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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full), plus one player is on the 60-DAY IL 

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, ten 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
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Daniel Palencia
* Drew Smyly
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Garrett Cooper
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
* Miles Mastrobuoni
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 10 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Alexander Canario, OF 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 3
Julian Merryweather, P
* Justin Steele, P  
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 1 
Caleb Kilian, P 

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Cubs @ Giants: Quintana vs Blach (Game 112)

Submitted by CTSteve on

CHC (59-52): LHP José Quintana (6-9, 4.42) 
SF (44-70): LHP Ty Blach (7-7, 4.24) 
First pitch: 9:15pmCST

Quintana gave up 6 ER in 5 innings but avoided a loss to the D’backs on Thursday. The Giants are 8-28 (.286) against him. Span is 4-7.Ty Blach, who has one of the worst names in all of sports, beat the A’s his last time out (8 IP, 2 ER, 4 K, 1 BB). He’s 4-4 with a 3.70 at home this season. We saw Blach at Wrigley in May, when he pitched 7 innings of 3-run ball and came away with the win. Overall, the Cubs are 8-26 (.308) against him. Baez is 2-3 with an outside-of-the-park HR.

Hendricks (4-4) draws the short straw and faces Bumgarner (1-5) tomorrow at 2:45pmCST to conclude the series.

Go Cubs!

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Comments

Submitted by billybucks on Tue, 08/08/2017 - 08:36 am

Zobrist as a RH batter: .588 OPS. Joe, if you have to play him against LHP (and you don't), please bat him 1st or 8th. He is a black hole in the middle of the lineup. FWIW: Happ as a RHB: .797. Roughly same number of PA's.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Tue, 08/08/2017 - 08:04 am

Sometimes it's difficult for a manager to realize and recognize that an aging veteran player is in decline. It can be an awkward and difficult situation for both the player and the manager, but if you want to win games and if you have little margin for error (as is the case with the Cubs right now), the manager has to leave his heart in the clubhouse and do what's best for the team on the field.

It would appear that Zobrist is morphing into a veteran back-up guy who can get an occasional start at 2B, LF, or RF, but otherwise maybe it would be better if he doesn't play too much. And that's OK. Nothing wrong with that. But that's why age matters in sports. 

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Submitted by billybucks on Tue, 08/08/2017 - 08:21 am

Zobrist seems like a really good guy, and I will always love him for everything he did last year -- the huge post-season hits (WS Game 7 and the Game 4 rally vs. SF), celebrating like a little kid when they won, riding his bike to Wrigley in full uniform on games days, etc. -- but his time as a RH hitter should be coming to an end, particularly when Russell returns. His numbers as a LH hitter aren't great, but a .330 OBP for a part-item player isn't terrible.

Submitted by chitownmvp01 on Tue, 08/08/2017 - 08:32 pm

@AZ Phil On your comment about Almora potentially being sent down over LaStella, I would send Happ down until 9/1 instead. He's really struggling lately and isn't getting sufficient playing time to boost his confidence. Happ only has 1 XBH (a HR) since July 18th and is only 7/39 (.179) in that span. 6 singles, 1 HR. 1 interesting factoid is that 20/35 RBI have come with 2 outs I believe. Numbers may be off by a bit, but a lot of his RBIs have come with 2 outs. I also don't think CJ gets sent down unless he struggles in some low leverage situations. Ever since he's been here, he goes through a slump. Last year he would always be really good and then have a clunker of giving up 3 ER in the middle of multiple strong performances. This is obviously his worst slump in the big leagues though. Does going down to AAA really fix the walks though? What's best for him is to get a few strong appearances against major league hitting. Schwarber was different because he was given the chance to get back on track in The Show, but it wasn't coming, so he was sent down and he has improved since his time in AAA this season. Interesting, CJ's numbers this year (ERA, BB/9, K/9) are quite similar to Aroldis Chapman in his first full season in the majors. Edwards: 3.83 ERA, 6.0 BB/9, 12.9 K/9 Chapman: 3.60 ERA, 7.4 BB/9, 12.8 K/9 Both throw hard and have struggled with command in their first full season in the big leagues. Chapman obviously throws a bit harder than CJ though.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Tue, 08/08/2017 - 08:04 pm

CHITOWNMVP01: I posted another comment a few days ago where I mentioned both Albert Almora AND Ian Happ as potential candidates to get optioned to the minors for 19 days when Addison Russell is ready to be reinstated on 8/13. 

