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

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, twelve players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, one player is on the 15-DAY IL, and one player is on the 10-DAY IL

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PITCHERS: 14
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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Cubs @ Pirates: Lester vs Kingham (Game 51)

Submitted by CTSteve on

CHC (28-22): LHP Jon Lester (4-2, 2.37) 
PIT (28-25): RHP Nick Kingham (2-1, 3.44)
First pitch: 6:05pmCST

Lester took the loss against the Indians at Wrigley on Wednesday (7 IP, 1 ER). He gave up 4 ER in 5 innings for a no-decision in Pittsburgh on April 11. Overall, these Pirates are 55-25 (.268) against him. Mercer is 7-24 with a HR.

Kingham is in for Nova, who was placed on the DL yesterday with a sprained finger. The 26y/o Texan Kingham lost to the Padres his last time out (6 IP, 3 ER). This will be his third career start. None of the Cubs have faced him.

Hendricks and Musgrove close out the series tomorrow at 6:05pmCST.

Go Cubs!

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Comments

Submitted by billybucks on Tue, 05/29/2018 - 05:11 am

When Rizzo gets drilled today, I'd love to see im go after Hurdle,  rather than the pitcher who is following Hurdle's orders.

Submitted by Hagsag on Tue, 05/29/2018 - 05:19 am

Where is Eddie Butler these days? I know he is on the DL, but never hear a thing about him. Is he in AZ. Phil?

Submitted by The E-Man on Tue, 05/29/2018 - 05:24 am

Gotta love the "...the Cubs have never faced him before."

The team typically manages to turn these guys into Cy Young for a day. Last week's game against the Tribe and Pluto (3 hit shutout) case in point. Among many more. 

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 05/29/2018 - 05:42 pm

a.alzolay: 4ip 0h 0bb 3k...60 pitches

no idea why he was removed after only throwing 60 pitches, but it's supposedly not injury (or keeping him fresh for a call-up). odd way to cap 4 perfect innings when he was allowed to throw 90 pitches and suck recently.

also, b.markey showed up after alzolay to give up 4 runs because why not...

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 05/29/2018 - 05:33 pm

Zobrist 2B, Schwarber LF, Bryant 3B, Rizzo 1B, Contreras C, Happ CF, Russell SS, Heyward RF, Lester P

Submitted by Eric S on Tue, 05/29/2018 - 05:18 pm

If Almora had started in CF instead of Happ he would have hit a five run homer in the first inning -- well, at least Happ didn't strike out. 

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 05/29/2018 - 05:28 pm

happ is pretty much the worst human being without a twitter account...wait, he has a twitter account...dude is straight up literally hitler.

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Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Wed, 05/30/2018 - 05:57 am

Killer season--you mean the one where Heyward hit 13 home runs in 610 PAs? He's always underachieved with his bat. But they liked him for his age and demeanor and smarts (and his glove, obviously), and, who knows, maybe he'll still turn into something. He's still a young guy (29). He does look a little better these days, to me, than before. Every couple of games he gets the barrel on the ball and yanks one down the line with authority. He also hits line drives to the opposite field. So that's two things he can do with the bat other than grounding to first or second. Getting rid of Mallee and Hinske was a good first step. I don't think Chili Davis is into mechanical overhauls of a hitter's swing.

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Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 05/30/2018 - 05:12 am

Maybe not a Killer Season, but pretty damn good in 2015: -- 6.6 WAR, 15th in MVP voting, .293 BA, .359 OBP, 23/26 SB, Gold Glove. He's not a power hitter, but I think we'd all sign up for those 2015 numbers (or ever a reasonable facsimile) for the next several years.

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    Phil: Great to see what Rosario is doing!

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  • crunch (view)

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    The Savannah Bananas will be playing the Party Animals at Sloan Park in Mesa this coming Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. The games are sold out (15,000+ each night), and berm tickets are going for well over $100. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    RAISIN: In the game versus the A's at Fitch Park last Friday, Mule threw half FB and half SL (16/16), and one CH (which coincidentally was the only hard-hit ball off him -- a near HR line-drive double off the LF fence). FB was 91-94 and the SL (really more of a "slurve") was 80-82, and he got three swing & miss on each pitch (six swing & miss total out of his 20 strikes). So I think it is safe to say that right now, Mule is strictly a two-pitch pitcher (FB/SL), 

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Recalled it was sampled in a Nas song.  Did a little sleuthing.  It was a Nas song called "Hate Me Now" that featured Puff Daddy.  Imploring the crowd to hate somebody seems a bit overly dramatic for a keyboardist but perhaps there is some other connection to the song. 

     

    In general there has been a weird overuse of Carmina Burana's O Fortuna in sports and commercials in past decade or so.  Maybe it is a fallback choice if there isn't anything else.   

     

    Sidenote, while the O Fortuna part has become a bit pop-culture cliched; the overall piece is very interesting and rather expansive in scope. I played percussion in a production of it while in college.  There is a rather jovial movement set in a tavern.  In the score it calls for the clinking of beer steins.  Let's just say we did a lot of research to determine the best sounding beer steins. 

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    ooof...this is just as likely as anything.  professional organists are weird humans.

  • SheffieldCornelia (view)

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  • crunch (view)

    in 2016 hendricks threw 190 innings for 45 earned runs.

    in the shortened 2020 season hendricks threw 81.1ip for 26 earned runs.

    in 2024 hendricks has thrown 21ip for 28 earned runs.

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