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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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Cubs @ Marlins: Lester vs Urena (Game 1!)

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CHC (0-0): LHP Jon Lester (0-0, -.--)
MIA (0-0): RHP José Ureña (0-0, -.--)
First pitch: 11:40amCST

Opening morning baseball!

Lester (13-8, 4.33 in 2017) is the first out of the gate for a strong Cubs rotation. He’s looking to improve on what we hope was just a down year and not the new normal or the beginning of a decline. He went 6-5 with a 4.41 on the road in 2017. Equally meh. Prado is 7-16 against him. Realmuto is 3-8 with a HR.

Urena (14-7, 3.82) went 2-0 with a 2.45 against the Cubs last year. Overall, they are 10-38 (.263) against him. Our new lead-off man, Happ, is 3-5 with a HR. That’d be a nice way to start the season.

Tomorrow is Hendricks and Smith at 6:10pmCST.

Go Cubs!
 

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Submitted by Charlie on Thu, 03/29/2018 - 03:23 am

Have fun with your live feeds, everyone else. I'll be watching this one after the work day. Looking forward to the Lester vs. Gordon matchups.

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 03/29/2018 - 03:42 am

happ/bryant/rizzo/contreras/schwarber/russell/heyward/baez/lester

pretty much as-expected...

marlins lineup... who/huh/castro/bour/umm/uhh/okay/what/urena

Submitted by Hagsag on Thu, 03/29/2018 - 03:50 am

Patrick Mooney posted on Twitter that Chris Coghlan has signed a minor league contract and is in Extended S.T.. Al Yellon was right!

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 03/29/2018 - 03:57 am

cards sign g.holland 1/14

he's supposedly in game shape and shouldn't take too long to join them.

Submitted by billybucks on Thu, 03/29/2018 - 03:55 pm

Nice to see Schwarber has improved his OF defense.  Nearly kills himself crashing into the wall, then plays a routine sinlge into a triple. Sheesh.

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Submitted by Charlie on Fri, 03/30/2018 - 03:23 am

I can't think of any MLB player who ever spent an offseason working to improve outfield defense (when they hadn't played outfield prior to the major leagues) who noticeably improved. I think you either have speed and a lot of reps or you don't.

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Submitted by The E-Man on Thu, 03/29/2018 - 03:51 pm

Not seconding. Did you see the Schwarber inning? It made him pitch another 10-15 pitches cause doofus is out of position and crashes into a wall, then makes a terrible play on a single that goes to the wall. Also in the inning, a slow roller has to be barehanded, and a ground ball dribbler splits Ss and 2nd with the inf pulled in causing a run to score. Its his first outing and inside he is fucking SEETHING inside his head about why he has to have All-Thumbs in LF for his defense today. He is still a beast. But not the Ace of this staff for sure.

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Submitted by Sonicwind75 on Thu, 03/29/2018 - 03:50 pm

Don't want to speak for E-Man but I would say opening day can be more of an honor of past accomplishments than a reflection of who the current ace of the staff is. Usually it is one and the same but doesn't have to be. In the grand scheme of 162 games, who starts day one versus day 4 is rather insignificant. We already saw last post season when Hendricks started Game 1 of the playoffs over Lester that Lester is no longer the "ace" of the staff. If Lester has another strong season and continues to be a team leader I could see him starting opening day next year while not being the staff ace.

Submitted by The E-Man on Thu, 03/29/2018 - 03:33 pm

Going back to the “triple”, someone on the Cubs bench had him playing WAY too short considering the dude is a solid power hitter. Its not like he’s Jim Fucking Edmonds. 

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 03/29/2018 - 03:02 pm

cubs win the opener vs some AAA team. 2 more vs that embarrassment of a team before they go play real baseball.

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 03/29/2018 - 03:10 pm

oh good. special torture. i mean, easy wins are neat (even if the cubs end up losing some), but that crap they're fielding in MIA is an insult to the game.

Submitted by Eric S on Thu, 03/29/2018 - 03:22 pm

Crap opponent, Lester pitching & Schwarb defensive struggles aside -- thoroughly enjoyed the opener!

Rizzo going yard satisfying on many levels. And how about the bullpen locking it down - schweet!

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  • 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

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