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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. Pirates: Series Threads (Games 135-138)

Submitted by Charlie on

I didn't get to put up a post and the Cubs won two close games in Minnesota. Does that mean I should continue to not post? We'll never know! Next up, four games against the last-place Pirates. See below for the matchups.

Game 135, Thursday, September 2, 7:05 pm central

CHC: RHP Keegan Thompson (3-3, 3.09 ERA)

PIT: RHP Mitch Keller (4-10, 6.75 ERA)

Thompson has yet to carry his bullpen success into his starts. He went only two inning against the White Sox and allowed four earned runs while striking out only one. He has yet to go more than four innings in an appearance.

Keller went 5.1 innings but got shelled by the Cardinals last time out. It was the third start this season in which he's allowed 7 earned runs.

Game 136, Friday, September 3, 1:20 pm central

CHC: RHP Alec Mills (6-6, 4.32 ERA)

PIT: LHP Steven Brault (0-3, 4.57 ERA)

The Cubs best starting pitcher, Alec Mills, pitched 8.1 shutout innings to earn a win against the White Sox. Absolutely bless his heart.

Lefty Brault has made only five starts this season, all since the beginning of August. Too bad for him the Pirates had given up long before that. The Pirates earned seven earned runs off of him in three innings on August 28.

Game 137, Saturday, September 4, 1:20 pm central

CHC: RHP Kyle Hendricks (14-6, 4.43 ERA)

PIT: TBD

Alec Mills emulator, Kyle Hendricks, suffered through a start ranking among his bottom three of the season at the end of August. He allowed eight earned runs to the White Sox in 4.2 innings. He was only a few starts removed from a nine-run beating at the hands of the Brewers--August was unkind to his ERA.

The Brewers have not yet announced a starter for the Saturday game.

Game 138, Sunday, September 5, 1:20 pm central

CHC: RHP Zach Davies (6-10, 4.91 ERA)

PIT: RHP Wil Crowe (3-7, 5.46 ERA)

Davies held the Twins to one earned run but was pulled during the fifth for the second start in a row. He allowed *eleven* homeruns in six August starts.

Crowe pitched well enough in his last start, allowing three earned runs in five innings, but did not earn a decision against the Cardinals. He last faced the Cubs on May 26, when he exited after only 1.1 innings having allowed five hits and three earned runs.

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 09/02/2021 - 09:53 pm

???? - Hendricks - Alzolay - Mills - Steele/Thompson/???

if they go cheap for 2022 and only add a single sure-thing starter, i hope he's good enough to slot in as the ace.  it won't take the best arm on the market to beat out hendricks, so it's not like that bar is mega-high.

hendricks has a history of good, alzolay and steele both have unrealized upside while showing they're MLB-ready.

mills is mills and that's not bad for an end-rotation guy who is also comfortable doing long relief work.  unless he blows it in september, he's most likely being looked at as a rotation guy.

im bummed cory abbott seems to have played his way out of this discussion for 2022.

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 09/02/2021 - 09:17 pm

this club is so torn down i have 0 idea how to handicap what this club considers a priority in 2022.

i have no idea if they're going to try to turn any of these young kids they got into trade bait for mlb-ready cheap dudes during the long off-season.  i have no idea what they're planning on spending.

if this club has a road map i haven't seen it.

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 09/03/2021 - 09:23 pm

d.ross and j.hoyer have tested positive for COVID...both vax'd, showing little to no symptoms.

Submitted by tim815 on Sat, 09/04/2021 - 09:16 pm

The A's/Cubs game in Mesa was riled a forfeit, not a postponement or cancelation. Seems odd.

 

Arizona Phil? Any news?

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 09/04/2021 - 09:03 pm

this k.hendricks 5th is a horror show.

a single, 3 walks, and a HBP...wtf...

bases loaded with 1 out in the 5th and his day is done.

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 09/04/2021 - 09:11 pm

this clown ass manager straight up put t.megill into a bases loaded, 1 out situation after throwing 1.1ip yesterday.

harsh?  yes.  i'm sticking with it, though.

Submitted by CTSteve on Sun, 09/05/2021 - 09:15 am

I picked a great weekend to be in Chicago. I'm especially glad that I managed to stay awake and not leave the park before the end of yesterday's game. 

It beat the last time I was at Wrigley (September 2019), when the Cubs were shut out in both games.

Submitted by crunch on Sun, 09/05/2021 - 09:06 pm

can we DFA z.davies just for the hell of it?

i mean, nothing 2021 matters, we might as well make z.davies not matter.

Submitted by crunch on Sun, 09/05/2021 - 09:34 pm

matt duffy hasn't had a wrigley homer this season.

he's got 2 today.  one is a grand slam.  first career grand slam.  first career multi-homer game.

*flex*

Submitted by crunch on Sun, 09/05/2021 - 09:51 pm

3rd inning lasted 41 minutes.

2x grand slams (PIT/CHC) and a bunch of other b/s.

terrible teams doing great things.

