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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, ten players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, two players are on the 15-DAY IL, and two players are on the 10-DAY IL

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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* 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 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2 
Seiya Suzuki, OF
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 2
* Justin Steele, P  
Jameson Taillon, P 

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




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Cubs @ Pirates: Lester vs Taillon (Game 140)

Submitted by CTSteve on

CHC (76-63): LHP Jon Lester (9-7, 4.46) 
PIT (67-73): RHP Jameson Taillon (7-5, 4.50) 
First pitch: 6:05pmCST

Lester gave up 4 ER in 5 innings but beat the Braves on Saturday. In three starts against the Pirates, he’s 0-2 with a 6.08 this season. Overall, they are 61-222 (.275) against him. Mercer is 6-19, with a HR.

Taillon had a no-decision against the Reds his last time out (6 IP, 0 ER, 4 K, 1 BB). In two starts against the Cubs this season, he’s 1-1 with a 3.00. For their careers, the Cubs are 22-75 (.301). Rizzo is 6-11 with 2 HR, Jay is 2-2, and Baez is 5-7 with a HR.

If you’re in the area, tickets start at $4.

Lackey (11-10) and Nelson (11-6) start the NL Central showdown with the Brewers at Wrigley tomorrow at 7:05pmCST.

Go Cubs!

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 09:37 am

So now it's Ferrebus for the rest of us, as Alex Avila look-alike Emilio Ferrebus takes the ball tonight at Scottsdale Stadium in the AZL championship game (best two-out-of-three series is tied at 1-1). . 

Tough loss for the AZL Cubs last night at Sloan Park in Mesa.

After going ahead 5-4 on a dramatic one-out bases-clearing three-run triple into the RF corner by Nelson Velazquez (on a 3-1 pitch) in the bottom of the 5th (unfortunately, Velazquez was left-stranded at 3rd), the Cubs gave the lead back in the top of the 6th. The inning started promisingly enough with a pop-up in front of home plate, but somehow it resulted in a messy four-car pile-up in front of the pitcher's mound involving 3rd baseman Cam Balego, 1st baseman Luis Hidalgo, catcher Marcus Mastrobuoni, and pitcher Eury Ramos, as Jacob Gonzalez (son of Luis Gonzalez) hustled into 2nd base (as the ball somehow found an open spot between the quartet) for what had to be scored a double. (The Arizona Highway Patrol was called-in to do the Accident Reconstruction on the wreck but the results will probably not be known for weeks). And "J-Go" (as he is known to his teammates) scored the tying run later in the inning on a two-out bases-loaded walk.  

Then in the top of the 9th, with two outs and a runner at 3rd, Cubs reliever Fauris Guerrero induced the Giants hitter into a two-hop chopper to Cam Balego (now playing 1st base). Balego lost his balance and did a face-first prat fall while fielding the ball and made an errant throw to Guerrero covering 1st, and so the go-ahead run scored on what should have been an easy inning-ending 3-1 putout. 

So then the Cubs came up in the bottom of the 9th trailing 6-5. They got the potential tying and winning runs on base with two outs and Nelson Velazquez coming up to the plate while the Cubs bench was going banshee crazy-nuts on the dugout railing, and in a true Mighty Casey Moment, Velazquez struck out on three pitches (all three swinging, al three sliders, all three pitches out of the strike zone).

So there was a lot of drowning sorrows in warm beer and whiskey in Mesa last night (in other words, not much different than any other night in Mesa)
 
So it's on to Scottsdale! 

Go Cubs! 

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Submitted by tim815 on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 09:19 pm

I will be glued to my computer following four playoff games on a night off of work. MB/Eugene/Mesa, and the Geelong Cats in the Aussie football League. I might bother Bill Mitchell for a request of a photo of the line-up cards, so I know which nine relievers will be eligible tonight. I expect to see Marco Estrada as one of the potential relievers.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 09:34 pm

TIM: FWIW, all of the pitchers on the AZL Cubs active roster were dressed last night, but the only pitchers who were physically in the bullpen during the game were Guerrero, Ramos, Remy, Sweeney, and Stophel. 

It will be truly "all hands on deck" tonight. The only pitchers who probably can't pitch tomight are Colorado, King, Marquez, and Ramos, and Guerrero, Palma, Passantino, and Medina would be iffy (although the latter four seem to have rubber arms and I'm sure they would want to pitch if they're needed).  

But the main six in the pen tonight should be Carrera, Correa, Estrada, Remy, Sweeney, and Stophel, with the others only if they're needed,  
 

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Submitted by tim815 on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 09:51 pm

It sucks for the Giants that one of their relievers was injured in the game. (I hate injuries.) I'm not sure if the Giants will back-to-back their closer from last night. That their starter (from Carbondale and SIU-C named Marciano) couldn't get out of the first kind of incinerated their pen for tonight. I'll be a busy boy/nervous wreck tonight. I hear the parent club is playing also, but that will be on another screen. Myrtle Beach and Eugene audio Mesa box for the after-the-inning update. And a possible third year in a row with at least one league champ. After four last year.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 09:56 pm

I failed to mention this yesterday, but Eugene manager Pedro Feliciano is from the same home town as Nelson Velazquez, and AZL Cubs manager Carmelo Martinez knows more about beisbol in Puerto Rico than probably anybody on earth, so I suspect they may have had some influence or input in the Cubs selecting Velazquez when they did - AND - convincing him to sign. Same goes for SS Luis Vazquez. 

