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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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Cubs @ Cardinals: Quintana vs Mikolas (Game 104)

Submitted by CTSteve on
CHC (60-43): LHP José Quintana (9-6, 3.87)
STL (52-51): RHP Miles Mikolas (10-3, 2.82)
First pitch: 3:05pmCST
 
Quintana has reeled off three straight wins, with his victory against these Cardinals on Sunday at Wrigley (7 IP, 2 ER). Overall, they are 34-115 (.296) against him. Fowler is 7-16 with a HR.
 
Mikolas gave up 2 ER in 5 innings for a no-decision in the matchup against Quintana. The Cubs are 14-51 (.275) against him. Happ is 2-3.
 
Hendricks and Gant on ESPN tomorrow at 7:00pmCST.
 
Go Cubs!
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Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:15 pm

Russell sitting for the second day in a row.  Good for rumors, but my guess is he has another of his nagging injuries.

He caught fire when the Machado rumors heated up -- .867 OPS in June -- but has really been struggling since the rumors died down -- .560 OPS in July.  

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:57 pm

BILLY BUCKS: On Thursday Javier Baez PH for the pitcher in the #8 spot in the bottom of the 6th and then stayed in the game at SS with the new pitcher (Cishek) going into Russell's #7 spot even though Bote (hitting 9th) made the last out of the inning. So Russell may have been injured while striking out swinging in the bottom of the 6th. He hasn't played since. 

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Submitted by crunch on Sun, 07/29/2018 - 07:23 am

it took over 100 games played in the season (19 starts) and 94ip 82h 85bb 85k (4.98era/1.78whip) to get him out of the rotation.

at this point im a bit shocked it's not montgomery (even though both are eventually doomed to the pen).

only 2 and 1/3rd years left!  woo.

on the dimmest of all bright sides, with a guy who puts up as high of a pitch count as chatwood, working long relief of 2-4 innings at a time might not be such a bad thing for him if he's going to stick around.

Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:43 pm

Ugly quickly.  This team has been playing with fire since the break -- lots of uncompetitive losses and a few lucky wins.  Yuck.

Q with a 7.00 WHIP after one inning.  OK -- who wants to pitch?

Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:16 pm

Maybe Hickey should tweak whatever he is telling the starters.  Or just stop talking to them altogether.  Q, Hendricks and Chatwood have all been much worse than expected.  Funny how everyone gets on Chili when the team doesn't hit, but I haven't heard a peep about Hickey despite 4 months of underperformance.

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Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Sun, 07/29/2018 - 07:03 pm

The scouting was fine, BB, but what about the trade? Anybody know anything about the kid they traded for Chavez?  For starters, Tyler Thomas in 75 innings at South Bend had a strikeout-to-walk ratio of almost six.  Rollie Lacy is no slouch, either. I go to these Myrtle Beach games around DC and I don't see any pitchers, because, well, they don't make it to Myrtle Beach. Maybe I'll try to catch South Bend next year in Eastlake, OH, before they trade their best pitchers.

This business of eating your young . . . The Cubs always traded their good prospects, but now they do it as a matter of pride: "We're in the chase, and we're all in."  Maybe they're right. I do remember, there was a parade in 2016.  But I still get an upset stomach when these trades happen.

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Submitted by crunch on Sun, 07/29/2018 - 07:24 pm

tyler thomas is mainly a 88-90mph deception lefty (works closer to 90) that vastly improved his command this season with both his fastball and high 70s/low 80s curve.  he's one of those guys who's 90mph fastball looks a few ticks higher...easy release and good movement.

Submitted by The E-Man on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:20 pm

yeah, idk about the "Great Jim Hickey". This staff has sucked ass other than Lester, and to a lesser extent, Monty, since this guy got hired. I wonder if they listen to him at all?

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:48 pm

except for a great pen showing, the baez homer, and heyward continuing to get on base this game was hot garbage.

they "gave it away" in the 1st and never really threatened going forward.  meh.

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Submitted by Eric S on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:24 pm

What would they have had to give up to get Sale? Eloy, Cease who(m) else?  That's the one that would keep me shaking my head if I'm Jedstein.  But something tells me the Sox would never give up a talent to the Cubs such as Sale short of giving up KB. 

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Submitted by WrigleyBumm on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 07:38 am

IMO this has been one of the obstacles the Cubs have faced in their trade negotiations of the past ~2-3 years. The relative values of the "lesser" prospects who could end up as quality big leaguers gets deflated when compared to the elite talents that were Bryant, Schwarber, Baez, Happ and Russell. Causing us to overpay for deadline deals. Compare that to a team like the Dodgers and Astros who have managed to hold on to many of their premier prospects in the same timeframe we let Eloy and Gleyber go.  Players like Justin Bour, Christian Villanueva, & Marwin Gonzalez among others have all achieved varying degrees of big league success for little to no return on our part. The price to remain on top in this league is steep.

Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:29 pm

Cubs now 5-6 since the break, and all 6 losses have been by 3 or more runs.   I'm sure this is the recency effect, but I can't remember a stretch where they have been uncompetitive in so many games.

