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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: Anderson vs Montgomery (Game 142)

Submitted by CTSteve on

MIL (73-68): RHP Chase Anderson (8-3, 3.06)  
CHC (77-64): LHP Mike Montgomery (5-7, 3.38) 
First pitch: 3:05pmCST

Montgomery, who almost lost his rotation spot, is in for the gimpy Arrieta. Montgomery gave up 3 ER in 5 innings and lost to the Braves on Sunday. He’s 1-3 with an 8.74 in six appearances (one start) against the Brewers. Overall, they are 24-92 (.261) against him. Ryan* Braun* is 4-9 with a HR.*

Anderson gave up 3 ER in 5.1 innings for a no-decision in Cincinnati in his last outing. He’s 1-1 with a 8.00 in his two starts against the Cubs this season. For their careers, they are 21—82 (.256) against him. Bryant is 4-11 with 3 HR. Yes, please.

Davies (16-8) and Hendricks (6-4) close it out tomorrow at 1:20pmCST.    

Go Cubs!

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Sat, 09/09/2017 - 09:03 pm

Torn labrum for last night's Brewers SP Jimmy Nelson. Happened when he dived back to 1st base after banging single off LF wall in the top of the 5th. He is out for the year.  

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Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 09/09/2017 - 09:21 pm

Nelson is huge loss for them -- before the injury, they had a very good top 3 starters, a bullpen with a lot of guys with sub-3.00 ERAs, a power closer and a lot of thump in their offense. Of course, if they keep scoring 8 runs in the 2nd inning, starting pitching may not be an issue for them.

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Submitted by crunch on Sat, 09/09/2017 - 09:50 pm

in ipad we trust. fwiw, chase anderson has slight "reverse splits" going in favor of him being better vs lefties, but it's rather close. plus, the wind is blowing in/around the OF and schwarb's not that great of an OF'r (but that didn't stop happ from being in CF yesterday). *shrug* sitting 2 days in a row is weird.

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 09/09/2017 - 09:21 pm

montgomery threw 26 pitches, left the bases loaded, and no runs scored. hell of a 1st inning.

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Submitted by crunch on Sat, 09/09/2017 - 09:03 pm

why the hell isn't anyone up in the pen... ...and montgomery's day is done. holy crap that was turrible. grimm? we're doing grimm with 0 out and men on 2nd/3rd? alright. ...and grimm balks in a run. man on 3rd, 0 out. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA. yeah. ...and a single, run scores. neat. ...and another single, men on 1st/2nd, still 0 outs. ...and a walk, loaded, 0 out. ...and a 2 run double...still 0 outs. i'm done.

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

Brewers are playing with house money -- nobody expected them to still be in it at this point. Oh, well -- Cubs will still be in first place tomorrow morning.

Submitted by CubbyBlue on Sat, 09/09/2017 - 09:48 pm

I'm listening to the radio and getting real tired of Ron's "it's just another one of those days for the Cubs..."
There have been waaay too many of these days.

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 09/09/2017 - 09:02 pm

cubs must have really pissed off the brewers because they are not holding back at all on scoring or taking extra bases.

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 09/09/2017 - 09:11 pm

rob z's first MLB hit. good for him. scwharber pinch hits and will probably be left in to play LF. i hope he hits a 14 run HR.

Submitted by Jim Hickmans Bat on Sat, 09/09/2017 - 09:43 pm

Brutal week for the Cubs. Hard to see them advancing far in October, assuming they get there. Can we end the Grimm experiment, please?

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Submitted by tim815 on Mon, 09/11/2017 - 09:22 pm

Grimm is out of options next season anyway. Coin flip on him being non-tendered. No biggie there, either way. On the other hand, I hope everyone is owning their stance from 2012-2014 on Chris Rusin, who is now a better reliever than even Brian Duensing has been. Pitcher development. It happens when it does. Or, sometimes, it never happens.

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Submitted by Lester's rattl… on Mon, 09/11/2017 - 09:57 pm

Grimm may be worth that $2ish million just for the matter that relief pitchers fluctuate year to year. I know it's been since 2015 when he was pretty darn good, but he's bound to have another good year, and especially knowing he'll be pitching in 2018 to earn his first free agent contract, I think he might be worth the gamble to keep him around another year. Of course I'm typing this assuming we upgrade Koji to someone much more reliable and consistent. If Grimm is the 7th or 8th BP option, I'm okay with that.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Tue, 09/12/2017 - 09:16 pm

The only players presently on the Cubs MLB 40-man roster who will be free-agents after next season (post-2018) are Hector Rondon and Justin Wilson. Also, the Cubs hold a $6.25M 2019 club option on Pedro Strop (or else $500K buy-out post-2018).

