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39 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (one slot is open), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL and one player has been DESIGNATED FOR ASSIGNMENT (DFA)   

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and nine players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are 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
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
* Matt Mervis
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 9 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 3
Kyle Hendricks, P 
* Drew Smyly, P 
* Justin Steele, P   

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P

DFA: 1 
Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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Dodgers @ Cubs: Stripling vs Lester (Game 71)

Submitted by CTSteve on

LAD (38-34): RHP Ross Stripling (6-1, 1.76)
CHC (41-29): LHP Jon Lester (8-2, 2.28)
First pitch: 1:20pmCST
 
Lester gave up 2 ER in 6 innings on Friday in St. Louis for his fourth straight win. He’s 3-0 with an 0.90 ERA in June. Overall, the Dodgers are 18-93 (.194) against him. Hernandez is 4-14 with 2 HR.

Stripling, who started the season in the pen, has won his last 6 starts, including his last outing against the Giants (6.1 IP, 2 ER). The Cubs are 0-18 against him. Yikes. 

After the game, the Cubs head to Cincinnati to face Harvey and the Reds for a four-game set. Hendricks is first on the mound for the Cubs starting tomorrow at 6:10pmCST.

Go Cubs!  

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Comments

Submitted by Ryno on Wed, 06/20/2018 - 06:56 am

I would just like to say fuck all Republicans and their complicity towards Trump and his authoritarian actions towards immigrants and asylum seekers.  Ban me if you want, I'm long past giving a shit--and I'm telling everyone I know.

Ryan M.

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Submitted by CTSteve on Thu, 06/21/2018 - 06:44 pm

By the way, when the Cubs visited the White House in 2017, from the TCR account I tweeted "One man's respecting the office is another man's normalizing a monster." We took some hits and lost a couple of followers. I call that a win.

Submitted by The E-Man on Wed, 06/20/2018 - 06:03 am

As far as I recall, the only banning here was the infamous Silent Towel. I may be mistaken - ROB G would know, or maybe AZ PHIL. So I think you are safe. And correct in this case.

Submitted by First.Pitch.120 on Wed, 06/20/2018 - 06:23 am

600-Day DL?

Right now Eddie Butler's BBRef page has the greatest typo of all time...

"Butler has been transferred to the 600-day disabled list with a right groin strain and is likely to remain absent from the bullpen until sometime in June. (Updated June 11, 2018)"

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 06/20/2018 - 06:53 am

Yesterday's "26th Man" RHRP Justin Hancock remains on Cubs MLB 25-man roster as RHRP Brandon Morrow is placed on 10-day DL (retro to 6/17). So Morrow will be eligible to be reinstated in exactly one week (next Wednesday).  

Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 06/20/2018 - 06:51 am

After giving up 8ER and 16 hits/BB in 8.2 IP and taking 2 L's agains the Brewers, Jake takes the mound today against STL.  C'mon, old pal.

Submitted by videographer on Wed, 06/20/2018 - 06:37 pm

Darvish threw a sim game yesterday against Happ and LaStella.  I can imagine the box score:  K W K W K 1B K 1B K W.

Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 06/20/2018 - 06:33 pm

Great all-around game! (other than the umpires stealing a run from the Cubs on the Lester checked swing call.). 

Baez with 3 XBH -- againt LAD pitching!  And, nice to see TLS back on the board.  Now, if Willson can just find his mojo.  

That Lester contract is looking better and better.

 

 

Submitted by fullykräusened on Wed, 06/20/2018 - 06:39 pm

I was lucky to be at today's game. Parked at Addison and Marchfield (the days of being able to park on the street east of Southport are long gone), had a nice lunch at Machu Picchu on Ashland, moseyed to the ballpark. I was thinking, "I have never seen such a defensive effort by the Cubs in a long time," and when I got back to my car and listened to 670, they were saying the same thing. Wow. The high point of course was Heyward's throw; I was thinking "please send him, he'll be a dead duck," and that's how it turned out. Anyway, Jon Lester (who did a nice job of dropping that slow curve over the outside corner against right-handed hitters) needs to buy at least five expensive steaks: Heyward, Almora, Contreras, Bryant, and Baez. What a great game; it was fun from my upper-deck left-field box to see that thing of beauty, and then Baez swings over his head and then hits a blast from his shoetops. That's our Javy, mas o menos. 

