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39 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (one slot is open), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL and one player has been DESIGNATED FOR ASSIGNMENT (DFA)   

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

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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
* Matt Mervis
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

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

OPTIONED: 9 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 3
Kyle Hendricks, P 
* Drew Smyly, P 
* Justin Steele, P   

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

DFA: 1 
Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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Cubs vs. Marlins (Wild Card Round, Game 2)

Submitted by Charlie on

The Cubs dropped the first game, scoring their lone run on an Ian Happ homer and letting six shutout innings from Hendricks turn into a 5-1 loss when things fell apart in the 7th. Now, they face elimination in this best of 3 Wild Card Round. They'll send their best starting pitcher and NL Cy Young contender Yu Darvish to keep the Cubs' season alive.CHC (0-1): RHP Yu Darvish (8-3, 2.01 ERA in the regular season)
MIA (1-0): RHP Sixto Sánchez (3-2, 3.46 ERA in the regular season)
RESCHEDULED: Friday, Oct. 2, time TBD

Darvish was spectacular in the shortened 2020 season, setting a new high fWAR as a Cub despite pitching in only 12 games. In addition to cutting his already low 2019 walk rate nearly in half, he also cut his HR per 9 by about two thirds. Today he makes his most important start yet for the 2020 season. Corey Dickerson (5-13 with 2 doubles and a homerun) and Starling Marte (4-11 with a homer) have enjoyed some success against him while most other Marlins have hardly seen him before.

The 22-year-old Sixto Sánchez reached AA in 2019 and made his MLB debut roughly 6 weeks ago. His overall numbers are fairly solid so far, but his last two starts were his weakest of the season. He went a cumulative 7 innings and allowed 9 runs on 12 hits and 6 walks in those starts. The rookie brings serious heat and a plus changeup that he turns to 27.4% of the time. That changeup feeds into his reverse splits. Righties enjoy a .267/.345/.400 slash line against him (19 innings pitched) compared to lefties at only .232/.270/.261 (20 innings pitched).

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Submitted by Charlie on Thu, 10/01/2020 - 10:21 am

Weather looks a *little* spotty for this afternoon. Here's hoping for no interruptions while Darvish is still in the game.

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 10/01/2020 - 10:52 am

happ / rizzo / contreras(DH) / schwarber / bryant / heyward / baez / bote(2nd) / caratini

s.marte(FLA) has a broken hand from the d.winkler HBP yesterday...he was recently returned after a HBP cut up his ear on a fastball to the skull.   he's not had a fun time lately.

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 10/01/2020 - 10:29 pm

postponed...rain

"Game 2 has been rescheduled for Friday afternoon at 2:08 p.m. (ET)/1:08 p.m. (CT) on ABC, unless there is only one game remaining. If Cubs-Marlins is the only game remaining, then first pitch will be at 7:08 p.m. (ET)/6:08 p.m. (CT) on ABC. Should a Game 3 be necessary, then it will be played on Saturday, with timing to be determined."

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Thu, 10/01/2020 - 10:56 pm

ESPN1, ESPN2, and ABC are loaded with college football games all day long, morning, noon, and night on Saturday, so if the Cubs win tomorrow and there is a WC game 3 on Saturday, it would probably have to be on TBS, which is running Seinfeld reruns and forgettable movies all day long. 

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Submitted by Dolorous Jon Lester on Fri, 10/02/2020 - 10:31 pm

It's very frustrating. They are better than what they've done. They are the inverse of "the whole is better than the sum of its parts"

Theyve gone through hitting coaches, managers, etc. Maybe they just don't gel as well as a group anymore? Whatever that even means?

Submitted by Eric S on Fri, 10/02/2020 - 10:27 pm

So frustrating that Cub pitchers have to pitch with absolutely no margin for error with how shit-tastic the offense is. 

Submitted by Eric S on Fri, 10/02/2020 - 10:42 pm

At least the Marlins had the courtesy to jump on the Cubs with two outs in the 7th and not with one out in the 8th. 

Submitted by blockhead25 on Fri, 10/02/2020 - 10:01 pm

This is all so very 2018.

I really can't be too upset about this.  Didn't really expect much else.  Would have been fun to care about baseball another week, but this wasn't ever much more than a .500 team.

Submitted by blockhead25 on Fri, 10/02/2020 - 10:05 pm

Cubs/Reds should have a consolation series Europa League style. 

Best of 7 games.  First to score wins the game no matter the inning.

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 10/02/2020 - 10:06 pm

i think all that's left to figure out after that contreras AB is who on the team is going to start 2021 on the suspended list for whatever goes down later in the game.

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 10/02/2020 - 10:23 pm

leadoff double in the 9th...tease or comeback...lot of teasing this season...and last season...

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Submitted by blockhead25 on Fri, 10/02/2020 - 10:10 pm

13-3 was fun.  No Hitter was fun.  Didn't find 75% of the season playing .500 baseball that fun.  Didn't find seeing all of the core Chicago hitters barely hit .200 fun.  Bleh season with a deserved ending....but I do like another notch on the historical belt of this team:

5 playoffs in 6 years, 3 NLCS appearances, 3 Division Championships, 1 NL Pennant, 1 World Series Trophy

Now blow it up and start over.

