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39 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (one slot is open), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL and one player has been DESIGNATED FOR ASSIGNMENT (DFA)   

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and eight players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and two players is on the 10-DAY IL

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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Pete Crow-Armstrong 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 8 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2
* Cody Bellinger, OF  
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 3
Kyle Hendricks, P 
* Drew Smyly, P 
* Justin Steele, P   

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

DFA: 1 
Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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Cubs @ Reds: Hammel vs Simon (Game 19)

Submitted by CTSteve on

Hammel looks to secure the series after an ugly effort.
CHC (13-5): RHP Jason Hammel (2-0, 1.00)
CIN (9-9): RHP Alfredo Simon (0-1, 12.15)
First pitch: 12:10pmCST

Hammel won against the Cards on Tuesday (6 IP, 1 ER, 6 Ks, 0 BBs). He already beat the Reds (6 IP, 0 ER) in the 8-1 game on the 14th. The Reds are 23-96 (.240) off of him for their careers. Suarez is 4-11.

The Cubs knocked Simon out of the game on April 13 after getting only two outs but giving up 5 ER. He pitched an inning two days later in relief on his throw-day but proceeded to give up 3 ER to St. Louis. Not good, Alfredo! The Cubs are 18-63 (.286) against him. Rizzo is 5-15 with 2 HR.

An off day tomorrow, then the Brewers and Braves are teed up for us at home.

Go, Cubs!

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Submitted by cubbies.4ever on Sun, 04/24/2016 - 04:23 pm

In Arrieta's No Hitters: Rizzo, Russell, Fowler (outside Arrieta) are the only 3 players to make an out in both games

Submitted by billybucks on Sun, 04/24/2016 - 04:43 pm

Gotta love baseball: 4 games on consecutive days, against the same team, in the same ballpark: Win 16-0 Win 8-1 Lose 13-5 Win 9-0

Submitted by billybucks on Sun, 04/24/2016 - 04:54 pm

Methinks Jorge better get his stuff together pretty quickly. He still looks like he's not really paying attention of defense, and he seems to have lost the plate discipline he had during last year's playoffs. Maddon seems to love Javy's defense and LaStella's bat -- JD was saying how much Maddon likes Javy and Russell on the left side of the infield, particularly with ground ball pitchers on the mound. If Javy ever learns plate discipline, we could see a lot more of him/LaStella at 3rd and Bryant in LF.

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Submitted by johann on Sun, 04/24/2016 - 04:57 pm

Soler is actually 3rd on the Cubs for pitchers per plate appearance, he's swinging at less pitches out of the zone than La Stella and Baez both and his OBP is almost a 100 points above his average. I don't disagree he needs to hit more and his defense hasn't been great so far (though it's getting better) but his plate discipline imo is just fine and because of that his bat will come along. He's getting a bit unlucky with the hits too as his BABIP is only .206.

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Submitted by johann on Sun, 04/24/2016 - 04:47 pm

He's had some of that but he's 8th on the team with hard hit % (6th if you remove Schwarber and Hammel) so there's more than just going on. He seems like someone that really just needs consistent playing time especially with all the injury issues that have plagued him though we'll see if that happens. As you said Madden seems enamored with La Stella and Baez. Soler to me has a much more potential than La Stella and if nothing else needs to have a chance to show more to improve trade value. I wonder if there are a couple issues affecting his batting issues besides BABIP. One is that he obviously isn't a natural fielder like some of the other players and switching to left field with different angles might be causing him to have to work harder at that at the expense of hitting. The other is this seems like a very close team that hangs out constantly after games per comments from Rizzo and others and Soler is the one player that doesn't speak English and I wonder if this causes him to feel much more isolated which combined with less playing time and a switch in positions could lead to more mental stress. I read a quote from him that he's been learning as much English as possible and he's going to surprise his teammates with how much he can talk so it's obviously something that matters to him. Again from quotes from Rizzo and others the rest of the team remains relaxed through struggles partially because of the friendships and bonding they have and I wonder where he fits in.

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Submitted by Old and Blue on Mon, 04/25/2016 - 04:49 am

There's quite a few players on the club who speak Spanish, aren't there? That shouldn't be a deal killer in terms of hanging out. I saw him in a very animated dugout convo with Montero the other day. Montero seemed to be explaining something to him. It was cool. I don't think he's a Maddon favorite but his upside is too high for Maddon to neglect.

