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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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Game 82 Thread / Cubs @ White Sox (3 of 3)

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SP *Sean Marshall
SP
*Mark Buehrle
  0-1, 5.40, 12 K, 8 BB, 13.1 IP

5-6, 4.04, 57 K, 27 BB, 104.2 IP
       
RF
*Kosuke Fukudome
SS
Orlando Cabrera
SS
Ryan Theriot
C
*A.J. Pierzynski
1B
Derrek Lee LF
Carlos Quentin
3B
Aramis Ramirez RF
Jermaine Dye
DH
Geovany Soto DH
*Jim Thome
LF
Mark DeRosa
3B
Joe Crede
CF
*Jim Edmonds 1B
#Nick Swisher
C
Henry Blanco 2B Alexei Ramirez
2B
Ronny Cedeno
CF Brian Anderson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 About a week ago, the Cubs set an ugly precedent by losing three in a row to the Rays. I see no good reason to set another today by losing their fourth in a row.

Sean Marshall takes the mound and it could be his last start for awhile. When Zambrano returns, Marshall could be headed to the bullpen to give Lou another lefty while Eyre nurses his sore groin or he'll head back to Iowa. Unless he does something special today and someone craps their pants before a decision has to be made (looking at you Marquis).

Back-to-back ESPN Sunday night games and I'll be watching this with one of my oldest friends who's visiting for a few days. I've tried not to hold it against him that he's a White Sox fan all these years. But sometimes I can't help it...

Comments

This game looks really, really bad on paper. I'm hoping for an exremely pleasant surprise from Marshall or a bad start from Buehrle, which he is sometimes capable of.

As I stated yesterday, I fully expect a sweep. The teams will split the series. We need reinforcements badly. Reed, Z, Fonzy, and another pitcher (a good pitcher).

ya know how did i know cedeno would swing at first pitch bases loaded do ya think buerlie knew he would swing how many gams in a row has he started at least all 3 this series.

These bullshit umps are the very reason why the subject of instant replay constantly come up in discussion. They've been terrible all weekend, too. I say f-them and their union. Bring in instant replay and bring back motherfucking questec.

sox have definatly been getting outside of plate calls that homeplate ump has alot of balls throwing lou out whae his backis turned. but it is fun reading lou lips.

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In reply to by rokfish

if lou didnt come out to the 1st base ump and blow up about the zone he wouldn't have been tossed. you can't just charge the field and then start questioning the call on the game and have it technically not count cuz you're not bitching at the guy who was doing it (which is the guy he should be bitching at anyway). lou did something stupid and now he gets to take a shower. there were plenty of ways to deal with that other than what he did, but given how explosively stupid it was it was probably just some reactionary stuff he wasn't thinking about...unless this is another one of his "i decided next time i saw..." things. he hasn't been prone to those like in the past, though. 1st base ump gets a solid add to the "wtf umps?!?!" list after that call that almost got tram tossed. geez.

Poll question: At the end of this road trip, what place will the Cubs be in? 2nd seems the most likely (after they get swept in St. Louis), but 3rd is not out of the question. About to lose their 6th straight road game.....Grow some balls, gentlemen -- they will come in handy.

The Cubs did nothing this series to ease the concerns about this team that I stated after the blowout loss in the Baltimore finale. For some reason, this Sox series had a kind of playoff air about it - good opposing lineup, decent to good opposing pitching, great bullpen. And the Cubs responded about as well to all that as they did last October. Ah, well. Better luck on the Bay.

Last weekend: A-Ram is 6-for-13, kills the Sox. This weekend: 0-for-13, can't get the tying run in from 3rd yesterday. His home/road split is huge -- about 100 points difference in BA. Weird.

- SIGH - I called this sweep before yesterday's game. They just cannot continue with Cedeno, Fontenot, DWard, a hurt Edmonds, and the over-matched, inconsistent pitchers w/out Big Z. DLee also has to figure it out again. Or, bat 6th. Fukudome looks terrible, for a while... Hopefully, we'll get it together.

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In reply to by 10man

Fukudome is hitting lefties ok, I guess, but he looks SO bad when he K's, and he has come up in many key situations in the last 10 days and just utterly flopped. With two outs, and RISP, he is batting .194. DLee is went 5 for 5 - Yes. After eclipsing last year's GIDP totals from all of 2007. Are you watching the GAMES, or only the ones you want to talk about? Edmonds is injured. He IS our hottest hitter, but needs a break. We do NOT have a replacement for the platoon guy who is in alot of pain trying to run the bases. The guy is 38! I'll step off the ledge when the team manages to stop getting swept, or can learn how to get back to a .500 team on the road. I can only assume with the DL folks coming back to the team soon, the Cubs SHOULD be able to kick it up a notch again. And the pitching during the last week has sucked.

