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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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Submitted by Cubnut on
(Quick aside: I want to thank Rob and the other TCRers for inviting me to play with them. Going back to the days when Ruz was the one and only Cub Reporter, I have marveled at both the quality and quantity of information available here. I hope to measure up.) I have a throwing-things-out problem, as in, I can’t make myself do it. WIFE: What are those? ME: Hockey cards…from 1973. WIFE: Are you saving them? ME: Of course. WIFE: Why? ME: What if one of the kids asks what Henry Boucha looked like when he played for the Detroit Red Wings? Wouldn’t it be nice to have an answer? And so on. As a result of this disorder, a few years ago when I was helping my dad clean out the attic of the house I grew up in, I found a number of Cub treasures I was never able to part with, but had long ago forgotten. The prize of prizes was a 1968 program from the first game I ever attended in Wrigley Field. July 30th. Cubs vs. Giants. Ernie Banks. Ron Santo. Willie Mays. Willie McCovey. Hal Lanier! Jim Davenport!! ADOLPHO PHILLIPS!!! For nearly 40 years, I have had a memory of that day and here was proof I was really there. Today, I pride myself on keeping a neat, comprehensive scorecard. On that first magical afternoon, I marked the outs with an O, the singles with a 1, the homers with an HR, and I was in business. Earlier tonight, I went to Retrosheet and pulled up the box score and play-by-play summary of that game, and the site dutifully provides every detail of the Cubs’ 10-4 victory on 7/30/68: Santo’s homer in the first; Banks’ homer in the third; Bobby Bonds entering the game to replace Mays in center field in the fifth; Hands fanning Lanier on a called third strike in the ninth to end the game. Retrosheet is really a glorious resource. But all in all, I like my old scorecard better.

Comments

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 02/06/2007 - 02:13 pm

from ye olde world of roto: "Cedeno is now 9-for-21 in the series and has played some terrific defense at time. However, he was both picked off and thrown out stealing tonight." he went 3-4 in the game tonight. btw, hi cubnut...woo content

Submitted by (CA) Phil on Tue, 02/06/2007 - 02:45 pm

Welcome Cubnut, your story prompted me to go to Retrosheet and find my first game. June 30, 1968, Cubs 6, Cards 2. (we must be about the same age)...Jim Hickman homered. Even though in my mind, Banks also homered -- retrosheet indicates he merely doubled, perhaps it was another game. I, however, am certain that was the right game as it was near my birthday and I remember that it was the Cards and the score. The game featured a Cards lineup including Lou Brock while the Cubs sported the famous Kessinger, Beckert, Williams, Santo, Banks, etc. that I remember. For the longest time, I didn't understand it when teams didn't have their SS bat leadoff, it's just how I thought it was done.

Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:19 am

Welcome to the Show, Cubnut I didn't keep score at my first game, but it was the very early 80's and we played the Phillies. I remember Ivan Dejusus hitting a triple and I loved him for it...

Submitted by Green Lantern on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:14 am

welcome adolfo phillips + 35 years = corey patterson i've been reading a bunch the last few months but too much time at work to really get involved in the posting stuff until games start.....hi all

Submitted by Green Lantern on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:21 am

kept score at the first game I remember going to*, which was a cubs-mets game in 1988....the fact that a person could be named "daryl strawberry" was the first thing that interested me at age 5....8 months later i was sprinting from the bus to my house to see the late innings of the 89 division winner on wgn. * -- my dad snuck me into the 84 playoff games under his jacket. i was one year old. the good part of being that young of course is i don't remember the next three games.... rest was history.

Submitted by Danville Joe on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:02 am

Adolfo = Corey? Adolfo walked more than once a month; in fact, he walked more than any Cub then except Santo. If only he had played shortstop, Leo might have considered moving him out of the 8th spot in the lineup. A better comparison for Corey might be to '64 Billy Cowan or '66 Byron Browne, if you adjust for the hitting-starved environment then.

Submitted by WPZ on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:43 am

Welcome aboard Cubnut My first Cubs game (Dad was a Sox fan): June 17, 1988; Cubs 7, Expos 3. Gotta love Les Lancaster and the old-school save!

Submitted by Denise K From LA on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:02 am

Congrats on the new blog. As a former Chicagoan and still unrepentant Cubbie fan, I really enjoyed your insights. And yet, I cannot help but feel for your long-suffering, clutter-surrounded wife... She must be a fine, young Cub supporter in her own right...

Submitted by this old cub on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:06 am

I too used retrosheet to find the box for my first game which was eons before you guys....6/1/52, lost to the Brooklyn Dodgers 3-2, saw Jackie Robinson for the Dodgers and Player-mgr, Phil Caveretta pinch hit and hit a triple. It was sold out.

Submitted by djchi on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:31 am

I wish I could remember the day of my first Cubs game. I was 2. The first game I know I was at was the home opener of 1976. Jerry Morales smacked a pair of homers and Rick Monday singled home Manny Trillo with the winning run in the ninth for a 5-4 Cubs victory.

