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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

Last updated 4-18-2024
 
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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
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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Cardinals @ Cubs: Wacha vs Hendricks (Game 148)

STL (77-70): RHP Michael Wacha (12-7, 3.99)
CHC (81-66): RHP Kyle Hendricks (6-5, 3.35)
First pitch: 3:05pmCST

Hendricks gave up 3 ER in 6 innings and lost to the Brewers on Sunday. He had a no-decision against the Cardinals in June at Wrigley. Overall, they are 22-92 (.239) against him. Carpenter is 6-20 with a HR.

Wacha reeled off his third straight win on Sunday against the Pirates (8 IP, 0 ER, 7 K, 0 BB). He’s 0-1 with a 9.58 in two games against the Cubs this season. For their careers, they are 38-119 (.319) against him. Rizzo is 15-34 with 3 HR.

Lynn (11-7) and Quintana (10-11) end the series tomorrow at 1:20pmCST.

Go Cubs! 

Comments

Wasn't watching but would Martin have scored on Almora's double? what happened there?

Great start for Hendricks. In his last inning, he always leaves one ball up that gets hit for a HR. Great return for Addy! Alas, the return of the old Javy at the plate. Huge 2-strike swings with men on 3rd and less than 2 outs.

This is shaping up as a pretty memorable series against the Cards. Would love to put them a good ways back with another win tomorrow.

Agree great start for Hendricks. Most efficient he's been in a long time, maybe all season. Very 2016-ish. Cubs were uniformly hacky against Wacha. Had to have been scouting report. Zobrist 3 pitches total in 3AB? Last time that happened was never. Javy has to be tired, besides being beat up. He has to be on his longest consecutive game streak in the majors. I trust Joe will leverage the day off on Monday to get Javy 2 days off, maybe even start him tomorrow and bring in Addy part way through. I still believe Cubs will drop Contreras' appeal on Monday. Better for him to miss 2 against Tampa than 1 or 2 against Milwaukee and/or Cardinals. No chance MLB goes from 2 games to zero.

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In reply to by Rob Richardson

I hope the ump also apologized to him in person for that completely awful call. I mean, a smaller apology, of course. But still.

I believe today's start pushed Hendricks' career ERA under 3.00. "Only" 579 IP, so he has a ways to go to reach the 1,000 IP qualifying mark for career ERA, but here's the list of active qualifiers with a career ERA under 3.00: - Kershaw 2.35 - Sale 2.98 That's it. MadBum is close at 3.02. I realize Joe tends to keep a pretty short leash Hendricks, so he doesn't pitch the innings of the other guys. Still, it's pretty cool. And, once again -- what is going on with Joe's hair? He's like Benjamin Button.

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In reply to by billybucks

hendricks is amazing considering the pure ass velocity that comes out of his arm. calling someone a "young maddux" is a bit insane because of how rare it is to find a starter with that kind of stuff, but...well...he's damn close to the low-velocity late-90s-into-00s maddux. i was a bit freaked out to see his already small velocity shrink this year, but it still "works." maddux and hendricks go about getting those results differently with their pitching skills, but seeing low velocity guys carve up batters in a lineup who get 3+ chances a game to get a piece of them is great stuff.

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In reply to by crunch

Jamie Moyer won like 250 games or so with softer stuff than most junior college pitchers. It can be done. Throw strikes, hit your spots, mix speeds. And I agree--it's more fun in one sense seeing guys like Kyle succeed than it is someone with obvious killer stuff like Scherzer or Sale. To think Hendricks was the throw-in for the Dempster trade is downright amazing.

MIL loses! cubs up 4 on MIL and 5 on STL.

Recent comments

  • Raisin101 (view)

    Hi Arizona Phil!

    Exciting to see Naz Mule in box scores a few times. What's his stuff like now after the TJS?

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Mastrobuoni can't come back, yet

    Wisdom does have an option left. He can hide in Iowa if Jed DFA's someone else

    Does Brennan Davis get shown the door? I know it's too early for that, but these injuries are crunching the roster of a 12-7 team playoff demands and BDavis isn't going to help anytime soon.

    Someone has to go to add Peralta. And Canario isn't going to get to play everyday regardless of RHers or LHers. Neither is Tauchman. Also don't see PCA getting a chance over Peralta.

    If Jed does those moves:

    4 OF: Belli, Peralta, Canny, Tauch

    2 C: Gomes and Amaya

    2 DH: Cooper and Mervis

    5 INF: Busch, Nico, Dansby, Morel, Madrigal

    Little short on OF depth but two injuries will do that  

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I have had the pleasure of watching some of the young A's pitchers lately (first Joe Boyle the last day of Minor League Spring Training in March, and more recently Luis Morales last week and Steven Echavarria yesterday at Extended Spring Training), and it reminds me of the Miami Marlins a couple of years ago. A really nice collection of young pitchers. It will be interesting to see what the A's will get for two years of ex-Cub Paul Blackburn at the Trade Deadline (there should be a robust market for Blackburn). 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Good deal

    MB needs some talent infusion!

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Very possible. Suriel, too. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    DJL: if a pitcher is recalled to be the 27th man for a doubleheader and then is optioned back to the minors the next day, the 15-day "clock" does NOT reset. The one day call-up for the doubleheader is treated like it never happened with respect to a pitcher having to spend at least 15 days on optional assignment before he can be recalled. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Probably the only reason David Peralta is still in the organization (he is at AAA Iowa) is to be available in case anything bad were to happen to Ian Happ (which it just did). So if Happ needs to go on the IL, the Cubs can select Peralta to play LF, DFA Wisdom (and hope he and what remains of his $2.725M salary gets claimed off waivers), and recall Mervis to platoon at DH with Cooper (with Canario / Tauchman sharing RF), at least until Suzuki and Happ are back...

     

  • crunch (view)

    i'd just like to take a moment to express to the world i'm still pissed willson contreras is not a cub when the pricetag was 5/87m (17.5m/yr).

    it would be nice to have a legacy-type player to stick around, especially one with his leadership and the respect he gets from his peers.  cubs fans deserved more than 1 season of contreras + morel...that was gold.

  • crunch (view)

    happ, right hamstring tightness, day-to-day (hopefully 0 days).

    he will be reevaluated tomorrow.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    I guess I'm not looking for that type of AB 

    Just a difference of opinion