Submitted by crunch on Sun, 09/05/2021 - 09:48 pm

holy shi....mat gamel...he showed up with his glove today.

contreras got robbed on a big time diving catch by gamel that would have tied the game and even the fans were "damn, that's dope" about the catch.

Submitted by Wrigley Rat on Sun, 09/05/2021 - 09:42 pm

AZ Phil or others - Anyone know why we released Matteo Bocchi yesterday? His numbers at SB were great (even though he just turned 25). I was hoping he'd stay in the rotation or pitch piggy-back at AA next year. I'm hoping he had an offer to play overseas or that Italy was calling him back home.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Mon, 09/06/2021 - 09:08 am

W-RAT: The Cubs released both 1B-3B Ryan Reynolds and RHP Matteo Bocchi over the past couple of days, but it wasn't because they needed their slots on the 180-man Domestic Reserve List. At present, there are 170 players on the DRL (ten slots are open), and even if you add the five draft picks who have yet to play in a game and thus do not yet need to be added to the DRL, that's still only 175 players.  

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    PCA called up.

  • crunch (view)

    welp...

    bellinger...fractured rib.

    a not-very-ready PCA will probably be called up when it would be much better for him to be in AAA getting regular ABs.

  • crunch (view)

    i have no hard data, but i'm seeing the same thing.

    there used to be some parks where that was rampant (colorado during the todd helton days comes to mind), but i'm seeing it all over the place the past couple seasons.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    I’ll spare the details which I’ve stated before but, in short, the Cardinals have lost their sight of their successful identity and strategy over last several dominant decades. From the beginning of the season I saw the Cardinals being in last place or near it again this year, and my prediction is that Mozeliak will be gone after the end of the season.

  • Bill (view)

    I would have kept Cooper rather than Wisdom, but at least I can understand why they did it.  In a team that lacks dominant power hitters, Wisdom can be a dominant power hitter, at least in streaks.  I suppose that there is always the possibility that the streaks longer in both duration and frequency.  I will be content if they essentially make a 100 % DH commitment to Mervis against righties and Wisdom against lefties.  When a regular needs rest, give them total rest, rather than a DH rest.  Do this for at least 2 months, and then re-evaluate at that point.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    This is Cubs adjacent but…


    Jordan Walker just was optioned by the deadbirds. For all the talk of the Cardinals development machine, they’ve really missed on a lot of can’t miss superstars lately. Walker has struggled. Gorman has been okay. They’re already trying to push Carlson out the door. Their pitching system has been so bad they had to go out and sign basically a full rotation over the last two offseasons.

    They’ve still developed a few of those pesky solid players, like Donovan, Edman, and Nootbaar. Their two best prospect to MLB players have been Adolis and Arozarena, neither of which is a cardinal.

    I hope they never figure it out again. Cardinal failure brings me such joy.
     

  • Raisin101 (view)

    Thank you so much! I really appreciate not only all your posts but how eager you are to respond to our questions.

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Is it just me or does it seem that official scorers are becoming less likely to call a misplay an error? 

     

    Guess I've hit my cranky old-man phase in life.  "I remember back in the day when an error was an error.  Official scorers have gone soft.  Now where did I put my readers?!!??"

     

    Sidenote, maybe Bellinger should be a little more careful against the Astros.  That was the series last year that a play at wall put him on the IL.   

  • crunch (view)

    i hated the almonte pickup, but he's 9-10 out of 12 for good outings, following a great spring.  hope he can keep it up.

    i already miss cooper, but yeah...the thin OF roster backup the team seems to want to carry probably got wisdom preference over cooper.  i could live without seeing wisdom at 3rd unless it's a blowout, though.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Things I've been wrong about:

    -Tauchman is fine as a 4th OF. I knew that. I just want a better LH DH option and he was really the DH for us until Seiya got hurt. I'm glad Mervis is getting a chance at it. Caissie is coming for that job for sure. But Tauchman continues to be highly useful as a 4th OF with Seiya being hurt

    -I wanted Yency to go to get guys at Iowa a chance. Guys like Palencia and Sanders or RileyT. Maybe even Hodge! But Yency has been better the last two plus weeks. He did hit 96 the other day. He was 93 in Texas to open the season.

    -Leiter has his split working enough. It just needs to stay there

    -I was surprised Jed picked Wisdom over Cooper. I wonder if this happens if Seiya wasn't hurt. Wisdom has more power. Cooper is the better hitter. Jed picked Wisdom and Wisdom had an option left as well.

    -Palencia just doesn't miss enough bats. Similar to ManRod, just two yrs younger. ManRod is killing AAA for TB right now!

    Things I got right so far:

    -Hendricks. Sorry Kyle. You got paid though!

    Jed, you missed there.

    -Smyly. If Jed could've traded him before or during ST, then he should have and saved some cash.

    -Mastro.  Not a LH DH. Pinch runner. Defensive utility. Maybe he's better than Madrigal but didn't get a legit chance to prove it.

    -Luke Little is good. He's had one bad outing. That's it. Needs to get better entering with guys on base. But he needs to stay in MLB.

    -Oh yeah....Morel is doing fine at 3B! He'll get better as well!!

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