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Submitted by crunch on Fri, 10/02/2020 - 10:21 pm

i dont wanna live through another blow up.  it's not like they're all sure-things when they pick their 1st round picks, and getting an arrietta + strop with lots of club control for "meh" level talent is one of those once-in-a-few-eras trades (what an epic cubs trade, though).

that said, i dont expect to see bryant in 2021 and i wouldn't be shocked to see someone else go with him.  contreras has both high trade value and the team no longer needs him to control lester's baserunning game.  i dunno what to think about schwarber's future with the team even with the DH around...the DH slot makes it a lot easier to keep him around.

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Submitted by Charlie on Fri, 10/02/2020 - 10:22 pm

I'm not ready to grieve for this team, which has been mostly the same since 2015. But I will be surprised if they don't engage in at least a modified rebuild. It's frustrating to see the farm system significantly depleted to support the major league team during a competitive window that has been a disappointment for 4 years running. It will be fascinating to see how they go about rebuilding without a full tear down, especially with significant uncertainty at the league level going into 2021.

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 10/02/2020 - 10:34 pm

watching kintzler celebrate getting the last out at wrigley field to advance the marlins in the playoffs...oof...

he did nothing wrong, but what a difference a year makes...

Submitted by blockhead25 on Fri, 10/02/2020 - 10:05 pm

New rules I kinda liked:

3 batter rule for relief

extra innings - man on 2nd (I'm over the excitement of 15 inning games ending at 1am, ruining the bullpen for a week)

7 inning Double headers - know it impacts stats and stuff but 14 innings seems like enough for 1 day and each game is more exciting.  (can't imagine this will stick though)

DH for NL - I can't believe I'm saying this, but I did not care that pitchers weren't batting.  More offense may not be a bad thing for the NL

Rules I don't like:

60 game season - I'd be perfectly content with 145-152....but no thanks on 60

16 team playoff - Made perfect sense this year and eliminated pretenders like the Cubs, but no thank you on .500 teams making the playoffs

My vote, maybe add 1 more team to playoffs from each league, make WC round 2 of 3 instead of single game, make division series 7 games long...shorten regular season to accomodate

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Submitted by Charlie on Fri, 10/02/2020 - 10:26 pm

Regarding the bonus runner on 2nd, I agree that I don't miss extra innings beyond about the 11th. But I'd rather they just call it a draw at some point, since that's a better representation of what actually unfolded on the ball field.

I didn't think the Cubs made particularly good use of the DH this season. It's obviously where Schwarber belongs and instead they used it to get Caratini's extremely meh bat into the lineup more often.

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  • crunch (view)

    STL traded away a lot of minor league talent that went on to do nothing in the arenado + goldschmidt trades.  neither guy blocked any of their minor league talent in the pipeline, too.  that's ideal places to add talent.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Natural cycle of baseball. Pitching makes adjustments in approach to counter a hot young rookie. Now it’s time for Busch and his coaches to counter those adjustments. Busch is very good and will figure it out, I think sooner than later.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    In 2020, the pandemic year and the year before they acquired Arenado, the Cardinals finished second and were a playoff team. Of the 12 batters with 100 plate appearances, 8 of them were home grown. Every member of the starting rotation (if you include Wainwright) and all but one of the significant relievers were home grown. While there have been a relative handful of very good trades interspersed which have been mentioned, player development had been their predominant pattern for decades - ever since I became an aware fan in the ‘70’s

    The Arenado deal was not a deal made out of dire need or desperation. It was a splashy, headline making deal for a perennial playoff team intended to be the one piece that brought the Cardinals from a very good team to a World Series contender. They have continued to wheel and deal and have been in a slide ever since. I stand by my supposition that that deal marked a notable turning point within the organization. They broke what had been a very successful formula for a very long time.
     

  • crunch (view)

    busch is having a really intense k-filled mini slump.  he deserves better after coming back to wrigley after that hot road trip.

  • crunch (view)

    i know alzolay isn't having a great time right now, but i trust hector "ball 4" neris even less than alzolay based on what i've seen coming out of their arms.

  • azbobbop (view)

    Neris reminds me of Don “Full Pack” Stanhouse.

  • Eric S (view)

    Happ, Busch, Dansby and Madrigal have a combined 25 runners left on base through 7 innings, with Busch accounting for 9 of those.  Seems like a lot. 

  • crunch (view)

    PCA finally gets a hit!  2r HR!!!

  • Charlie (view)

    They certainly could be coupled. It could also be the case that a team needs good players at the heart of the team and if they are not coming from one source (development) they have to be sought out elsewhere. I don't see the evidence needed to infer the cause. 

  • crunch (view)

    bases loaded for the cubs, 0 out...and no runs score.

    cubbery.

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