The Cubs could possibly non-tender Justin Grimm on 12/2, but I would say they will probably tender Grimm a 2018 contract for about $2M (which would be non-guaranteed) so that they can bring him to Spring Training (Grimm would be able to request salary arbitration if he isn't happy with the $$$ offer), and then they can decide prior to 2018 Opening Day whether to keep him on the Opening Day 25-man roster (which would guarantee the contract 100%), or release him and pay him 45 days salary (about 25% of his salary) as termination pay.

The Cubs will probably also tender 2018 contracts to Hector Rondon, Justin Wilson, and Tommy LaStella (like Grimm, all three are arbitration-eligible post-2017), although there is an outside chance that one or more of the three could be non-tendered if the Cubs don't want to pay the player more than the Cubs feel he is worth and they don't want to risk losing in an arbitration hearing. (A trade is also a possibility).  

The most-likely 12/2 non-tender candidate is recently-acquired OF Leonys Martin (who otherwise can't be cut more than 20%, meaning the Cubs would have to offer him at least $4M for 2018 if he is tendered a contract). If they project him as a potential useful piece in 2018, the Cubs would probably still non-tender Martin, but then they would try and re-sign him to a 2018 minor league contract (with an NRI to Spring Training) for substantially less than $4M (maybe $1M - 1.5M).

Another very likely non-tender candidate (if he is still on the MLB 40-man roster on 12/2) is IF-OF Mike Freeman, although he could get dropped from the 40 in November.

Felix Pena and Rob Zastryzny are also 12/2 non-tender candidates (especially Pena), with the Cubs offering the non-tendered player a 2018 minor league contract for "split-contract 40-man roster money" (the same minor league "split salary" the player would have received if he had remained on the MLB 40-man roster, somewhere in the vicinity of $100K, maybe a little bit more to induce the player to re-sign) plus an NRI to Spring Training. .

Non-tendering a player on 12/2 allows a club to remove the player from the MLB 40-man roster without exposing the player to waivers or to the Rule 5 Draft (if the player agrees to sign a minor league contract). Of course, the player can always just decline to re-sign and instead sign with another MLB club. That's why a club has to think twice and maybe have a deal in place before non-tendering a player.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Tue, 09/12/2017 - 09:54 pm

The worst thing a relief pitcher can do is surrender both walks - AND - home runs, and Grimm has been doing that all season. 

As is the case with most relievers who are having a bad season, poor command is the primary cause. Of course sometimes a reliever is clearly washed-up (like Koji Uehara) or has a physical problem or a mechanical issue that affects his performance, but command (or lack of it) is usually why a relief pitcher who has had success in the past is having a bad season. 

And everything could be completely different next year. Or not. 

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Submitted by Jackstraw on Tue, 09/12/2017 - 09:53 pm

One of the simple things about baseball that it took me way way way too long to figure out is that only the elite relievers are good every year and that the vast majority of relievers have good years and bad years. I can't recall any recent examples where a Cubs reliever sucked for half a season and then turned good for the remainder of the year. I couple that with the idea that the first 50-60 games of the season is the period over which a manager comes to realize what he has for a particular year, and I am left to conclude that it's been half a season that Joe has run Grimm out there time after time after time and watched him suck and suck and suck. There is no reason to think that anything will change for the remainder of this season with Grimm. It seems to me Joe had (at least) two choices....keep throwing different guys out there trying to find the 2 or 3 guys who were going to be good this year, or keep throwing Grimm out there hoping he'd get better. Joe chose plan B and for whatever reason (stubborn-ness comes first to mind) has chosen to stick with it despite dismal returns. I trust Grimm is pitching as well as he can, which is badly. Time for Joe to up his own game a bit.

Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 09/09/2017 - 09:06 pm

Rough couple of days. Glad they had built a 5-game lead. Get a win tomorrow and move on. By the way -- what the hell is up with Joe's hair? Did he get a big Grecian Formula deal?

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