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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

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

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Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

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Seiya Suzuki, OF

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Kyle Hendricks, P 
* Drew Smyly, P 
* Justin Steele, P   

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Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P

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Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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Ramirez versus DeRosa for Player of the Month

Submitted by Rob G. on

With three days left in August, the Cubs have two legit contenders for player of the month honors in August. The only player of the month winner so far for the best team in baseball has been Geovany Soto's rookie of the month honor in April, although he's certainly a strong contender to win it again in August. His only real competition is the July winner, Ian Stewart who has a slight edge in OPS and both have 20 RBI's in August.

All the NL contenders after the jump...

 

Name  HR  RBI  R  XBH  AVG  OBP  SLG  OPS 
DeRosa  7  24  22  17  .378 .442  .768 1.210 
Cameron  8  18  17  14  .366  .458  .744  1.202 
Pujols 7  20  16  16  .372  .481  .721  1.202 
Wigginton
 10  22  17  17  .370  .381  .783  1.164 
Ludwick  9  23  21  17  .359  .413  .739  1.153 
M. Ramirez  7  23  14  11  .375  .465  .635  1.100 
A. Ramirez  6  26  20  14  .325  .418  .639  1.057 

Cameron also has seven stolen bases this month although I doubt that's valued too highly for the award. With Ryan Braun and CC Sabathia sweeping the July honors, I doubt they'd give it to another Brewer unless Cameron goes off the next three days. DeRosa has the OPS edge at the moment over everyone and is tied for the most extra base hits. He's tied for second in RBI's with Carlos Delgado, both of whom trail Aramis. DeRosa is second in runs scored to Matt Holliday's 28. So a little battle within the battle to end the weekend.
 
On the pitching side, Rich Harden is 3-0 with a 1.82 ERA this month but in just four starts and 24.2 IP. Sabathia and Tim Lincecum are both 4-0 so far with nearly double the innings and 1.37 ERA for Sabathia and 1.27 for Lincecum. 
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Mark DeRosa
Player of the Month
Aramis Ramirez

Comments

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 08:31 pm

phew...using wood in 2 blowouts in a row before his 2 saves (causing him to work 4 days in a row) didnt bite the team in the ass. using howry as a setup man yesterday was iffy while marmol was resting.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 08:25 pm

way to avoid answering a question...

Wood hadn't pitched in 3 days, that's why he was used Monday in a blowout. No one knows if Tuesday's game would be a blowout, which didn't turn into a blowout until the 8th anyway. Keeping Marmol and Wood sharp are important until we clinch. I'll agree that using him on Tuesday was questionable, but his only choices were Wood or Howry.

As to why he didn't use Howry, I don't know. Maybe after watching the team piss away most of the game, he didn't care to go through an adventurous 9th. Maybe Howry had a hangnail or a case of the runs. Maybe Lou is sick of Howry's crap pitching this year.

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Submitted by crunch on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 08:01 pm

i explained why i wouldn't use a closer 2 blowouts in a row. i didn't think it was controversial of a topic, really. it's come up in parachat a lot. guessing it's gonna be one guy and it ending up being marmol/wood. i'm not coming at this going "never in a blowout!!!!"...its just when they work multiple ones in a row that it becomes "why?" the answer could be any number of legit or "stupid" reasons...we dont know the why's most of the time. i'm just saying its something i wouldn't do and i know i'm not alone in that one no matter what side of it you find yourself on.

Submitted by Dmac on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 08:48 pm

I vote for Soto as player of the season - while the pitching staff is excellent, there has to be major input from the quarterback of the defense. The guy doesn't play or act like a rookie, and the staff reflects that attitude every game.

Submitted by Chad on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 08:48 pm

I can't tell you how happy I am right now. I said for the longest time that if we do 2/3 from the bad teams (or better) and .500 or better against the good teams, we win this division going away. At worst we got our split vs. the phils and Zambrano pitches on Sunday. On Fox, BTW. I like our chances. If we go 1 under .500 from here on out we get 98 wins. This team will get to 100.

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 08:13 pm

brewers up 3-0...top 1st, 0 out. neat.

Submitted by blockhead25 on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 08:09 pm

I'm still not counting my chickens on the division yet. The Brewers still have 16 games left against the Pirates, Padres and Reds and they have been dominating bad teams. Wildcard is a different matter. that's a done deal.

Submitted by JoePepitone on Sat, 08/30/2008 - 08:04 am

His only real competition is the July winner, Ian Stewart who has a slight edge in OPS and both have 20 RBI's in August. Pretty good for a guy who's been dead since December 1985. Though he did play a nice, bluesy piano for the Stones in his day.

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