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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 eight players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and two players 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
* Pete Crow-Armstrong 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 8 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2
* Cody Bellinger, OF  
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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Nationals @ Cubs: Jackson vs Lackey (Game 109)

Submitted by CTSteve on

WAS (64-43): RHP Edwin Jackson (2-1, 3.75)
CHC (57-51): RHP John Lackey (8-9, 4.87) 
First pitch: 1:20pmCST

The good news is we get to face Edwin Jackson. The bad news is that there’s a very real possibility that this team will not beat Edwin Jackson. At least we’re not still paying him. After three appearances with the Orioles and the inevitable DFA, Jackson was scraped up by the Nationals--his fifth team since getting booted from the Cubs. In three starts for Dusty, he’s 2-1 with a 2.84. In other words, he’s due to return to form. The Cubs are 30-94 (.319) against him. Avila is 8-23.

Lackey gave up 2 ER over 6 innings to win his third straight game. He’s 3-0 with a 3.27 in August. That’ll work. Overall, the Nats are 62-205 (.302) against him. Werth is 7-18 with a HR.

Lester (8-6) and Fedde (0-1) close out the series tomorrow at the same time.

Go Cubs!

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Sat, 08/05/2017 - 08:28 am

I am presuming that Tommy LaStella will be recalled from AAA Iowa in the next day or two once the Cubs bullpen situation/workload has settled down a bit, at which point Rob Zastryzny will very likely be optioned back to Iowa. 

Beginning on Sunday August 13th, any player on an MLB 40-man roster who has minor league options left and who has not been opltioned to the minors previously during the season can be optioned to the minors without using a minor league option year, as long the player spends no more than 19 days on optional assignment to the minors (meaning a player optioned to the minors on 8/13 could be recalled on 9/1 when MLB Active Lists expand).  

This comes into play with the Cubs because Addison Russell will be eligible to be reinstated from the 10-day DL on 8/13, and so LaStella could remain with the Cubs after Russell is reinstated (presuming Russell is reinstated after ten days) while another position player like Ian Happ or Albert Almora could be optioned to the minors for 19 days and then recalled on 9/1, with no minor league option spent in 2017.  

Also, the Cubs will likely add pitchers and position players to their MLB Active List and (in some cases) to their MLB 40-man roster to augment their bullpen and bench when MLB active lists expand in September. However, calling up players who are not already on the MLB 40-man roster would require removing as many players from the 40 as are added, since the Cubs MLB 40-man roster is full. 

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Mon, 08/07/2017 - 08:00 am

CHILDERSB3: Aramis Ademan is probably the Cubs #2 position player prospect right now. I have seen him in Mesa two different years and several different times, at Extended Spring Training in 2016, at AZ Instructs post-2016, and then at Minor League Camp and Extended Spring Training in 2017, and he is the rare five-tool shortstop. He has the arm and range to stay at SS and he has the knack for making the big play and timely defensive stop when his team really needs it, he has above-average speed and is a savvy baserunner, he has outstanding bat on ball skills and a good feel for the strike zone, he makes hard contact, and he has XBH and HR power (I saw him pull a home run onto the south bank of the Loop 202 Red Mountain Freeway in an EXST Cactus League game in 2016 when he was only 17). Ademan jumped over AZL and went directly to Eugene this season after hitting 270/337/371 in 98 PA (28 Cactus League games) at EXST and then he got moved-up to South Bend about a week ago, and he will likely be assigned to the Cubs Advanced Instructs team post-2017 before (probably) heading to Myrtle Beach in 2018, so it should be fairly obvious that Ademan is on the fast track, and - AS THINGS STAND RIGHT NOW - he projects to be the eventual replacement for Addison Russell at shortstop (if he doesn't get traded in the meantime). Ademan is the real deal.  

D. J. Wilson played both baseball and football in HS and was all set to go to Vanderbilt before the Cubs gave him 1st round money to sign after drafting him out of South Canton HS in the 4th round in 2015. He reminds me a bit of Lenny Dykstra, in that he plays CF and runs the bases like his hair is on fire, and he has above-average HR power for a guy 5'8. The main problem with Wilson (besides being a tad over-aggressive from time-to-time) is that he is a streaky hitter and he sometimes struggles to make contact and then he expands his strike zone, but he can mash when he gets into a groove. He is not an elite defensive CF like Albert Almora and Trey Martin are, but he is good enough to stay there. One scout told me that he thought Wilson would never be anything more than a 4th OF at the big league level because of his below-average "hit tool," but the Cubs Player Development people think he will hit and that he will be a front-line major league CF. Time will tell. He will likely join Ademan on the Cubs Advanced Instructs team post-2017 and then open the 2018 season in CF at Myrtle Beach. 

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Submitted by Childersb3 on Mon, 08/07/2017 - 08:53 am

Thanks AZP. So, we still have one more real SS prospect. That's honestly amazing considering how many have already come before him (Castro, Baez, Russell, Torres, Paredes). That's a pretty impressive streak of MLB SS players/prospects.

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 08/05/2017 - 08:10 pm

3 losses in a row and a "normal" lineup rather than a maddon panic lineup of weirdness. good for him. i was kinda expecting the pitcher hitting 6th, rizzo leading off, arrieta in RF batting 2nd, etc. needs more mimes and penguins.

Submitted by QuietMan on Sat, 08/05/2017 - 08:05 pm

Pirates still making moves. Traded for Sean Rodriguez and claimed reliever George Kontos today.

