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PITCHERS: 14
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 
* Justin Steele, P   

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




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Game 5 Thread / Astros @ Cubs (2 of 3)

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SP Roy Oswalt
 SP
Jason Marquis
(2008)
 0-1, 5.06, 6 K, 1 BB
 (2007) 12-9, 4.60
       
CF *Michael Bourn
 LF Alfonso Soriano
RF
 Hunter Pence
 CF
Reed Johnson
1B
#Lance Berkman
1B
Derrek Lee
LF
 Carlos Lee
 3B
Aramis Ramirez
SS
 Miguel Tejada RF
*Kosuke Fukudome
3B
 Ty Wigginton 2B
 Mark DeRosa
2B Mark Loretta C Geovany Soto
C Brad Ausmus SS
 Ryan Theriot
P
 Roy Oswalt
P *Jason Marquis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So here's where we are:

The Cubs need to win a game started by Roy Oswalt or be assured of having lost the season's first two series, at home, to division rivals Milwaukee and Houston.

Yeeech!

The good news is, the Cubs have had at least a few productive offensive games against Oswalt (11-10, 3.97 lifetime v. Cubs), which is more than they can say about their encounters with Chris Sampson.

Cubs Record After The Season's First 4 Games

Year Record
2007 2-2
2006 3-1
2005 1-3
2004 2-2
2003 2-2
2002 1-3
2001 2-2
2000 1-3
1999 2-2
1998 3-1

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Comments

Submitted by SheffieldCornelia on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 04:13 am

For all you kiddies panning Pie's performance so far, this is your first chance to measure up his competition for the CF role. Either way, I hope Johnson sparks something...we need the offense today. Anyone else think Soriano and Ramirez will play well today because it's warm outside?

Submitted by Pootie T on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 04:50 am

I have no problem with Lou shaking things up a bit. But I'm not sure why Soriano continues to get a free pass. He's looked absolutely clueless so far. Soriano batting in the leadoff spot makes no sense to me whatsoever. I would bat Soriano fifth behind Aramis and put Fuku in 2 spot.

Submitted by Andrew on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 04:01 pm

I like the new lineup. Lou's just not going to mess with Soriano's lineup spot this early in the season - except for moving from the #2 spot, which was a mistake to begin with. Yeah, solo homers!

Submitted by Old and Blue on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 04:36 pm

The good news in all this mess, and I'm really annoyed that this team just can't get off to a good start, like, ever, is that D Lee has two homers already and is hitting .300, and this new kid in right field looks pretty good.

Submitted by Cubster on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 04:30 pm

the Fukudome at bat in the 7th was a thing of beauty...8th pitch (3-2 count) in the sequence outside belt high lined to left with CLee doing a belly flop. But the whole inning was terrific...just what the doctor ordered (according to Len it was 28 minutes long)

Submitted by Andrew on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 04:02 pm

I like this new lineup. When Pie is in, put DeRosa or Fuku at 2nd, and let's stick with this one for a while. Until we (hopefully) trade for a SS later in the season.

Submitted by joshb on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 04:18 pm

cedeno had a good spring did he not? Why not just put him at SS. If you are gonna say cuz of his defense, then lets just let Theriot play. I'd say at this point, lets give Cedeno one last shot. What do we have to lose really. I breathed one big sigh of relief tho at seeing Lee's day. His first few games combined with spring training really had me a bit worried about him. Now time for Soriano to wake up and remember its baseball season. Anyone tell him spring training is over and the games count now?

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Submitted by crunch on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 04:08 pm

give theriot a week or two more of "this" level of performance and cedeno might get SS. theriot can multi-position-sub, pinch run, and as far as weak-hitting guys off the bench go...he's a decent enough early option. he does work the pitcher even if the outcome is rarely more than a 1-base performance. to me personally, as long as cedeno can actually field SS without his arm playing him out of the position i could care less which guy (theriot/cedeno) gets the start.

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