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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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Friday Funnies: What Theo Epstein and Ryan Dempster's secret trade chat might be.

Submitted by CubbyBlue on

Click to watch gif.

The other day in comments here, Jacos put up this link and asked for some captions.
Looks like the Uecker Seats doesn't it?
Thanks for the laugh and inspiration, Jacos ( and whoever took that photo).
If you're old enough, you'll know the "He missed the tag!" line comes from a really funny Miller Lite spot starring Bob Uecker which unfortunately I couldn't find in it's entirety on you tube.
Anyway, this trade talk.
Ryan Dempster.
Pretty sure this has occured to everyone, but I'm kinda slow: what if today is Dempster's last start as a Cub, or in Wrigley?
AHHHHH!
Do I want to see him go?
Yep.
For his own good, the Cubs good, and for your's and mine.
But still, pretty sad.
Really rare combo of talent and good guy, Dempster. 
And if I can figure out how to get to Wrigley today, I'll be there.

Comments

Submitted by Cubster on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 06:49 am

Happy 74th Birthday to sweet swinging Billy Williams, HOF lineup in (same as yesterday with Demp pitching): Campana, Castro, DeJesus, Soriano, LaHair, Clevenger, Barney, Valbuena, Dempster

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 06:29 pm

eric byrnes is the most annoying person on television...especially since gilbert godfried isn't on TV anymore...or fran dresher... he's got the worst skills for working with others on the mic, he don't know how to set up his co-hosts in ANY format, he loses cues when he's being set up, and his rambling hyperactive stories are usually self-serving leaving his co-hosts to do little but pick on him...which he usually replies with getting internally frustrated and being even worse on the mic til he gets it out of his system. /1st world problems

Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 06:35 pm

Beckett will miss Sunday start, lefty Franklin Morales instead. Jeff Baker time!!! Max Fried signs with Padres for $3M. Should set the bar for Almora, although Boras will certainly wait until the last minute.

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 06:39 pm

lulz... a reporter asked b.harper (underage and mormon) if he planned on taking advantage of Canada's lower drinking law age...he replied with "that's a clown question, bro." (which is not only a great answer, it's the right one given this climate of media everywhere and alcohol/baseball not having a good 2012 so far with the BOS reports). anyway, a denver brewing company is now making a beer called Clown Question, Bro.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 06:47 pm

some of the comments picking apart the article are even better. "This is a clown article, bro." "So hears the funny thing. The Nationals picked Harper first overall because they had the worst record in baseball. They didn't earn that pick through hard work, in fact they worked the least and were rewarded for it. That sounds like income redistribution to me. Bryce Harper is a socialist hero." "Just because you CAN type words doesn't mean you should." "I remember when Kirby Puckett used to run out ground balls back in the 80s and 90s. And I remember when Derek Jeter used to run out ground balls back in the 90s and 00s. It's almost as if there have always been some players who ran hard, and some players who dogged it. Almost as if baseball players are individuals." blah, blah, blah, don't bring up politics on TCR, I know...yadda, yadda, yadda. It's the hackneyed analogy regardless of what side of the fence that I found particularly entertaining/appalling.

Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 06:56 pm

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/page/caple-120615/a-plan-save-save-make-… (GM Jon Daniels)..."But the save definitely impacts how the game is managed."... Most managers vigorously deny this, but they're either lying or kidding themselves. They all use their closers depending strictly on whether it is or is not a save situation. Managers do so because they are trapped by the save rule. To manage otherwise puts their jobs at risk by upsetting the closer, the closer's agent, the closer's wife and those people most easily irritated -- the media. Still, none of this would be a big deal except for one thing: The whole one-inning save strategy doesn't work. For example, it doesn't prolong the careers of relievers. ~snip~ And most importantly, it doesn't help teams win more often. ~snip~ ....the success rate for a team protecting a ninth-inning lead hasn't changed a bit over time, regardless of relief strategy. "It has never changed. Ever," Smith says. "If you lead by three runs going into the ninth inning, you're probably going to win. It's a pretty safe bet."

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Submitted by crunch on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 06:04 pm

unless the guy hasn't worked in a while...i -hate- it when a guy is brought in to get a save in situations where a guy(s) on base make the situation a save. when you're up by 4 runs and you bring in your best arm to protect that lead just because there's men on base giving a save op...maaaan...

Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 06:03 pm

Rashad Crawford's uncle signed up for an account on TCR, says he's signed.

Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 06:09 pm

@thekapman I spoke w/ 2 scouts who were at today's Cubs/Red Sox game + both told me that Yankees are much more interested in Matt Garza than Dempster. They question Dempster's effectiveness in the AL East and point to Garza's track record pitching in Tampa. They also feel price to acquire Garza will be extremely high as opposed to cost of landing Dempster which could make Demp easier to move.

