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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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Cubs @ Cardinals: Quintana vs Mikolas (Game 104)

Submitted by CTSteve on
CHC (60-43): LHP José Quintana (9-6, 3.87)
STL (52-51): RHP Miles Mikolas (10-3, 2.82)
First pitch: 3:05pmCST
 
Quintana has reeled off three straight wins, with his victory against these Cardinals on Sunday at Wrigley (7 IP, 2 ER). Overall, they are 34-115 (.296) against him. Fowler is 7-16 with a HR.
 
Mikolas gave up 2 ER in 5 innings for a no-decision in the matchup against Quintana. The Cubs are 14-51 (.275) against him. Happ is 2-3.
 
Hendricks and Gant on ESPN tomorrow at 7:00pmCST.
 
Go Cubs!
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Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:15 pm

Russell sitting for the second day in a row.  Good for rumors, but my guess is he has another of his nagging injuries.

He caught fire when the Machado rumors heated up -- .867 OPS in June -- but has really been struggling since the rumors died down -- .560 OPS in July.  

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:57 pm

BILLY BUCKS: On Thursday Javier Baez PH for the pitcher in the #8 spot in the bottom of the 6th and then stayed in the game at SS with the new pitcher (Cishek) going into Russell's #7 spot even though Bote (hitting 9th) made the last out of the inning. So Russell may have been injured while striking out swinging in the bottom of the 6th. He hasn't played since. 

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Submitted by crunch on Sun, 07/29/2018 - 07:23 am

it took over 100 games played in the season (19 starts) and 94ip 82h 85bb 85k (4.98era/1.78whip) to get him out of the rotation.

at this point im a bit shocked it's not montgomery (even though both are eventually doomed to the pen).

only 2 and 1/3rd years left!  woo.

on the dimmest of all bright sides, with a guy who puts up as high of a pitch count as chatwood, working long relief of 2-4 innings at a time might not be such a bad thing for him if he's going to stick around.

Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:43 pm

Ugly quickly.  This team has been playing with fire since the break -- lots of uncompetitive losses and a few lucky wins.  Yuck.

Q with a 7.00 WHIP after one inning.  OK -- who wants to pitch?

Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:16 pm

Maybe Hickey should tweak whatever he is telling the starters.  Or just stop talking to them altogether.  Q, Hendricks and Chatwood have all been much worse than expected.  Funny how everyone gets on Chili when the team doesn't hit, but I haven't heard a peep about Hickey despite 4 months of underperformance.

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Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Sun, 07/29/2018 - 07:03 pm

The scouting was fine, BB, but what about the trade? Anybody know anything about the kid they traded for Chavez?  For starters, Tyler Thomas in 75 innings at South Bend had a strikeout-to-walk ratio of almost six.  Rollie Lacy is no slouch, either. I go to these Myrtle Beach games around DC and I don't see any pitchers, because, well, they don't make it to Myrtle Beach. Maybe I'll try to catch South Bend next year in Eastlake, OH, before they trade their best pitchers.

This business of eating your young . . . The Cubs always traded their good prospects, but now they do it as a matter of pride: "We're in the chase, and we're all in."  Maybe they're right. I do remember, there was a parade in 2016.  But I still get an upset stomach when these trades happen.

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Submitted by crunch on Sun, 07/29/2018 - 07:24 pm

tyler thomas is mainly a 88-90mph deception lefty (works closer to 90) that vastly improved his command this season with both his fastball and high 70s/low 80s curve.  he's one of those guys who's 90mph fastball looks a few ticks higher...easy release and good movement.

Submitted by The E-Man on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:20 pm

yeah, idk about the "Great Jim Hickey". This staff has sucked ass other than Lester, and to a lesser extent, Monty, since this guy got hired. I wonder if they listen to him at all?

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:48 pm

except for a great pen showing, the baez homer, and heyward continuing to get on base this game was hot garbage.

they "gave it away" in the 1st and never really threatened going forward.  meh.

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Submitted by Eric S on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:24 pm

What would they have had to give up to get Sale? Eloy, Cease who(m) else?  That's the one that would keep me shaking my head if I'm Jedstein.  But something tells me the Sox would never give up a talent to the Cubs such as Sale short of giving up KB. 

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Submitted by WrigleyBumm on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 07:38 am

IMO this has been one of the obstacles the Cubs have faced in their trade negotiations of the past ~2-3 years. The relative values of the "lesser" prospects who could end up as quality big leaguers gets deflated when compared to the elite talents that were Bryant, Schwarber, Baez, Happ and Russell. Causing us to overpay for deadline deals. Compare that to a team like the Dodgers and Astros who have managed to hold on to many of their premier prospects in the same timeframe we let Eloy and Gleyber go.  Players like Justin Bour, Christian Villanueva, & Marwin Gonzalez among others have all achieved varying degrees of big league success for little to no return on our part. The price to remain on top in this league is steep.

Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:29 pm

Cubs now 5-6 since the break, and all 6 losses have been by 3 or more runs.   I'm sure this is the recency effect, but I can't remember a stretch where they have been uncompetitive in so many games.

