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39 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (one slot is open), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL and one player has been DESIGNATED FOR ASSIGNMENT (DFA)   

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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 

OPTIONED: 9 
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 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 3
Kyle Hendricks, P 
* Drew Smyly, P 
* Justin Steele, P   

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P

DFA: 1 
Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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Cubs @ Braves: Lester vs Gant (Game 61)

Submitted by CTSteve on

The Cubs get all freakniky with the longball and now go for the series win.CHC (42-18): LHP Jon Lester (7-3, 2.06)
ATL (18-43): RHP John Gant (0-0, 6.17)
First pitch: 12:35pmCST

Lester gave up 4 hits and struck out 9 over 8 innings for a win over the Phills on Monday. He’s 4-1 with a 2.08 on the road this year. The Braves are 51-219 (.233) against him. Freeman is 4-11 with a HR.

Blair (0-4, 7.13) was going to pitch till the Braves looked at his stats and decided to roll the dice with a rookie. This will be Gant’s first career start, after a handful of relief appearances. The 23y/o has been recalled four times this season. Be prepared to be annoyed by his wind-up. Perhaps today is a good day to listen on the radio, especially if you have a history of seizures.

Hendricks (4-5, 2.90) versus Dusty’s Secret Plan at 6:05pmCST in DC tomorrow.

Go Cubs!

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Comments

Submitted by Old and Blue on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 06:45 am

I think pitching Gant is an excellent decision. He may confound Cubs hitters til about the second time through the lineup with his windup, and they won't start beating on him until the 4th. Maybe. Whereas the other guy would have been lucky to get out of the first. Excellent bit of managing here.

Submitted by Cubster on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 06:22 am

I've seen multi-colored strobe lights that were less annoying than Gant's windup/delivery. I'm twitchy just for having watched the link to him pitching.

Submitted by Cubster on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 06:31 am

Coghlan in LF, Baez SS (Batting 6,7). Ross/Lester. 1-5 are the usual today.

Submitted by billybucks on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 06:07 am

Looking at the list of Cubs #1 picks in the paper today: The 70s was a dark decade. 1970-79 #1 picks: Gene Hiser #19 Jeff Wehmeier #16 Brian Vernoy #15 Jerry Tabb #16 Scot Thompson #7 Brian Rosinski #4 Herman Segelke #7 Randy Martz #12 Bill Hayes #13 Jon Perlman #12 Throw in Don Sculze #11 in 1980, before they picked Joe Carter and Shawon Dunston in 1981 and 1982. That is one long stretch of bad.

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Submitted by Eric S on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 06:07 pm

Thanks! Key to the Cubs late offensive outburst was me leaving the game after six innings ... sweltering hot day and my son had had enough. Good day though and glad to see the team stop making the little league errors after leaving the premises as well. Would have loved to see a Javy homer in person. Something to look forward to down the road.

Submitted by crunch on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 06:24 pm

dem errors...and stolen bases that are totally not the pitcher's fault (no way, unpossible, sun was in his eyes, i blame the government, thanks obama)...but mostly dem errors. d.ross is not having a good day and it's only the 2nd inning. ...nice one by k.bryant cleaning up a small mess.

Submitted by crunch on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 06:22 pm

rj alvarez claimed by the cubs (from OAK)...optioned to AA. righty reliever...25 years old.

Submitted by crunch on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 06:55 pm

now that yahoo has decided to totally screw up their boxscore display, does anyone know of a quick-loading realtime text-based boxscore site on the web? i got really used to yahoo boxscores over the years and now it's a graphics-and-scroll nightmare.

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Submitted by crunch on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 06:08 pm

that's a 90s flashback...dunno if that will help yahoo's layout...you have to go through a separate click to even view the boxscore because it auto-loads a scroll-hell game summary by default. you get a lot more info with their new "game view," but my favorite thing about it was how simple and fast-loading it was before the change. im leaning towards CBS's boxscores, but they're a little flunky. i was just wondering if anyone else used or knew of a simple-text boxscore that's real-time.

Submitted by The E-Man on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 06:08 pm

Something has to be done about a pitcher taking 30+ seconds to throw a stupid pitch. Hopefully Manfred will advocate more change of play rules to continue to bring in younger viewers and participants.

Submitted by crunch on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 06:14 pm

j.heyward has raised his ob% .19 points in the past 2 games (.317 to .336) with 6 hits and 2bb. his ob% is above .330 for the first time since may 18th.

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Submitted by Old and Blue on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 06:17 pm

I'm willing to bet that I haven't seen anywhere as many games as you have, but a lot of times I've seen Heyward have a "bad" game he's hit the ball on the nose, although sometimes foul. He's still young enough that I am thinking he hasn't reached his upside yet. He smacks that ball pretty hard for a near mendoza line hitter. And of course his career numbers early are always bad, from what I've been told by Len and JD.

