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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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2019 Gameday Thread

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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.

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    welcome back happ!  double off the wall 1st PA back.

  • crunch (view)

    oh yeah, totally, i was just chiming about why i fan like i fan.

    i would like nothing more than hendricks to keep on hendricks'ing.  guys with his stuff can throw for a long, long time as long as it works.

    he velocity is actually up a minor amount this year.  it's really "damn" when a guy like him not only has gas in the tank, but it's looking like it was years ago.  he added a curve a few years ago and it helped a little bit, but he's throwing it less and less while the fb/change combo are less effective.

  • Alexander Dimm (view)

    CRUNCH—There is no one person in this community I’m talking about.  My remarks were not directed at you or anyone, but at a tone I’ve noticed lately. 

    You have a great, dry sense of humor and there is thought behind your comments.   You and I don’t always agree but I always understand your position.  

    Lastly, and I’ll be quiet, I agree with you on Hendricks.  We can dislike the recent performance but still love the guy.  Lots of questions about his future.
     

  • crunch (view)

    myself, i make a good amount of outrageously unrealistic comments that are sometimes "violent"...like my recent suggestion of "pulling the bandaid off" by having hendricks throw every inning of every game until he's on the IL.

    i would hope any athlete that cares about what is written on the internet realizes how casual fans can be about treating their lives like scripted TV characters that don't have real lives.  it's not an excuse to do it, but there's a lot of it out there.

    but yeah, in real life i'm rooting for guys to have long and healthy careers even if i'm not happy with current performances...except for some guys...and i'm pretty sure i don't leave grey area for those comments...and almost all of them are not good humans whether they're playing baseball or not...

    hendricks was getting a good amount of boos in his last game.  i would bet a million that he will get a standing O every time he visits wrigley in his post-playing days, or a return with a new team should his career continue...or if he comes back and puts in an oldschool good performance.

  • Alexander Dimm (view)

    What are the chances we can back off on gloating over other people’s misfortune?  One of the things I appreciate about the TCR community is that the remarks are more productive and add to how I like to follow the game.  

    Lately, however, I’m reading comments that are just mean.  If I were an MLB player, I would hate to get a back or finger injury and have someone write ‘hurrah!  I hope we never see him again!’  Especially when it is someone we were praising not long ago.  I’m not saying ‘don’t express how you feel’ but some comments lately seem downright mean spirited.  Stuff I expect from other communities but don’t often see here.  The TCR community has always spoken the truth but never with such a dark tone.

    Just my two cents.  I hope Hendricks comes back and is the professor we all know. He can pitch for the Cubs as long as he wants in my book.  

  • crunch (view)

    happ is back (and starting), mervis DH, tauchman gets RF.

    morel 5th in the lineup.  hoerner continues to lead off, even vs a righty.

  • George Altman (view)

    I don't care to see Hendricks or Smyly on the 26-man Roster the rest of the season. Both, stupid signings and option pick up by Jed. 

  • crunch (view)

    i know the cubs are paying the guys, but for the sake of the win/loss column this is some great news.

    woo!  people getting injured!  kick ass!

    sportsball is cruel.

    would have liked to keep cooper, but it looks like they're gonna go with wisdom if they have to pick a righty who's gonna K 1/3rd of his PA's.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Edwards would be my guess, or maybe they’re hoping Sanders or R Thompson can finally figure it out 

  • Cubster (view)

    So it’s Mervis, Wesn and Little for Cooper, Hendricks and Smyly. Count me in. Starting rotation for now: Taillon, Imanaga, Wicks, Assad and Brown-Wesn. Eventually Steele. 

    Lineup

    Hoerner, Happ, Bellinger, Busch, Morel, Swanson, Tauchman, Mervis, Amaya.

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