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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

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* Justin Steele, P   

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




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Cubs @ Reds: Haren vs. Smith (Game 157)

Submitted by CTSteve on

The Cubs walk-off and out of Wrigley and hit the road to complete the regular season.

CHC (91-65): RHP Dan Haren (9-9, 3.83)
CIN (63-93): RHP Josh Smith (0-2, 7.23)
First pitch: 6:10pmCT

Haren, who was skipped in the rotation, last pitched on Sept. 18. He’s 2-2 with a 5.00 ERA since joining the Cubs but 1-0 with a 3.26 in four September starts. He’s 1-1 with a 2.60 in his three starts against the Reds this year, and they’re hitting .203 in those games. For his career, Votto is 5-16 with a HR.

Smith, a 28y/o rookie, was a 21st-round draft pick by the Reds in 2010. He made his debut in June. He gave up 3 ER in 5 IP against the Mets in his last outing for a no-decision. None of the Cubs have faced him.

Go Cubs!
 

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Submitted by Old and Blue on Tue, 09/29/2015 - 09:38 pm

I just need to put it in the official record that this is the least important game of the season. Besides maybe the next two.

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 09/29/2015 - 09:28 pm

umps to get together in 30-ish minutes (9 EST) to decide where they're going from there.

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 09/29/2015 - 09:49 pm

rizzo is a 30/30 guy! 30 HR, 30 HBP. getting on base is cool, but i dont wanna see rizzo hit 10 times a year, much less 30 times.

Submitted by billybucks on Tue, 09/29/2015 - 09:16 pm

I expect Bryant will see a lot of high fastballs in the playoffs. He kills low pitches -- where he can extend his arms -- and has proven he can mostly lay off the low-and-away slider. Seems to have a lot of swings and misses on high heaters.

Submitted by Mornington Crescent on Tue, 09/29/2015 - 09:34 pm

Big hit by Montero and the Dodgers are on the edge of clinching against the Giants.

Submitted by James Watkins on Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:43 am

I hope Dan Haren starts Game Two of the NLDS at Busch Stadium. Surely he is a better choice than Hendricks or Hammel. I would start Lester, Haren, Arrieta & Hendricks and leave Hammel off the playoff roster.

Submitted by Old and Blue on Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:07 am

That one hit to right was a weird hit by Baez. In a way it seemed like an awfully lucky hit, like he was just trying to foul it off to the right but it ended up going into right field. He still seems to be laying off the stuff he used to swing at haphazardly. Last year you could bounce one in the dirt in front of him and he'd swing at it. I get that the new batting stance is helping him produce a better swing but how can it help him see the ball so much better?

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Submitted by Rob Richardson on Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:36 am

While I am not a scout, coach or former player, I assume that removing the pre-swing noise from him approach has given him more time to read and react to the pitch. Last season it seemed to me at least that since he had to start his swing so early he was basically guessing on each pitch.

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Submitted by Rob Richardson on Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:15 am

Not really true. While he is still a work in progress last time I checked his walk rates was acceptable and his strikeout rate is headed in the right direction. As is, with his defense he could be a starting middle infielder on a contending team.

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Submitted by johann on Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:35 pm

The big change I've seen from Baez is laying off pitches out of the zone and the stats do bear that out so far. His 0-Zone % has dropped from 41 to 37.8 from 2014 to 2015 and his Z-zone rate has increased from 58.7 to 69.2. So he's swinging less at pitched out of the zone and more at pitches in the zone and that is a good trend.

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Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:10 pm

"Last season . . . he was basically guessing on each pitch." The quickest way for a pure guess-hitter to lower his strikeouts is to guess ball instead of strike. I think that's what Baez has been doing this year. The other day he took a fastball down the middle for strike three. That's hard to do if you actually "see" the pitch. Imagine Baez taking a called strike three! Out of the batter's box, though, his instincts, fielding or baserunning, seem to be pitch perfect, so he may get the opportunity to learn the rudiments of hitting over time. Maddon certainly seems to love him in the field. Worst case, he finishes games at second like Barney at Toronto these days.

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Submitted by johann on Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:29 pm

If he's guessing he's doing something right this year with it because he's swinging more (51% up from 47.9) and making more contact when he does (O-Contact is up to 49.1 up from 42.1 and Z-Contact up to 80.6 up from 78.8). To me those # increases can't just be a product of guessing better but seem to be more likely a product of seeing the ball better and swinging at pitches he's going to be able to better make contact with.

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Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:16 pm

Well, there is such a thing as an educated guess. E.g., if you were a pitcher, would you throw a strike to Baez or Castro on oh-and-two? So I'm going to expect a slider outside, and probably get it. That's just an educated guess, nothing to do with seeing the spin and calculating the break. But I'm rooting for him. As you say, he is improving as a hitter. He's a very, very watchable player, and that's the kind I like to watch!

Submitted by James Watkins on Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:49 am

We are going to need Hendricks, no doubt, but I would rather have him pitch at Wrigley in Game Four because he has been much better at home (3.36 vs. 4.77 on the road). Haren has a 2.36 ERA in five September starts vs. 6.46 for Hammel. Haren vs. the Cardinals 2.36 ERA; Hammel 5.73. Game Two is @ ST. Louis where Hendricks and Hammel were terrible this year while Haren was brilliant.

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  • Childersb3 (view)

    Mastrobuoni can't come back, yet

    Wisdom does have an option left. He can hide in Iowa if Jed DFA's someone else

    Does Brennan Davis get shown the door? I know it's too early for that, but these injuries are crunching the roster of a 12-7 team playoff demands and BDavis isn't going to help anytime soon.

    Someone has to go to add Peralta. And Canario isn't going to get to play everyday regardless of RHers or LHers. Neither is Tauchman. Also don't see PCA getting a chance over Peralta.

    If Jed does those moves:

    4 OF: Belli, Peralta, Canny, Tauch

    2 C: Gomes and Amaya

    2 DH: Cooper and Mervis

    5 INF: Busch, Nico, Dansby, Morel, Madrigal

    Little short on OF depth but two injuries will do that  

  • 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.

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