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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. 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)

    brewer has done nothing to keep him on the big league roster...imagine that's 1 guy gone.

    yeah, it's only 2 appearances, but they were both unimpressive.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Yeah it is.....sorry......closers don't throw 89mph

    It would be unique for sure.

    But CP can't be HR susceptible

    That's what Alzolay has right now and that's what Kyle has no matter the situation.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Supposedly Happ said on a radio show he's good to go

    I hadn't read that anywhere from the usual accounts, so this could be off.

    If true, Canario goes down.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Hmmm. Maybe my idea of transitioning Hendricks into a closer role isn’t so crazy.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Mervis and Wesneski getting promoted aaccording to Tommy Birch from Des Moines Register.

    So Happ to the IL

    Maybe Hendricks to IL ????

    Mervis/Cooper are DH platoon

    Wisdom, Canario, Tauchman share LF/RF

    I wonder if Busch has ever played LF?

    I don't believe he has

  • crunch (view)

    “I respect his track record of what he’s accomplished,” Counsell said on Sunday morning. “And you go through these. He’s gone through -- maybe not this particular stretch -- but stretches where you’re not pitching the way you want to and struggling. And you figure it out.” -- Counsell on Hendricks

    fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...

    i respect his track record of no longer being in the rotation.  in 2016 he threw 2 innings out of the pen, his only work out of the pen.  the cubs won the world series that year.  let's repeat that magic.  the formula is obvious.  stats don't lie.  etc etc whatever...

    small sample size and all, but how about this craziness...

    "Entering Sunday, Hendricks had allowed an .843 OPS against hitters in their initial plate appearance, followed by a 1.056 OPS in a second meeting and a 2.449 OPS when seeing batters for a third time."

  • Finwe Noldaran (view)

    Phil: Great to see what Rosario is doing!

    Do you think having Rosario may have influenced/impacted the front office's decision on including Hope in the trade for Busch at all?

  • crunch (view)

    it's so crazy we got a new "barnstorming" harlem globetrotters-type baseball product that was introduced less than 5 years ago and is wildly popular all over the nation.

    a notion left long in the past, unearthed, polished for modern audiences and popular as ever.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    No question right now Alfonsin Rosario is one of the Cubs Top 20 prospects (probably Top 15). Rosario is to the Cubs what Zyhir Hope is to the Dodgers.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    The Savannah Bananas will be playing the Party Animals at Sloan Park in Mesa this coming Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. The games are sold out (15,000+ each night), and berm tickets are going for well over $100. 

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