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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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Dodgers @ Cubs: Kershaw vs Quintana (NLCS Game 5)

Submitted by CTSteve on

LAD (3-1): LHP Clayton Kershaw
CHC (1-3): LHP José Quintana
First pitch: 7:08pmCST (TBS)

The Cubs avoid the sweep and survive to fight another day. To take the series back to LA, they have to face one of the best pitchers on the planet and win a game without their only effective bullpen arm. 

Game Five is a rematch of Game One, where both starters went five innings and gave up 2 ER—the difference being the Dodgers pen, which was able to keep it at that. LA ended up winning the game 5-2.

Davis faced 9 batters and threw 48 pitches last night and will almost certainly be unavailable. Hopefully, Lester will be able to pitch an inning or two out of the pen. Hendricks, too. Alternatively, our offense gets medieval on Dodger pitching and makes the whole point moot.

In any event, the prospect of a Yanks-Dodgers World Series makes me start thinking about what I could binge watch on Netflix, so let’s not have that.

There are 15,776 tickets available for Game Six, starting at $113. Gets yours now.

Go Cubs!

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Comments

Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:33 pm

Dodgers will want to take the series back to LA where they can celebrate in style and not in the dingy, ratty visitors' clubhouse in Wrigley. Advantage: Cubs

Submitted by The E-Man on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:49 pm

CUBS Fans come early and leave late DODGERS fans come in the 3rd and leave in the 7th. Advantage: Cubs

Submitted by Mike Wellman on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:15 pm

Cubs have been married to Chicago since forever. Dodgers divorced Brooklyn for a blonde on the beach. Advantage Cubs...

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:25 pm

game starting an hour earlier tonight (8pm EST rather than 9pm EST). sweet. oh, umm...advantage cubs.

Submitted by The E-Man on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:27 pm

AZ PHIL: How is Dillon Maples looking out there so far? Lord knows this team needs bullpen help in 2018. Any starters on the 40-man you think would be candidates? One thing about this Dodgers team is that Friedman and Co. have been very adept at targeting recent starters and throwing them in the pen, with tremendous success. Maeta, for example, the Cubs hammered in the NLCS last year. This year, they can't touch a thing. I happen to think they will be making a play for Darvish, Cobb, or possibly Jake on a shorter deal (unlikely). Maybe Cueto... But this bullpen - eesh.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Fri, 10/20/2017 - 10:59 pm

E-MAN: Depending on how he fares in Spring Training, Dillon Maples has a good shot at being in the Cubs Opening Day bullpen in 2018. What his exact role would be would depend on how much confidence Maddon has in him, and that is based on performance in games.   

Eddie Butler is out of minor league options in 2018 and so he'll probably be on the Cubs Opening Day 25-man roster no matter how he looks in Spring Training, either as a starter or reliever (TBD). Butler has a similar profile as a young Wade Davis before Davis was moved from the starting rotation to the pen, and I would not be surprised if Butler is moved to the bullpen in 2018. His stuff might actually play up better as a reliever than it has so far as a starter, and most MLB relievers (even some of the best ones) were starting pitchers in the minors and/or underperformed as a SP in the big leagues before being moved to the bullpen. 

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:01 pm

*frantically searching couch cushions* hey, did anyone keep that receipt for Q? we need to return Q and get eloy back. *continues searching*

Submitted by Lester's rattl… on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:13 pm

What a shit show! At the least the Dodgers spared any Cubs fans from getting their hopes up early on...

Submitted by Jim Hickmans Bat on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:28 pm

Well that escalated quickly. Yow. Putting in Rondon with the bases loaded, yeah, I'd delete that one from the iPad, Joe.

Submitted by blockhead25 on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:51 pm

ummm...think this goes far beyond Maddon. Putting Lackey in for game 2 was beyond stupid...but can't blame him for the entire bullpen being horrid, and offense being inept.

Submitted by billybucks on Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:48 pm

And, sometimes you just lose to a better team. Better starting pitching, better bullpen, better closer, better hitters. We had to deal with Zobrist and Heyward in the lineup and they didn't. Our 2 best hitters were completely shut down by every one of their pitchers. They were the best team all year and will be 7-1 in the playoffs. And they didn't even have Corey Seager this series. Congrats and enjoy. I'm still pulling for the Astros, though. A very fun and exciting year, and the young core will return, hopefully a little better rested. To the off-season! Pitching is the order of the day, Theo -- lots and lots of pitching.

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Submitted by Charlie on Fri, 10/20/2017 - 10:32 pm

And sometimes you beat a better team due to flukes and idiosyncratic readings of technicalities: see NLDS 2017. Agreed with you on the pitching. Their ability to acquire effective starters might be the difference maker in terms of what they make out of the peak years for these young position players.

Recent comments

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Word is that Counsell thought Mervis and Wisdom got too much work in yesterday so it will be Wesneski.

  • crunch (view)

    no days off til may 9th.  moves may happen if the pen gets too worked tomorrow.

  • Cubster (view)

    On top of all that…Wicks scratched for Sunday due to “forearm soreness.” Bullpen day again starting with Mervis or Wisdom (or Wesn).

  • crunch (view)

    "Morel told reporters after the game that he felt alright, just a little banged up — specifically noting his right hip and both elbows. He did say that he was optimistic about his ability to play on Sunday, though manager Craig Counsell may have other plans."

  • crunch (view)

    rsox putting pablo reyes up to pitch...an infielder...cranking 70+mph stuff.

    ...and of course he gets out of it with no runs scored...that kind of day for the cubs.

  • crunch (view)

    ...and wisdom replaces mervis on the mound to try to get the last out.

    busch is at 3rd, but i wouldn't read too much into that.

    wisdom's thrown a couple in the 80s (one of them 88mph), but both missed the strike zone badly.

  • crunch (view)

    matt mervis is no david ross on the mound.

    cubs run differential getting destroyed.

  • crunch (view)

    matt mervis pitching...wisdom replaces morel at 3rd.

    he's featuring some high-50s thunder on the fastball.

    through 15 pitches, he's straight up throwing BP...all mid-high 50s lobs.  no way he's going to jose canseco himself out of a job.

    on pitch 21 he railed a 75mph fastball missing high on a 0-1 count.  ha.

  • crunch (view)

    he's hugging canario in the dugout cuz morel will shrivel up and die if he doesn't hug at least a dozen people a day.

  • crunch (view)

    and morel is injured...nice.

    morel trying to play LF from 3rd...runs into canario while leaping and comes down ribs/arm-first.

    hopefully he sticks around to finish this terrible game, or at least is going to avoid the IL.

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