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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL 

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PITCHERS: 13
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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I Take It Back

Submitted by Rob G. on
Okay so we don't own the Cardinals at Wrigley, my bad. I meant to say we bow to your greatness, you crimson-colored state bird of Illinois. Z's back on the mound today and I wonder if he's approaching the season record for walks given up in a season, because he's given up a whole lot. Anyway, a national audience gets to watch our patheticness today. Go Cubs! GAME ONE HUNDRED-TWENTY-TWO IN-GAME DISCUSSION THREAD [PARACHAT] ST. LOUIS CARDINALS (65-56 (Div) 1st- 0 GB; (Wild Card) N/A) AT CHICAGO CUBS (52-69 (Div) 5th - 13.0 GB; (Wild Card) 12th - 9.5 GB) Wrigley Field, 12:20 pm CDT Weather: Overcast, 73 degrees, Wind from L to R @ 8 mph TV: Fox, Radio: WGN, XM 187
Carlos Zambrano, RHP 13-5, 3.38 ERA, 170.2 IP 167 K, 96 BB, 18 HR 205/318/359 againstJeff Suppan, RHP 9-7, 5.00 ERA, 133.1 IP 74 K, 51 BB, 19 HR 287/357/482 against
#Aaron Miles, SS *Chris Duncan, LF Albert Pujols, 1B Scott Rolen, 3B #Scott Spiezo, LF Preston Wilson, CF Ronnie Belliard, 2B Yadier Molina, C Jeff Suppan, P *Juan Pierre, CF #Neifi Perez, SS Matt Murton, LF Aramis Ramirez, 3B *Jacque Jones, RF *John Mabry, 1B Henry Blanco, C Ronny Cedeno, 2B #Carlos Zambrano, P
Cardinals vs Zambrano: Scott Rolen: 7-36, 194/237/417, 5 K, 2 BB, 2 HR Albert Pujols: 8-36, 222/333/444, 7 K, 6 BB, 2 HR Jim Edmonds: 6-33, 182/357/394, 18 K, 6 BB, 2 HR Juan Encarnacion: 2-19, 105/150/105, 5 K, 1 BB, 0 XBH Preston Wilson: 5-19, 263/263/316, 7 K, 0 BB, 1 2B David Eckstein: 3-19, 158/200/158,1 K, 0 BB, 0 XBH Ronnie Belliard: 2-11, 182/357/273, 2 K, 3 BB, 1 2B Aaron Miles: 4-11, 364/500/364, 2 K, 2 BB, 0 XBH Cubs vs. Suppan: Jacque Jones: 11-33, 333/488/697, 7 K, 10 BB, 4 HR Aramis Ramirez: 5-18, 278/350/556 ,1 K, 2 BB, 1HR Michael Barrett: 8-18, 444/474/444, 1K, 1 BB Cesar Izturis: 5-18, 278/316/333, 0 K, 1 BB, 1 2B Neifi Perez: 5-15, 333/375/333, 0 K, 1 BB Juan Pierre: 4-13, 308/357/308, 1 K, 1 BB Henry Blanco: 2-10, 200/200/500,2 K, 0 BB, 1 HR
I wonder why Barrett's getting the day off? I wonder why Dusty hates us?

Comments

Submitted by Green Lantern on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:17 am

murton in the three spot! thanks for a little respect dusty. i'm sure he'll need a day off tomorrow after handling the pressure of the 3 spot though, right? also, it's not that national of an audience, it's midwesternal. i'm sure that everywhere else will see red sox-yankees.

Submitted by MikeC on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:20 am

Nice to see Murton higher in the order, but its just one funky lineup. Looks like he rolled the Dusty Dice for todays game. Tomorrow it will be a completly different lineup because our manager is incapable of filling out the lineup Card with the same players for more than 2 days in a row. I can't wait till he is gone and we get a manager who understands lineup consistency.

