Looks Like We're Temporarily Losing our .500 Hitter

Per Paul Sullivan and Enrique Rojas of ESPN Desportes, who tipped it late last night on Twitter, the Cubs are expected to disable Steve Clevenger--yes, 11-for-22 and 1249 OPS-hitting Steve Clevenger--because of "tightness in his side." Sullivan says Clevenger felt the discomfort during batting practice before Friday night's unmerciful thrashing of Roy Halladay.

Welington Castillo, hitting .320 with 2 HR and 8 RBI at Iowa, will get the call-up.

As our resident medical man, Cubster, said in the comments to the previous post, "Not officially an oblique strain but as close as it gets."

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Submitted by Cubnut on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 10:30am
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Submitted by Rob G.
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 12:33pm

TE Evan Rodriguez out of Temple

http://www.nfl.com/draft/2012/profiles/evan-r...

Submitted by Rob G.
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 12:37pm

Emery: Right fit, right role. We see Evan as a combination of a FB and a move TE."

Submitted by Cubster
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 2:45pm

Lineup is the predictable one: DeJesus, Barney, Castro, LaHair, Soriano, Stewart, RJohnson (cf), Soto, Wells

Submitted by The Joe
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 2:57pm

Good, by all means, get Campana outta there.

Submitted by artskoe
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 3:12pm

Yea, Q-ball sure is acting like last year. HEY, wait a second!?!...

Submitted by Rob G.
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 3:40pm

Soto replaced by Castillo in lineup, back problem

Submitted by superjimmer
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 4:47pm

Are you serious? Castillo hurting too?

Edit: Oops, read that backwards. Soto hurting, Welly in. Got it!

Submitted by Rob G.
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 3:39pm

6th round pick

CB Isaiah Frey from Nevada

http://www.sidelinescouting.com/rankings/2012...

Submitted by Rob G.
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 3:41pm

Dempster back Thursday vs. Cincy

Submitted by Cubster
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 4:51pm

per Muskat tweet...

Clevenger flew back to Chicago for treatment of right oblique.

and

Castillo starts and bats 8th

per ESPN tweet (Levine or Padilla)...

Clevenger says it's a right oblique strain on the last swing of BP last night. He's headed back to Chicago now.

and

Soto upper back tightness. Nothing major. Castillo will start for him though.

Submitted by Cubster
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 4:48pm

superj...

Castillo is starting, it's Soto who's got a weak back (since oh, about a week back)

Submitted by The Joe
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 4:55pm

Awesome.

Submitted by Cubster
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 4:49pm

we are Castillo power squared...

Lendy approves!

Submitted by Cubster
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 5:26pm

DRose hurt his knee in the last minute of the Bulls win. No real info until the MRI results are in but WGN sports talk with Memolo and Koz were speculating whether it's an MCL(not real bad but not good) or ACL (bad). Looking at the replay it looks like an MCL/medial collateral ligament injury.

video link:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1164727-de...

Submitted by Jim Hickmans Bat
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 5:35pm

Wow. Torn ACL, Rose is gone. Unbelievable.

Submitted by Old and Blue
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 5:37pm

That one hurts.

Submitted by crunch
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 5:45pm

dear mlb network...quit giving eric byrnes work.

for the love of f'n god...quit giving this manchild work.

...quit putting him in front of a mic.

please.

Submitted by Jumbo
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 6:02pm

I really can't believe you even watch that channel at all. Quick pitch is the only tolerable show, and even that is only watchable when it's straight highlights. I've seen you mentioning Intentional Talk and I really can't believe you subject yourself to that.

Submitted by crunch
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 6:09pm

my love of kevin millar cannot be explained so i'll just hold back on that one...

it's nice to hear from harold reynolds (that one might be even more of a personal taste than millar).

matt vagbag is awesome...greg anslinger is matt vagbag without the emotionless/quick humor. ahmad feered is wallpaper, but not annoying.

sean casey is surprisingly fun and not an idiot. i still don't know how i feel about bill ripken, but he's getting more comfortable.

they're finding more work for brian kenney beyond his SABR-themed show (only on in the offseason and a great 1st season, though subjects debatable).

along with the fact i cannot stand what Baseball Tonight has become, i stick with the MLB Network.

Submitted by Tito
on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 9:41am

This sells the network way short, IMHO. This channel is a freaking godsend, though I would agree that some (most) of their personalities are annoying. Plays of the Week, all of the Countdown shows, etc. Freaking godsend year-round.

Amsinger is the worst, followed by Vasgergian and Reynolds. Casey brings very little to the table other than laughing at Reynolds.