Submitted by Charlie on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 06:11 pm

Cubs collect 4 hits and commit 3 errors, but win this game somehow. Amazing. Nice work, Dempster. Need to see Dempster, Garza, Marmol, Soto, and LaHair all getting hot from now through the trade deadline.

Submitted by jacos on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 06:49 pm

Hooray for spray charts- Phil Rogers tweet What made Ryan Dempster so effective against the Red Sox? "A lot of balls were hit at people,'' Bobby Valentine said. "Some guys weren't picking up the spin very well.'' Said Dustin Pedroia: "He was throwing everything -- his changeup, his cutter, his fastball. He did a good job.'' Pedroia couldn't say the same thing for his teammates. "We hit some balls good, we just hit 'em right at 'em. It's frustrating. We're not trying to be (bad). Everybody's trying. We're just not playing good. We scored zero runs. You can't win a game when you score zero runs.''

Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 06:18 pm

I believe the only Cub draftee in the CWS is 26th round pick, RHP Jasvir Rakkar of Stony Brook. Stony Brook losing badly to UCLA in the first game at the moment 8-1 in the 6th. Rakkar came in to relieve and has gone 2.2 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 K.

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Submitted by Childersb3 on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 06:27 pm

J. Rakkar finished with 4 1/3 IP, 4 hits, 1ER, 2BB and 4K. I watched an inning in the middle of his appearance. He's got a high 80's (touched 90) with a bit of two seam movement. I saw an 81mph pitch that looked like a change-up, but really acted more like a slow 2-seam sinker. I didn't see a breaking ball. Decent size, fairly easy delivery. He'll make it to at least AA.

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 06:46 pm

dumpster may play a few more games for the cubs, but as of now... 87 saves in 4 mixed bag seasons for the cubs, but he really shined once they returned him to his starter role (a year too late, imo, but whatever)... 143 gs 55-44 w/l 898.1 ip 3.69 era 1.30 whip he put in 31-34 starts a season all 4 years and he could make it a 5th 30+ season, though he missed a couple of weeks earlier this season.

Submitted by Jim Hickmans Bat on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 06:21 pm

Give Hendry credit, rescuing Dempster from the dumpster (hehe) was one of his best moves as Cubs' GM. I'm really starting to regret a bit how much I dissed Hendry's work with the Cubs. He deserves blame for more than a couple moves no doubt, but Dempster? Lilly? Lee? Ramirez? DeRosa? Those aren't clown moves, bro.

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Submitted by MikeC on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 06:53 pm

Ya but its all erased by signing Dusty Baker, Neifi Perez and Glendon Rusch to multi-year deals (seriously you dimwit tard?), giving Jason Marquis a raise after coming off his shitty 6.02 ERA from the Cardinals, John Grabow who was a mediocre pitcher at best with the Pirates . But let me get to the 2 moves that made him a clown GM. He got swindled by Milton Bradley, and he signed Greg Maddux when all his team ever wanted was some offense. It was nothing more than a giant "screw you Chicago". It was looking at the shiny new toy Maddux and welcoming him back while he shits in his other hand and hobbles a team with no offense. It was a shell game to make you forget he failed at his job so he distracts you with Greg Maddux. And to throw some more trash on the burning legacy of Hendry, if he wanted you gone he would do everything in his power to trash you in the media and burn any lasting trade value you could get out of a player. The dude was a serious clown as a GM, ooooohhhhh and his draft strategy was god awful. From 1995 through 2011 he was the main guy selecting talent for this team. Even when he had top picks they bombed. And he constantly drafted players who looked good as baseball players but actually couldn't play baseball. I guess we called these Hendry's Toolsy players jack of all trades master of none. Actually Hendry's draft ability was akin to throwing darts at a dart board blind folded. When he left the farm system was a barren train wreck. That was probably his greatest crime to this organization, being billed as a guy who could find talent. You had a better chance of stabbing yourself in the heart than for Hendry to find useable talent for his roster.

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Submitted by Old and Blue on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 06:22 am

He was pretty good at finding pitching talent early on. In fact, he got off to a pretty decent start, with Ramirez, Dempster, Lee. Things went downhill fast. Faster, really, than I knew at the time. When he gambled and lost on Soriano, that finished him off. And he never was good at finding position talent. The system is really showing that now at the upper levels. And the journeymen he kept signing drove me nuts. I just hope that as the goes on and Theocorp continues to blow up the team, they get rid of dead wood like Mather, Baker and Reed Johnson. I have nothing against any of those guys. They'd all be a good bench addition on a contender with an open spot. But they are useless here. I'd rather see some kid play, even if he isn't a prospect. I'd rather see the team cycle through some minor leaguers and see if there is a guy who has paid his dues unspectacularly and who somehow, getting a chance at "the show" kicks some ass. I'm not at all interested in watching Jeff Baker hit. Or Mather. Or any other journeyman. Blow this team up. Fill it with minor leaguers. The record won't be that much different.

