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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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Dodgers @ Cubs: Urias vs Hendricks (Game 52)

Hendricks (aka, Baby Maddux, El Professor) goes for the series win.

LAD (28-26): LHP Julio Urias (0-0, 10.13)
CHC (36-15): RHP Kyle Hendricks (3-4, 2.93)
First pitch: 1:20pmCST

Hendricks went 9 complete against the Phillies on Saturday, allowing only 1 ER on 5 hits, while striking out 7 and walking none. He came one right field bloop/team error away from doing his Maddux imitation but ended up throwing a still-efficient 104 pitches. He went 2-2 with a 2.23 in May. The Dodgers are 5-28 (.179) against him. Turner is 2-5 and Gonzalez is 1-2, both with a HR.

Things didn’t go as planned for the 19y/o Urias in his debut, lasting only 2.2 and giving up 3 ER to the Mets in New York. Doing that would probably be the “best day of my life,” too, as he said afterward. The Dodgers promptly sent him back to AAA, but the injury to Wood means he’s back.

Maeda, who was scheduled to go today, is moved to tomorrow to face the Braves, even though it seems like it would have been much better for the kid to face a shitty team at home than to see the Cubs at Wrigley. But who am I to judge.

Bradley (2-0, 6.11) and the D’Backs versus Lackey (5-2, 3.16) to open the weekend series tomorrow at 1:20pmCST. Hammel's hamstring is good to go for Saturday, after a cramp ended his last start in the third inning.

Go, Cubs!

Comments

Trib article this am mentions that Kyle Hendricks has been nicknamed "El Professor" (by Pedro Strop). Baby Maddux still works for me.

Dodgers Pitching... Man, the Dodgers seem to always have some good people scouting arms. Urias signed at 16; Kershaw, Baez, Hatcher, Jansen, Jose de Leon, Grant Holmes The Cubs have... Ummm... Duane Underwood? Pierce Johnson? Carson Sands?

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In reply to by The E-Man

On the other hand they have a terrible offense and not a lot of hope in the pipeline. It's all a trade-off I suppose with what you focus on. Hopefully now that we have a great, young offensive base they can focus on pitching.

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In reply to by The E-Man

McCleod actually just said today that pitching is going to be a focus moving forward and that they need to do a better job identifying and developing pit ching so that's good to hear. They don't have a pick till the 3rd round this year though.

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In reply to by johann

Interesting how longtime legacies continue: Dodgers could always pitch (dating back to Koufax/Drysdale) but struggled to hit, Red Sox could always hit (dating back to Ted Williams!) but struggled to pitch. The ballparks may have something to do with that....

Not sure if it's been mentioned but looking like Hammel will be able to pitch his next start and Wood is back available in the bullpen today. Rondon is going to throw today and then Cubs will see if he needs some time off for his back.

Always on the lookout for minor-league pitching prospects--especially starters--who miss bats, a commodity not in great supply, it must be said, in the Cub system under the current regime. So along comes Pedro Araujo (6-3, 214, righty, just shy of 23 years, out of the DR), called up to South Bend on May 27. Last year at Eugene, Araujo struck out 70 in 50.1 innings, yielding 43 hits and 9 walks. At SB so far, he has notched 8 K's in 5 innings with no hits and a walk. Purely a reliever, so far. Someone to keep an eye on now that he's surfaced in A-ball.

When Urias is making his Hall of Fame Speech, he'll fondly recall this game as the one that humbled him and pushed him to work harder.

That was an unusual swinging-bunt for Bryant to choose to turn into a no-play. Didn't seem to have any chance at all of going foul, and seemed to get out to him fast enough to conceivably have some shot at 1st.  I'm sure he had a better read on it than me, just seems an inordinately hard-hit squib to give up on....

Gotta say that it looked like Baez really expanded his "strike" zone after hitting that home run (swinging strike three on a fastball several inches high of the zone). Of course, that second called strike several inches off the inside part of the plate didn't help him in his quest to learn plate discipline.

37-15...unf. a well rested pen and with t.wood pitching an inning it seems hammel is assumed good to go.

I think with that win, the Cubs are like 36-3 against good teams....might be off a few games.

Although we beat Greinke in the first week of the season (Kyle Hendricks won 4-2 and the Cubs scored 3 runs in the first)...He's back on track lately. We might have dodged another bullet vs the Diamondbacks, given that we didn't face KKershaw in the LA series. Zack Greinke pitched for AZ today, so he's not going in the weekend series. AZ won 3-0. vs. Astros: 7 IP, 4H, No Runs, No walks, 11K

El Professor's WHIP is now 0.92 -- good for 3rd in the NL. Last year, he was tied for 11th best WHIP in the NL. Not bad for a #5 starter (full disclosure: as a fellow Dartmouth alum, I'm biased...)

