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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 @ Indians: Hendricks vs Kluber (Game 179; World Series Game 7)

Submitted by CTSteve on

The Cubs defeat the Indians 7-6 in Game Seven to win the World Series, 4-3. They are world champions. Holy crap. We did it!

PREVIEW
CHC (3-3): RHP Kyle Hendricks (1-1, 1.31)
CLE (3-3): RHP Corey Kluber (4-1, 0.89)
First pitch: 7:00pmCST

Hendricks has been solid all post-season, even with the misfortune of being matched up against Kershaw twice. He went 4.1 innings of scoreless ball in Game Three. He struck out 6 and walked 2. The Cubs went on to lose 1-0, despite numerous chances. Let’s hope that doesn’t prove to be the decisive game.

Lester (3-1, 1.93) will probably be the first out of the pen and hopefully can close it out. After Contreras’ sometimes-struggles behind the plate, we should expect to see Ross in there, too, when the time comes.
 
Chapman (1-0, 2.08) is the other pitcher Joe trusts. After throwing 20 pitches in 1.1 innings in Game Six, he will certainly be available for an inning or more.

Kluber is back on short rest for the Indians, after getting the win in Games One and Four. He’s held the Cubs to 9 hits and 1 ER in 12 innings, striking out 15 and walking 1. Clearly, that can't last.

More troubling perhaps is that the Cleveland pen is rested and ready. Miller (2-0, 0.53 in 17 post-season innings) threw 27 pitches in Saturday’s loss. He threw 46 pitches in Game One, so Francona will throw him as long as he’s effective. Allen (0-0, 0.00 in 11.2 innings) threw 36 pitches in Sunday’s win. Bauer (0-2, 5.54) will also be available, so we should hope to see him, rather than these guys.

This is it, gang. For the last time this season...Go Cubs!

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2016 Postseason

Comments

Submitted by Old and Blue on Wed, 11/02/2016 - 11:55 am

The Great Maddonnini and his team made some great "half time" adjustments for yesterday's game on Tomlin's breaking stuff. I'll be interested if they can figure out Kluber on the third time around. I don't drink these days and unlike most people my age I have no prescriptions. I don't even smoke pot anymore. I have NO idea how I'm going to get through this game.

Submitted by JoePepitone on Wed, 11/02/2016 - 11:27 pm

I have some concern about Chapman's loss of velocity against the last batter he faced last night. He was 96-97 on his fastball with only one reaching 99. I don't think he can sustain his velocity very far into an outing. Something to keep in mind for tonight.

Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 11/02/2016 - 11:18 pm

Hmmm...rain in the forecast starting between 10pm-11pm EDT. I travelled today to Cleveland -- for a meeting, not Game 7, sadly -- everybody at O'Hare was wearing Cubs stuff. Guys in suits wearing Cubs hats. They played "Go Cubs Go" at the gate when we boarded. The flight attendant asked if there were any Cleveland fans on the flight. A few people whooped. "Well, now is your last chance to de-plane." Very fun stuff.

Submitted by Ryno on Wed, 11/02/2016 - 11:05 pm

Dexter Fowler, CF Kyle Schwarber, DH Kris Bryant, 3B Anthony Rizzo, 1B Ben Zobrist, LF Addison Russell, SS Willson Contreras, C Jason Heyward, RF Javier Baez, 2B Lineup sucks. But for real, I think it's the same lineup as yesterday.

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Submitted by Ryno on Wed, 11/02/2016 - 11:08 pm

And the equally-imposing Cleveland lineup... Carlos Santana, DH Jason Kipnis, 2B Francisco Lindor, SS Mike Napoli, 1B Jose Ramirez, 3B Lonnie Chisenhall, RF Rajai Davis, CF Coco Crisp, LF Roberto Perez, C

Submitted by crunch on Wed, 11/02/2016 - 11:13 pm

Jack Magruder @JackMagruder #Cubs Lester probably has a "solid two innings," MGR Maddon said, since this would be his normal throw day between starts.

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 11/02/2016 - 11:45 pm

The Cubs have claimed 28-year old RHRP Conor Mullee off waivers from the New York Yankees.

Because he was on the Yankees 60-day DL (carpal tunnel syndrome), he can be transferred directly to the Cubs 60-day DL and not have to be placed on the Cubs MLB Reserve List (40-man roster) at this time.

Players on an MLB 60-day DL must be reinstated no later than 5 PM (Eastern) on the 5th day after the last game of the World Series (which will be next Monday), but Article XX-B free-agents are automatically taken off the 40-man roster at 9 AM (Eastern) on the day after the last game of the World Series (which will be tomorrow) and the Cubs have at least six of them -- Cahill, Chapman, Coghlan, Ross, Smith, and Wood for sure, plus possibly Fowler (mutual option), Hammel (club option), and Kawasaki (player option) -- so there will be no problem finding a 40-man roster slot for Mullee next Monday when he will need to be reinstated from the 60-day DL.

Also, as I reported here last month (and you read it here first), C-INF Ben Carhart has officially retired and will be a coach in the Cubs system in 2017 (he made his debut as a coach at AZ Instructs last month).

Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 11/02/2016 - 11:01 pm

Whoops.

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 11/03/2016 - 11:16 am

yes. i sat through an intentional tanking shit show for years. recent history is littered with more than a few teams that should have "torn it down" but they didn't and won the whole thing. 5 in a row wouldn't change it. i watch pretty much every game. it was torture knowing it was over before spring training broke with almost 100% certainty only to sit down to a 162 bite shit sandwich. some people liked it. some didn't. i didn't...never will.

Submitted by Ryno on Thu, 11/03/2016 - 11:01 am

AMAZING! And the best part about all this? There's always next year...

Submitted by billybucks on Thu, 11/03/2016 - 11:04 am

Finally, the hot stove league can begin. Wow! Everybody contributes! Schwarber, Almora's baserunning, CJ and Monty somehow get the last outs.

Recent comments

  • Raisin101 (view)

    Hi Arizona Phil!

    Exciting to see Naz Mule in box scores a few times. What's his stuff like now after the TJS?

  • 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

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