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Submitted by MikeC on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 06:58 pm

I can't put Soriano on Hendry......that was a decision made above Hendry's pay grade. The Cubs needed to increased the sale price of the franchise and to do that you add the best talent available and we did that in Soriano. The sad part of signing Soriano is that it had nothing to do with winning baseball games it was a business decision, plain and simple. It is also sad that he is the biggest free agent signing we did in the last 20+ years and it still wasn't made on the basis of winning games. And for the last 20+ years the Cubs have been run as a business first and a baseball team 2nd. Knowing that i welcomed the Soriano signing......you got to take your shots and you cant be scared to do it again in the future.

Submitted by MikeC on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 06:26 pm

If the Cubs are gonna trade i am looking towards Boston. That OF is gonna get crazy crowded soon. Daniel Nava is hitting like a god, they got Ryan Kalish returning from shoulder surgery, Cody Ross could return soon and then there is Ellsbury and Crawford looming. Ohh please oh please if we could snag Kalish for Dempster or something that would be awesome.

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 06:15 am

Automatic "no trade" rights held by post-2011 Article XX-B MLB free-agents David DeJesus, Reed Johnson, and Paul Maholm have expired, and so all three can now be traded without restriction. Any Article XX-B MLB FA who signed a major league contract after the five-day "quiet period" that followed the conclusion of the 2011 World Series (including players who re-signed with their 2011 team) received automatic "no trade" rights through June 15th. The player could waive the right, but if he did, he could only be traded for cash and/or player contracts with a maximum aggregate value of $50,000.

Submitted by Ryno on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 06:21 am

Just got back from my Chicago trip (went to wrigley for the wednesday and thursday games) and I have a few not-so-surprising impressions- impressions that perhaps don't necessarily require a trip to Chicago to observe: 1. The Tiger fans-to-Cub fans ratio was ridiculous. They were even chanting Let's Go Tigers on the train ride up to Wrigley on the L. 2. Despite watching the Cubs lose two days in a row, the games were surprisingly entertaining. The Cubs played decent defense (Castro played nice defense those two days) and stayed in the game until the final innings. 3. The team is over-matched against real big league teams in nearly every aspect. It has the feel of a team that is passing off AA & AAA guys as big leaguers- especially in the pitching department.

Submitted by Cubster on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 06:21 pm

from Roto...
The Red Sox will recall Clayton Mortensen from Triple-A Pawtucket. He'll replace Josh Beckett (shoulder) on the active roster. Mortensen earned the promotion by posting a 2.39 ERA and 1.02 WHIP in 15 appearances with Pawtucket. He'll return to a middle relief role with the Red Sox.
Dang, I was hoping to see a #22 sighting in the Bosox bullpen tonight.

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 06:04 pm

not like it'd hurt much, but i.stewart might be gone a while...via cm's twitter: "Ian Stewart will see a hand specialist at the Cleveland Clinic on Monday for an examination of his left wrist." also, wtf does c.lee have to do to get a win this year? 77.2ip and counting. also also, wtf Fox Saturday baseball showing the BAL/ATL game. the one night they're not cramming BOS/NYY/NYM at me and they pick tonight. neat. ...at least it's a decent game so far.

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I have had the pleasure of watching some of the young A's pitchers lately (first Joe Boyle the last day of Minor League Spring Training in March, and more recently Luis Morales last week and Steven Echavarria yesterday at Extended Spring Training), and it reminds me of the Miami Marlins a couple of years ago. A really nice collection of young pitchers. It will be interesting to see what the A's will get for two years of ex-Cub Paul Blackburn at the Trade Deadline (there should be a robust market for Blackburn). 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Good deal

    MB needs some talent infusion!

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Very possible. Suriel, too. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    DJL: if a pitcher is recalled to be the 27th man for a doubleheader and then is optioned back to the minors the next day, the 15-day "clock" does NOT reset. The one day call-up for the doubleheader is treated like it never happened with respect to a pitcher having to spend at least 15 days on optional assignment before he can be recalled. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Probably the only reason David Peralta is still in the organization (he is at AAA Iowa) is to be available in case anything bad were to happen to Ian Happ (which it just did). So if Happ needs to go on the IL, the Cubs can select Peralta to play LF, DFA Wisdom (and hope he and what remains of his $2.725M salary gets claimed off waivers), and recall Mervis to platoon at DH with Cooper (with Canario / Tauchman sharing RF), at least until Suzuki and Happ are back...

     

  • crunch (view)

    i'd just like to take a moment to express to the world i'm still pissed willson contreras is not a cub when the pricetag was 5/87m (17.5m/yr).

    it would be nice to have a legacy-type player to stick around, especially one with his leadership and the respect he gets from his peers.  cubs fans deserved more than 1 season of contreras + morel...that was gold.

  • 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)

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