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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

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Yan Gomes

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

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Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

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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 

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Seiya Suzuki, OF

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Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Game 25 Thread / Cubs @ Nationals (3 of 3)

Submitted by Cubnut on

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SP *Ted Lilly
 SP
*John Lannan
  1-3, 7.30, 18 K, 11 BB
1-2, 3.42, 21 K, 10 BB
       
CF
 Reed Johnson
 2B
 #Felipe Lopez
SS
 Ryan Theriot SS
 #Cristian Guzman
1B
Derrek Lee 3B
Ryan Zimmerman
3B
Aramis Ramirez 1B
*Nick Johnson
RF
*Kosuke Fukudome CF
Lastings Milledge
LF
 Mark DeRosa RF
 Austin Kearns
2B Ronny Cedeno
 LF
 Wily Mo Peña
C
 Henry Blanco
C
 Wi Nieves
P *Ted Lilly P *John Lannan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cubs go for the series win and a winning road trip (3-2).

Lilly is coming off his first win and best outing of the year, on Tuesday when he beat the Mets. Though his pitching line was pretty attractive--6IP, 4H, 1ER--he also walked four and needed a couple of key pitches to avoid some serious problems.

The Cubs may face a good test in young Lannan, who fanned 11 New York Mets in just six innings on April 17th, then blanked the Braves for seven innings this past Tuesday, on his way to a victory over John Smotz.

Ronny Cedeno, hitting .400 (10-for-25) over the last week, gets bumped up in the order to seventh, Henry Blanco gets the obligatory Sunday start for backup catchers, and Geovany Soto gets a much needed day off, during which he can contemplate an atrocity so awful, veteran baseball man Lou Piniella has never seen anything like it.


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Submitted by Charlie on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 04:55 am

8 strikeouts in a row is pretty awful, but I feel more confident that Soto will come out of it than I have many other rookies, because Soto has a history (dating farther back than just last year, his breakout minor league year) of showing pretty good plate discipline. His Ks have always been on the high side, but he's also typically shown the ability to take a walk. That means that at some point they'll have to throw him pitches in the strikezone, rather than bouncing pitches or throwing them over his head to get him out (ala Patterson/Pie/Soriano/Sosa/etc.). In other news: High-profile releases seem more common this year than in the past. Frank Thomas recently picked up by the A's after having been dumped by the Jays for purely financial reasons (Thomas seems likely to come out of his slump and continue to produce, and TCR recently predicted he would do better than Carlos Delgado this year). Today, the Pirates dumped Matt Morris and wrote him a check for $11 million. Sure, Matt wasn't going to help them do anything, but they could've hoped to pawn him off to a team that desperately desired a starting pitcher with some history at the trade deadline for some cash relief. I mean, that's how the O's and Steve Trachsel worked out, and Trachsel was never an especially good pitcher.

Submitted by Fireball on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 04:23 pm

I have a friend who is a Pirates fan. I told him I was going to lay off teasing him about Aramis... and now I have a brand new thing to tease him about. (Especially since he said last year that the Morris trade wasn't a bad deal. Wait, what?)

Submitted by Cubster on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 04:28 pm

from Wikipedia on Nats starter John Lannan...and his claim to fame: the Nationals... purchased Lannan's contract on July 26, 2007. In his debut, behind 3-2 with one out in the fifth inning, Lannan hit Chase Utley with a fastball (breaking Utley's hand) and then hit Ryan Howard on the next pitch, whereupon umpire Hunter Wendelstedt immediately ejected Lannan from the game; Lannan was the first Major Leaguer in a decade to be tossed from his debut.

Submitted by carmelo on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 04:25 pm

fine line between winning and losing----Th vs Col, top of 8th, bases loaded, o outs score only 1 run-----Fri vs Wash, top of 8th, bases loaded 1 out score only 1 run---today 2nd and 3rd, 0 outs and 2nd and 3rd 1 out and score 0 runs---base hit in any of those situations would have resulted in leads and probably wins

Submitted by Bigz on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 04:22 pm

Is it me or was the Nats game plan to off speed the whole team? We just can not handle a hefty diet of off speed. Look for this game plan to be copied big time over the coming weeks. Last place team gave up 10 runs in 3 games and 1 game we scored 7.