Submitted by Eric S on Sat, 08/05/2017 - 08:32 pm

Only one run surrendered - Javy's throwing error did not help, but looking forward to Wilson's first relief appearance with the Cubs where a run doesn't score

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 08/05/2017 - 08:54 pm

heyward drops below .700 OPS for the first time in about a month. he had a nice little streak, but then it died out. .304 ob% .387 slg% ugg. at least he's still benefiting from WAR formulas that over-weighs outfield D...as if getting a D whiz that can't bat worth a damn is something unable to be found in the minors rather than something teams generally don't want to screw with handing 600+ PA a year. yes, he's far above average, but his 2 chances a game are a bit out of whack vs his supposed "replacement level" peer. i don't get it. he's not supposed to be this bad even though he's a kinda boring hitter even at his best. what has happened the last 2 seasons? it's not injury...it's not age/abuse... *shrug* i've read a lot about it and seen a lot of it happen in front of me, but it's kinda crazy he's not dug himself out of this hole.

Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 08/05/2017 - 08:48 pm

Having Zobrist and Heyward both in the lineup with their sub-.700 OBPs is a killer, particularly when Zobrist hits anywhere other than leadoff. His bat looks dead. At least Hayward gives you defense and base running.

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Submitted by crunch on Sat, 08/05/2017 - 08:23 pm

i still believe heyward is better than this, but im running out of ways to believe he can get better and i can't see anything he's doing "wrong" at the plate as much as he just looks weak at the plate. at least that's something. it seems he could "turn it around" without actually doing anything major to turn it around. hard to believe he's peaked at such a young age. he doesn't have far to fall from "good" to "meh" when he's a .350-ish ob%, 30 double, 10-15 homer guy, but i'd settle for anything near that rather than what we've got the past year and 2/3rd out of him.

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  • First.Pitch.120 (view)

    Honorable mention to Jim Bullinger via BleedCubbieBlue: 

    Bullinger, a converted shortstop, had pitched in three games before he came to the plate. He had entered the game to relieve starter Shawn Boskie after four innings, and came to the plate to lead off the fifth, and hit Rheal Cormier's first pitch over the left-field wall to give the Cubs a 1-0 lead; they eventually won the game 5-2 in 14 innings. Of the 129players to homer in their first MLB at-bat, Bullinger is one of just 32 to hit that blast on the first big-league pitch he saw (including Contreras) and one of just six pitchers to do so.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Most of this activity will lead nowhere, of course, but it is fantastic that they’re looking for talent in every nook and cranny. You never know where that can lead, and virtually nothing is lost if if leads nowhere, as long as no one of superior talent and potential is losing an opportunity.

  • First.Pitch.120 (view)

    Fun 1st Hit / HR Fact…


    Recent Cubs players to have HR as 1st MLB hit:

    PCA

    Morel

    Happ

    Contreras

    Baez

    Soler

    Castro

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Miguel Cruz walked six in 1.2 IP in his last start, so I guess he is improving. Wilme Mora also walked six in one of his appearances a week or two ago, and one or two others have walked five. I don't know what would be the most I have ever seen a pitcher throw in a game out here, because the manager / pitching coach usually gets the pitcher out of the game if it gets too ridiculous. 

    As for the attendance, probably about 20 of the 25 were early arrivals for the Savannah Bananas game who came over to Field # 1 to see what was going on, and once they saw all the bases on balls (12 walks by Cubs pitchers and four by Angels pitchers) they ran away screaming. I'm used to it so it didn't bother me that much. 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Jed has added Teheran, Tyranski, Kissaki, and now Straily and Nico Zeglin today.

    Zeglin is 24 yrs old. Pitched well at Long Beach St in '23 and well in some Indy Ball.

    They also added Reilly and Viets in late ST.

    Have to search for MiLB arm depth anywhere you can and at all times!!!

  • Childersb3 (view)

    25 in Attendance!!!

    Phil, is that a backfield record?

    Also, 6 BBs for Cruz in 2 IP. What's the most walks you've seen in one EXT ST outing that you can recall?

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    He has a pulse. Apparently that’s the only requirement at this point.

  • crunch (view)

    cubs sign dan straily...for some reason.  minor league deal.

    welcome back.

    zac rosscup is down in mexico trying to make it happen...maybe they could throw him a contract, too.  junior lake is his teammate.  shore up a bunch of holes with some washups.

  • fullykräusened (view)

    The great thing about going to live sports events is you don't know if you're going to see something historic. Today I went to the Cub game, after putting the liner back in my coat and fishing my Cubs knit hat out of the closet. I needed all that- my seats are in the upper deck, left, so the east wind was in my face. Both teams failed to capitalize on good situations, but both starters did a good job to accomplish this. So, we go to the bottom of the sixth inning. The Cubs tie it up, and then Pete Crow-Armstrong comes up. We all know he would still be in AAA if not for injuries, and future Hall-of-Famer Justin Verlander absolutely carved up the young fellow up in his first two plate appearances. So this time he hits a fly ball. The wind was blowing in and had suppressed several strong fly balls- including a rocket off Altuve's bat that Canario hauled in (does he remind anybody else of Jorge Soler?) , but the ball kept carrying and carrying. 107mph, legit angle and carry. The crowd went nuts, the dugout went nuts. Maybe, just maybe, I saw the first homer from a long-term Cub.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Which was my original premise. They won the trades but lost their souls. They no longer employ the Cardinal way which had been so successful for so long.

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