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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 nine 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
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
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 9 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 1 
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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Brewers @ Cubs: Nelson vs Lackey (Game 141)

Submitted by CTSteve on

MIL (72-68): RHP Jimmy Nelson (11-6, 3.59) 
CHC (77-63): RHP John Lackey (11-10, 4.74) 
First pitch: 7:05pmCST

Friday night's alright for fighting. 

Lackey beat the Braves (7 IP, 0 ER, 5 K, 0 BB) on Friday. He’s 1-1 with a 4.50 in two starts against the Brewers this season. Overall, they are 35-133 (.263) against him. Santana is 5-12 with a HR.

Nelson won against the Nationals his last time out, keeping them off the board for 7 innings and striking out 11. He’s 0-0 with a 6.35 in two games against the Cubs this season. For their careers, the Cubs are 38-161 (.236) against him. Heyward is 7-25 against him.

The Cubs enter the weekend with a five-game lead over the Brewers and Cardinals. 

Anderson (8-3) and Montgomery (5-7) throw tomorrow at 3:05pmCST.    

Go Cubs!

 

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Comments

Submitted by billybucks on Fri, 09/08/2017 - 09:48 am

I hope the Happ leadoff thing last night was an audition for next year: - Happ CF - Schwarber LF (Almora CF, Happ to LF vs. LHP) - Bryant 3B - Rizzo 1B - Contreras C - Heyward RF - Baez 2B - Russell SS Caratini, Zobrist, Almora and one more on the bench. I know Joe doesn't like or use a "set lineup", but I hope this is the group that is out there most days. Zo would become a utility backup player (I assume Russell will get even more days off next year, given his annual breakdowns). It will be interesting to see if Joe is willing to make that move.

Submitted by The E-Man on Fri, 09/08/2017 - 09:53 pm

Dillon Maples? Will Joe give Dillon Maples a shot tonight since Wilson pitched last night?

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Fri, 09/08/2017 - 09:42 pm

Willson Contreras goes 1-2 in four PA as DH at Myrtle Beach -- ground single to left, two walks (one intentional), and a pop-out to 2nd (P-4) to end the game and the Pelicans season. 

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 09/08/2017 - 09:19 pm

ryan* braun* HR* #300* also, lackey has had 4 balls in the 1st hit warning track deep. braun's went over the wall. boo.

Submitted by The E-Man on Fri, 09/08/2017 - 09:46 pm

Lackey is a servicible #5 pitcher. Just like J Hammel, however, I would NEVER put him on the Playoff roster should they make it cause you're behind the 8-ball after the 2nd inning.

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 09/08/2017 - 09:22 pm

taylor davis's hair featuring taylor davis is making him MLB debut in the 7th. i miss his pre-haircut look. whatever. good for him for finally getting a taste of the bigs. ...and he K's. still, another victory for a modern domestic undrafted FA player making it to the bigs. he's no kevin millar, but it's still a nice 'check it out' to all the teams that passed on him.

Submitted by billybucks on Fri, 09/08/2017 - 09:24 pm

Cubs efforts to manipulate the schedule have backfired so far. The No-Rain rainout vs. MIL was made up and the Brewers crushed the Cubs -- moving today's game from afternoon to night hasn't gone well, either. Bizarre offense this year -- they either score a ton of runs or none at all.

Submitted by billybucks on Fri, 09/08/2017 - 09:14 pm

Zobrist at cleanup again. That is simply idiotic. No possible logical reason for it. What the hell is Maddon trying to prove?

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Submitted by Jackstraw on Sat, 09/09/2017 - 09:54 pm

The only explanation I can come up with that I could defend even a little bit is that Joe feels for some reason that Bryant and Rizzo HAVE to bat 2 and 3 and that of the rest of the guys on the current roster, Zobrist is least likely to get over-amped or flustered by batting clean-up. My real belief is that Zobrist has pictures of Joe buying crappy wine and putting it in good bottles.

Submitted by The E-Man on Fri, 09/08/2017 - 09:21 pm

I'm not optimistic that the Cubs will win one game this series. But maybe Monty can throw a gem.

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    bellinger "right rib contusion"

  • Childersb3 (view)

    South Bend just lost the lead in the bottom of the 9th on the weirdest scenario, ever.

    It's absolutely pouring rain....men on 1st and 2nd, 1out....JPatterson asks for a new ball, but no time out was called....he throws the old ball toward the dugout (not sure if it rolled out of play).....the ump declares the runners get two bases each so one run scores. Then a single up the middle ties the game.

    The rain was coming down in buckets at this point.

    Just weird

  • crunch (view)

    ...and bellinger is gone in the 7th because of that 2nd blown chance and the wall he bounced off of...

    hopefully his rib cage/shoulder feels better tomorrow, we just got happ back.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Phil,

    Any thoughts on Y. Rojas' stuff and Y. Melendez's game (I believe I've asked about him before, sorry)?

  • crunch (view)

    wow, things are moving fast.  hopefully it continues.

  • crunch (view)

    morel with 4 clean plays in 4 innings...showed off his 100000000mph arm a couple times.

    cody bellinger not having a good 4th, though...5 run leads are handy when your CF is making your pitcher have a 5-out inning.  2nd blown chance was ruled a hit even though it went in/out of his glove...1st was lost in the lights, also ruled a hit.

  • crunch (view)

    welcome back happ!  double off the wall 1st PA back.

  • crunch (view)

    oh yeah, totally, i was just chiming about why i fan like i fan.

    i would like nothing more than hendricks to keep on hendricks'ing.  guys with his stuff can throw for a long, long time as long as it works.

    he velocity is actually up a minor amount this year.  it's really "damn" when a guy like him not only has gas in the tank, but it's looking like it was years ago.  he added a curve a few years ago and it helped a little bit, but he's throwing it less and less while the fb/change combo are less effective.

  • Alexander Dimm (view)

    CRUNCH—There is no one person in this community I’m talking about.  My remarks were not directed at you or anyone, but at a tone I’ve noticed lately. 

    You have a great, dry sense of humor and there is thought behind your comments.   You and I don’t always agree but I always understand your position.  

    Lastly, and I’ll be quiet, I agree with you on Hendricks.  We can dislike the recent performance but still love the guy.  Lots of questions about his future.
     

  • crunch (view)

    myself, i make a good amount of outrageously unrealistic comments that are sometimes "violent"...like my recent suggestion of "pulling the bandaid off" by having hendricks throw every inning of every game until he's on the IL.

    i would hope any athlete that cares about what is written on the internet realizes how casual fans can be about treating their lives like scripted TV characters that don't have real lives.  it's not an excuse to do it, but there's a lot of it out there.

    but yeah, in real life i'm rooting for guys to have long and healthy careers even if i'm not happy with current performances...except for some guys...and i'm pretty sure i don't leave grey area for those comments...and almost all of them are not good humans whether they're playing baseball or not...

    hendricks was getting a good amount of boos in his last game.  i would bet a million that he will get a standing O every time he visits wrigley in his post-playing days, or a return with a new team should his career continue...or if he comes back and puts in an oldschool good performance.

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