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

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, twelve players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, one player is on the 15-DAY IL, and one player is on the 10-DAY IL

Last updated 3-28-2024
 
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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
* 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: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Ben Brown, P 
Alexander Canario, OF 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Keegan Thompson, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 1 
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 1 
Caleb Kilian, P 

 



 

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Cubs vs. Brewers: Series Thread (Games 16-19)

The Cubs start a 4-game home series with the second most wins and the best winning percentage in baseball. These 4 games give them a chance to add to their substantial early season lead in the division and to continue to beat up on their division rival, the Brewers.
Game 16, Thursday, Aug. 13

CHC: RHP Yu Darvish (2-1, 2.12 ERA)

MIL: LHP Brett Anderson (0-1, 5.40 ERA)

Yu Darvish was awesome in game one of the series and helped the Cubs to a 13-3 record. He earned his third win.


Game 17, Friday, Aug. 14

CHC: RHP Tyler Chatwood (2-1, 5.40 ERA)

MIL: RHP Brandon Woodruff (1-1, 2.53 ERA)

After two very strong starts to open the season, Chatwood did not have his good stuff in the third. He allowed 8 earned runs in only 2.1 innings to Kansas City. The good news was that he did not walk anybody. The bad news was that he allowed 11 hits including 2 homeruns.

Woodruff has allowed no more than 2 earned runs in each of his 4 starts so far, including a loss to the Cubs on July 24.


Game 18, Saturday, Aug. 15

CHC: RHP Alec Mills (2-0, 1.38 ERA)

MIL: RHP  Adrian Houser (1-1, 2.65 ERA)

Mills missed his last opportunity to pitch due to the Cardinals layoff. He'll be pitching for the first time in 11 days. He has kept run scoring to a minimum in his first two stats by mixing speeds and inducing weak contact. His performance filling in for Quintana is a big part of the tremendous start to 2020.

After two sterling performances to start the season, Houser lost his last start to Minnesota. He allowed 4 earned runs in 5 innings on 6 hits including a homerun.


Game 19, Sunday, Aug. 16

CHC: LHP Jon Lester (2-0, 1.06 ERA)

MIL: RHP Josh Linblom (1-0, 5.68 ERA)

Lester continued a streak of solid performances to start the season by holding Cleveland to one run in six innings. All three of his starts have approached masterful, lacking only duration to break into that next level. His strikeout rate has been low so far this year, but he has held opponents to only 7 hits in 17 innings.

Remember Josh Lindblom? He's back after two seasons in the KBO, now preparing for his 118th MLB appearance and 10th MLB start. So far this season he has struck out 20 batters but managed only 12.2 innings in three starts. He's also sported a 1.58 WHIP in that time and allowed 4 homeruns.


Following the series, the Cubs plan to continue the home stand with games against the Cardinals.

Comments

Brewers Game 1: KB (LF), Rizzo, Javy, Willson (DH), Happ, Bote (3B), Souza (RF), Nico, Caratini, Darvish

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In reply to by crunch

Well, shoot.

Here we go again: Nico, Rizzo, Javy, Willson, Schwarber (LF), Happ, Bote, Souza, Caratini

Not thrilled with Nico leading off when the greatest leadoff hitter in baseball history was available but whatever 

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In reply to by Jackstraw

Updated Bullpen tiers:

Tier 1 (Closer/Firemen)

Wick and Jeffress (interchangeable)

Tier 2 (Preferred Setup roles)

Tepera, Sadler, Rea (!)

Tier 3 (Face lefties exclusively if possible)

Ryan (has to get that fastball out of mid-80s or head to South Bend)

Winkler 

Tier 4 (Long man innings eater)

Underwood 

Tier 10 (reserved for use when either up or down by 10+ runs)

Kimbrel

I think that covers it?

this team is amazing.  i want more than 60 games of this.  darvish since mid-season last year has been great stuff.

also, wick got to close.  kimbrel hasn't worked in quite a while.

Managerial change making a difference I think. Hopefully the changes to the amateur scouting department also bears fruit

"Chicago Cubs  @Cubs
Our Aug. 7-9 series at St. Louis has been rescheduled as three 7-inning doubleheaders at Wrigley Field.

#Cubs will be home team for Game 1. Cardinals home team for Game 2."

Brewers Game 2: Happ, Rizzo, Javy, Schwarber, Willson, JHey, Bote, Kipnis (DH), Nico, Chatwood 

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In reply to by Eric S

Yet again another change to the starting lineup as Chatwood has been pulled due to mid-back tightnes. Mills to start instead - no word on who will start tomorrow 

Not the best timing with the five game series in three days coming up with the Cards - perhaps Quintana will be ready to roll by then. 