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What I was trying to explain is that this is the time of the year (specifically starting on August 13th, with a recall when rosters expand on September 1st) when an MLB club can option a player to the minors without spending an option year, and that it wasn't absolutely a slam-dunk that Tommy LaStella would get sent back to Iowa when Russell is reinstated. 

As for Carl Edwards Jr, the issue right now isn't his BB/9 rate for the season (that's just par for the course for CJE), it's that his command is imploding in high-leverage situations when the Cubs can't afford to lose games where they have a lead going into the 8th inning (as happened twice last week), and the idea of sending him to the minors isn't so much to get his confidence back as it is to get him off the 25-man roster because he is costing the Cubs games.

If the Cubs had a 15-game lead and were on cruise control to the post-season (like they were this time last year) or if Edwards could not be sent to the minors, it wouldn't matter if Edwards was struggling with his command to the extent that he is. But every game is crucial right now, and Edwards has become unreliable in high-leverage situations. And he can be optioned to the minors on Sunday and then be recalled in 9/1 (when the active roster limit expands) without using up his 3rd & final option year.

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Tue, 08/08/2017 - 08:35 pm

A bullpen arm who might be in demand prior to the 8/31 post-season roster eligibility deadline is ex-Cub RHRP Blake Parker, who is having an outstanding season with the Angels. 

I was at Fitch Park the day Parker was converted from position player to pitcher in May 2007. He was the EXST Cubs clean-up hitter and played C-1B-3B, and after a game he threw off a mound (just for fun) on one of the other fields and caught the attention of pitching coach Tom Pratt, and the next day he was in the pitchers group taking PFP! 

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Submitted by The E-Man on Tue, 08/08/2017 - 08:06 pm

PHIL: As I recall, Parker couldn't get anyone out at the Cubs MLB level. He sucked! Casey Kelly, Donn Roach, Brian Schlitter, Zac Rosscup, Spencer Patton, Blake Parker... Talk about not performing in any leverage situations, these are some classic bed-wetters. If he's pitching well for the Angels, it might be b/c they are out of the Playoff picture I'd suspect.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Tue, 08/08/2017 - 08:34 pm

E-MAN: Blake Parker had a very good year with the Cubs in 2013, but he has missed considerable time since then with shoulder problems. 

Parker was an NRI to Spring Training, and he made the Angels Opening Day roster by striking out the last 17 men he faced.

Here is Fangraph's take on Parker's breakout 2017 season. 

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Submitted by The E-Man on Tue, 08/08/2017 - 08:56 pm

AZ PHIL: Thanks. That is really interesting and a head scratcher. He's 32 and just finding himself. The quote from the article sums it up: "No one in the game with whom I spoke about Parker had an explanation for where he found the velocity, such as an arm-slot change or a new training regiment."

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Submitted by JoePepitone on Tue, 08/08/2017 - 08:49 pm

How about something like Daniel Murphy, who suddenly turned from a league average batter (~110 OPS+) into a high-average slugger (150 OPS+) several months after he turned 30? Funny how some players suddenly turn it on late in their careers.

Submitted by blockhead25 on Tue, 08/08/2017 - 08:28 pm

Been thinking about this a lot this season...and thought I'd say it again. Seeing the Cubs bullpen implode this year, seeing the Cubs losing close games that they should have won, seeing the Cubs struggle against good teams, seeing the cubs batting .090 with RISP... ...all makes me appreciate how incredibly fun and lucky the ride the Cubs gave us in 2016 was.

Submitted by billybucks on Tue, 08/08/2017 - 08:56 pm

Cards are scoring runs in bunches in KC -- just put up a 6-spot to go from down 3-1 to up 7-3. Cue the scary music.

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Submitted by John Beasley on Tue, 08/08/2017 - 08:29 pm

Seeing-eye groundball single, soft groundball too soft for a DP, hard groundball E-6, HR by 2 inches. Q must've pissed off a baseball god something fierce tonight.

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 08/08/2017 - 08:40 pm

eloy went 3/5 with a double and a HR for high-A CWS tonight. le sigh. hitting around .360avg .430ob% with 9 doubles and 6 homers in 23 games for them. yeah.

Submitted by blockhead25 on Tue, 08/08/2017 - 08:42 pm

So the Giants have exactly one person in the lineup that can hit. Would the Bonds approach in the first inning been a bad call?