Also -- maybe it wasn't such a great idea to have Q throw 120+ pitches in his last start, given that he had been given extra time off due to arm fatigue right before that.  Dunno, maybe that's just me.

 

Submitted by The E-Man on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:23 pm

Schwarbs in a slump since before ASG. Bryant injured. Caratini with doubles only power. Starters not able to go more than 4...It just is mot a pretty picture now.

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Submitted by crunch on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:26 pm

underperforming and they have the best record in the NL.

the issue i have is that it feels like they're not just in some weird collective slump.  they've had some "tearing it up" streaks, but overall they've had some really underwhelming performances even in some of their wins.

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Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:43 pm

My nagging concern is that the surprise over-performers -- Almora, Heyward, Zobrist, Lester -- will come back to earth, while the underperformers -- KB, Rizzo, Contreras, Hendricks, Quintana -- won't be able to pick up the slack. Rizzo has been great recently, but we all know he goes very hot and very cold.  Schwarber has been an absolute disaster since the HR Derby -- hitting .182 with a .585 OPS since -- and, with KB out, he and Contreras need to hit for power.  They aren't - between them, they have a whopping 3 XBH in 78 PA's since the break, and one of those was Schwarber's pop-up "double" that the DBacks misplayed. 

Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:58 pm

For tomorrow night's game, the Cubs need a starter with a kick-ass attitude, who shows no fear and inspires confidence from his teammates.  I know just the guy -- unfortunately, he pitches for the Phillies now.

Recent comments

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Is it just me or does it seem that official scorers are becoming less likely to call a misplay an error? 

     

    Guess I've hit my cranky old-man phase in life.  "I remember back in the day when an error was an error.  Official scorers have gone soft.  Now where did I put my readers?!!??"

     

    Sidenote, maybe Bellinger should be a little more careful against the Astros.  That was the series last year that a play at wall put him on the IL.   

  • crunch (view)

    i hated the almonte pickup, but he's 9-10 out of 12 for good outings, following a great spring.  hope he can keep it up.

    i already miss cooper, but yeah...the thin OF roster backup the team seems to want to carry probably got wisdom preference over cooper.  i could live without seeing wisdom at 3rd unless it's a blowout, though.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Things I've been wrong about:

    -Tauchman is fine as a 4th OF. I knew that. I just want a better LH DH option and he was really the DH for us until Seiya got hurt. I'm glad Mervis is getting a chance at it. Caissie is coming for that job for sure. But Tauchman continues to be highly useful as a 4th OF with Seiya being hurt

    -I wanted Yency to go to get guys at Iowa a chance. Guys like Palencia and Sanders or RileyT. Maybe even Hodge! But Yency has been better the last two plus weeks. He did hit 96 the other day. He was 93 in Texas to open the season.

    -Leiter has his split working enough. It just needs to stay there

    -I was surprised Jed picked Wisdom over Cooper. I wonder if this happens if Seiya wasn't hurt. Wisdom has more power. Cooper is the better hitter. Jed picked Wisdom and Wisdom had an option left as well.

    -Palencia just doesn't miss enough bats. Similar to ManRod, just two yrs younger. ManRod is killing AAA for TB right now!

    Things I got right so far:

    -Hendricks. Sorry Kyle. You got paid though!

    Jed, you missed there.

    -Smyly. If Jed could've traded him before or during ST, then he should have and saved some cash.

    -Mastro.  Not a LH DH. Pinch runner. Defensive utility. Maybe he's better than Madrigal but didn't get a legit chance to prove it.

    -Luke Little is good. He's had one bad outing. That's it. Needs to get better entering with guys on base. But he needs to stay in MLB.

    -Oh yeah....Morel is doing fine at 3B! He'll get better as well!!

  • crunch (view)

    bellinger "right rib contusion"

  • Childersb3 (view)

    South Bend just lost the lead in the bottom of the 9th on the weirdest scenario, ever.

    It's absolutely pouring rain....men on 1st and 2nd, 1out....JPatterson asks for a new ball, but no time out was called....he throws the old ball toward the dugout (not sure if it rolled out of play).....the ump declares the runners get two bases each so one run scores. Then a single up the middle ties the game.

    The rain was coming down in buckets at this point.

    Just weird

  • crunch (view)

    ...and bellinger is gone in the 7th because of that 2nd blown chance and the wall he bounced off of...

    hopefully his rib cage/shoulder feels better tomorrow, we just got happ back.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Phil,

    Any thoughts on Y. Rojas' stuff and Y. Melendez's game (I believe I've asked about him before, sorry)?

  • crunch (view)

    wow, things are moving fast.  hopefully it continues.

  • crunch (view)

    morel with 4 clean plays in 4 innings...showed off his 100000000mph arm a couple times.

    cody bellinger not having a good 4th, though...5 run leads are handy when your CF is making your pitcher have a 5-out inning.  2nd blown chance was ruled a hit even though it went in/out of his glove...1st was lost in the lights, also ruled a hit.

  • crunch (view)

    welcome back happ!  double off the wall 1st PA back.

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