Submitted by Sags on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:34 am

Anybody else struck by how dominant Z has been over Rolen, Pujols and Edmonds? (In particular, he's struck out Edmonds nearly 50% of the time!)

Submitted by Walt on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:47 am

Mike C, If you look at the lineups elsewhere in MLB there are more managers than Dusty with changes everyday. LaRussa does it almost as frequently. When you have one hole in the lineup with DLee out it causes 2 or 3 more down the lineup. The statheads of today should understand that it's about matchups and gut feeling. We may not like Dusty's lineup but then none of us are being paid to make out a MLB lineup and from my perspective most could not get any better results with what we have to work with right now. It's also been mentioned before that we have no way of knowing what little dings guys like Barrett are experiencing. The manager has to respond to those things everyday and we sit there and wonder why, but the manager is not going to let the opposition know that guys are under the weather or unavailable on a given day. After saying this I certainly would have rather had Cesar at SS than Neifi. Having to use 3 bench players at the same time though, WOW!

Submitted by Walt on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:50 am

Look at that Cards lineup today. There was a day we would salivated over facing that one.

Submitted by MikeC on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:00 pm

Nefi fake bunts with Pierre on 1st base. Then swings away the rest of the AB. Dusty would of made Theriot keep bunting till he saced Pierre over. Murton does what a #2 hitter should do, by taking pitches and having a good eye, and allowing Pierre to do his job. BTW, I am not just talking about this year but since 2003. Dusty is incapable of filling out a lineup card on a day to day basis. Even in the years when the offense was nearly untouched by injuries he was doing the same crap he is doing this year. He always juggles players, he always moving guys all over the lineup, its always something different almost every day. The offense is always inconsistent and unreliable. You can not have a consistent offense if your lineup is not stable for weeks at a time. It is simply impossible to make an offense better by juggling it like Dusty does. It gives it no chance to gel.

Submitted by CT Steve on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:36 pm

Bobby Cox is always at the lower end of the scale, in terms of lineups used. It seems to be working for him.

Submitted by IM Slacker on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:53 pm

I sure wish the Cubs could get a defensive "wiz" behind the plate, like Yadir Molina. Also, wish Ramirez would show some hustle...

Submitted by Walt on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:54 pm

I'd venture a guess that the talent of the hitters is far more important than the consistency of the lineup.

Submitted by Andrew on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:18 pm

Anyone else sick of this Chris Duncan guy yet?

Submitted by Andrew on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:27 pm

And Neifi runs to 2B on Molina's bunt, although he should have covered 3B as Dempster wanted to get Belliard out. Beautiful job.

Submitted by The Real Neal on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:28 pm

Years from now we'll be talking about how the 'Phil Nevin Game' propelled the Cubs to the World Series. Barrett must be hurt.

Submitted by cubswinthepennant on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:29 pm

Looks like we own the Cardinals again and life is good when life is bad for the Cardinals.

Submitted by cubswinthepennant on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:35 pm

nohit, just go to tinyurl.com HERE and paste the long URL into their tinyurl creator VOILA! out pops a short URL

Submitted by the E-Man on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:35 pm

And NEVIN for Next Year, too! As I have posted on several occasions, I'd like to see Phil Nevin one more year as a backup for DLee. He likes it here, earns his keep, and we do not have a decent 1B prospect in AAA that could give us what he could (for one more year).

Submitted by Carlos on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:07 pm

What's that I hear? Is it Hurricane MikeC coming to destroy Crunch because of that photograph? Maybe! Save yourselves!

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:14 pm

im just saying...tinyurl is great for your friends and people you trust, but on a msg. board you never know who's giving you that message behind the link. internet browsers arent the most secure things...embedded virii, buffer overruns, and straight up annoyances can occur behind these links. i mean...i can post as an admin (as far as i know) without being blocked from posting. the pic was just picked outta a yahoo image search for "stupid", btw...ha. anyway, im just saying that tinyurl is great, but you gotta trust your source. i dont click only public tinyurl links, myself, without others guinei pig'ing it out first. hey, at least i didnt send ya to tubgirl or hai2u =p

Submitted by Carlos on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:21 pm

GOATSE.cx was the worst. It's been shut down twelve times. I think it even has its own Wiki entry.