Submitted by someguy on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:31 am

My first game was in September of 1985. The Reds were in town and Rose was on the verge of breaking the all time hit record. I was sure that I would see history being made. Rose went hitless that day, Parker hit a grand slam off of Smith in the 9th, but the Cubs still won 9 - 7. I still remember that feeling the first time I saw the field in person.

Submitted by (CA) Phil on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:03 am

I remember it too "Some Guy", I'm pretty sure that in 1967 I had yet to see Wrigley on a color TV. So very green. I'm interested in the number of posters whose first game was a win when you consider the history of the team, that seems statistically impossible! Maybe we just remember it that way? Maybe if you see a win in your first game you're more inclined to remain a fan?

Submitted by Rory on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:20 am

whats intresting is that the first game people attended is usually indicative of their age - or stated another way how much Cub misery they have indured. It makes for intresting read on experiences for those who post. Welcome CubNut I enjoyed reading your blog and I really like your writing style. By the way i still have my fav Chicago BlackHawks 72 cards. Every now and then its fun to see what Tony O looked like.

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:32 am

The first regular season Cubs game I ever attended was June 20, 1961, It was a Tuesday. Cubs versus Dodgers. I was six going on seven, and some guy named Sandy Koufax (who dat?) pitched a two-hit shutout with 14 Ks and the Cubs lost. (I guess it's kind of hard to win when you get shut out). Don Zimmer played 2B for the Cubs that day. After the game, my friend Bruce and I (and BTW, a big "Hi" to Bruce, wherever you are) stood on the ramp to the upper deck opposite the WGN-TV broadcast booth and watched (couldn't hear, though) Jack Brickhouse interview Maury Wills on the 10th Inning Show (sponsored by HFC). I believe that was the game where I popped my first beer cup, most probably while standing on the ramp watching Jack & Maury. And I'm sure we both laughed uproariously because that was SO FUNNY! But prior to that,on the last Saturday before Opening Day in 1961, I attended a Cubs-White Sox exhibition game at Wrigley Field, and Dick Ellsworth pitched a shutout for the Cubs that day.

Submitted by The Joe on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:11 am

Wow, you guys are old. The first game I can remember (though I'm sure I'd gone to others) must have been between 1992-1995 because only thing I can remember vividly is Steve Buechele handing a foul ball to an old lady.

Submitted by Danville Joe on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:12 am

My first Cub game was in 1963, I believe, probably in June or July. Coulda' been '64. We drove up with a friend of my father and his two kids. It was a Friday doubleheader against the Dodgers. I remember my Dad commenting it was a pretty good crowd for a Friday, about 10,000 in attendance. Joe Moeller started the first game for the Dodgers. I believe Ellis Burton was in center field for the Cubs, along with their usual lineup (Santo, Williams, Banks, Hubbs, Rodgers, Brock, and a catcher). As I recall, Billy Williams hit a walkoff home run in the 9th inning off Ron Perranoski to win the game. We left early into the second game. We were frozen, hungry and had a three hour ride home. All in all, it was a good day.

Submitted by someguy on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:44 am

My favorite cub game, and I will admit that I have not gone to a lot of them, was in 2003. The labor day game against the Cards. I went on a bus trip with a friend and we sat through the LONG rain delay. What was supposed to be a day game turned into a nite game and I think that Wrigley looks better under the lights when you are sitting in the stands than it does on TV. Prior won that game, Larussa pulled Pujols out in about the seventh inning and a drunk Card fan started yelling at Larussa. I was laughing pretty hard at the whole thing. It was late when we finally got back home that night, it is about 2 1/2 to 3 hours away, but I was not at all tired the next day at work. It is amazing how much a good day at the ball park (and I don't think there is any other kind of day) can make you feel.

Submitted by Transmission on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:56 am

First game was.... ah... I think 1988? I have a photo of Palmeiro warming up down the LF line. My dad was never a baseball fan, but took me, my brother and sister, and my mom. Very cool of him, in retrospect.

Submitted by Dave in Pittsburgh on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:09 pm

Born in Oak Park, raised in Glen Ellyn, yet STILL never attended an actual game at Wrigley all those years (1962-1970) before moving downstate. I did however absorb Jack Brickhouse and the Cubs theme song from "in utero" exposure to their telecasts. And I fondly remember all those day games from about 1966 on, because my Grandma put me into the back bedroom with WGN on the old B&W TV, when it was "my" naptime (really her naptime) and so I could memorize Beckert, Kessinger, Santo, Jenkins, Hickman, etc before I could read or write. First (and still only) actual game at Wrigley: 35 years later in 2000, with my own four daughters, on Father's Day. Sammy hit one out in the bottom of the first.

Submitted by (CA) Phil on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:29 pm

Maybe some youngster will go to his/her first game this year and fondly remember years from now. "I saw Soriano hit two homers and Prior pitch a four-hit shutout to beat the Cards. That, of course,was 2007, the year the Cubs finally won the World Series in a magical season. The Cubs spent a lot of money the off-season before and hired Lou Pinella to replace some old guy who didn't work out. Each of those moves really paid off, and though not expected to be much above .500 that club really had it going, not like those overpaid, lazy Cubs we have now." Hey, I can dream, that's what February's about.

