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Last updated 3-26-2024
 
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PITCHERS: 15
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Caleb Kilian
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
Jameson Taillon
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

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

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Ben Brown, P 
Alexander Canario, OF 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Keegan Thompson, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

 



 

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Cubs @ Cardinals: Hendricks vs. Garcia (Game 165; NLDS Game 2)

Lester pitched well enough, but the bats were cold. Then déjà Strop happened all over again.

CHC: RHP Kyle Hendricks (8-7, 3.95)
STL: LHP Jaime Garcia (10-6, 2.43)
First pitch: 4:37pmCT

Hendricks went six scoreless for the win in Milwaukee on Saturday. He’s 6-4 with a 4.47 on the road this year, which includes his only start against the Cardinals--from May (5 IP, 4 ER). Overall, the Cards are 24-65 against him. Carpenter is 6-10 with a HR, Holliday is 6-12 with 2 HR, and Peralta is 4-11. Hendricks has not pitched in the postseason.

If Hendricks gets in trouble early, we should see Hammel, who would need to stay sharp, especially if he’s needed to replace Hendricks as the starter for a Game Five.

Garcia lost in Atlanta (4 IP, 2 ER) last Friday. He’s 5-2 with a 1.70 at Busch this year. He didn’t pitch against the Cubs this year, but they are 9-40 against him for his career: Fowler 0-9, Castro 4-13, Montero 2-2 with a HR, Denorfia 2-10, Coghlan 1-3, and Ross 1-2. In 6 postseason games (5 in Series-winning 2011 and 1 in 2012), Garcia is 0-2 with a 4.23.

This game has bad written all over it, which is exactly why the Cubs are going to pull it off. 

Game Three is sometime on Monday: Arrieta vs. Wacha.

Go Cubs!

Comments

Brooksbaseball.net has some interesting stats/graphs on pitch and strike zones and you can dial up individual games/pitchers. I'd love to see some comments from readers who can interpret this better than I can. I thought the Ump was really inconsistent with a very wide zone. Does this info seem to match up with my eyeball perception? Also, looking at the graphs, Lackey was not throwing as many pitches below the K-zone (certainly more above) while Lester was clearly getting his pitches down and not many above. Here is Lackey/Lester from last night. It seems their box is a bit different than the K-Zone TBS was using. http://tinyurl.com/pnvnvhj Here is Lester's data: http://tinyurl.com/pv6xfk8

As I was fearing in my post yesterday, Maddon keeps trotting Strop out against the Redbirds and he constantly fails. I understand the psychology behind this, but in a series where there is a finite lock on who moves on, why does he keep riding the wrong horse?

I guess more reasoning why Joe Maddon is the manager and we are...sitting on our asses at home drinking/stuffing our faces, and 2nd guessing every move. So NOT Dusty.

Never would have thought Cahill would end up being the Cubs 8th inning set up man when they picked him up. In a division series no less.

GLORIOUS PARACHAT RECAP: 1st inning Masturbation Above-belt masturbation Christmas-themed jazz stations "Is it yesterday already?" Carpenter hits 86mph meatballs well, better put it on his scouting report "I once had sex with a trombone. Guess I was HORNY..." Munchies Purple Tahitian Buttblaster 2nd inning Hell Is Ordinary Knee-killin' slides The Hate-love relationship with Ajax Runaway cats and daughters "Cats and dolphins are natural enemies in the wild" Jaime GarcÌa has Lesteritis Reverse Cubbery Suck it GarcÌa, Piscotty, Pham, Saint Louis, Johann's mom and Trump "Rape is protected by freedom of speech. nice!" 3rd inning Lance Lynn ate Lance Lynn Glendon Rusch's golden years Moustache jokes? ᶠᶸᶜᵏ ᶠᶸᶜᵏ ᶠᶸᶜᵏ Annoying Facebook friends "Run sores," that's my ass after diarrhea Happy birthday, Trans! "Poor guy, busy job and active social life" 4th inning Cute scooter ladies Joe went to Hell "Live m·s" Totally not Crunch joins Chupacabra tacos Immigrants eating at Burger King Bull testicle tacos High-fives all around 5th inning Pitchers with diarrhea Jaime HAS and GAVE UP the runs The bad version of Hendricks Teabagging balls Complete faith in Wood, mouth full of Wong Dem foods 6th inning Randy Quaid Randy Quaid's relevance Drugs or Mental Illness: The Reality Show Jaime's pooping right now Bearded Chevy guys Not Chevy Chase 7th inning Fair-weather STL cheering fans have us confused ᶠᶸᶜᵏ Heyward Wootloop joins Sex? Testicle soup? Silent Towel was, in fact, Edward Snowden Wetnaps and towels for, uh, swimming Cantaloupe-sized body parts Parachat sounds demo Justin Miller, baseball's tattoo man Wootloop leaves 8th inning Trans was dating David Petraeus Bryant-bashing with a Cubs lead Azimuth KeeShawn Phil Trevor Cahill: 8th inning man Mornington_Crescent drops by Is it 2003? Is it 2008? It's 2015. Thanks, dbt. all-baseball.net Joe's been smoking Randy Quaid 9th inning No One Thunders Trans "I record myself in the shower and sometimes put that on as white noise" White noise is racist "It could be d i c k. I think they're talking about d i c k." Jonathan Broxton's Huge Fat Wallet, Thighs and Fat Percentage Rougned Odor is better than his brother Rougned Odor and even his father Rougned Odor. You could say that Rondon needs to... "save"... this game Trans the spoiler *sealion* *thunder* *yeehaw* Cubs Win. ...on Trans's birthday.