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In reply to by crunch

On the one hand I bet he'd prefer to start so it's nice he's getting the chance. On the other, he didn't look all that impressive in spring training 1.0 stretched out to start and has looked much more like a big leaguer in the small sample we've seen of him out of the bullpen.

I do wonder who we are going to call up to eat innings for our "save the Cardinals" series. I'm thinking Alzolay, maybe Cotton?

Hoerner and Happ both walk in the 5th (entire inning has had deep counts), a sequence of beauty (if you are into RBI walks). Then Rizzo unloads (I kid, a bloop single for another run). Woodruff gone after no-hitter thru 4.

starlin castro (WAS) broke his wrist diving for a ball @2nd.  he's in the 1st year of a 2 year deal for them.

i low key want the dude to get 3000 hits so the HOF voters can be confused as hell about whether they should let an average-D, low ob%, low-WAR, slap hitting guy who has 3000 hits in or not...1634 currently...long shot given his skill set and expected natural decline.

seems like he's been around forever (2010), but he only turned 30 this year.

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In reply to by crunch

Very good and thanks - high rising fastballs certainly beat middle-middle ones that we've seen far too many of. Read an article where the Cubs were "suggesting" to Kimbrel that he stop throwing a change up that he's been tinkering with (but not actually using in games) - that it was screwing up his deliveries for his bread and butter pitches.  Maybe they're getting somewhere with this. 

Another Cincy Red player has tested positive for cv per Ken Rosenthal. Pirates-Reds game today is probably going to be canceled.

The Cubs don't play the Reds again until 8-28.

Poor Pirates didn't play a series earlier this week with the Cardinals because of COVID - sucks. 

Rizzo has the homer but Schwarber worked a great at bat drawing a walk with two outs which set up what could have been a big inning - at least Happ got the run scoring double.

Quality outing by Rea - had not been stretched out and got into fourth inning, responsible for two runs allowed with one man still on base when he left. 

Looks like Underwood will be pitching in this game. Saddler needs to get his 💩 in order stat

Man our bullpen is trash. Even our "better" guys aren't very good. Sadler, Tepera, Ryan, etc

Also, Orlando Arcia I feel has become a Cub killer. Its a shame because Orlando Arcia is a pretty crappy player except when he plays the Cubs.

Well, I guess if you steal second base with two outs in the bottom of the 8th you're looking pretty smart. Or not

sigh.

2 games of huge tease with losses.

hours later mark grace is still trending up/down on twitter because of his ex-wife/dingbat story.

i don't think they fully understand that relationship, but here we are.

Chatwood to IL, Jason Adam selected, Cotton DFA.

The Cotton DFA is a little bit surprising, given we're going to need innings this week. Shortens our SP depth even further, too.

el mago indeed...

if it wasn't for slo-mo replay he would have had a wtf safe call sliding into 1st...almost got it...

also, this entire series has been torture.

Counsell/Brewers have had the Cubs number for a few years now.

The silver lining from this series? Craig freaking Kimbrel

Recent comments

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    I think if you had ranked players by how much the team could ill afford to have them miss significant time, Steele would be right at the top of the list.

  • crunch (view)

    steele MRI on friday.  counsell expects an IL stint.

    no current plans for his rotation replacement.

  • hellfrozeover (view)

    I would say also in the bright side column is Busch looked pretty good overall at the plate. Alzolay…man, that hurts but most of the time he’s not giving up a homer to that guy. To me the worst was almonte hanging that pitch to Garcia. He hung another one to the next hitter too and got away with it on an 0-1. 

  • crunch (view)

    amaya blocked like 6-8 of smyly's pitches in the dirt very cleanly...not even an exaggeration, smyly threw a ton of pitches bouncing in tonight.

    neris looking like his old self was a relief (no pun), too.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    In looking for bright spots the defense was outstanding tonight. The “stars” are going to need to shine quite a bit brighter than they did tonight offensively though for this to be a successful season.

  • Eric S (view)

    Good baseball game. Hopefully Steele is pitching again in April (but I’m not counting on it). 

  • crunch (view)

    boo.

  • crunch (view)

    smyly to face the 2/3/4 hitters with a man on 2nd in extras.

    this doesn't seem like a 8 million dollar managerial decision.

  • crunch (view)

    i 100% agree with you, but i dunno how jed wants to run things.  the default is delay.  i would choose brown.

    like hellfrozeover says, could be smyly since he's technically fresh and stretched.

    anyway, on a pure talent basis....brown is the best option.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Use pitchers when you believe they're good. Don't plan their clock.

    I'm sorry. I'm simply anti-clock/contract management. Play guys when they show real MLB potential talent.

    If Brown hadn't been hurt with the Lat Strain he would've gotten the call, and not Wick.

    Give him a chance. 

    But Wesneski probably gets it