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 09:51 pm

It looks like the Cubs don't want Lester to start against the Brewers, The Brewers were probably the one team that really took advantage of Lester's throwing-to-bases issue last year. 

Submitted by billybucks on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 09:12 pm

Happ (.911 OPS w/RISP) leads off; Zobrist (.597 OPS w/RISP) bats cleanup. Joe, let me see that iPad for a minute.

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 09:24 pm

Willson Contreras catching and batting 2nd for Myrtle Beach, reaches base on HBP 1st time up. 

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 09:10 pm

holy f'n rain. according to len/jd it came on suddenly while lineup cards were being exchanged. they don't even have the tarp on the field yet (working on it). bryant is in the dugout with his batting helmet on, expecting to be in the on-deck circle. right side of the field is a puddle. wow, the grounds crew has a stuck tarp. the right side of the field is going from puddle to pond. almost to the second they finally get the tarp on it stops raining. seriously, though...the right side of the infield is a mess.

Submitted by Lester's rattl… on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 09:14 pm

Geez, it hurt just watching that pathetic grounds crew trying to get the infield covered with the tarp... Might as well just cancel this one and not risk any injury to the particular team in the pennant race. However, on the flip side, I'd hate for the Cubs to have to play this game after the regular season ends if it matters to the outcome of the pennant/wildcard race.

Submitted by blockhead25 on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 09:23 pm

I know start time moved tomorrow because of this, but why was this a night game to begin with? I thought getaway days like this were almost always day games.

Submitted by The E-Man on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 09:48 pm

To any of our southern Florida TCR friends, GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE! Thank you.

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Submitted by crunch on Fri, 09/08/2017 - 09:24 am

we have all-you-can-drink coal ash river water, purposely underfunded public schools being legislated into for-profit private schools paid for with public tax money, extremely gerrymandered voting districts, and people with strong opinions about where other people go to the bathroom. join us. bring guns. if you're not grocery shopping with a gun ready to kill some people, you might as well not be shopping.

Submitted by billybucks on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 09:20 pm

Rough start for Kershaw: Single. Double. HR by Arenado. 3-0 Rockies, nobody out in the first.

Submitted by The E-Man on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 09:34 pm

Movie: Ok bitches - for an absolutely, stupid, goofy college "baseball" movie you may want to see, check out Richard Linklater's "Everybody Get Some". Kinda like a college/baseball "Dazed and Confused". But...considering he was Oscar nominated for "Boyhood", he knows what he was doing. I have heard him interviewed and it is somewhat autobiographical.

Submitted by The E-Man on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 09:48 pm

The Justin Wilson Experience moves to Pitt! EDIT: AND ONLY ONE RUN GIVEN UP!!! WHOOO! Such a badass!

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 09:54 pm

i want to give a shout out to fans of either side of this contest for sitting through a 6 run cubs lead in the 9th during a miserable downpour...all 100 or so of them left.

Submitted by billybucks on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 09:17 pm

Dexter K's with the bases loaded and 2 outs in the 9th as the Cards lose 3-0 to the Padres. Cubs now up 5 games! BTW -- I had to turn off the Pats-Chiefs game. The NFL is nothing but injuries and commercials. Just terrible.

Submitted by Lester's rattl… on Fri, 09/08/2017 - 09:43 am

I really can't see how Justin Wilson can make the post season roster? I mean I'd probably prefer Lackey as a reliever...

Submitted by billybucks on Fri, 09/08/2017 - 09:51 pm

Lester now has the highest BA of any Cub starting pitcher (.167), and with some pop -- 3 doubles and a HR.

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  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    I THINK I agree with that decision. They committed to Wicks as a starter and, while he hasn’t been stellar I don’t think he’s been bad enough to undo that commitment.

    That said, Wesneski’s performance last night dictates he be the next righty up.

    Quite the dilemma. They have many good options, particularly in relief, but not many great ones. And complicating the situation is that the pitchers being paid the most are by and large performing the worst - or in Taillon’s case, at least to this point, not at all.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Wesneski and Mastrobuoni to Iowa

    Taillon and Wisdom up

    Wesneski can't pitch for a couple of days after the 4 IP from last night. But Jed picked Wicks over Wesneski.

  • crunch (view)

    booooooooooo

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  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Tonight’s game postponed. Split games on Saturday.

  • crunch (view)

    cubs getting crazy good at not having player moves leak.

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  • Bill (view)

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  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Teheran minor league deal is done, per MLB.

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