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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

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

OPTIONED: 10 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2 
Seiya Suzuki, OF
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 2
* Justin Steele, P  
Jameson Taillon, P 

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




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Game 150 Recap: Cubs 2, Brewers 6

Submitted by Transmission on
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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Submitted by Transmission on Wed, 09/17/2008 - 09:49 pm

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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  • Bill (view)

    A good rule of thumb is that if you trade a near-ready high ceiling prospect, you should get at least two far-away high ceiling prospects in return.  Like all rules-of-thumb, it depends upon the specific circumstances, but certainly, we weren't going to get Busch for either prospect alone.

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Right on schedule, just read an article in Baseball America entitled "10 MLB Prospects Outside The Top 100 Who Have Our Attention".  Zyhir Hope was one of the prospects featured. It stated that he's "one of the biggest arrow-up sleeper prospects in the lower levels right now."

     

    Not sharing to be negative about the trade, getting a top 100 prospect who is MLB ready should carry a heavy prospect cost.  But man, Dodger sure are good at identifying and developing young talent. Andrew Friedman seems to have successfully merged Ray's development with Yankees financial might to create a juggernaut of an organization.  

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    I suspect Brown will spend some time in the bullpen due to inning restrictions.  Pitched only 93 innings last year and career high is 104 innings in 2022.  I would expect them to be cautious with a young player with his injury history.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    I wanted Almonte gone last week, but that was before Merryweather went down and Little got demoted. Almonte in his last 5 appearances has gone 4.1 IP with no ER or Runs. NO hits, 3 BBs and 8 SO. He did hit 96 with his 2S FB in AZ on Tues.
    I don't see Jed waiving him when we have injuries all over and guys with options that can be sent down.
    I probably won't like the move Jed makes, but he can't play the "let's hope no one wants his 1.7mil remaining deal and we can hide him in Iowa" card.
    That's why I think the current Bullpen stays as is and Wicks goes to Iowa.
    I don't like that, but that's the fix I see.
    We'll find out soon enough!!!

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Teheran minor league deal is done, per MLB.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Based on Phil’s sound analysis it sounds like a no brainer for Almonte to be placed on waivers as today’s roster move. We shall see.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I suspect Counsell/Hottovy will use the piggy-back extensively, with Taillon and Hendricks pitching as the "pig" (and with a very short leash) and some combo of Wicks, Brown, and Wesneski (whichever two do not start) as the "backers."  

    Keep in mind that Keegan Thompson has a minor league option available, and if Yency Almonte is not outrighted by 4/26 he cannot be sent to the minors without his consent after that date. Almonte is out of minor league options, so I am talking about him getting outrighted to the minors if he is not claimed off waivers, and if he is claimed off waivers, the Cubs save the pro-rated portion of his $1.9M salary, which helps lower the Cubs 2024 AAV.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Totally agree. The 26 man roster very rarely consists of the 13 best position players and 13 best pitchers.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Based on what Jed has done in the past, I’d say the plan is to

    -give Hendricks another few starts
    -give Taillon some runway ot get his season underway

    -Mix and match in the bullpen and see what sticks

    Jed usually doesn’t do a whole lot of waiver wire plays in-season, at least early in the season. He only reallly did that after he blew up the rosters in 21 and 22 because they needed bodies (guys like Schwindel, Fargas, etc).

    I think he’s a little handcuffed by a full 40 man in that he can’t really maneuver much with giving anyone showing ability at AAA (R Thompson/ Sanders/ Edwards etc). Brewer has the most tenuous grip there, and we will see what kind of chance he gets. Other than his spot, there isn’t a ton of 40 man wiggle room.

    I’m very curious to see what happens with Brown now that Taillon returns. Bullpen? Wicks to Iowa? 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Pro teams have to play their "big money" guys if they are healthy and not "locker room" issues.
    The Cubs wanted to deal JHey off well before they bought him out. They just didn't want to pay him to play for someone else for that long. Jed did give him 20+mil to play for LAD last yr.
    Jed might also let Kyle walk at some point this year. Similar scenario to JHey, except Jed thought Kyle was going to be good/solid in '24!!
    You'd think Smyly is in the same book as well. Same with Neris (he's a 1yr vet RP, so he's not really in this convo too much).
    That's ~35mil between those three and those three are going to get opportunities until at least late June) over younger guys even if their performance is "iffy".
    But, Jed is going to play Taillon a lot. They have to try and justify that contract and hope a veteran works out.
    So, Taillon, Imanaga, and Hendricks are locks for the rest of April and probably May.
    Assad, Brown and Wicks handle the last spots until Steele is ready.
    Now, you're question has real merit when Steele comes back. That will interesting if Brown is still good and Hendricks is still bad. But Taillon is entirely safe as long as he's healthy.

    And the bullpen moves were "money" based as well. Smyly has actually been okay. But he hasn't been clearly better than Little. Little had one bad outing. But Smyly makes 9mil. If they needed another RHRP and one of Little and Smyly had to go, it was going to Little. But that doesn't mean Smyly is one of the best 13 arms for the team. 

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