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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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Pirates @ Cubs: Archer vs Montgomery (Game 157)

Submitted by CTSteve on

PIT (79-76): RHP Chris Archer (5-8, 4.49)
CHC (91-65): LHP Mike Montgomery (5-5, 3.75)
First pitch: 7:05pmCST

Montgomery won in Arizona his last time out (6 IP, 1 ER). He's 2-0 with a 2.63 in two starts (and three games) against the Pirates. Overall, they are 17-70 (.243) against him. Mercer is 4-9 with a HR.

Archer gave up 1 ER in 7 innings and beat KC his last time out. The Cubs are 15-47 (.319) against him for their careers. Baez is 3-6.

Quintana and Nova tomorrow at the same time.

Go Cubs!

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Comments

Submitted by blockhead25 on Tue, 09/25/2018 - 09:21 pm

If the Cubs win 2 of 3 against the Pirates, and the Cards win the next two from the Brewers....Cards are eliminated from Division contention and the Brewers would be 3 back with 3 to go.  Seems like the best case scenario heading into the weekend.

Braun is picking the wrong time to get hot again.

Submitted by blockhead25 on Tue, 09/25/2018 - 09:44 pm

Cubs 1 for 19 with RISP since the 3rd inning against the White Sox Sunday.  That's an .053 average.  

Submitted by billybucks on Tue, 09/25/2018 - 09:52 pm

Very strong 2004 vibe right now -- talented team at home the last week of the season playing a team that has been eliminated from the playoffs -- and everybody stops hitting at the same time.  Things got so bad I remember Nomar sac bunting on his own rather than trying to drive in a run.  That, plus the Pirate pitchers have the Cubs' number.  Still 5 games to turn things around -- they will likely need to win at least 4 to stay ahead of the Brewers, but this has an all-too-familiar feel to it.   

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 09/25/2018 - 09:03 pm

yeah, sure...walk in a run.  whatever.  #1 team in the NL right here.

on the bat side of things, maddon needs to start batting the pitcher 2nd so it's like having 7 additional lead off men.

Submitted by Eric S on Tue, 09/25/2018 - 09:21 pm

KB out of the game with a left wrist contusion. Nice work by Chris Archer tonight. 

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 09/25/2018 - 09:43 pm

awesome catch baez!

now he needs to hit 7 solo homers.

hey look, another error after and awesome play.  he's pulled a few of those lately.

Submitted by blockhead25 on Wed, 09/26/2018 - 09:12 am

Cubs half game over Brewers

Dodgers half game over Rockies

Rockies half game over Cards

4.5 games to go.   Kinda Crazy.  Wish Cubs weren’t on that list.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 09/26/2018 - 09:34 am

BILLYBUCKS: It would be Brewers at Cubs on Monday in an N. L. Central Championship tie-breaker Game #163 if they finish in a tie (home-field is determined by head-to-head record). Also, if the Dodgers, Rockies, and Cardinals finish in a three-way tie (not implausible), it would be Rockies at Dodgers on Monday in a Game #163 to determine N. L. West Champ, then the loser of the Rockies-Dodgers N. L. West tie-breaker game would play a Game #164 at Cardinals on Tuesday to determine the N. L. Wild Card #2 (home field in this scenario goes to club that did not play and lose the previous day), and then the N. L. Wild Card game would be pushed back to Wednesday and the loser of the Cubs-Brewers game on Monday would host it. So even if things go sideways for the Cubs, they would at least host both a game #163 N. L. Central Championship tie-breaker game on Monday and (if they lose it) they would host the N. L. Wild Card game on Tuesday (or on Wednesday if LAD, STL, and COL were to finish in a three-way tie).

And the Rockies could conceivably play at LAD on Monday, at STL on Tuesday, at Cubs or MIL on Wednesday, and then at Cubs or MIL on Thursday & Friday, before finally returning home and getting a day off after playing 15 days in a row!  

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 09/26/2018 - 09:51 am

Cubs starting pitchers going forward would be Quintana today vs PIT, Lester Thursday vs PIT, Hendricks-Hamels-Montgomery FRI-SAT-SUN vs STL, Quintana vs MIL on Monday (N. L. Central Championship tie-breaker game if necessary), Lester on TUE or WED in N. L. Wild Card game (if the Cubs don't win N. L. Central), and then Hendricks-Hamels on THU-FRI in first two games of NLDS.

If the Cubs do have to play both Monday (N. L. Central tie-breaker game vs MIL) and Wednesday (delayed N. L. Wild Card game because of three-way tie between LAD-STL-COL), Lester wouldn't pitch in the NLDS until Game #4 (it would be Hendricks-Hamels-Quintana-Lester-Hendricks, with the lattter two games played only "if necessaery"). So under that scanario, Lester might not even pitch in the NLDS. 

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 09/26/2018 - 09:57 am

BTW, "tie-breaker" games are considered regular season games and so they are played with the expanded September rosters. Also, even players on MLB clubs not involved in the tie-breaker games accrue one additional day of MLB Service Time if the player had not yet accrued 172 days of MLB Service Time that season (or possibly even two additional days if multiple tie-breaker games need to be played because of a three-way tie, or even three additional days if for example the Cubs & Brewers play a tie-breaker game on Monday and LAD, STL, and COL finish in a tie and the N. L. West Championship tie-breaker game on Monday is postponed a day because of rain so that the N. L. Wild Card #2 tie-breaker game is not played until Wednesday).

And this applies to - ALL - players who are on an MLB Active List or MLB DL on the last scheduled day of the MLB regular season (Sunday), even if the player's club is not playing a tie-breaker game, and even if the player is on a club in the other league. 

Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 09/26/2018 - 09:34 am

The parallels between this Cubs team and the 1980s Bears are interesting (and not in a good way):

1984/2015: Young team exceeds expectations and makes the playoffs.  Coach/manager is a media darling.

1985/2016: Epic & Historic Championship season, talk of mulitple titles.

1986/2017: Championship hangover season.  Good team makes the playoffs but no title.

Bears next several years:  Good playoff teams, but lots of grumbling by fans due to high expectations, never win another title, popular coach fired.  Cubs??

Recent comments

  • 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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