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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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Cardinals @ Cubs: Wacha vs. Arrieta (Game 166; NLDS Game 3)

The Cubs have the Cards right where they want them.

STL: RHP Michael Wacha
CHC: RHP Jake Arrieta

First pitch: 5:07pmCT

Arrieta continues his astounding year in the postseason, going 9 scoreless and striking out 11 in the Wild Card game in Pittsburgh. Against the Cardinals this year, he’s 1-0 with a 2.42 in 4 starts. They are hitting .229 against him. Overall, St. Louis is 28-151 (.250): Heyward is 6-18, Holliday is 1-15, and his old buddy Carpenter is 0-16.

Wacha last pitched on September 30, and he finished the month 2-3 with a 7.88, including two losses to the Cubs. In his 4 starts against the Cubs this year, he’s 1-2 with a 6.86 ERA, and they are hitting .301 against him. (His win came in St. Louis, when the Cubs sent Roach to the mound--ah, the Roach game.) For his career, the Cubs are 33-106 (.311) against Wacha: Castro and Rizzo are both 10-22 with 2 HR, and Bryant is 3-10 with a HR.

Go Cubs!

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In reply to by jacos

I say over. I think Arrieta is in uncharted territory and seemed a little shaky during the Pirates game. That, combined with Rizzo & Bryant who are a law of averages powder keg about ready to explode, and I think we have a surprisingly high scoring game.

My fear is that the bats take Arrieta for granted and get lazy. We need to come out and pummel this guy--or at least have some solid ABs.

By the way for anyone who didn't catch the Bears game, Cutler showed why I consider him the most underrated QB in football. Still hurting, missing his top 3 receivers and with a completely makeshift and poor offensive line in front of him he won us that game in a way very few other QBs could have done so. His entire time here he's dealt with bad offensive line play, changing offenses and receivers and bad scheming and he's made a ton of plays that don't show up great on stat sheets but are a product of good QB play. Past couple years it seems pretty commonly accepted Trestman was an atrocious coach who lost the locker room and had no ability to scheme using the actual skill sets of his players. Plus the offensive line play. I still think Cutler can be our QB of the future if we can put any sort of line and receiver talent on the field. It's absolutely ridiculous and depressing though how few draft picks we have on the field from quite a few drafts now and this year hasn't gone so well either. The 3rd round center who played had a horrible preseason and doesn't look capable of blocking anything. And now back to the regularly scheduled Cubs!.

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In reply to by johann

That's what so frustrating about him -- he'll avoid pressure and make great throws and win the game like yesterday, then will make an ill-advised and inaccurate pass that is returned for a TD the next week. Great talent but inconsistent. He plays better coming from behind, when it is OK to take chances and use his strong arm, than with the lead, when he makes too many foolish mistakes and accuracy is the key. The two Trestman years he had a lot of weapons on offense -- Marshall, Jeffrey, Bennett and Forte. Before last year, people were talking about Marshall & Jeffrey as one of the top WR tandems. But, yeah, he seems to be the QB for a while -- looks like the Bears won't get a top 2 picket this year, and it's not like they have a talented kid sitting on the bench.

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In reply to by billybucks

But again in 2014 under Emery you had a very poor pass blocking line that also committed a ton of penalties and suffered from a lot of injuries coupled with a dysfunctional team led by an obviously terrible coaching staff. Look at what Trestman is doing this year as only an offensive coach and its still pretty awful and couple that with actually having no idea how to run a whole team and I think the problems last year were far beyond Cutler. It's pretty obvious this year how little talent was left to Fox.

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In reply to by johann

I should be able to watch the game on the NFL replay app, whatever that thing is called. I've got it on my iPad. This is the first year I haven't forced myself to somehow watch every game - no I take that back, last year was - in quite some time. Last year was so unbearable, no pun intended. You make some good points about Cutler, and I was a holdout defender of Cutler for a long time. I gave up on him a bit after one too many dumb interceptions, but last year doesn't count. Trestman was the worst coach in Bears history. But if we really don't like Cutler, all we need to do is see another QB in there to see what we are missing, so points taken. And he's tough, so Bears fans should like him for that. Cutler is the least of my worries right now. If Fox can keep mending the defense, that's a start. Emery and Trestman really fouled things up.

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In reply to by jacos

I hope they have someone warming up the 1st inning and have Hammel told that if he gets one ball up in the strike zone he is pulled. If he can get past the 1st inning he should be ok but ugh the elevation the strike zone thing he does is frustrating.

Astros 6 outs away, at home, leading 6-3 in the 8th. Lose 9-6. Series tied 2-2. Ouch. Edit: Even worse, they led 6-2. Five straight hits to start the 8th.

Holy cow... This is the worst, least intelligent, disorganized pre game crap I have ever seen. Anyone watching this crap on tbs right now???

The wind is blowing out something fierce at Wrigley, but you gotta hit it for the wind to help you. Arrieta looks like he picked up where he left off in Pittsburgh.

If Bryant gets a hold of one, it might never land.

Soler misruns the bases... and gets doubled off to end the 1st. The wind gets the better of Schwarber for a Heyward double...