Submitted by Matt on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:02 pm

I just traded Prior, Neifi, and Williamson for Rollins, Utley, and Myers in MLB 2k6. Why cant we do that in real life.... If it were only real.......

Submitted by Mitterwald on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:37 pm

Can somebody please explain the importance of lineup consistency to me? Can you prove that teams with more consistent lineups score more runs and win more consistently than teams that have "juggled" lineups? Has somebody seriously studied the issue? If you had the Cubs personnel and you put an optimal lineup out there everyday, you still wouldn't score many runs because the players suck as hitters. BTW, if you're in favor of lineup consistency, does that mean you are anti-platooning? Personally, I would love to see either Murton or some right-hand hitter brought in to platoon with J. Jones next year. Or does Jacque need to go 0-for-4 every day against lefties so the lineup can "gel?"

Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:59 pm

Wow -- Lidge is a mess. Came into tonight's game vs. the Brewers in the 6th and walked 3 guys, including one to force home a run. Relievers are a funny breed.

Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:01 pm

E-Pat homered for Iowa tonight??? When did he get moved up?

Submitted by mannytrillo on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:31 pm

So when does the "I can't beleive EPat is not getting playing time at 2B" complaints start?

Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:57 pm

EPat also made an error -- back to The Riot era!

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:18 pm

ptth...whatever...bring on part 2 of the ojeda era!! auggie! auggie! auggie!

Submitted by Carlos on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 08:25 pm

Jamie Moyer was just dealt to the Phillies for two mid-tier prospects. He's gonna start against us on Tuesday. Fun!

Submitted by Rob G. on Sun, 08/20/2006 - 08:12 am

wow Phils deal Lidle and Abreu and then decide they're still in it. I'm guessing Gillick and Moyer got along well in Philly...

Submitted by Cubster on Sun, 08/20/2006 - 08:53 am

speakng of interesting waiver wire rumors...THE ONE WE'RE ALL DREAMING OF! from Toni Gianetti in the Sun Times today: The Detroit Tigers are considering a move to replace injured second baseman Placido Polanco, and Cubs veteran Neifi Perez could be of interest after the Tigers failed to obtain Kansas City Royals second baseman Mark Grudzielanek. Grudzielanek, a former Cub, signed a new contract with the Royals last week to end the trade possibility. Perez, 33, a switch hitter who can play second, third and shortstop, is hitting .254 in 87 games and is signed through 2007. Players involved in trades before the Aug. 31 deadline must clear waivers.

Submitted by The Real Neal on Sun, 08/20/2006 - 08:16 am

Like Neifi would ever make it through waivers, he's our freaking MVP!

Submitted by ryno on Sun, 08/20/2006 - 08:15 am

*sigh* Carpenter v. Mateo... Good luck rookie.

Submitted by Andrew on Sun, 08/20/2006 - 08:01 am

Maybe Mateo will give Carp the Clemens treatment today. :)

Submitted by Green Lantern on Sun, 08/20/2006 - 08:07 am

khalil greene on the DL for the fathers. geoff blum i guess is the replacement....neifi-ish offense and worse D maybe they want neifi?? wonder if they'll move walker over from 3B to SS...now that would be some funny shit.

Submitted by Eric S on Sun, 08/20/2006 - 08:10 am

#35 - No worries. Dusty got Hendry's word that should Neifi be moved, Lenny F. Harris will be signed ASAP.

Submitted by crunch on Sun, 08/20/2006 - 08:05 pm

so...what's wrong with barrett? did the eckstein collision screw him up, too?