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Submitted by crunch on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 06:38 pm

i've seen a lot of weak contact on the ground, even on mistake pitches he should punish. he's finally starting to elevate and line-drive some stuff lately. i don't expect much more of him other than .350-ish ob%, 30-ish doubles, 10-15 homers...but at a minimum, i expect that. more than that, it's been hard watching him in the 2-slot hitting like an end-lineup hitter in april and may.

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Submitted by johann on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 06:14 pm

I read that he has changed his swing basically every year (as hitting instructors try to get him to hit more HRs) and I'm wondering if that is part of his slow start due to trying to get used to the new swing each time. I've also noticed him double clutching his bat and I have read that can make it more difficult to catch up to balls. Just seemed like he looked uncomfortable overall for a good chunk. He has been pretty consistently better every previous year though so there is every reason to think he will add at least another 100 points to his OPS at the end of the year which will involve some very nice hot streaks.

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Submitted by Old and Blue on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 06:43 pm

I read that too, and I read the Cubs also messed with his swing. He seems to be ok with this - and in fact he seems eager to keep with the changes. I've noticed some double clutching too, which is never good, but not on every AB. Hopefully, he settles into a groove, and they leave the swing alone for a year or two.

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Submitted by crunch on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 06:01 pm

it's been going on for many years...the elusive search to have him regain his 25+ HR power. no one's been able to figure it out yet. it might be best to let him be a boring support player with the bat and hope he manages to turn it into something more as he matures...something he can tweak rather than constantly reinvent.

Submitted by Jackstraw on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 06:59 pm

Cubs played offense with sledgehammers today. Played defense with sledgehammers, too. Crowd was trying to get Javy to do a curtain call after HR, thankfully ignored.

Submitted by jacos on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 06:48 pm

Ahhhhhhhhh! 120 Sports 1h 120 Sports‏ @120Sports DEVELOPING: Juan Uribe was carted off the diamond after taking Mike Trout's 106 mph ground ball to the groin.

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    PCA finally gets a hit!  2r HR!!!

  • Charlie (view)

    They certainly could be coupled. It could also be the case that a team needs good players at the heart of the team and if they are not coming from one source (development) they have to be sought out elsewhere. I don't see the evidence needed to infer the cause. 

  • crunch (view)

    bases loaded for the cubs, 0 out...and no runs score.

    cubbery.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Walker was a complimentary piece who was well past his prime. Edmonds, Holliday, Ozzie Smith and a few others were good trades. Notably, they have almost always been quiet in the free agent market. But the fundamental workings of the organization were always based primarily upon the constant output of a well oiled minor league organization. That organization has ground to a halt. And when did that hard stop start to happen? Right at the beginning of the Goldschmidt/Arenado era, perpetuated by the Contreras signing, followed by the rotation purchases during the last offseason. The timing is undeniable and, in my mind, not coincidental.

    Again, we are all saying that player development became deemphasized. I’m just linking it directly to the recent trades and involvement in the free agent market. I don’t see how the two concepts can be decoupled.

  • Charlie (view)

    The Cards also traded for both Jim Edmonds and Larry Walker. It's the developing part that has fallen off. Of course, it could also be the case that there are no more Matt Carpenters left to pull out of the hat. 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Cubs sign 28 yr old RHRP Daniel Missaki. He was in MiLB from his 17yr old to 19yr old years and did pretty well.
    He's been in Mexico and Japan the last four years and has done well also.
    He's supposedly Japanese and Brazilian.
    Interesting sign. We obviously need to RP in the system
    Injuries are mounting everywhere!!

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Sure, they made generally short term trades for established players to enhance what they already had or traded for players early enough in their careers that they were essentially Cardinals from the start. What they never did was to try to use the more established players as foundational cornerstones.

    Essentially we’re saying the same thing. They have given up on player development to the point that even their prospects that make it to the bigs flop so that they have to do things like buy most of their rotation and hope for the best.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    I don’t buy that. They had been doing that for years.

    They did it with Matt Holliday. They did it with John Lackey. They did it with Mark Mulder. They did it with Jason Heyward, who had a great year for them. I’m sure there’s more but those come to mind immediately.

    I attribute it more to a breakdown in what they’re doing in terms of development than a culture thing.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    They won those trades and sacrificed their culture. That’s exactly their problem.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    The other part that’s kind of crazy is they made two very high profile trades, one for Goldschmidt and one for Arenado, and they very clearly won those trades. They just haven’t been able to develop players the last handful of years the way they usually do.

    I guess the moral there is it’s hard to stay on top of your game and be good at what you do in perpetuity.

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