Submitted by JonG on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:10 pm

Ahh, first games... I grew up a Cubs fan in L.A. (thanks, Dad) in the mid '70's, just after the breakup of the '69 Cubs. The Cubs were terrible; the Dodgers very good (this was 1974 and they'd go on to lose the World Series that year). I had latched on to Bill Madlock as my "favorite player", maybe because he was the bounty for Ferguson Jenkins, who had a cool name. When the starting lineups were announced, Madlock wasn't there and I was crestfallen. Despite a Rick Monday HR (for the Cubs), the Cubs were trailing 6-2 late in the top of the 8th. They loaded the bases, with Carmen Fanzone due up. Madlock was announced as a pinch hitter and I went nuts. He delivered; a pinch-hit grand slam to tie up the game. I was the happiest 9 year old in the world for that moment. Of course, Steve Garvey scored an unearned run in the top of the ninth (I've hated him ever since) and the Cubs lost 7-6, but I was hooked. I love that memory...

Submitted by CUBBY on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 02:46 pm

first cub game was at riverfront (we lived in columbus when i was young before dad moved the fam back to rockford). it was 1978, i was 4, and i dont remember much. i do though clearly remember crying at one point when a scoring play brought on sudden thunderous clapping and shouting. all these adults going bonkers scared the crap out of me. i remember my dad doing his earth-shaking wolf whistle and smiling down at me clapping like mad before picking me up to comfort me. all i remember about my first game at wrigley (later that year) is being blown away by the park when walking out into the stands (i know its cliche, but wrigley is beautiful) and the plastic kiddie batting helmet dad bought me, which became permanently attached to my head. it was cool cuz you could even wear it in the bath, being plastic and all. i dont have a scorecard from my first game at wrigley, but even better in my wallet i have the picture of me dwarfed in my new helmet with dad at that game. welcom to TCR cubnut!

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  • 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.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    The issue is the Cubs are 11-7 and have been on the road for 12 of those 18.  We should be at least 13-5, maybe 14-4. Jed isn't feeling any pressure to play anyone he doesn't see fit.
    But Canario on the bench, Morel not at 3B for Madrigal and Wisdom in RF wasn't what I thought would happen in this series.
    I was hoping for Morel at 3B, Canario in RF, Wisdom at DH and Madrigal as a pinch hitter or late replacement.
    Maybe Madrigal starts 1 game against the three LHSP for Miami.
    I'm thinking Canario goes back to Iowa on Sunday night for Mastrobuoni after the Miami LHers are gone.
    Canario needs ABs in Iowa and not bench time in MLB.
    With Seiya out for a while Wisdom is safe unless his SOs are just overwhelmingly bad.

    My real issue with the lineup isn't Madrigal. I'm not a fan, but I've given up on that one.
    It's Tauchman getting a large number of ABs as the de factor DH and everyday player.
    I didn't realize that was going to be the case.
    We need a better LH DH. PCA or ONKC need to force the issue in about a month.
    But, even if they do so, Jed doesn't have to change anything if the Cubs stay a few over .500!!!

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Totally depends on the team and the player involved. If your team’s philosophy is to pay huge dollars to bet on the future performance of past stars in order to win championships then, yes, all of the factors you mentioned are important.

    If on the other hand, if the team’s primary focus is to identify and develop future stars in an effort to win a championship, and you’re a young player looking to establish yourself as a star, that’s a fit too. Otherwise your buried within your own organization.

    Your comment about bringing up Canario for the purposes of sitting him illustrates perfectly the dangers of rewarding a non-performing, highly paid player over a hungry young prospect, like Canario, who is perpetually without a roster spot except as an insurance call up, but too good to trade. Totally disincentivizing the performance of the prospect and likely diminishing it.

    Sticking it to your prospects and providing lousy baseball to your fans, the consumers and source of revenue for your sport, solely so that the next free agent gamble finds your team to be a comfortable landing spot even if he sucks? I suppose  that makes sense to some teams but it’s definitely not the way I want to see my team run.

    Once again, DJL, our differences in philosophy emerge!

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    That’s just kinda how it works though, for every team. No team plays their best guys all the time. No team is comprising of their best 26 even removing injuries.

    When baseball became a business, like REALLY a business, it became important to keep some of the vets happy, which in turn keeps agents happy and keeps the team with a good reputation among players and agents. No one wants to play for a team that has a bad reputation in the same way no one wants to work for a company that has a bad rep.

    Don’t get me wrong, I hate it too. But there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

    On that topic, I find it silly the Cubs brought up Canario to sit as much as he has. He’s going to get Velazquez’d, and it’s a shame.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Of course, McKinstry runs circles around $25 million man Javier Baez on that Tigers team. Guess who gets more playing time?

    But I digress…

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Seems like Jed was trying to corner the market on mediocre infielders with last names starting with "M" in acquiring Madrigal, Mastroboney and Zach McKinstry.  

     

    At least he hasn't given any of them a Bote-esque extension.  

  • Childersb3 (view)

    AZ Phil:
    Rookie ball (ACL) starts on May 4th. Do yo think Ramon and Rosario (maybe Delgado) stay in Mesa for the month of May, then go to MB if all goes "solid"?
     

  • 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.

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