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crunch 18 hours 24 minutes ago (view)

hendricks IL...lower back...

given recent backlash by MLB, i doubt this is a phanton IL.

wtf...also drew smyly to IL...right hip...

crunch 18 hours 28 minutes ago (view)

boston, houston, miami...lots of potential suitors for a backup 1st/DH who won't be pain if they need regular ABs

Childersb3 18 hours 46 minutes ago (view)

BOS 1B Casas just hit the IL. Maybe Cooper goes there.

Cooper leaving does open a 40man spot. Probably for an arm at some point.

Horton?

Maybe Caissie

crunch 19 hours 51 minutes ago (view)

now that cooper is gone, who's going to the IL?  seems like it will probably be a pitcher at this point.

crunch 20 hours 1 minute ago (view)

can't wait to see what A-ball fringe corner OF/1st he'll be traded for...

Childersb3 20 hours 4 minutes ago (view)

Cooper DFA'd

Arizona Phil 21 hours 30 minutes ago (view)

Players on the 40 can be recalled and be placed on the MLB Taxi Squad for one day, like for example if a club is unsure if a player might or might not be placed on the IL ("game time decision"). Like maybe Happ, for example. 

Also, a player on the MLB Taxi Squad must be returned to his optional assignment the next day if he is not officially recalled to the 26-man roster. 

The player is NOT paid at the MLB split rate and does NOT accrue MLB Service Time while he is on the Taxi Squad. Also, it is not considered to be an official recall / option back if he is not added to the 26-man roster. 

Arizona Phil 21 hours 31 minutes ago (view)

Wesneski has not spent 15 days on optional assignment since he was optioned so he cannot be recalled unless he is replacing a player being placed on the IL or other MLB inactive list (Paternity, Bereavement / Family Medical, et al), a player who is traded, or a player who is claimed off waivers.

crunch 21 hours 54 minutes ago (view)

excited to see more power in the lineup.

HOU going with 3 righty starters vs the cubs and their only lefty pen arm is hader.

unless busch has a mystery injury, we should see busch+mervis working all 3 games.

fullykräusened 21 hours 54 minutes ago (view)

More than 50 years ago (I'm old), I was in the audience when my HS choir performed the whole thing. (It was a really elite choir and director.) That was my first exposure to the piece. You're right, Sonicwind75, there is a lot more to it than "O Fortuna," just like there's a lot more to Beethoven's Ninth than the Ode to Joy, etc. Much if it, as you say, is bawdy: "O! O! Totus florio! Iam amori virginali, totus ardeo!" Basically, "I'm really horny for these virgins!" And the guys in the choir adopted the "Skoal"- type greeting from the tavern scene: "Wafna!" 

crunch 22 hours 5 minutes ago (view)

i would have pause if the cubs had a pitching squeeze.   as it is, they have more guys than they have roster.

Childersb3 22 hours 51 minutes ago (view)

Maybe Brewer

He'd be able to leave the Cubs. He's out of options. That would open up a 40man spot.

I don't think Jed would do that.

crunch 23 hours 3 minutes ago (view)

brewer has done nothing to keep him on the big league roster...imagine that's 1 guy gone.

yeah, it's only 2 appearances, but they were both unimpressive.

Childersb3 23 hours 24 minutes ago (view)

Yeah it is.....sorry......closers don't throw 89mph

It would be unique for sure.

But CP can't be HR susceptible

That's what Alzolay has right now and that's what Kyle has no matter the situation.

Childersb3 23 hours 28 minutes ago (view)

Supposedly Happ said on a radio show he's good to go

I hadn't read that anywhere from the usual accounts, so this could be off.

If true, Canario goes down.

TarzanJoeWallis 23 hours 46 minutes ago (view)

Hmmm. Maybe my idea of transitioning Hendricks into a closer role isn’t so crazy.

Childersb3 23 hours 56 minutes ago (view)

Mervis and Wesneski getting promoted aaccording to Tommy Birch from Des Moines Register.

So Happ to the IL

Maybe Hendricks to IL ????

Mervis/Cooper are DH platoon

Wisdom, Canario, Tauchman share LF/RF

I wonder if Busch has ever played LF?

I don't believe he has

crunch 1 day 1 hour ago (view)

“I respect his track record of what he’s accomplished,” Counsell said on Sunday morning. “And you go through these. He’s gone through -- maybe not this particular stretch -- but stretches where you’re not pitching the way you want to and struggling. And you figure it out.” -- Counsell on Hendricks

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...

i respect his track record of no longer being in the rotation.  in 2016 he threw 2 innings out of the pen, his only work out of the pen.  the cubs won the world series that year.  let's repeat that magic.  the formula is obvious.  stats don't lie.  etc etc whatever...

small sample size and all, but how about this craziness...

"Entering Sunday, Hendricks had allowed an .843 OPS against hitters in their initial plate appearance, followed by a 1.056 OPS in a second meeting and a 2.449 OPS when seeing batters for a third time."

Finwe Noldaran 1 day 10 hours ago (view)

Phil: Great to see what Rosario is doing!

Do you think having Rosario may have influenced/impacted the front office's decision on including Hope in the trade for Busch at all?

crunch 1 day 14 hours ago (view)

it's so crazy we got a new "barnstorming" harlem globetrotters-type baseball product that was introduced less than 5 years ago and is wildly popular all over the nation.

a notion left long in the past, unearthed, polished for modern audiences and popular as ever.