... threw 14 pitches (11 strikes - one swing & miss - eight foul balls)... kept pumping pitches into the strike zone but had difficulty putting hitters away (ergo a ton of foul balls)... FB velo is nowhere near the 96-98 MPH it was a couple of years ago when he was a Top 30 prospect, but his secondaries are better...   

    JOSE ROMERO:  
    FB: 93-95
    SL: 82-84
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 9th (14 pitches - only six strikes- no swing & miss) and allowed a solo HR after two near-HR fly outs to the warning track, before getting a 3-1 GO to end the inning... it was like batting practice when he wasn't throwing pitches out of the strike zone...