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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: 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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Cubs @ Phillies: Hendricks vs Eickhoff (Game 57)

Submitted by CTSteve on

Baby Maddux goes back to the mound.CHC (40-16): RHP Kyle Hendricks (4-4, 2.84)
PHI (28-30): RHP Jerad Eickhoff (2-8, 3.93)
First pitch: 6:05pmCST

Hendricks beat the Dodgers on Thursday (8 IP, 2 ER, 6 K, 1 BB). He’s 1-3 with a 4.37 on the road so far this year. The Phillies are 7-42 (.167) against him. Galvis is 2-3.

Eickhoff lost to Milwaukee (6.2 IP, 2 ER, 4 K, 1 BB) his last time out. He lost at Wrigley before that (6 IP, 4 ER, 7 K, 1 BB). He’s 2-3 with a 2.27 at home so far this year. The Cubs are 10-41 (.244) against him. Heyward and Zobrist are 2-3. Fowler (1-4) has a HR.

Lackey (6-2, 2.88) versus Velasquez (5-2, 3.67) at 12:05pmCST tomorrow to end the series.

Go, Cubs!

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Submitted by Cubster on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:48 am

per Roto... Jorge Soler (hamstring) will undergo an MRI on Tuesday. Soler exited Monday's game against the Phillies with a left hamstring injury. The Cubs will look at the test results before deciding on a possible stint on the disabled list. Source: Mark Gonzales on Twitter Wittenmeyer/Sun-times article says Murton likely call up but some chance we'll see Almora http://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/cubs-soler-leaves-game-with-hamstrin…

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Submitted by johann on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:37 am

Ugh this sucks. He has a .882 OPS in the last 28 days and 1.084 in the last week and his fielding has been much better. You could tell how unhappy he was after the game and how much he wants to be out there. I had just come up with a great line when we face the Pirates too so he needs to be back by then : "we don't need any Cole because this team is Soler powered."

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Submitted by johann on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:12 am

When it comes puns I try to give my Almora will be coming soon as I try to deal with this injury and hope the Cubs don't drop a Schlitter on us. Last night was a bit Grimm at the end but these Cubs can still give us Wood with their pitching and Russell up some great offense so we should be fine.

Submitted by Cubster on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:24 pm

Nothing much to report from the Joe Maddon WSCR regular show at noon. Solar MRI results not in. Supposedly said that if Almora is called up, he won't be an everyday player. He'll be worked into the lineup like everyone else. Said Almora fits the team's culture and he lauds how he's played and carried himself in spring training.

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Submitted by johann on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:41 pm

It's no different then not playing Soler everyday and playing the matchups. When Soler started hitting more he started playing more and I assume the same will hold true for Almora. Though personally I don't believe in either Stella or Szczur as starters and would rather keep them as pinch hitters or to give starters a rest. Don't expect a lot bat wise from Almora though. He had a .327 OBP last year and .335 this year. That does not seem like it will translate very well to the majors.

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Submitted by Dusty Baylor on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:59 pm

Well..okay. But Soler had played 101 games in MLB last year right? They didn't bring him up from AAA and start sitting him. If Almora was putting up a .318/.375/.444 line in AAA, maybe I'd feel better about it. I'd rather see LaStella and Szczur mix and mtch, with Bryant shuttling from LF to 3B

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Submitted by johann on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:50 pm

If you mean you don't think Almora should be brought up at all then I agree. It's going to depend on how long Soler is out but assuming it's just a short term thing I'd rather Murton get brought up because it doesn't really matter if he sits a lot. If Almora does get brought up though the difference with Soler last year is this year's team is deeper and the expectations are higher.

Submitted by Cubster on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:34 pm

Pirates bringing up Jameson Taillon, starts tomorrow vs Mets. Might see him vs Pirates next weekend at Wrigley (if he stays up). If Cubs rotation doesn't change and nobody is skipped with some off days coming, the Pirates series would be Arrieta, Lester, Hendricks

Submitted by chitownmvp01 on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:36 pm

Perhaps Murton not getting called up is to avoid DFAinng him when Soler returns. He's hitting .311 with an OBP of .350 in Iowa right now, along with his experience, another team in need of an outfielder (Giants for example) could take a flyer on Murton. Also, Soler on DL, Almora called up is now official: https://twitter.com/CSNMooney/status/740264507554037760

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Submitted by Cubster on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:46 pm

