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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
* 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: 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 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 1 
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 1 
Caleb Kilian, P 

 



 

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Cubs @ Dodgers: Lester vs Stewart (Game 129)

These meaningless late-season games are really annoying.

CHC (82-46): LHP Jon Lester (14-4, 2.81)
LAD (73-57): RHP Brock Stewart (0-2, 11.25)
First pitch: 3:10pmCST

Lester has won his last 5 decisions, including his last time out in San Diego (6 IP, 1 ER, 8 K, 2 BB). He dominated the Dodgers at Wrigley in June, going the full nine and giving up 1 ER (a solo HR to Hernandez in the 1st inning), while striking out 10 and walking none. It was one his best outings with the Cubs. The Dodgers are 22-122 (.196) against him. Hernandez is 3-10 with that bloody HR.

This will be the rookie Stewart’s fourth appearance, dating back to June. It hasn’t been pretty so far, giving up 5 ER in 5 innings in Milwaukee in his debut, a cruel 9 ER 4 inning start in Colorado, and three short innings against the Pirates, where he only gave up 1 ER but walked 4. He was 9-3 with a 1.60 in 20 starts in the minors this season, at various levels, with a nice strikeout to walk ratio (126:18 in 118 innings).

After the game it’s back on the plane (in some manner of dress) to Chicago to face some lefty named Steven Brault who evidently pitches for the Pirates now. Arrieta takes the mound for the Cubs.

Go Cubs!

Comments

brock stewart...steven brault...fun times for the cubs hitters vs allegedly competitive teams...maybe.

heyward with his 3rd multi-hit game since the all-star break (all in august)...2nd in the past 3 games during his 7 game hitting streak. he's gone from flirting with a sub-.300 ob% to nearing .310 ob% in 3 games (1 game was just a 1 for 1 pinch hit appearance). all 5 hits in the past 3 games have come in a row...neat.

Rough 8th inning all around -- HBP, Cahill error, Javy's poor decision. Oh well - given that the Cubs didn't look like they were going to score, it's better to lose in 9 innings, save the bullpen and get changed for the PJ trip home.

Sometimes I'm not as supportive of Cahill as maybe I should be. There, I said it.

Addy really has trouble breaking through .250 BA -- after his hot streak got him to .251, he has gone 1-for-17.

Jeff Sullivan of Fangraphs on Lester: Question: Do you think that Lester’s base-throwing yips/lack of the ability to hold runners is a big deal? He’s had a long, successful career despite this, mainly due to being good a run prevention, but it did hurt that one time vs. KC in the playoffs. Should Cubs fans be making a bigger deal out of it, or is it just not that big of a deal? Jeff Sullivan: For whatever reason things have gotten better — last year Lester allowed 44 steals in 55 attempts, and this year he’s at 22 in 32. David Ross has helped. Last year, Lester had -5 stolen-base runs; this year he’s at -2. It’s very clearly something exploitable. If, like, Lester kept putting Trea Turner on base, that would work against him. But baserunners can’t score unless the guys at the plate do something, and Lester is good about controlling them. And running against him simply isn’t automatic The Royals game was a worst-case scenario — Lester at his worst, with a bad defensive catcher, against the most aggressive running team in the league. #baseballtalk

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In reply to by Tito

if jeff says it, it's cool...when i say it, it's straight from the mouth of hitler. aside from the lack of jeff touching on the insane leads runners take and lester's inability to throw if he's fielding, this is a lot of what i've said about the issue. exploitable, needs his own personal catcher to control his shortcomings, relies on his ability to get outs along with his personal catcher keeping runners in check before things become further exploited... the situations lester gets into evolves (such as the "well, i'll just jog to 3rd while he's on the mound" thing). it's not static and singular, nor is it just a single team trying to figure out what they can do to exploit his shortcoming.

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In reply to by Tito

i have no doubt at all you quit reading at that point. you're very enamored with outcomes without caring what it takes to get there. the fact it's exploitable, especially without someone to cover the running game for him, as well it's evolution in how people are testing possible exploits is interesting to some people...to me...i'm some people...hurrah. some people want to check the boxscore to see who won, some want to know how it went down.

Recent comments

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    I think if you had ranked players by how much the team could ill afford to have them miss significant time, Steele would be right at the top of the list.

  • crunch (view)

    steele MRI on friday.  counsell expects an IL stint.

    no current plans for his rotation replacement.

  • hellfrozeover (view)

    I would say also in the bright side column is Busch looked pretty good overall at the plate. Alzolay…man, that hurts but most of the time he’s not giving up a homer to that guy. To me the worst was almonte hanging that pitch to Garcia. He hung another one to the next hitter too and got away with it on an 0-1. 

  • crunch (view)

    amaya blocked like 6-8 of smyly's pitches in the dirt very cleanly...not even an exaggeration, smyly threw a ton of pitches bouncing in tonight.

    neris looking like his old self was a relief (no pun), too.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    In looking for bright spots the defense was outstanding tonight. The “stars” are going to need to shine quite a bit brighter than they did tonight offensively though for this to be a successful season.

  • Eric S (view)

    Good baseball game. Hopefully Steele is pitching again in April (but I’m not counting on it). 

  • crunch (view)

    boo.

  • crunch (view)

    smyly to face the 2/3/4 hitters with a man on 2nd in extras.

    this doesn't seem like a 8 million dollar managerial decision.

  • crunch (view)

    i 100% agree with you, but i dunno how jed wants to run things.  the default is delay.  i would choose brown.

    like hellfrozeover says, could be smyly since he's technically fresh and stretched.

    anyway, on a pure talent basis....brown is the best option.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Use pitchers when you believe they're good. Don't plan their clock.

    I'm sorry. I'm simply anti-clock/contract management. Play guys when they show real MLB potential talent.

    If Brown hadn't been hurt with the Lat Strain he would've gotten the call, and not Wick.

    Give him a chance. 

    But Wesneski probably gets it