Submitted by The E-Man on Tue, 08/08/2017 - 08:56 pm

So, pitching for a suck-ass team with no pressure, or fans, is different than pitching for a World Series defending champion?

Submitted by John Beasley on Tue, 08/08/2017 - 08:24 pm

That feeling when the Cubs are losing and everyone in Parachat is talking about suicide and then Parachat literally commits suicide.

Submitted by blockhead25 on Tue, 08/08/2017 - 08:50 pm

3-20 this series with RISP, bad errors, bad non catches, HR in the first, another relief pitcher giving up a lead off walk. Just crap baseball.

Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 08:43 am

Cubs now 1-7 in the state of California, including 1-4 against the wretched Padres and Giants. Good thing they don't play the A's or Angels tis year.

Recent comments

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    While the Chapman trade helped to cement a championship I honestly think that trade was made in a different era. Nobody trades their best prospects for rentals anymore.

    The Quintana trade was a stinker from day one. It seemed to be a product of Theo’s unshakable faith in his 2016 “core” and the consistent and mistaken idea that they were always just one guy away from a return to WS glory. The mistake was repeated several times and I think that realization along with a general evolution in baseball thinking has helped to shape Jed and the way he operates today.

  • Bill (view)

    I had mixed emotions when I heard of the trade, as I have with most trades that involve high potential prospects.  But that is because I hate to trade a high potential prospect for a veteran with only a few years control, and with a much lower potential than the prospects give away.  I hated the trade of Cease and Jiminez for Quinta, because I viewed Quintana as a decent, but not top pitcher, being traded for two very high-potential prospects.  I disliked the trade for Chapman, because a high-potential prospect was traded for a rental, although in this case, the fact that the rental was a top player greatly softened the blow.  The trade of Ferris and Hope for Busch seemed even at the time, to be a good one, even though they gave up one of my favorite prospects.  The return was a high-potential prospect with 6 years of control, at a time when he could be a difference maker on the team.

    13 games hardly proves that it was a good trade, but at least it was a reasonable one, no matter how it turns out.  So far, so good.

  • crunch (view)

    i was strongly happy about the deal, but words can barely describe how quickly zyhir hope went from "interesting youngster" to "high end prospect" when he showed up in arizona post-draft.

    it may not have shown up in the team prospect numbered rankings, but the dodgers had their eyes on such a low level guy for a reason and the cubs knew what they gave up.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    I have to disagree. They got not just A triple A stud but THE AAA stud of the entire PCL for a position player who hadn’t played above the AZL level and a pitcher who was rather mediocre in his first taste of pro ball at low A. I’m not saying the guys they traded haven’t shown great promise but they have a very long way to go and a whole lot to prove before they make the bigs. Especially since Busch filled a defined need (whether it had been at third or first) I take this trade any day of the week and don’t bother looking back.

  • crunch (view)

    matt shaw (AA) has a .381/.552/.905 line through 7 games...3 homers and a triple.  6 games at 3rd, 1 game DH (5 PO, 7 A, 0 E).

    that's somewhat fun news.

  • crunch (view)

    i was blown away confused/pissed when it was announced the cubs were trading for y.almonte.

    i was thrilled when m.busch was announced as part of the trade.

    it's really weird to have the "you gotta take this payroll guy, too" (1.9m) part of the trade leak before the main piece.

    the cubs didn't get a deal given what they gave up, but i was very happy to have a guy like busch in the fold with so much club control.

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Have to admit I was initially disappointed the Cubs traded away the upside of Jackson Ferris but Busch is making a believer out of me.  If I still lived in midwest guessing we would have invented some drink special named a Busch Bomb at the local drinking establishment to celebrate his homers.  

  • Cubster (view)

    per Tribune: Suzuki MRI results pending from yesterday so we should get a timetable for return later today.

  • crunch (view)

    suzuki says he injured his oblique running to 1st, not swinging.  okay.  it's gonna be that kind of 2024 cubs year, huh?

    i would say that's good news compared to screwing it up swinging, but i'm not familiar with the recovery time of people screwing up their oblique by running.

    right side is at least different from his left side oblique injury last year.

  • crunch (view)

    5 IN A ROW!

    hack wilson, ryne sandberg, sammy sosa, christopher morel, and michael busch.

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