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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 

OPTIONED: 9 
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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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Royals @ Cubs: Ventura vs. Wada (Game 48 Thread)

Submitted by CTSteve on

KC (29-18): RHP Yordano Ventura (3-4, 4.64)

CHC (25-22): LHP Tsuyoshi Wada (0-0, 2.70)

 

Escobar ss

Infante 2b

Cain cf

Morales 1b

*Gordon lf

Perez c

Rios rf

Colon 3b

Ventura p

#Fowler cf

Bryant 3b

*Rizzo 1b

Castro ss

*Montero c

Soler rf

*Coghlan lf

*Wada p

Russell 2b


Wada switches spots with Hammel, who’s getting an extra day because of his ongoing nail issue and an extra extra day because of the rainout. Yesterday’s game will be made up on Monday Sept. 28, when KC is in town to face the Southsiders.

Wada has decent if abbreviated numbers since coming off the DL for his two winless starts. He might have been on an informal or unstated pitch count as he works himself back (69 against SD and 83 against WAS). When asked about Wada going longer, Maddon responded: “It just depends. It’s not a 100-pitch exercise.” Only Butera (with 1 official AB and a BB) has ever faced Wada in the regular season.

STL beat Ventura his last time out, when he went 7 and gave up 4 ER. He has pretty electric stuff--his fastball was ranked second among starters for all of MLB last year--but his control is inconsistent. If the Cubs start chasing, it could get ugly fast. Only 4 Cubs have a handful of bats against him (Fowler, Lake, Montero, and Ross). Ross has 2 ABs, with a HR.

Alex Rios returns for KC after a fractured left hand put him on the DL in the second week of the season. He went 3-17 with a HR in his rehab assignment.

Let’s hope for an early lead. The Cubbies like their late-inning heroics, but that's not how you beat KC. And if the Royals continue to hit HRs, we should have someone check the pine tar on their bats.

Go Cubs!

 

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Submitted by billybucks on Sun, 05/31/2015 - 05:17 pm

The 6th inning was just really, really terrible managing by Joe. Tie game in the 6th, two outs, man on first -- with a rain-out rested bullpen -- and you bring in your mop-up/extra inning guy? Who has been one of the worst pitchers in the majors for the past 2 years? Who is still learning how to pitch out of the bullpen? What possible explanation can there be for that? Just horrible.

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Submitted by Old and Blue on Mon, 06/01/2015 - 06:02 am

The bullpen has been Maddon's achilles heel. But in his defense, nobody has come in and gotten the job done during that stage of the game whose last name isn't Grimm and he probably felt it was too early to bring him in. You can argue I guess that Wood isn't used to coming in with a guy on base, but I think Maddon would argue it shouldn't make any difference, and he'd be right. Hopefully he'll now turn to Theo and say, "time to cut this guy loose. I can't even bring him in to hold 'em in the sixth. What good is he?"

Submitted by Carlito on Sun, 05/31/2015 - 05:11 pm

Can someone just get Schlitter and Wood an apartment together. In Siberia. Maybe Jackson can join them ...

Submitted by CTSteve on Sun, 05/31/2015 - 05:18 pm

Finally, someone who can sing! Thank you, Fat Tony.

They seem to be few and far between these days.

Submitted by crunch on Sun, 05/31/2015 - 05:03 pm

i am so fucking over david ross... why is he even in the game in a tie game anyway? did montero get injured?

Submitted by Cubster on Sun, 05/31/2015 - 05:09 pm

no Montero injury... they pinch ran with Herrera when Montero walked. Herrera did score from 2nd on the Coughlan single to tie the game.

Submitted by Cubster on Sun, 05/31/2015 - 05:47 pm

JD, after noting that only Edwin Jackson is left in the bullpen.."If the phone rings, at least they will know who it's for."

Submitted by crunch on Sun, 05/31/2015 - 05:03 pm

cubs win!!!! ha. a bloop out turns into a bloop hit because of defensive positioning fearing another bunt attempt by d.ross. awesome.

Submitted by CubsfaninCA on Sun, 05/31/2015 - 05:07 pm

Cubs seem to have the "Angels in the Outfield" going against their opponents this year. I think it was Ernie that tripped the guy this time. Whales Win!!

Submitted by Carlito on Sun, 05/31/2015 - 05:25 pm

also speaking of Fowler, he basically reached back and made himself out on that Rizzo single. The anti-scoring slide.

Submitted by Cubster on Sun, 05/31/2015 - 05:04 pm

Brewers-Dbacks game is crazy. Longest game by time in Miller Park. Garza just pitched his 5th inning as their 9th pitcher in the game. 6-6 in the bottom of the 17th in Milwaukee. edit: And Garza gets the win (3-7) on a Maldonado HR in bottom of 17th. Also, Welington is 0-4 with another tie game (3-3) in the 10th, Seattle vs Indians.

