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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 @ Red Sox: Lackey vs Wright (Game 23)

Submitted by CTSteve on

CHC (12-10): RHP John Lackey (1-3, 4.88)
BOS (12-10):  RHP Steven Wright (1-2, 8.66)
First pitch: 3:05pmCST

Lackey gave up 5 ER in 6 innings and lost in Cincinnati on Sunday. He hasn't faced his former team since 2008. The Red Sox are 14-47 (.298) against him. Pedroia is 6-16, and Ramirez has a HR. For his career, he's 31-23 with a 4.45 at Fenway. 

Wright had a six-inning inning outing of one-run ball to beat the Rays, but his other three starts have been ugly, including giving up 8 ER in 1.1 innings against the Orioles. For a knuckleballer, that's called not having it. None of the Cubs have faced him. This should be fun. Javy is already swinging...

Hendricks, who flips with Anderson to pitch on normal rest, opposes Rodriguez in the night game tomorrow.

Go Cubs!
 

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Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 04/29/2017 - 04:00 am

Quick aside....another pointless Bulls season comes to a close. The #1 draft pick never played, the mid-season trade of Taj Gibson and Doug McDermott yielded a player who was not on the playoff roster, no player development at all, and another embarrassing and heartless playoff exit. At least the Bears drafted some big kid from a school nobody has ever heard of. Theo should be given control of all Chicago sports teams, except maybe the Blackhawks. My son was at Fenway last night -- said it felt like playoff game. Kimbrall's pitches to Russell were unfair -- 99mph at the top of the zone.

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 04/29/2017 - 04:20 pm

zobrist argues balls/strikes (rather, the high strike zone) with bill welke and doesn't get run for it. good for bill welke for taking the complaining without running a guy in the 1st over something that's been a long running welke issue...his favoring of a "too high" strike zone.

Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 04/29/2017 - 04:33 pm

...and here we go again. Cubs fall behind by 3+ runs and try to battle back. Seems to a daily occurrence.

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 04/29/2017 - 04:49 pm

schwarb the leadoff hitter is starting to look a little sketchy while heyward's single/walk-heavy game with a touch of speed is making him look like a little better lead-off candidate. btw, heyward still doesn't have a double this year...3HR, 1 triple.

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Submitted by crunch on Sat, 04/29/2017 - 04:13 pm

at this point in his career and his paycheck i hope he couldn't care less where he bats if he's called on to do so even if he's not "comfortable" doing it. he's been a different hitter the past 3+ seasons with multiple plate approaches to go with it. he's been cool playing CF this year when he strongly prefers RF...if called to lead off, i hope he gets over his issues and slots in ready to go. that one season where he hit 27 homers that he's been pressed to chase for so long seems to be a lost cause. he's entering his 8th year and he's only hit over 15 HR twice (27 and 18). that said, he seems to have an issue doing better than .350+ ob% in most of his better years, too. it's hard to say what he's currently capable of doing. it's just that schwarb isn't looking so steady up top and heyward is at least getting on base with some sort of regularity in this young season.

Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 04/29/2017 - 04:59 pm

Coming out of Spring Training, there was a lot of concern about the back end of the bullpen. Davis, Edwards, Rondon (!) and Koji have combined to pitch 38 innings giving up a total of 3ER, for a nifty combined ERA of 0.71. Strop and Grimm continue to be Strop and Grimm, meaning you never know what you will get on a daily basis. If the starters can find their groove, the Cubs could go on a nice streak.

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Submitted by johann on Sun, 04/30/2017 - 04:51 am

Closer mentalities are weird but seem to be pretty consistent in that dudes need those high pressure closing situations to succeed. That was my concern for Rondon moving out of the closer role. Maybe meaningless spring games just don't give them that same edge? Although Rondon should have been better in the WBC but still it's an idea.

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  • crunch (view)

    wall stole a HR from busch...double.  nice to see him destroy a curve ball.

    upon further viewing, that might not have been a homer in too many parks...it had a lot of hang time, though.

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