If the term strain is being used correctly, it means muscle injury. Sprain is used for ligaments. Tear is not the usual term here and is more for meniscal cartilage injury. Technically though, the muscle is disrupted or torn. The tendon that attaches to muscle can be injured too but with hamstrings, it's usually one of the muscle belly's that gets injured. The hamstrings are a group of muscles and they have origins from the pelvis and femur. The Lateral hamstring has two heads of origin, is called the biceps femoris and attaches near the lateral collateral ligament of the knee (the ligament that Kyle Schwarber injured). The medial hamstrings include the sartorius, semimembranosis and semitendinosis muscles which insert below and on the inside of the knee. Hamstring muscle injuries rarely need surgery (unless it's the tendon insertion that is torn) because sewing up muscle belly is like using stitches to put two cubes of jello together (it just doesn't hold). The good news is muscle heals or at least can be built up to compensate for any surrounding residual bad jello. The medial hamstring tendon of the semitendinosis muscle is often used for graft material in ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) reconstruction surgery. It's somewhat expendable based on this.

Submitted by cubbies.4ever on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:20 pm

Looking forward, Almora will "probably" be CF next year. Fowler has a mutal option for $5 MIL buyout. My guess is is Fowler will say no and walk and take the $5 MIL, if the Cubs said yes I feel like the Cubs should only have to give him $2.5MIL. Kind of like they both write their answers on a card and flip them at the same time to see what the pay out will be, not the team getting stuck with the whole $5MIL if Dexter says no and Cubs yes.

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Submitted by crunch on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:36 pm

even if almora is just a doug glanville type, at least he's got 4-6 years of affordable cost during his club control. him and scruzrurzzrurzr (and heyward) should be able to adequately cover CF even if it's not a platoon situation and a bit of a downgrade from fowler. given the amount of time schwarber and soler (and bryant) should be in the corner OF, you gotta imagine we'll be seeing almora and his D/arm/coverage in CF more than anyone else.

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:15 pm

I will be in one of the nosebleed sections to tonight's game down the RF line.  Will take very uninteresting pictures and give a very uninteresting report back, after...

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Submitted by johann on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:34 pm

More like Bryant for that terrible OF play. Russell's catch, on the other hand, was ridiculous and he even did the roll to his feet after just for further awesomeness.

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Submitted by chitownmvp01 on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:49 pm

Richard won't get DFA'd unless they trade for a LHRP. He has a 3.35 FIP and has getting ground balls, but they keep getting through. Needs to locate pitches better. Wouldn't expect Concepcion (another lefty) in AAA who's pitching very well to get called up unless there is an injury because he started the year in AA. Other than that, there is very little LHRP depth.

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Submitted by crunch on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:26 pm

yeah, he's probably here a while longer. concepcion hasn't been doing that great after a hot start and g.soto (on the 40 man) has been a disaster in AAA. soto seems like a lost cause. concepcion will probably get a callup at some point.

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Submitted by chitownmvp01 on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 06:50 pm

Richard should pitch in low leverage situations until he starts playing better. Pull the plug on him if he continues to struggle when pitching in 5+ run leads. Also, Richard doesn't pitch often enough to get into a good rhythm. Concepcion is a strong candidate for a September call up or if Wood gets injured (knock on wood). Next time I want to see Richard is in the 9th inning of a 7-0 game.

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Submitted by johann on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 06:11 pm

While some of what Richards is giving up is bad luck (BABIP is .447) it's also compounded by his inability to get much swing and miss. He only has a 6% swing and miss rate and 10.4% K rate, both of which are terrible. He isn't fooling anyone and so while he gets lots of ground-balls they're hard hit. He's throwing a career high amount of fastballs and isn't throwing a cutter at all and very little of his slider which to me would partially explain why he's not fooling anyone. Not sure why he's doing that this year but when you throw a fastball only averaging 91.9 86% of the time it has to be very well located to have any success.

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:09 pm

Russell's catch was as awesome live as it looked on the big acreen replay.  Bryant looked lost on the flyball.  I have the Ueker seat.....

Submitted by The E-Man on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:31 pm

Man, how many .200-ish hitters can the team support in one lineup?

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:33 pm

heyward...sigh. bases loaded, 0 out...sac fly fowler, double play heyward.

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Submitted by crunch on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 06:15 pm

well, there was another guy left on the bench, but he's not allowed to play baseball...and would have been a worse option anyway. it would be nice if someone else was around who could have hit in that situation. we're 27 days into fed sitting on the bench...5 PA, 2 innings of D.

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