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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)   

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and nine players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and one player is on the 10-DAY IL

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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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Dodgers @ Cubs: Maeda vs Lester (Game 167; NLCS Game 1)

Submitted by CTSteve on

Cubs 8, Dodgers 4
W: Chapman (1-0); L: Blanton (0-1)
Cubs lead series: 1-0PREVIEW
LAD (0-0): RHP Kenta Maeda (0-1, 12.00)
CHC (0-0): LHP Jon Lester (1-0, 0.00)
First pitch: 7:00pmCST

Lester went 8 scoreless to beat the Giants in Game One of the NLDS on Friday. He struck out 5 and walked none. The Dodgers are 20-115 (.174) against him. Ethier is 2-4 with a couple RBIs.

Maeda gave up 4 ER in 3 innings to lose Game Three of the NLDS against the Nationals. He finished the year strong, going 3-2 with a 2.73 in September. He went 9-6 with a 3.74 on the road this year and none of the Cubs have faced him.

The Cubs won the season series against the Dodgers, 4-3. That’ll work.

Hendricks versus Kershaw, the new Dodgers closer, tomorrow at 7pmCST.

Go Cubs!

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Submitted by crunch on Sat, 10/15/2016 - 10:43 pm

Dexter Fowler CF, Kris Bryant 3B, Anthony Rizzo 1B, Ben Zobrist LF, Addison Russell SS, Jason Heyward RF, Javier Baez 2B, Ross C, Lester SP

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 10/15/2016 - 10:59 pm

rather quick/boring (yet close) game 2 for TOR/CLE...CLE wins, 2-0 series lead...series moves to TOR

Submitted by Rob G. on Sun, 10/16/2016 - 10:58 am

So that 8th inning was a helluva shitshow of managing on both teams but glad it worked out of course.

Maddon

probably should have just started with Strop or Chapman, but a mild sin imo

and definitely should have bunted with addison. as much as i hate bunts, getting a guy to third with less than 2 outs is still a good thing

Roberts

IBB Jason Heyward???!!!!???!!!

Coghlan apparently had decent numbers vs Blanton so I suppose that's okay although never a fan of walking the bases loaded, give you no room for error 

ultimately Montero just came through but I think we've seen the good and bad of over-managing this post season

 

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Submitted by Eric S on Sun, 10/16/2016 - 10:14 am

Still trying to wrap my head around what was most unlikely to happen: - stealing home - pinch hit, go ahead grand slam - IBB to Heyward I'm at a loss (To be fair, impressed with J-Hey's triple. By my count, he has two more extra base hits than both Russell and Rizzo combined so far this post season)

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Submitted by billybucks on Sun, 10/16/2016 - 10:29 am

Walking Coghlan also got Chapman out of the game. Addy is a mess at the plate right now -- trying to pull everything. That AB in the 8th was awful -- 2 strikes, low and away pitch perfect for a ground ball to the right side...and he reaches out and pulls it to third. I hope he starts hitting to RF soon. I wonder if that hot HR streak has down more harm than good.

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Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Sun, 10/16/2016 - 10:52 am

"definitely should have bunted with Addison" There's more count-based swinging or not-swinging going on than is often talked about. On 1-2 or 2-2, with the pitcher having a ball to give, Addison would have expected a slider low and outside and would have held up. But 3-1, you expect the pitcher to throw a strike. That pitch took guts to throw if that was where Blanton wanted it. Then on 3-2, you still expect a strike; so I can sort of forgive Addison for swinging at two pitches that would have been ball four and had a better result than a bunt. Standard count-based swinging.

Submitted by billybucks on Sun, 10/16/2016 - 10:43 am

Lots of media ripping Maddon for taking out Lester. I thought it was the right move -- the Dodgers were on him all night. A runner thrown out at the plate, Dexter's two diving catches, and multiple line drives right at Cubs infielders. Although the HR was a wind-blown fly ball, he was very lucky to only give up one run.

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