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  • 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.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Here are the Cubs pitchers reports from Tuesday afternoon's Cardinals - Cubs game art Sloan Park in Mesa:

    SHOTA IMANAGA
    FB: 90-92 
    CUT: 87-89 
    SL: 82-83 
    SPLIT: 81-84
    CV: 73-74 
    COMMENT: Worked three innings plus two batters in the fourth... allowed four runs (three earned) on eight hits (six singles and two doubles) walked one, and struck out six (four swinging), with a 1/2 GO/AO... he threw 73 pitches (52 strikes - 10 swing & miss - 19 foul balls)... surrendered one run in the top of the 1st on a one-out double off Cody Bellinger's glove in deep straight-away CF followed one out later by two consecutive two-out bloop singles, allowed two runs (one earned) in the 2nd after retiring the first two hitters (first batter had a nine-pitch AB with four consecutive two-strike foul balls before being retired 3 -U) on a two-out infield single (weak throw on the run by Nico Hoerner), a hard-contact line drive RBI double down the RF line, and an E-1 (missed catch) by Imanaga on what should been an inning-ending 3-1 GO, gave up another run in the 3rd on a two-out walk on a 3-2 pitch and an RBI double to LF, and two consecutive singles leading off the top of the 4th before being relieved (runners were ultimately left stranded)... threw 18 pitches in the 1st inning (14 strikes - two swing & miss, one on FB and the other on a SL - four foul balls), 24 pitches in the 2nd inning (17 strikes - three swing & miss, one on FB, two SPLIT - six foul balls), 19 pitches in the 3rd inning (13 strikes - seven swing & miss, three on SL, two on SPLIT, one on FB - three foul balls), and 12 pitches without retiring a batter in the top of the 4th (8 strikes - no swing & miss - four foul balls)... Imanaga throws a lot of pitches per inning, but it's not because he doesn't throw strikes...  if anything, he throws too many strikes (he threw 70% strikes on Tuesday)... while he gets a ton of swing & miss (and strikeouts), he also induces a lot of foul balls because he doesn't try to make hitters chase his pitches by throwing them out of the strike zone... rather, he uses his very diverse pitch mix to get swing & miss (and lots of foul balls as well)... he also is a fly ball pitcher who will give up more than his share of HR during the course of the season...   
     
    JOE NAHAS
    FB: 90-92 
    SL: 83-85 
    CV: 80-81 
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day... relieved Imanaga with runners at first and second and no outs in the top of the 4th, and after an E-2 catcher's interference committed by Miguel Amaya loaded he bases, Nahas struck out the side (one swinging & two looking)... threw 16 pitches (11 strikes - two swinging)...   

    YENCY ALMONTE
    FB: 89-92 
    CH: 86 
    SL: 79 
    COMMENT: Threw an eight-pitch 5th (five strikes - no swing & miss), with a 5-3 GO for the first out and an inning-ending 4-6-3 DP after a one-out single... command was a bit off but he worked through it...   

    FRANKIE SCALZO JR
    FB: 94-95
    CH: 88 
    SL: 83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 6th inning... got the first outs easily (a P-5 and a 4-3 GO) on just three pitches, before allowing three consecutive two-out hard-contact hits (a double and two singles), with the third hit on pitch # 9 resulting in a runner being thrown out at the plate by RF Christian Franklin for the third out of the inning... 

    MICHAEL ARIAS
    FB: 94-96
    CH: 87-89
    SL: 82-83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and allowed a hard-contact double on the third pitch of the 7th inning (a 96 MPH FB), and the runner came around to score on a 4-3 GO and a WP... gave up two other loud contact outs (an L-7 and an F-9)... threw 18 pitches (only 10 strikes - only one swing & miss)... stuff is electric but still very raw and he continues to have difficulty commanding it, and while he has the repertoire of a SP, he throws too many pitches-per-inning to be a SP and not enough strikes to be a closer... he is most definitely still a work-in-progress...   

    ZAC LEIGH: 
    FB: 93-94 
    CH: 89 
    SL: 81-83 
    CV: 78
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and tossed a 1-2-3 8th (4-3 GO, K-swinging on a sweeper, K-looking on another sweeper)... threw 14 pitches (11 strikes - one swing & miss - eight foul balls)... kept pumping pitches into the strike zone but had difficulty putting hitters away (ergo a ton of foul balls)... FB velo is nowhere near the 96-98 MPH it was a couple of years ago when he was a Top 30 prospect, but his secondaries are better...   

    JOSE ROMERO:  
    FB: 93-95
    SL: 82-84
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 9th (14 pitches - only six strikes- no swing & miss) and allowed a solo HR after two near-HR fly outs to the warning track, before getting a 3-1 GO to end the inning... it was like batting practice when he wasn't throwing pitches out of the strike zone...

  • crunch (view)

    pablo sandoval played 3rd and got a couple ABs (strikeout, single!) in the OAK@SF "exhibition"

    mlb officially authenticated the ball of the single he hit.  nice.

    he's in surprisingly good shape considering his poor body condition in his last playing seasons.  he's not lean, but he looks healthier.  good for him.

  • crunch (view)

    dbacks are signing j.montgomery to a 1/25m with a vesting 20m player option.

    i dunno when the ink officially dries, but i believe if he signs once the season begins he can't be offered a QO...and i'm not sure if that thing with SD/LAD in korea was the season beginning, either.

  • crunch (view)

    sut says imanaga getting the home opener at wrigley (game 4 of the season).

  • crunch (view)

    cubs rolling out the who's who of "who the hell is this guy?" in the last spring game.

  • videographer (view)

    AZ Phil, speaking of Jordan Wicks having better command when he tires a bit, I remember reading about Dennis Lamp 40 years ago and his sinker that was better after 3 or 4 innings when he would tire a bit and get more sink with a little less speed on the pitch.  The key for Lamp was getting to the 4th inning.