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Last updated 3-28-2024
 
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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# 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 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 1 
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 1 
Caleb Kilian, P 

 



 

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The Game 7 Litmus Test

The Cubs finish off their latest homestand tonight, their two opponents happen to be of playoff caliber. They also happen to have gone 3-3 so far in those seven games and have a chance to take the Mets series tonight with Jason Marquis on the mound against Tom Glavine. Carrying this analogy a little further, a win tonight would give them a 4-3 mark on the homestand which would be like winning a playoff series. At least that's how I think about it. Of course I use to make up whole seasons on my baseball video games on the Commodore 64 (Hardball to be exact) well before they started doing that on the later generation video game consoles, so I have a bit of an active imagination. While there's really no such thing as a must-win game in early August, there are a lot of "be really nice to win" games and that's what tonight's falls under. National TV, playoff-caliber opponent and a chance to win a series - literally and figuratively. Go Cubs, go Marquis! ------ I haven't commented much on the Zambrano contract talks since it doesn't seem like any real progress has been made. But it is nice to see that Z seems to really want to stay here, even if it's just talk:
"I'm ready to sign," Zambrano said. "My hand is ready to sign that contract. Just bring it to me. I want to stay here and be a Cubbie for a long time."

Comments

Agreed! This will be a good test of how tough this team really is. I'd love to be in Wrigley and feel the playoff type atmosphere building as we get closer to the end.

But will he still give the Cubs the so - called home discount? Methinks not at this point, and I wouldn't begrudge him for that decision either.

Lou said in the Trib today that Dempster's not available tonight. Can you really have a team you're afraid to run your closer out there against? Maybe that's a sign that you need to do something to find a different closer, someone who's better than league average.

dumpster did have another one of his famous 20+ pitch outtings (26). he’s done them back to back before…and he’s bounced back. dunno what’s up now. maybe they just wanna be careful since he’s still relatively close to coming off a 1-month injury. *shrug*

Johann: I know his numbers. That's a non stats-based call on my part. HIs WHIP is down significantly this year - anomoly or improvement?

Funny stuff by LaRussa in St. Louis: One day after Aaron Miles' one-inning scoreless relief effort, LR bats Wainright 8th, Miles 9th. Batty days for the defending champs.

Who knows, maybe he's finally comfortable as a closer, maybe he's pulling a Borowski. The point is right now he's pitching well and we should ride him till he doesn't do well, at which point Marmol can take over as closer. Dempster isn't going to pitch anywhere but closer or starter, so if we move him out of the closer position, we simply lose one more guy who's pitching well and thin out the ranks that much more. I like having Marmol right now as the guy who can in before Demp and shut things down. You need that guy, as the Sox proved by bringing in Gagne when they already had Pap. We need dominant guys in every bullpen spot, and keeping Demp as the closer allows us to do that.

so marmol and howry (both who worked 2 days in a row) probably arent available and dumpster's off the table. so the sole RH rep. is wood and eyre/ohman backing it up. neat. since a lefty is going maybe dlee/aram/derosa/theriot can get days off, too.

oh yeah...i forgot wuertz exists. he's been getting sporatic long-man work lately.

Crunch, I'd assume Marmol would get the save opp tonight. He is young and can handle working 3 games in a row.

"Any idea..." Do we EVER know? I was at the two hit D-Backs gem. And the Phils game last wk. If he can get some run support and just keep the ball on the ground, we'll have a chance, imo.

If this wind keeps blowing out (I'm one mile from the ballpark), then I fear the scary one will show up.

Agreed E Man. Hopefully the sinker will actually sink. Also think its about time ARAM went yard. If Marquis were still a Card, would Larussa bat him fifth?

The thing that has been killing him has been the lead-off walk. Or walks, period. He does not have the stuff that 4, 5, 6 walks is not gonna come back and bite him in the ass.

Lou said he doesn’t want to use Dempster against the Mets. Not quite... the headlines says that, but the article doesn't. Nowhere did Lou say he didn't want to use Dempster tonight.

e-man: I was at the two hit D-Backs gem. And the Phils game last wk somebody, please, get some tickets to e-man a s a p!! marquis needs him !!! cubdom needs him at wrigley !! =p

ah, Wes Helms was the Phil that bit his old team...makes sense in the baseball karma thang...

Guess we lose that playoff series. Two differences though: We won't use all five of our starters in a seven game playoff series. We won't get all seven games at home.

Recent comments

  • hellfrozeover (view)

    I would say also in the bright side column is Busch looked pretty good overall at the plate. Alzolay…man, that hurts but most of the time he’s not giving up a homer to that guy. To me the worst was almonte hanging that pitch to Garcia. He hung another one to the next hitter too and got away with it on an 0-1. 

  • crunch (view)

    amaya blocked like 6-8 of smyly's pitches in the dirt very cleanly...not even an exaggeration, smyly threw a ton of pitches bouncing in tonight.

    neris looking like his old self was a relief (no pun), too.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    In looking for bright spots the defense was outstanding tonight. The “stars” are going to need to shine quite a bit brighter than they did tonight offensively though for this to be a successful season.

  • Eric S (view)

    Good baseball game. Hopefully Steele is pitching again in April (but I’m not counting on it). 

  • crunch (view)

    boo.

  • crunch (view)

    smyly to face the 2/3/4 hitters with a man on 2nd in extras.

    this doesn't seem like a 8 million dollar managerial decision.

  • crunch (view)

    i 100% agree with you, but i dunno how jed wants to run things.  the default is delay.  i would choose brown.

    like hellfrozeover says, could be smyly since he's technically fresh and stretched.

    anyway, on a pure talent basis....brown is the best option.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Use pitchers when you believe they're good. Don't plan their clock.

    I'm sorry. I'm simply anti-clock/contract management. Play guys when they show real MLB potential talent.

    If Brown hadn't been hurt with the Lat Strain he would've gotten the call, and not Wick.

    Give him a chance. 

    But Wesneski probably gets it

  • crunch (view)

    alzolay...bro...

  • crunch (view)

    wow.  what a blown call.  go cubs, i guess.