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    happ, right hamstring tightness, day-to-day (hopefully 0 days).

    he will be reevaluated tomorrow.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    I guess I'm not looking for that type of AB 

    Just a difference of opinion

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    I don’t see Tauchman as a weak link in any position. He simply adds his value in a different way.

    I don’t know that we gain much by putting him in the outfield - Happ, Bellinger and Suzuki and Tauchman all field their positions well. If you’re looking for Taucnman’s kind of AB in a particular game I don’t see why it can’t come from DH.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Tauchman gets a pinch hit RBI single with a liner to RF. This is his spot. He's a solid 4th OF. But he isn't a DH. 

    He takes pitches. Useful. I still believe in having good hitters.

    You don't want your DH to be your weak link (other than your C maybe)

  • crunch (view)

    bit of a hot take here, but i'm gonna say it.

    the 2024 marlins don't seem to be good at doing baseballs.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Phil, will the call up for a double header restart that 15 days on assignment for a pitcher? Like will wesneski’s 15 days start yesterday, or if he’s the 27th man, will that mean 15 days from tomorrow?

    I hope that makes sense. It sounds clearer in my head.

  • Charlie (view)

    Tauchman obviously brings value to the roster as a 4th outfielder who can and should play frequently. Him appearing frequently at DH indicated that the team lacks a valuable DH. 

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Totally onboard with your thoughts concerning today’s lineup. Not sure about your take on Tauchman though.

    The guy typically doesn’t pound the ball out out of the park, and his BA is quite unimpressive. But he brings something unique to the table that the undisciplined batters of the past didn’t. He always provides a quality at bat and he makes the opposing pitcher work because he has a great eye for the zone and protects the plate with two strikes exceptionally well. In addition to making him a base runner more often than it seems through his walks, that kind of at bat wears a pitcher down both mentally and physically so that the other guys who may hit the ball harder are more apt to take advantage of subsequent mistakes and do their damage.

    I can’t remember a time when the Cubs valued this kind of contribution but this year they have a couple of guys doing it, with Happ being the other. It doesn’t make for gaudy stats but it definitely contributes to winning ball games. I do believe that’s why Tauchman has garnered so much playing time.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Miles Mastrobuoni cannot be recalled until he has spent at least ten days on optional assignment, unless he is recalled to replace a position player who is placed on an MLB inactive list (IL, Paternity, Bereavement / Family Medical). 

     

    And for a pitcher it's 15 days on optional assignment before he can be recalled, unless he is replacing a pitcher who is placed on an MLB inactive list (IL, Paternity, or Bereavement / Family Medical). 

     

    And a pitcher (or a position player, but almost always it's a pitcher) can be recalled as the 27th man for a doubleheader regardless of how many days he has been on optional assignment, but then he must be sent back down again the next day. 

     

    That's why the Cubs had to wait as long as they did to send Jose Cuas down and recall Keegan Thompson. Thompson needed to spend the first 15 days of the MLB regular season on optional assignment before he could be recalled (and he spent EXACTLY the first 15 days of the MLB regular season on optional assignment before he was recalled). 

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Indeed they do TJW!

    For the record I’m not in favor of solely building a team through paying big to free agents. But I’m also of the mind that when you develop really good players, get them signed to extensions that buy out a couple years of free agency, including with team options. And supplement the home grown players with free agent splashes or using excess prospects to trade for stars under team control for a few years. Sort of what Atlanta does, basically. Everyone talks about the dodgers but I feel that Atlanta is the peak organization at the current moment.

    That said, the constant roster churn is very Rays- ish. What they do is incredible, but it’s extremely hard to do which is why they’re the only ones frequently successful that employ that strategy. I definitely do not want to see a large market team like ours follow that model closely. But I don’t think free agent frenzies is always the answer. It’s really only the Dodgers that play in that realm. I could see an argument for the Mets too. The Yankees don’t really operate like that anymore since the elder Steinbrenner passed. Though I would say the reigning champions built a good deal of that team through free agent spending.

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