Suddenly, this seems very do-able. KB and Riz -- time to unpack the bats with the hits in them.

Maddon managed his ass off today. Stealing 3B, back-to-back squeezes, choosing the right guys in the pen...well done, Joe.

I told my wife, who never paid any attention to baseball before the last week or so, that the Cubs may not match up well against St. Louis because they're not much of a small ball team. Look at you, Joe!!

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In reply to by carlosrubi

Luckily, she's not invested at all. This is the first time she's ever watched more than an inning or so. She first took notice with Arrieta because they went on about his yoga on ESPN and she is a yoga instructor. Now she's kind of all in on these guys, which is kind of fun. Even my sibs are rooting them on, and they are Sox fans.

Okay, so... via Jesse Rogers: For people asking we won't know tomorrow's start time until late tonight. If Texas wins its at 337 pm CT. If Toronto wins its at 507 pm

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In reply to by carlosrubi

*IP*

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Javier Assad started the Lo-A game (Myrtle Beach versus Stockton) on the Cubs backfields on Wednesday as his final Spring Training tune-up. He was supposed to throw five innings / 75 pitches. However, I was at the minor league road games at Fitch so I didn't see Assad pitch. 

  • crunch (view)

    cards put j.young on waivers.

    they really tried to make it happen this spring, but he put up a crazy bad slash of .081/.244/.108 in 45PA.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Seconded!!!

  • crunch (view)

    another awesome spring of pitching reports.  thanks a lot, appreciated.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Here are the Cubs pitchers reports from Tuesday afternoon's Cardinals - Cubs game art Sloan Park in Mesa:

    SHOTA IMANAGA
    FB: 90-92 
    CUT: 87-89 
    SL: 82-83 
    SPLIT: 81-84
    CV: 73-74 
    COMMENT: Worked three innings plus two batters in the fourth... allowed four runs (three earned) on eight hits (six singles and two doubles) walked one, and struck out six (four swinging), with a 1/2 GO/AO... he threw 73 pitches (52 strikes - 10 swing & miss - 19 foul balls)... surrendered one run in the top of the 1st on a one-out double off Cody Bellinger's glove in deep straight-away CF followed one out later by two consecutive two-out bloop singles, allowed two runs (one earned) in the 2nd after retiring the first two hitters (first batter had a nine-pitch AB with four consecutive two-strike foul balls before being retired 3 -U) on a two-out infield single (weak throw on the run by Nico Hoerner), a hard-contact line drive RBI double down the RF line, and an E-1 (missed catch) by Imanaga on what should been an inning-ending 3-1 GO, gave up another run in the 3rd on a two-out walk on a 3-2 pitch and an RBI double to LF, and two consecutive singles leading off the top of the 4th before being relieved (runners were ultimately left stranded)... threw 18 pitches in the 1st inning (14 strikes - two swing & miss, one on FB and the other on a SL - four foul balls), 24 pitches in the 2nd inning (17 strikes - three swing & miss, one on FB, two SPLIT - six foul balls), 19 pitches in the 3rd inning (13 strikes - seven swing & miss, three on SL, two on SPLIT, one on FB - three foul balls), and 12 pitches without retiring a batter in the top of the 4th (8 strikes - no swing & miss - four foul balls)... Imanaga throws a lot of pitches per inning, but it's not because he doesn't throw strikes...  if anything, he throws too many strikes (he threw 70% strikes on Tuesday)... while he gets a ton of swing & miss (and strikeouts), he also induces a lot of foul balls because he doesn't try to make hitters chase his pitches by throwing them out of the strike zone... rather, he uses his very diverse pitch mix to get swing & miss (and lots of foul balls as well)... he also is a fly ball pitcher who will give up more than his share of HR during the course of the season...   
     
