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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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Pirates @ Cubs: Kuhl vs Arrieta (Game 131)

Submitted by CTSteve on

PIT (63-69): RHP Chad Kuhl (6-9, 4.52)
CHC (70-60): RHP Jake Arrieta (13-8, 3.49) 
First pitch: 7:05pmCST

Arrieta had a no-decision in Cincinnati on Thursday. He’s 5-1 with a 1.78 since the All-star Break. That’ll do.

In his three starts against the Pirates this year, Jake is 0-2 with a 4.50. Overall, they are 64-275 (.233) against him. Bell is 6-11 with a HR.

Kuhl lost to the Dodgers his last time out (4 IP, 2 ER, 2 K, 5 BB). He’s 0-1 with a 19.29 ERA in two games against the Cubs this season. He’s 4-5 with a 4.86 at home so far. For their careers, the Cubs are 24-57 (.421) against him. Heyward is 4-8 with a HR.

Nova (11-11) and Quintana (8-11) finish the series tomorrow at the same time.

Go Cubs!

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Submitted by crunch on Tue, 08/29/2017 - 08:58 pm

FAKE NEWS EDIT. #MTCRGA anyway, lester pen tomorrow. could be back by week's end or this weekend if he doesn't go on a minor league rehab assignment.

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Submitted by Lester's rattl… on Tue, 08/29/2017 - 08:03 pm

That's good news... at the same time, I'm all for them sending him somewhere to do one rehab start just to make sure everything is going swell. What I don't want is for him to have any sort of problems in his first start back and not only result in a loss, but to further deplete their bullpen. Montgomery deserves at least one more start, and if the front office/Maddon is comfortable with it, I'm fine with a 6 man-rotation the rest of the way (and can alternate L/R/L/R/L/R). With roster expansion just days away, the bullpen will get some reserves to throw during whatever garbage innings exist for the remainder of the season. So I don't see Montgomery being as much of a necessity for the bullpen. Although one thing to watch for Montgomery is his innings pitched on the year. He pitched 100 last year and is at 109.1 this season, so honestly, I don't think they want to let him get way past 120 to 130 IP (especially considering he'll hopefully pitch more in the postseason), so maybe they shouldn't go to a 6-man rotation?

Submitted by billybucks on Tue, 08/29/2017 - 08:50 pm

Rizzo donated $3.5 million to Lurie Children's hospital's cancer ward today. He is there on a regular basis, bringing gifts and hanging out with the kids. That is one seriously good dude.

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 08/29/2017 - 08:19 pm

arrieta is popping the glove with some 93-94mph offerings, but all his pitches have so much movement they're rather wild. tighten it up a bit and PIT isn't gonna have a good night.

Submitted by blockhead25 on Tue, 08/29/2017 - 08:17 pm

Look at Cubs offense over the last 10 days with Zobrist in leadoff, versus not in leadoff. Not a coincidence. Surely someone in uniform understands the correlation.

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Submitted by JoePepitone on Tue, 08/29/2017 - 08:17 pm

On tonight's Gameday feed: "RT @CEmma670: Ben Zobrist has a career-best hard contact rate and a career-worst BABIP this season. His fortunes are turning. He can give the Cubs a boost." Wasn't aware of his hard contact rate vs. BABIP issue. I'll have to check out his Fangraphs page. You'd think someone would have mentioned this before now.

Submitted by blockhead25 on Tue, 08/29/2017 - 08:57 pm

Win. 3.5 Game lead. Want 6+ game lead before we head into the stretch of playing MIL and STL 48 straight games.

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Submitted by Lester's rattl… on Wed, 08/30/2017 - 08:17 am

@billybucks- So true, but we who've seen him pitch over the last 4+ years all know that we've already gotten his best. Maybe he's got one season in him that's better than his 2017, but no way does it match his 2015 or first half 2016. So that Boris laughter is probably directed towards the teams who are ready to throw big money his way.

Submitted by Jim Hickmans Bat on Wed, 08/30/2017 - 08:53 am

If the Cubs weren't stuck with Heyward's crap contract, they could take the $$ risk with re-signing Jake. Just sayin'.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 08/30/2017 - 08:14 am

i'd take arrieta over giving heyward 23m/y for heyward's 2-ish chances a game to be good in RF while hitting .240/.310/.346 heyward isn't dead weight (not counting his cruddy playoffs last year), but even for a non-star role player he's having a hard time filling his role with almost 2 seasons under his belt.

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Submitted by The E-Man on Wed, 08/30/2017 - 08:55 am

I believe there are more than half a dozen teams that will pay "whatever" for him and eat the back-end of his contract. I'd include the Cardinals, Yankees, Red Sox and Dodgers among them. The Dodgers seemingly could buy the island of Aruba right now and it does nothing to its deep pockets. Of course they could DFA Aruba, eat the expense, and then buy Bimini - so there's that.

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Submitted by Sonicwind75 on Wed, 08/30/2017 - 08:30 am

EJAX Did they also give Ejax a WS Ring? It would have been hard to "earn" those high draft picks without his "contributions". I consider it money well spent. It would have been hard to suck that bad without him.

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Submitted by The E-Man on Wed, 08/30/2017 - 08:21 am

That is an excellent idea. The entire ground crew should get one. Also, my vendor, Rich should get one too because he helps to keep the crowd along the 1st base side motivated with Goose, Bud and Bud Light.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 08/30/2017 - 08:41 am

i can't imagine a situation where the cubs wouldn't hesitate to move a guy hitting .240/.310/.346 in almost 2 full seasons that's owed $135m if someone came knocking. i also can't imagine anyone lining up to take that contact. the only steady thing one can say about him is he does well above average in the 2-ish chances a game he gets in the OF playing D. i think the cubs are stuck with this contract for a while unless they want to eat a nice chunk of loot. i don't see heyward using any of his opt-outs without a radical change in what he's doing at the plate. luckily, the cubs have plenty of money to absorb this mis-investment because they have a slew of cheap MLB-quality youth.

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Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Thu, 08/31/2017 - 08:45 am

Heyward's paychecks add up to $28 million this year. The difference between that and $23 million is enough to buy--I don't know, twenty John Mallees?--until we get a hitting coach who can communicate to Heyward the importance of guessing fastball once in a while in order to get the bat there on time.

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