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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL 

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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
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Garrett Cooper
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
* Miles Mastrobuoni
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 10 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2 
Seiya Suzuki, OF
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 2
* Justin Steele, P  
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Pirates @ Cubs: Williams vs Lester (Game 159)

Submitted by CTSteve on

PIT (80-77): RHP Trevor Williams (14-9, 3.04)
CHC (92-66): LHP Jon Lester (17-6, 3.43)
First pitch: 7:05pmCST

Lester won on the Southside on Saturday (5 IP, 2 ER). After an inconsistent couple of months, he's 3-1 with a 1.90 in September. He's 3-1 with a 3.72 in 5 starts against the Pirates this season. Overall, they are 51-208 (.245) against him. Bell is 5-16 with a HR.

Williams, who's 1-1 with a 1.38 in two games agains the Cubs this season, beat the Brewers his last time out (6 IP, 0 ER). For their careers, these Cubs are 23-95 (.242) against him. Schwarber is 4-12 with 2 HR.

Hendricks faces Wainwright and the Cards tomorrow at 1:20pmCST.

Go Cubs!

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Thu, 09/27/2018 - 09:23 pm

Ken Rosenthal at The Athletic reports that Addison Russell's Administrative Leave has been extended through Sunday.

BTW, if Russell does get suspended, the number of games he has missed while on Administrative Leave in 2018 (which will be ten games) can be applied as "time served" toward the eventual suspension. (Post-season games missed don't count). 

Russell's absence has really been significant (more than might be readily apparent), because it basically locks Baez in as the SS such that you can't move him to 2B or 3B or even give him a day off, and not being able to put Russell at SS and move Baez to 2B in the late innings to protect a lead could cost the Cubs at some point. 

So with Russell absent and Strop injured, it might be that the Cubs have now finally reached the "tipping point" as far as being able to win games in the post-season. It doesn't look good right now. Hopefully Strop can come back next week and pitch like he did before the hammy, but Russell's absence is a real problem going forward. It feels like the Cubs are stranded out in the middle of Lake Michigan and just treading water to avoid drowning. 

Submitted by Eric S on Thu, 09/27/2018 - 09:00 pm

My crystal ball: if Cubs win tonight, they’ll play the Brewers on Monday to determine the winner of the NL Central. If Cubs lose tonight, Brewers will be outright NL Central champs on Sunday. Tigers pitching matchups are miserable, best chance for a Tigers win is tomorrow with Jordan Zimmermann. Cubs will be fortunate to take 2 of 3 from the Cards. 

Anybody else having issues posting comments? Couldn’t open a new comment - edit right issue.  I’m seeing posts without comments too

 

 

 

 

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Thu, 09/27/2018 - 09:50 pm

N. L. best records since July 7th: 

1. COL: 42-27 
2. CHC: 42-30 
3. PIT: 40-29 
4. STL: 41-30 
5. LAD: 40-31
6-T ATL: 39-31   
6-T MIL: 39-31 
8. NYM: 39-34 
9. WAS: 36-35 
10. AZ: 31-38 
11. PHI: 29-43
12. SF: 27-41 
13. MIA: 26-41 
14. CIN: 27-43 
15. SD: 26-42 

So the Pirates are a pretty good team right now (playoff quality, actually), and have been for 2-1/2 months. And the Mets aren't too bad, either. 

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  • crunch (view)

    he's a low-level cubs star in the modern history of the cubs (c.zambrano, k.wood, r.dempster, etc), but that star has dimmed...and has been dimming since 2021.

    2024 has been ugly the whole way and we're only in mid-april.  homers aside (even though there's been 7 in 17ip) he gave up 29 hits in 20 spring innings and 31 in 17 regular season innings.

    he's pretty much only got 2 pitches at this point in his career and the mix isn't fooling anyone.  he threw a noticable amount more curves in his last start to add to the mix and it didn't help his issues.  he don't have many moves left to break out.

  • Eric S (view)

    Definitely needs a 10 day stint for the hangnail - have to nip those things in the bud or suffer the consequences (ie, more opponent home run derby, etc)

  • Eric S (view)

    Thanks for checking and yeah, that’s a double ouch

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Believe you are correct, checked and appears Cubs have a $2.51 million obligation to Barnhart this season per Cot's Contracts.  Also paying Trey Mancini $7mil this season.  Ouch.  

  • crunch (view)

    m.busch had 0hr and 2 doubles when he was last at wrigley.

    we'll probably see a few more of his jerseys in the seats when they return tomorrow.

    wonder who will go down for taillon.  hey hendricks, you got a hangnail or something?

  • Eric S (view)

    Nice work by Wesneski with some solid defense behind him and the late tack on runs were welcome. Gladly take a 5-4 West Coast swing, particularly down two key starting pitchers … Now just don’t get swept by the Marlins for Pete’s sake. 

  • crunch (view)

    dansby takes the team lead in SB today after a SB with 2 SB total.  the team has 3.  madrigal has the other one.

    cubs also have 7 triples, 7 players each.

  • crunch (view)

    sure am ready for p.wisdom and m.masterboney to swap roster spots.

  • Eric S (view)

    The fifth inning has not been kind to Wicks this season. Giving up leadoff doubles to Tucker Barnhart is also not good for business. IIRC, the Cubs are on the hook for the majority of Barnhart’s salary this season to add insult to injury (could definitely be wrong here). 

  • Cubster (view)

    Kris Bryant to IL with low back strain. He’s keeping the Rockies docs busy.

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