Submitted by Rob G. on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 04:00 pm

worse part of the game was the runs Lilly gave up (although he looked significantly better today). I think it was an 0-2 count he gave up the first run-scoring single. A play that Soriano probably throws out Johnson on. I think he was ahead of the count on the next hitter too and Felix Pie probably throws out that runner as well at the plate.

Submitted by crunch on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 04:32 pm

sans soriano... just noticed the team's hitters with 70-ish+ ABs (guys we'd consider starters at this point) are ALL .400+ ob% guys...except that lazy useless derosa and his .385-ish ob% (trade the bum). pie/fontenot lingering around 40ab's and we know what they've done...soriano had/has 57.

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  • crunch (view)

    masterboney is a luxury on a team that has multiple, capable options for 2nd, SS, and 3rd without him around.  i don't hate the guy, but if madrigal is sticking around then masterboney is expendable.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    I THINK I agree with that decision. They committed to Wicks as a starter and, while he hasn’t been stellar I don’t think he’s been bad enough to undo that commitment.

    That said, Wesneski’s performance last night dictates he be the next righty up.

    Quite the dilemma. They have many good options, particularly in relief, but not many great ones. And complicating the situation is that the pitchers being paid the most are by and large performing the worst - or in Taillon’s case, at least to this point, not at all.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Wesneski and Mastrobuoni to Iowa

    Taillon and Wisdom up

    Wesneski can't pitch for a couple of days after the 4 IP from last night. But Jed picked Wicks over Wesneski.

  • crunch (view)

    booooooooooo

    also, wisdom and taillon are both in chicago.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Tonight’s game postponed. Split games on Saturday.

  • crunch (view)

    cubs getting crazy good at not having player moves leak.

    taillon we 100% know is pitching tonight.  who he's replacing and any additional moves are unknown as far as i can tell.

    p.wisdom was not in today's lineup in iowa (rained out) and he was removed from the game last night mid-game, but not for injury.  good bet he's with the team in the bigs, too.

  • Bill (view)

    A good rule of thumb is that if you trade a near-ready high ceiling prospect, you should get at least two far-away high ceiling prospects in return.  Like all rules-of-thumb, it depends upon the specific circumstances, but certainly, we weren't going to get Busch for either prospect alone.

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Right on schedule, just read an article in Baseball America entitled "10 MLB Prospects Outside The Top 100 Who Have Our Attention".  Zyhir Hope was one of the prospects featured. It stated that he's "one of the biggest arrow-up sleeper prospects in the lower levels right now."

     

    Not sharing to be negative about the trade, getting a top 100 prospect who is MLB ready should carry a heavy prospect cost.  But man, Dodger sure are good at identifying and developing young talent. Andrew Friedman seems to have successfully merged Ray's development with Yankees financial might to create a juggernaut of an organization.  

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    I suspect Brown will spend some time in the bullpen due to inning restrictions.  Pitched only 93 innings last year and career high is 104 innings in 2022.  I would expect them to be cautious with a young player with his injury history.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    I wanted Almonte gone last week, but that was before Merryweather went down and Little got demoted. Almonte in his last 5 appearances has gone 4.1 IP with no ER or Runs. NO hits, 3 BBs and 8 SO. He did hit 96 with his 2S FB in AZ on Tues.
    I don't see Jed waiving him when we have injuries all over and guys with options that can be sent down.
    I probably won't like the move Jed makes, but he can't play the "let's hope no one wants his 1.7mil remaining deal and we can hide him in Iowa" card.
    That's why I think the current Bullpen stays as is and Wicks goes to Iowa.
    I don't like that, but that's the fix I see.
    We'll find out soon enough!!!

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