Submitted by crunch
on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 4:09pm

imo, they should give vagbag his own player interview show called "I'm Going To Make Fun of You For an Hour and You'll Still Like Me When This is Over"...he's brilliant at that. he should have a lot more enemies with his mouth, but it's almost impossible for him to piss others off (plus he takes it as well as he gives it out).

to me..."Intentional Talk" is like a what "Best Damn Sports Show..." used to be back when tom arnold/john kruk were kicking around. ESPN took kruk, gave him about 100 painkillers, and inserted a sanitized version of him on Baseball Tonight.

yeah though...if you dont like vagbag, you're not gonna like amsinger...

Submitted by Cubster
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 5:48pm

Len on the pre-game intro says Clevenger's oblique strain is fairly severe (hence he's heading back to Chicago), expects him to be out for awhile. These usually take 4-6 weeks to recover so expect Welington to get some real chances to show his stuff.

some stuff from the inter webs...

an article the Sun-Times picked up from Florida Today:
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/47988...

interview with a physical therapist who worked with the Padres (and then went into ortho):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEtG0_k-Z3c

Submitted by crunch
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 5:50pm

too bad soto is in his way...i was looking forward to welly coming up to show what he's got, but i was hoping he'd get more than a partial April to get regular hacks beforehand.

Submitted by Old and Blue
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 6:11pm

If Soto is in his way, it's just barely. His kind of numbers are going to be in Castillo's way like a pine tree gets in the way of a forest fire.

Submitted by crunch
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 7:06pm

barney/castro cannot turn a f'n double play...especially if the ball gets to barney 1st.

it's getting really annoying, but it's not like the cubs have another 2nd base option.

barney is mechanically good, but slow going through the motions of the mechanics...castro is haphazardly fluid...interesting combo.

Submitted by crunch
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 7:16pm

and it comes back to bite them...phils lead 1-2, bottom 4

sigh...barney isn't even bad D (best on the team)...he's just slow once he has to go through the motions after he catches the ball.

Submitted by crunch
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 7:18pm

and the wheels fall off...1-4, bottom 4...

Submitted by The E-Man
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 9:48pm

Or "Rip" to the rescue for the DRose-less Bulls?

I think they can still get out of the first round. And then its over.

Bad mistake by coach Thibs to keep him In with a minute left.

Submitted by Jim Hickmans Bat
on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 10:10pm

This is where I disagree. As painful as it is to see Rose go out, he barely played half the Bulls' games this year--and for many that he DID play, he was less than 100%. Further, for most of the no-Rose games, Hamilton was out as well. And yet, the Bulls STILL beat up on pretty much every team in the NBA, including the Heat.

They may not get past Miami in the ECF w/o Rose, but I think they're a lock to get to the ECF in the first place. And while the odds are against, I don't think it's at all impossible to beat Miami minus Rose.

Submitted by Old and Blue
on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 7:59am

I didn't have a problem with Thibs keeping him in there. Like Thibs said, the 76ers were on a run, and that's the kind of minutes Rose needed to get back to his old playing shape. I blame the injury more on all the accumulative effects of his other injuries and the weird short season. And the way he landed on his foot, it just didn't seem that unusual. Almost like it was an injury waiting to happen, and it could have happened, and probably would have, at almost any time.

Submitted by Newport
on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 8:53am

I think coach Thibs is a fucking meathead. If they have confidence that they can go to the ECF without Rose, then they should have confidence to hold off Philly for 90 seconds with a 12 point lead. He's been leaving injured guys in waaaaaay too long this year while the team has big leads. Especially Deng. Every time Deng came back from injury, Thibs would have him play like 43 minutes.

Submitted by The E-Man
on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 9:25am

It is an interesting two sides of the coin debate.

I have tix for Game 4 at the United Center should it get that far.

From the fans point of view, don't you have to have to proctect the team's biggest asset whenever possible in this year of poor conditioning?

I think you do in a situation like that. I'm sorry, but the likliehood of a miracle ala Reggie Miller was just not going to happen. You just HAVE to have faith in the Bench Mob at that time, imo, for the fans benefit moving forward.

Submitted by Newport
on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 9:55am

I made plans with a friend to go to game two. Glad I didn't buy the tickets yet. Prices on stubhub dropped like 25%. I guess people don't want to spend $100s to watch Watson and JL3.

Submitted by The E-Man
on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 9:58am

I believe that they'll get out of Round 1. After that - who knows.

Anyway, the Playoffs are totally about stars taking it to the next level.

Without DRose...

Submitted by Tito
on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 9:43am

If this were aggravating an existing injury, I might agree with you. This was a new, freak injury that could've happened five minutes earlier or in the first minute of the next game. Would I have been playing him at that point? Probably not, but I'll bet 98 percent of NBA coaches would've been.

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