    JOE NAHAS
    FB: 90-92 
    SL: 83-85 
    CV: 80-81 
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day... relieved Imanaga with runners at first and second and no outs in the top of the 4th, and after an E-2 catcher's interference committed by Miguel Amaya loaded he bases, Nahas struck out the side (one swinging & two looking)... threw 16 pitches (11 strikes - two swinging)...   

    YENCY ALMONTE
    FB: 89-92 
    CH: 86 
    SL: 79 
    COMMENT: Threw an eight-pitch 5th (five strikes - no swing & miss), with a 5-3 GO for the first out and an inning-ending 4-6-3 DP after a one-out single... command was a bit off but he worked through it...   

    FRANKIE SCALZO JR
    FB: 94-95
    CH: 88 
    SL: 83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 6th inning... got the first outs easily (a P-5 and a 4-3 GO) on just three pitches, before allowing three consecutive two-out hard-contact hits (a double and two singles), with the third hit on pitch # 9 resulting in a runner being thrown out at the plate by RF Christian Franklin for the third out of the inning... 

    MICHAEL ARIAS
    FB: 94-96
    CH: 87-89
    SL: 82-83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and allowed a hard-contact double on the third pitch of the 7th inning (a 96 MPH FB), and the runner came around to score on a 4-3 GO and a WP... gave up two other loud contact outs (an L-7 and an F-9)... threw 18 pitches (only 10 strikes - only one swing & miss)... stuff is electric but still very raw and he continues to have difficulty commanding it, and while he has the repertoire of a SP, he throws too many pitches-per-inning to be a SP and not enough strikes to be a closer... he is most definitely still a work-in-progress...   

    ZAC LEIGH: 
    FB: 93-94 
    CH: 89 
    SL: 81-83 
    CV: 78
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and tossed a 1-2-3 8th (4-3 GO, K-swinging on a sweeper, K-looking on another sweeper)... threw 14 pitches (11 strikes - one swing & miss - eight foul balls)... kept pumping pitches into the strike zone but had difficulty putting hitters away (ergo a ton of foul balls)... FB velo is nowhere near the 96-98 MPH it was a couple of years ago when he was a Top 30 prospect, but his secondaries are better...   

    JOSE ROMERO:  
    FB: 93-95
    SL: 82-84
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 9th (14 pitches - only six strikes- no swing & miss) and allowed a solo HR after two near-HR fly outs to the warning track, before getting a 3-1 GO to end the inning... it was like batting practice when he wasn't throwing pitches out of the strike zone...

  • crunch (view)

    pablo sandoval played 3rd and got a couple ABs (strikeout, single!) in the OAK@SF "exhibition"

    mlb officially authenticated the ball of the single he hit.  nice.

    he's in surprisingly good shape considering his poor body condition in his last playing seasons.  he's not lean, but he looks healthier.  good for him.

  • crunch (view)

    dbacks are signing j.montgomery to a 1/25m with a vesting 20m player option.

    i dunno when the ink officially dries, but i believe if he signs once the season begins he can't be offered a QO...and i'm not sure if that thing with SD/LAD in korea was the season beginning, either.

  • crunch (view)

    sut says imanaga getting the home opener at wrigley (game 4 of the season).

  • crunch (view)

    cubs rolling out the who's who of "who the hell is this guy?" in the last spring game.

  • videographer (view)

    AZ Phil, speaking of Jordan Wicks having better command when he tires a bit, I remember reading about Dennis Lamp 40 years ago and his sinker that was better after 3 or 4 innings when he would tire a bit and get more sink with a little less speed on the pitch.  The key for Lamp was getting to the 4th inning.