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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. Cardinals (Game 41)

The series stands at 1-2 in the Cardinals' favor to start the day. The Cubs maintain a 2.5 game lead in the division. Despite tough match-ups yesterday, a double-header sweep is a hard pill to swallow. Taking at least 1 of the remaining 2 and maintaining a multi-game lead would be some consolation.CHC (23-17): LHP Jon Lester (2-1, 5.11 ERA)
STL (16-15): RHP Dakota Hudson (1-2, 2.77 ERA)
First pitch 6:08 pm central

Lester dodged a loss to the Pirates last time out despite allowing 5 earned runs in 5.1 innings pitched. He has continued to be more dependent on BABIP and ground balls than in the past as he struggles to miss bats. In 39 at-bats, Yadier Molina has needled Lester for 13 hits and 6 walks. Goldschmidt is 8-17 with 1 homerun off of him. Current Cardinals have collected slashed .270/.310/.412 off of him in 222 at-bats.

Hudson most recently pitched 7 innings and allowed one earned run while collecting 7 strikeouts against the Reds. Kyle Schwarber is 2-3 with 3 walks and one strikeout off the righty. Hudson has increased his usage of his breaking pitches by about 10% and has leaned especially on a low 80s curve than he did in 2019.

Comments

happ / bryant(DH) / rizzo / baez / shwarber / contreras / heyward / bote(3rd) / kipnis

lou brock (ex-cub/ex-card) has died at age 81.

cubs on the ESPN broadcast doing a whole bunch of "fun" stuff for the cameras.  we haven't seen the dugout and pen showing off on this scale for a while.  the pen has props for homers, a lot of them...

jason heyward out and maybin in RF...no reason yet...fouled one off his foot earlier in the game...

"feeling under the weather" is the given reason for heyward right now.

not a great night with the wind blowing out, but lester giving up 2 HR tonight gives him 9 HR in 41.1 IP on the season...also 47 hits

heyward sent to the hospital for tests (d.ross, post-game)...shortness of breath and light-headedness

AZ Phil, MLB will allow Instructional Leagues to open on or after Sept 18. Have you heard what the Cubs plan is going forward? Thanks.

With Jon Lester having thrown 40.1 IP so far in 2020 and needing to throw 74 IP (200 IP pro-rated for a 60-game season) in order for his 2021 $25M option to automatically vest, he will need to throw 33.2 IP over his last four starts (essentially throw four CG).

So it will almost certainly revert to a $25M 2021 club option (with a $10M buy-out if the option is declined), and I do fully expect the Cubs to decline the 2021 option and pay Lester $10M, and then re-allocate the remaining $15M elsewhere in the 2021 payroll (TBD). 

Recent comments

  • 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

  • crunch (view)

    alzolay...bro...

  • crunch (view)

    wow.  what a blown call.  go cubs, i guess.