Submitted by dcf on Mon, 06/01/2015 - 06:53 am

Went to the ballpark yesterday with some of my wife's inlaws from KC. Very cold, wind from North and off the lake. Lots of KC people in the stands. Heard stories of other KC people in town that had tickets to Saturday, and left without seeing a game due the rainout. Maddon manages a lot of games using the bench very aggressively. It seems like he does not want to save anybody.

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Submitted by dcf on Mon, 06/01/2015 - 06:05 pm

Further to the above, Hammel was in the on-deck circle when Ross hit his jamshot to win the game. I don't recall Hammel being announced, but the pitcher's spot was due next, and Rosscup was in that spot. He was out of position players.

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Submitted by crunch on Mon, 06/01/2015 - 06:14 pm

why in the hell are they wasting a "pitch around to get to the pitcher" slot on cog rather than castro at this point just to keep a L/R matchup that deep in the lineup intact? d.ross has benefited greatly from it...hell, it's almost his only saving grace at the plate.

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  • crunch (view)

    PCA called up.

  • crunch (view)

    welp...

    bellinger...fractured rib.

    a not-very-ready PCA will probably be called up when it would be much better for him to be in AAA getting regular ABs.

  • crunch (view)

    i have no hard data, but i'm seeing the same thing.

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    I’ll spare the details which I’ve stated before but, in short, the Cardinals have lost their sight of their successful identity and strategy over last several dominant decades. From the beginning of the season I saw the Cardinals being in last place or near it again this year, and my prediction is that Mozeliak will be gone after the end of the season.

  • Bill (view)

    I would have kept Cooper rather than Wisdom, but at least I can understand why they did it.  In a team that lacks dominant power hitters, Wisdom can be a dominant power hitter, at least in streaks.  I suppose that there is always the possibility that the streaks longer in both duration and frequency.  I will be content if they essentially make a 100 % DH commitment to Mervis against righties and Wisdom against lefties.  When a regular needs rest, give them total rest, rather than a DH rest.  Do this for at least 2 months, and then re-evaluate at that point.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    This is Cubs adjacent but…


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    They’ve still developed a few of those pesky solid players, like Donovan, Edman, and Nootbaar. Their two best prospect to MLB players have been Adolis and Arozarena, neither of which is a cardinal.

    I hope they never figure it out again. Cardinal failure brings me such joy.
     

  • Raisin101 (view)

    Thank you so much! I really appreciate not only all your posts but how eager you are to respond to our questions.

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Is it just me or does it seem that official scorers are becoming less likely to call a misplay an error? 

     

    Guess I've hit my cranky old-man phase in life.  "I remember back in the day when an error was an error.  Official scorers have gone soft.  Now where did I put my readers?!!??"

     

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  • crunch (view)

    i hated the almonte pickup, but he's 9-10 out of 12 for good outings, following a great spring.  hope he can keep it up.

    i already miss cooper, but yeah...the thin OF roster backup the team seems to want to carry probably got wisdom preference over cooper.  i could live without seeing wisdom at 3rd unless it's a blowout, though.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Things I've been wrong about:

    -Tauchman is fine as a 4th OF. I knew that. I just want a better LH DH option and he was really the DH for us until Seiya got hurt. I'm glad Mervis is getting a chance at it. Caissie is coming for that job for sure. But Tauchman continues to be highly useful as a 4th OF with Seiya being hurt

    -I wanted Yency to go to get guys at Iowa a chance. Guys like Palencia and Sanders or RileyT. Maybe even Hodge! But Yency has been better the last two plus weeks. He did hit 96 the other day. He was 93 in Texas to open the season.

    -Leiter has his split working enough. It just needs to stay there

    -I was surprised Jed picked Wisdom over Cooper. I wonder if this happens if Seiya wasn't hurt. Wisdom has more power. Cooper is the better hitter. Jed picked Wisdom and Wisdom had an option left as well.

    -Palencia just doesn't miss enough bats. Similar to ManRod, just two yrs younger. ManRod is killing AAA for TB right now!

    Things I got right so far:

    -Hendricks. Sorry Kyle. You got paid though!

    Jed, you missed there.

    -Smyly. If Jed could've traded him before or during ST, then he should have and saved some cash.

    -Mastro.  Not a LH DH. Pinch runner. Defensive utility. Maybe he's better than Madrigal but didn't get a legit chance to prove it.

    -Luke Little is good. He's had one bad outing. That's it. Needs to get better entering with guys on base. But he needs to stay in MLB.

    -Oh yeah....Morel is doing fine at 3B! He'll get better as well!!

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