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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: 14
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 vs. Marlins: Hendricks vs. Ureña (Game 34)

Submitted by Charlie on

CHC (20-13): RHP Kyle Hendricks (2-4, 3.93 ERA)
MIA (10-25): RHP José Ureña (1-5, 5.45 ERA)
First pitch 7:05pmCDT 6:35pmCDT

Kyle Hendricks completed a shutout against the Cardinals with only 81 pitches last time out. He missed the Marlins in April. The current Marlins have slashed .254/.324/.328 in 67 ABs.José Ureña gave up 5ER in 6 innings against ATL on May 3. Rizzo is 5-11 with a HR off of him and Bryant is 1-9 with 5 walks. Lefties have been slightly more successful against him in his career, but the forecast for tonight calls for wind blowing hard right-to-left or maybe out to left field. It'd probably be a good day to run KB out in left field, especially after Schwarber's misadventure in last night's wind.

In addition to the wind, this game will probably see some rain before it's finished.

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Submitted by Mike Wellman on Wed, 05/08/2019 - 05:32 am

I-Cubs come from down 0-4 after 6 to extend win streak to 8 as Cub organization beats StL AGAIN! Caratini extends rehab hit streak to 2 @ SB...

Submitted by crunch on Wed, 05/08/2019 - 05:40 pm

russell up (please, no standing O cubs fans) and zobrist to the restricted list.

strop to the IL (left hamstring), montgomery up.

zobrist to the restricted list is interesting.  he may be gone a while.  he was penciled in to start last night and was pulled pre-game...it seems to have been a sudden roster move and the restricted list usually isn't a knee-jerk list to get yourself assigned to.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 05/08/2019 - 05:07 pm

The Cubs didn't place Ben Zobrist on the Restricted List because they need his slot on the 40-man roster, but it's the only way to remove him from the 25-man roster if the leave of absence is not related to the player being ill or injured, a childbirth, a family medical issue, or a death in the family and the Cubs don't want to play a man short tonight.

In this case, think of the Restricted List as an unpaid Leave of Absence, where the reason for the absence (whatever it may be) is simply not one of the reasons that is covered by the CBA. 

In fact, Zobrist could be reinstated in time for tomorrow's game (if he 's back by then). 

Minor league players are not covered by the CBA, so when a minor league player leaves his team to attend to a childbirth or a family medical issue or a death in the family or for any other reason, the player is placed on the unpaid "Temporatily Inactive List," which is the minor league's catch-all for a player being absent for any reason other than an illness or injury to the the player.

But there is no "Temporarily Inactive List" in MLB, so if a player leaves his club for a reason not covered by the CBA, the club has to use the more draconian sounding "Restricted List" instead. 

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 05/08/2019 - 05:27 pm

his wife recently shut down her twitter account...like, this weekend.

hopefully that's unrelated to anything with ben.

just this offseason they were going out doing "chistian power couple" speaking engagements, so even if it is something up with his wife it may not be relationship related.

Submitted by crunch on Wed, 05/08/2019 - 05:42 pm

heyward(CF)/bryant(RF)/rizzo/baez/contreras/bote(3rd)/schwarber/domesticabuser(2nd)/hendricks

Submitted by crunch on Wed, 05/08/2019 - 05:19 pm

mixed reaction for russell...boo-heavy with some clapping.

when he K'd he got more boos.

i think he deserves it.  i think he should expect it.  i think if he handles all of this well and keeps "clean" it will eventually pass...and that's okay.  that's just my opinion.

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Submitted by JoePepitone on Thu, 05/09/2019 - 05:30 pm

At the moment, I don't care for Addison Russell.  He's done some things that make me go, No Way! -- some things that make me go, eh, that sounds sketchy, and his play has not been very thrilling, either.  I just have too many unpleasant associations that come up when I think of him.

Submitted by crunch on Wed, 05/08/2019 - 05:07 pm

free baseball...

might not have a game tomorrow given the weather forecast.

Submitted by crunch on Wed, 05/08/2019 - 05:37 pm

HEY

WORD!!!!

hell of a last 2 games.

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  • crunch (view)

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    in 2024 hendricks has thrown 21ip for 28 earned runs.

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