And Ryno, I'm with you brother, long-time poster, and to crunch too. 

 

Submitted by fullykräusened on Wed, 06/20/2018 - 06:42 pm

Hey, one last thing. Would it be cool for this site to discuss good places to eat before or after Cubs games? I get the sense that this is a pretty "attuned" group, and lately it has struck me that there is a plethora of nice places to eat around the ballpark, more all the time, and it might be fun to discuss these!

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Submitted by The E-Man on Thu, 06/21/2018 - 06:12 am

As long as it doesn’t turn into Bleed... That’s one reason why I stopped going/posting there. I wanted to mostly talk baseball, not restaurants, films, dogs, cars, how to get to Wrigley, etc., most of the time.

Submitted by Mornington Crescent on Wed, 06/20/2018 - 06:24 pm

Shutouts for and against the Cubs: all of 2017 season: 8 for, 10 against; 2018 season through June 20: 10 for, 7 against.

 

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  • Childersb3 (view)

    Jed has added Teheran, Tyranski, Kissaki, and now Straily and Nico Zeglin today.

    Zeglin is 24 yrs old. Pitched well at Long Beach St in '23 and well in some Indy Ball.

    They also added Reilly and Viets in late ST.

    Have to search for MiLB arm depth anywhere you can and at all times!!!

  • Childersb3 (view)

    25 in Attendance!!!

    Phil, is that a backfield record?

    Also, 6 BBs for Cruz in 2 IP. What's the most walks you've seen in one EXT ST outing that you can recall?

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    He has a pulse. Apparently that’s the only requirement at this point.

  • crunch (view)

    cubs sign dan straily...for some reason.  minor league deal.

    welcome back.

    zac rosscup is down in mexico trying to make it happen...maybe they could throw him a contract, too.  junior lake is his teammate.  shore up a bunch of holes with some washups.

  • fullykräusened (view)

    The great thing about going to live sports events is you don't know if you're going to see something historic. Today I went to the Cub game, after putting the liner back in my coat and fishing my Cubs knit hat out of the closet. I needed all that- my seats are in the upper deck, left, so the east wind was in my face. Both teams failed to capitalize on good situations, but both starters did a good job to accomplish this. So, we go to the bottom of the sixth inning. The Cubs tie it up, and then Pete Crow-Armstrong comes up. We all know he would still be in AAA if not for injuries, and future Hall-of-Famer Justin Verlander absolutely carved up the young fellow up in his first two plate appearances. So this time he hits a fly ball. The wind was blowing in and had suppressed several strong fly balls- including a rocket off Altuve's bat that Canario hauled in (does anybody else remind me of Jorge Soler?) , but the ball kept carrying and carrying. 107mph, legit angle and carry. The crowd went nuts, the dugout went nuts. Maybe, just maybe, I saw the first homer from a long-term Cub.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Which was my original premise. They won the trades but lost their souls. They no longer employ the Cardinal way which had been so successful for so long.

  • crunch (view)

    STL traded away a lot of minor league talent that went on to do nothing in the arenado + goldschmidt trades.  neither guy blocked any of their minor league talent in the pipeline, too.  that's ideal places to add talent.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Natural cycle of baseball. Pitching makes adjustments in approach to counter a hot young rookie. Now it’s time for Busch and his coaches to counter those adjustments. Busch is very good and will figure it out, I think sooner than later.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    In 2020, the pandemic year and the year before they acquired Arenado, the Cardinals finished second and were a playoff team. Of the 12 batters with 100 plate appearances, 8 of them were home grown. Every member of the starting rotation (if you include Wainwright) and all but one of the significant relievers were home grown. While there have been a relative handful of very good trades interspersed which have been mentioned, player development had been their predominant pattern for decades - ever since I became an aware fan in the ‘70’s

    The Arenado deal was not a deal made out of dire need or desperation. It was a splashy, headline making deal for a perennial playoff team intended to be the one piece that brought the Cardinals from a very good team to a World Series contender. They have continued to wheel and deal and have been in a slide ever since. I stand by my supposition that that deal marked a notable turning point within the organization. They broke what had been a very successful formula for a very long time.
     

  • crunch (view)

    busch is having a really intense k-filled mini slump.  he deserves better after coming back to wrigley after that hot road trip.

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