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

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

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PITCHERS: 14
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

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

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 
* Justin Steele, P   

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




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Cubs @ Giants: Quintana vs Blach (Game 112)

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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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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.

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    Phil: Great to see what Rosario is doing!

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