Keep it together, fellas.

Well I hate the Cards and everything Molina has done to the Cubs over the years, but I gotta say it's really badass to play through an injury like he is.

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In reply to by Jace

If you think these announcers are bad ,the ones doing the Mets vs Dodgers (Ron Darling ,Cal Ripken and someone else) are worse they did the wildcard game I never knew Joe Jackson and Derrick Fowler played for the Cubs this year you would think there would be research by them.

What did we learn today? Defense is important. Now we know what Addison Russell brings to the team. The Cubs were very lucky to get this win considering the sloppiness.

2-1 series! 1st team hit hit 6HR in a game in the postseason. woo.

Theo: "So, let's see...should we put Soler on the post-season roster? Ummmm, yeah, I mean what the hell." Wow -- if he can bring that focus and plate discipline next year -- yowza! Seems like Manny has really helped him.

Lackey has been a beast against us. His stats on 3 days rest, however, not as nice. There is plenty of hope.

Wrigley was electric tonite Not many card fans Video board was great, they played "there goes my hero" by foos over ryno highlights before he came out. Spectacular Good times hopefully they win tomorrow but think Lester will beat poopy pants on Wednesday. Happy 4th anniversary of Theo's signing Go Cubs !

I was there too, with my grown son. This is my miracle year-- I rose to the top of the season ticket list after eight years, completely unexpectedly, and my wonderful wife agreed to put the ticket fee on the emergency credit card. The whole point of course was that the Cubs were going to be good this year, and then for a while, so to get season tickets with the guaranteed shot at the postseason was incredible timing. We got to the remote lot at 4:10 after stopping at Nhu Lan for our usual banh mi sandwiches, only to find the lot full, way earlier than normal. So we parked on the street in front of Audoubon Elementary School (go Eagles!), a mile and a half from the ballpark. I'm old like Old and Blue, but I work out every day, so we got to Wrigley in time for the first pitch. This was my first postseason game in 50 years of being a Cub fan, and I'm still on a high. The joint was rocking, and the crowd was fairly well-behaved except for the left field bleacher fans. If Holliday kills us tomorrow, it's their fault for taunting him. The home runs were, well, I write words for a living, but now they fail me. Schwarber- just made the basket, but we scored first! Castro- we were down for a minute or two, but that new front foot gave him the power! Bryant- the ball went up fast, leveled out, and carried and carried. Rizzo- a rocket. Soler- another rocket. Our right fielder for a while. Fowler- he had been "one biscuit for breakfast" short all evening, but that last run made it less traumatic in the ninth. What a night!

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In reply to by fullykräusened

Nice little reportage there!. I think you're older than me. Considerably older. Maybe several generations. Working out is so essential, especially as age kicks in, isn't it? I still lift weights, and so I'm confident that when I get to be at the hip breaking age, mine won't be a statistic. But I have a ways to go for that to be a concern.

I was there too. The crowd was absolutely electric. People were standing for every big and semi-big moment, from the first inning on. It felt incredibly strange and exhilarating to see the Cubs (the Chicago bleepin' Cubs!) score playoff insurance runs on the Cardinals. What a game. One to remember.

What was impressive to me is that the Cubs won despite poor base running, several defensive miscues, Russell leaving due to injury, Arrieta having an off game and getting knocked out early, and Rondon giving up 2 runs in the 9th. If they can win a game like that... 

Russell had a severe hamstring last year while with the A's system, forcing him to miss the first half of 2014. I've even wondered if his injury last year was a component of Billy Beane putting him on the trade market. He was quoted saying that last year's injury was a 10 out of 10 when it happened. Last night he said his hamstring soreness was a 1/1.5 out of 10. Hamstring injuries are tricky though, so I'd expect the medical team to be overly cautious here.

Pretty sure I already know the answer to this, but since I will be in NYC next week I want to confirm... If the Cubs were to advance to the NLCS, the winner of LAD/NYM would have home field based on being a division winner (as opposed to Cubs by virtue of better record), correct?

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  • 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.

  • 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...

  • crunch (view)

    pablo sandoval played 3rd and got a couple ABs (strikeout, single!) in the OAK@SF "exhibition"

    mlb officially authenticated the ball of the single he hit.  nice.

    he's in surprisingly good shape considering his poor body condition in his last playing seasons.  he's not lean, but he looks healthier.  good for him.

  • crunch (view)

    dbacks are signing j.montgomery to a 1/25m with a vesting 20m player option.

    i dunno when the ink officially dries, but i believe if he signs once the season begins he can't be offered a QO...and i'm not sure if that thing with SD/LAD in korea was the season beginning, either.

  • crunch (view)

    sut says imanaga getting the home opener at wrigley (game 4 of the season).

  • crunch (view)

    cubs rolling out the who's who of "who the hell is this guy?" in the last spring game.

  • videographer (view)

    AZ Phil, speaking of Jordan Wicks having better command when he tires a bit, I remember reading about Dennis Lamp 40 years ago and his sinker that was better after 3 or 4 innings when he would tire a bit and get more sink with a little less speed on the pitch.  The key for Lamp was getting to the 4th inning.