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Submitted by johann on Mon, 04/25/2016 - 04:45 am

There might be and I'm glad if so. I know Vladimir has been mentioned as someone who talks to him a lot. When you have a bunch of people hanging out though it can be very difficult to have a multilingual conversation. I've seen first hand how it can be uncomfortable to be around a group of people talking and having fun and you have no idea what is being said. It can be a lonely position. I have no idea if that's going on here I just feel that when you have a young guy in Soler who is a Cuban defector, who has been injured a bunch and who had his starting position taken away it's probably not an easy position for him to be in and that might be affecting his hitting.

Submitted by crunch on Sun, 04/24/2016 - 04:37 pm

this MIN/WAS game is off the hook. WAS ties in the bottom 15th with 2 outs after o.perez (the pitcher, WAS out of position players) bunts himself on base and draws an errant throw scoring the runner from 2nd. to the 16th... walkoff HR win for WAS in the bottom 16th. game took almost 6 hours.

Submitted by The E-Man on Sun, 04/24/2016 - 04:59 pm

Some day this year, the Nats will play a team over .500. [Note: he says this as the Cubs face the Brew this week]

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Submitted by billybucks on Sun, 04/24/2016 - 04:04 pm

Cards can still pitch, and Molina is, like, really good. Pirates have some pitching and a great OF. Could easily be 3 NL Central teams in the playoffs again. Once again -- although moving the Astros forced daily inter-league play despite having different DH rules (remarkably dumb-ass stupid -- I mean, really?) -- thanks for moving he Astros.

Submitted by Ryno on Mon, 04/25/2016 - 04:46 am

WHIP NL League Leaders: 1. Arrieta (.68) 4. Lester (.84) 14. Hammel (1.04) 20. Lackey (1.22)

Submitted by matthewcooksie on Mon, 04/25/2016 - 04:48 am

Two off day baseball questions: 1.) Assuming that Schwarber heals wholly from his knee injury, I'm sensing from the TCR group a general disbelief in his outfield defensive skills (although I thought that the Hammel/Schwarber partnership was a cool idea, I desire "defense first" in my backstops and hope that this experiment in catching is over). I've mulled over the "innate" v. "learned" route reading and, although he isn't a natural, I just have to believe that given time he will be a better outfielder than, say, Matt Holiday. Am I wrong? 2.) At what point to do I/We pull the plug on the Hendricks as Maddox dream? I don't believe that it is now, but I really like him and every time I see his name in the line-up, I think, "Ah, THIS is the game where we he pulls it all together." He hasn't yet, wholly, but I still believe that he might. When is that dream seriously in doubt? And, if not Maddox, who then will his comp. be?

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Submitted by Rob G. on Mon, 04/25/2016 - 04:01 pm

general rule of thumb is when somebody is compared to Greg Maddux, just go ahead and call bullshit. It's isn't true or even close.

Hendricks is a very good 4th/5th starter though, nothing to worry about and he'll have a few good streaks in there this season. And likely be replaced if Cubs make a deadline trade.

As for Schwarber, I'm sure he can butcher the outfield about as well as Adam Dunn did and put up just as much if not more offensive value. To develop any instincts or ability in the OF is going to take reps out there and not gonna do that on the DL. He's destined to be a 1B, when that happens is the only question. I'm hoping for a DH in the NL on the next CBA which expires after this year.

 

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Submitted by johann on Mon, 04/25/2016 - 04:20 pm

Me too on the DH but I'm not seeing anything saying that that's likely. Manfred very quickly back tracked on his remarks and is now saying there isn't the support for it. In terms of Schwarber if you think his bat can be elite you deal with him in the outfield because I don't see him replacing Rizzo who has a very good contract, is a team leader and is very involved in the communityin addition to his offensive and defensive skills, all things highly prized by seemingly all the Cubs brass. An elite bat has a lot more positive impact on the game than a few poor routes in the outfield will have on the negative end.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Mon, 04/25/2016 - 04:35 pm

Manfred backtracking is just a negotiating ploy imo. No reason the AL owners would be against it, so that means swaying 15 NL owners and you don't have to sway them all. It'll happen...if not by this one, then by the next. Another star pitcher getting injured while hitting like Wainwright last season would increase the odds of it happening this time around.

The union said it would need to poll its players, I imagine while a few will hold out, the majority would prefer the DH. Not like they're just gonna ask pitchers in the NL.

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Submitted by crunch on Mon, 04/25/2016 - 04:09 pm

given that almora might be showing up to pull duty in CF next year, and the advanced coverage he provides, schwarber may be able to handle LF by crutching on almora's coverage. that said, it all depends on what his body will let him do. at least he's coming out of it nearing his mid-20s than mid-30s.

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