That was a nice serving of humble pie. Some thoughts: - Lou knew exactly what he was doing and wanted to try to get his player riled up a bit. He knew he was getting tossed there. - What's the old adage about making sure a ball gets through the infield before you get too far off the base? That's just bad baseball....twice. - Our bullpen is starting to scare me big time...make that our whole pitching staff. Way too many 2 out or 2 strike mistakes.

I think we are going against the right team at the right time with the Giants coming up and facing Zito on Monday. We take 3 out of 4 from the Giants and I'm confident we can be in first place at the All Star break. Its not going to be easy but I think they can do it. Little by little Soriano, Zambrano and Johnson will come back the team will be alot better for it.

I think Lou and Jimbo need to have a conversation about Murton. This is simply ridiculous -- unless he was either sent down or traded before the game (?), or some team is looking closely at Cedeno, it makes no sense for him not to start tonight. Murton's no great outfielder, but he's better than Derosa. He's no offensive dynamo, but he's better than Cedeno. Makes no sense.

BTW... while is sucks to be swept by the Sox, the Cubs couldn't catch a break. They had several balls hit very hard right at guys today. They got screwed by a couple of bad calls. It happens. They will be fine. I am not sure why anyone really takes the results of a Cubs/Sox seriously anyway. They played in such an atmosphere that they are somewhat meaningless in terms of how we can use the games to analyze the team.

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In reply to by big_lowitzki

I woke up in the same mood. Big HRs by the likes of Alexi Ramirez (somebody check the bat) and Brian Anderson, too many Cub line drives caught by Sox infielders, a cold 3 games for Aramis and Dempster's first bad outing of the year add up to a sweep. Still like Ascanio's arm -- a bad pitch to Thome, but he has hit a few of those in his career. Also, Ceda has cranked it up since returning to the pen and getting moved up to AA -- 8.2 IP, 1 ER, 2 BB and 15Ks. The young power arms will help. Sox have a good team -- power, good starters and a very good bullpen. A Chicago WS is not out of the question.

I don't get all the doom and gloom - Marshall gave you a good start yesterday, and Gallagher righted himself during the 7th the day before. No falling apart with either of them, and both were pressure games. Good things sometimes are hard to see when they first appear, take heart.

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  • crunch (view)

    madrigal at 3rd...morel at DH.

    making room for madrigal or/and masterboney to get a significant amount of ABs is a misuse of the roster.  if it needed to get taken care of this offseason, they had tons of time to figure that out.

    morel played almost exclusively at 3rd in winter ball and they had him almost exclusively there all spring when he wasn't DH'ing.

    madrigal doing a good job with the glove for a bit over 2 chances per game...is that worth more than what he brings with the bat 4-5 PA a game?  it's 2024 and we got glenn beckert 2.0 manning 3rd base.

    this is a tauchman or cooper DH situation based on bat, alone.  cooper is 3/7 with a double off eovaldi if you want to play the most successful matchup.

    anyway, i hope this is a temporary thing, not business as usual for the rest of the season.  it will be telling if morel is not used at 3rd when an extreme fly ball pitcher like imanaga is on the mound.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    There are two clear "logjams" in the Cubs minor league pipeline at the present time, namely AA outfielders (K. Alcantara, C. Franklin, Roederer, Pagan, Pinango, Beesley, and Nwogu) and Hi-A infielders (J. Rojas, P. Ramirez, Howard, R. Morel, Pertuz, R. Garcia, and Spence, although Morel has been getting a lot of reps in the outfield in addition to infield). So it is possible that you might see a trade involving one of the extra outfielders at AA and/or one of the extra infielders at Hi-A in the next few days. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    18-year old SS Jefferson Rojas almost made the AA Tennessee Opening Day roster, and he is a legit shortstop, so I would expect him to be an MLB Top 100 prospect by mid-season. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Among the relievers in the system, I expect RHRP Hunter Bigge at AAA Iowa and RHRP Ty Johnson at South Bend to have breakout seasons on 2024, and among the starters I see LHP Drew Gray and RHP Will Sanders at South Bend and RHP Naz Mule at ACL Cubs as the guys who will make the biggest splash. Also, Jaxon Wiggins is throwing bullpen sides, so once he is ready for game action he could be making an impact at Myrtle Beach by June.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I expect OF Christian Franklin to have a breakout season at AA Tennessee in 2024. In another organization that doesn't have PCA, Caissie, K. Alcantara, and Canario in their system, C. Franklin would be a Top 10 prospect. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    The Reds trading Joe Boyle for Sam Moll at last year's MLB Trade Deadline was like the Phillies trading Ben Brown to the Cubs for David Robertson at the MLB TD in 2022. 

  • 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.