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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 151 Thread / Brewers @ Cubs (3 of 3)

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SP David Bush
SP Rich Harden

9-10, 4.24, 103 K, 42 BB, 172 IP (NL)
5-1, 1.65, 78 K, 19 BB, 60 IP
       
CF
Mike Cameron
LF
Alfonso Soriano
2B
#Ray Durham SS
Ryan Theriot
3B Ryan Braun 1B
Derrek Lee
1B *Prince Fielder
3B
Aramis Ramirez
SS
J.J Hardy
CF *Jim Edmonds
RF Corey Hart 2B
Mark DeRosa
3B *Craig Counsell
C Geovany Soto
C
Jason Kendall
RF *Kosuke Fukudome
P David Bush
P *Rich Harden

 

I sat through last night's loss at Wrigley, which I could have done without. On the other hand, I may have the distinction of having seen Ben Sheets's last-ever appearance for the Milwaukee Brewers.

Today's starters, Bush and Harden, matched up during that fateful series in Milwaukee at the end of July. The Cubs won that game, 11-4, and Bush (1-7, 5.16 lifetime against the Cubs) allowed seven runs in 6 1/3 innings. Harden fanned nine and allowed just one run in his only career appearance against the Brewers. Overall, the Cubs have won 8 of the 10 games he has started since coming over from Oakland.

On the subject of magic numbers and division-clinching, Barry Rozner of the Daily Herald points out that if the Cubs clinch the NL Central on Friday, the clinching wouldn''t be official until the Brewers play at night in Cincinnati, long after the Cubs/Cardinals matinee is over. Same thing could happen on Saturday. In other words, there might be no in-Wrigley celebration for the players or the Cub faithful this weekend.

A few players we talked to Wednesday came up with some other ideas.

First of all, they're certain the team leaders, Ryan Dempster and Kerry Wood, will organize a group outing to a restaurant or bar where the club can watch in private, and, if necessary, douse each other with cheap, sticky, smelly beverages that never fully leave your clothes.

I wish Rozner's sources had been a little more specific about the possible site of this player party. I'm thinking I'll just camp out at the TGI Friday's I know of in Oak Brook and cross my fingers.

Comments

Cubs win today, lose tomorrow, Brewers lose Friday night, Cubs win Saturday = Weekend Celebration at Wrigley. Completely unrelated, but I was in Chicago over the weekend and we spontaneously decided to drive up to Milwaukee for Monday's game. I truly think that was the most fun I've ever had at a game. It seemed like a small town atmosphere with a bunch of families just there to have fun and root for the Cubs. Everyone around us was as friendly (and sober) as could be and it was just a great day at the ballpark. Sometimes I think a little gets lost when there are 40,000 screaming drunk fans at Wrigley. The game in Milwaukee reminded me more of what it was like going to a game as a kid when I didn't notice the stupidity of fans and just loved being at the ball park.

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In reply to by johann

Yeah, I'm not sure that has much to do with a new stadium. It's more to do with a 90 mile drive on a Monday afternoon for a game that was scheduled a few days before. Just a bunch of hardcore fans, many of whom live in Wisconsin or near the border that don't get to go often. So they brought their little kids and their families and just went to a game. I think as long as Cubs baseball is played in Wrigleyville, it's always going to be a party/drunk atmosphere. I honestly wouldn't have it any other way, as there is something very special about Wrigley and the location...but being up in Milwaukee in a half full stadium with a bunch of young kids and families just seemed like the good old days when I'd go to a game in 1983 with my parents with 10,000 in the crowd and just truly appreciated what it meant to spend a day at the park.

Seems like that 1-0 deficit was the result of walking three guys, not Cubbery. Unrelatedly, there are not 40,000 drunks at Wrigley. Obviously there are a lot of them, but let's not do what uneducated media does and generalize.

Awesome deke by Kosuke to keep the runner on second from scoring on a double. He may suck balls with the bat right now, but that kind of defense is pretty valuable.

Wow, in so Harden's last appearance, his command was absolutely on, but his velocity was down. Today, his velocity is back up, but his command is nowhere near where it usually is. At least that's what it looks like from the comments and following the game on GameCast.

One run in ten innings agains the Brewers bullpen. Inconceivable! Good thing Kerry struck out Prince Tuesday night -- otherwise, this would really be getting uncomfortable. Geo and Dero need a day off, Lou, while Kosuke needs a plane ticket home. Playing Geo today was a really bad decision.

I really don't like our relief options. Outside of Marmol (who is giving up HR's a bit too much too) I don't have confidence in anybody. But, I put this one on Harden. A starter only lasting 5, puts a lot of pressure on the bullpen. Oh. My. God.

These umpires need to get off the power trip and understand they shouldn't affect the outcome of the game one way or the other. Running Edmonds halfway through an AB is inexcusable. Be a professional and look the other way if Big, Bad Jimmy is saying mean things you fucking pussy.

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    madrigal at 3rd...morel at DH.

    making room for madrigal or/and masterboney to get a significant amount of ABs is a misuse of the roster.  if it needed to get taken care of this offseason, they had tons of time to figure that out.

    morel played almost exclusively at 3rd in winter ball and they had him almost exclusively there all spring when he wasn't DH'ing.

    madrigal doing a good job with the glove for a bit over 2 chances per game...is that worth more than what he brings with the bat 4-5 PA a game?  it's 2024 and we got glenn beckert 2.0 manning 3rd base.

    this is a tauchman or cooper DH situation based on bat, alone.  cooper is 3/7 with a double off eovaldi if you want to play the most successful matchup.

    anyway, i hope this is a temporary thing, not business as usual for the rest of the season.  it will be telling if morel is not used at 3rd when an extreme fly ball pitcher like imanaga is on the mound.

  • 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)

    Among the relievers in the system, I expect RHRP Hunter Bigge at AAA Iowa and RHRP Ty Johnson at South Bend to have breakout seasons on 2024, and among the starters I see LHP Drew Gray and RHP Will Sanders at South Bend and RHP Naz Mule at ACL Cubs as the guys who will make the biggest splash. Also, Jaxon Wiggins is throwing bullpen sides, so once he is ready for game action he could be making an impact at Myrtle Beach by June.

  • 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.

    they really tried to make it happen this spring, but he put up a crazy bad slash of .081/.244/.108 in 45PA.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Seconded!!!

  • crunch (view)

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