Also -- maybe it wasn't such a great idea to have Q throw 120+ pitches in his last start, given that he had been given extra time off due to arm fatigue right before that.  Dunno, maybe that's just me.

 

Submitted by The E-Man on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:23 pm

Schwarbs in a slump since before ASG. Bryant injured. Caratini with doubles only power. Starters not able to go more than 4...It just is mot a pretty picture now.

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Submitted by crunch on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:26 pm

underperforming and they have the best record in the NL.

the issue i have is that it feels like they're not just in some weird collective slump.  they've had some "tearing it up" streaks, but overall they've had some really underwhelming performances even in some of their wins.

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Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:43 pm

My nagging concern is that the surprise over-performers -- Almora, Heyward, Zobrist, Lester -- will come back to earth, while the underperformers -- KB, Rizzo, Contreras, Hendricks, Quintana -- won't be able to pick up the slack. Rizzo has been great recently, but we all know he goes very hot and very cold.  Schwarber has been an absolute disaster since the HR Derby -- hitting .182 with a .585 OPS since -- and, with KB out, he and Contreras need to hit for power.  They aren't - between them, they have a whopping 3 XBH in 78 PA's since the break, and one of those was Schwarber's pop-up "double" that the DBacks misplayed. 

Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:58 pm

For tomorrow night's game, the Cubs need a starter with a kick-ass attitude, who shows no fear and inspires confidence from his teammates.  I know just the guy -- unfortunately, he pitches for the Phillies now.

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Miguel Cruz walked six in 1.2 IP in his last start, so I guess he is improving. Wilme Mora also walked six in one of his appearances a week or two ago, and one or two others have walked five. I don't know what would be the most I have ever seen a pitcher throw in a game out here, because the manager / pitching coach usually gets the pitcher out of the game if it gets too ridiculous. 

    As for the attendance, probably about 20 of the 25 were early arrivals for the Savannah Bananas game who came over to Field # 1 to see what was going on, and once they saw all the bases on balls (12 walks by Cubs pitchers and four by Angels pitchers) they ran away screaming. I'm used to it so it didn't bother me that much. 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Jed has added Teheran, Tyranski, Kissaki, and now Straily and Nico Zeglin today.

    Zeglin is 24 yrs old. Pitched well at Long Beach St in '23 and well in some Indy Ball.

    They also added Reilly and Viets in late ST.

    Have to search for MiLB arm depth anywhere you can and at all times!!!

  • Childersb3 (view)

    25 in Attendance!!!

    Phil, is that a backfield record?

    Also, 6 BBs for Cruz in 2 IP. What's the most walks you've seen in one EXT ST outing that you can recall?

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    He has a pulse. Apparently that’s the only requirement at this point.

  • crunch (view)

    cubs sign dan straily...for some reason.  minor league deal.

    welcome back.

    zac rosscup is down in mexico trying to make it happen...maybe they could throw him a contract, too.  junior lake is his teammate.  shore up a bunch of holes with some washups.

  • fullykräusened (view)

    The great thing about going to live sports events is you don't know if you're going to see something historic. Today I went to the Cub game, after putting the liner back in my coat and fishing my Cubs knit hat out of the closet. I needed all that- my seats are in the upper deck, left, so the east wind was in my face. Both teams failed to capitalize on good situations, but both starters did a good job to accomplish this. So, we go to the bottom of the sixth inning. The Cubs tie it up, and then Pete Crow-Armstrong comes up. We all know he would still be in AAA if not for injuries, and future Hall-of-Famer Justin Verlander absolutely carved up the young fellow up in his first two plate appearances. So this time he hits a fly ball. The wind was blowing in and had suppressed several strong fly balls- including a rocket off Altuve's bat that Canario hauled in (does anybody else remind me of Jorge Soler?) , but the ball kept carrying and carrying. 107mph, legit angle and carry. The crowd went nuts, the dugout went nuts. Maybe, just maybe, I saw the first homer from a long-term Cub.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Which was my original premise. They won the trades but lost their souls. They no longer employ the Cardinal way which had been so successful for so long.

  • crunch (view)

    STL traded away a lot of minor league talent that went on to do nothing in the arenado + goldschmidt trades.  neither guy blocked any of their minor league talent in the pipeline, too.  that's ideal places to add talent.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Natural cycle of baseball. Pitching makes adjustments in approach to counter a hot young rookie. Now it’s time for Busch and his coaches to counter those adjustments. Busch is very good and will figure it out, I think sooner than later.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    In 2020, the pandemic year and the year before they acquired Arenado, the Cardinals finished second and were a playoff team. Of the 12 batters with 100 plate appearances, 8 of them were home grown. Every member of the starting rotation (if you include Wainwright) and all but one of the significant relievers were home grown. While there have been a relative handful of very good trades interspersed which have been mentioned, player development had been their predominant pattern for decades - ever since I became an aware fan in the ‘70’s

    The Arenado deal was not a deal made out of dire need or desperation. It was a splashy, headline making deal for a perennial playoff team intended to be the one piece that brought the Cardinals from a very good team to a World Series contender. They have continued to wheel and deal and have been in a slide ever since. I stand by my supposition that that deal marked a notable turning point within the organization. They broke what had been a very successful formula for a very long time.
     

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