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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 @ Cardinals: Series Thread (Games 71-73)

Submitted by Charlie on

The Cubs (26-44) head into St. Louis to take on their sometimes division rivals, the Cardinals (40-32). While the Cards are working to maintain pace with their fellow division leaders, the Brewers, the Cubs will be straining to stay ahead of the NL Central laggards who call Cincinnati home. See below for the daily matchups.

Game 71, Friday, June 24, 7:15 pm central

CHC: RHP Kyle Hendricks (2-6, 5.43 ERA)

STL: RHP Andre Pallante (2-2, 1.69 ERA)

Game 72, Saturday, June 25, 1:15 pm central

CHC: TBD

STL: RHP Miles Mikolas (5-5, 2.64 ERA)

Game 73, Sunday, June 26, 1:15 pm central

CHC: RHP Matt Swarmer (1-3, 5.84 ERA)

STL: RHP Jack Flaherty (0-0, 7.50 ERA)

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2022 Series Thread

Comments

Submitted by Dolorous Jon Lester on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 06:07 am

If we're going to get swept, is it more appropriate to say "bring your brooms" or "bring your dustpans?"

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Submitted by crunch on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 06:49 am

we shouldn't be so negative on great day for the Cubs.

there's a "beam signing" ceremony with Cubs brass and DraftKings CEO at Wrigley today for the construction of the very important multi-story sportsbook.  the team has worked damn hard to get to this point and we need to appreciate how far the Cubs have come as a team.

the 100m DraftKings gave the Cubs in late 2020 has brought such perks as the ability to sign workhorse starter TBD and help Hotel Zachary weather tough times during COVID.

feels good to be a Cubs fan...damn good.

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Submitted by Eric S on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 06:14 pm

I guess no real surprise given Villar's horrible defense this season and coming off a game the Cubs committed four errors (including Villar's).  His sloppiness was particularly hard on the newbie pitchers who could not afford even routine plays not to be made. 

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Submitted by crunch on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 06:07 pm

the villar experiment cost 6m...4.5 + 1.5 buyout (10m option).

i mean, it looked decent enough this pre-season.  can't argue with the gamble assuming the point was to trade him mid-season anyway...3-slot IF'r with pop.

a slow bat is nothing new to him, but going from being decent/average in the IF to f'n awful wasn't expected...also the power didn't show up.

Submitted by JoePepitone on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 06:41 pm

Watching the Apple TV+ broadcast on my iPhone.  Pretty impressed by the overall product, both the camera angles and camera work and graphics, plus some pretty good commentary and analysis.  They seem to presume a pretty intelligent audience.  I'm enjoying it.

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Submitted by crunch on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 06:47 pm

yeah, it's an odd product, but it's not a bad kind of different.  i like it much more than the youtube broadcast.

there's a lot of information they push at you in graphics.  that took a little while for me to get used to and i wasn't a fan at first. i'm still not a huge fan, but i don't mind it and sometimes it's good info.

the announce crews are mostly unfamiliar voices/people and many are relatively young, but they're very capable, especially considering they're essentially team unaffiliated announcers.

it's a good product trying to find a younger audience without pandering to them or alienating the older fans.

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Submitted by JoePepitone on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 06:54 pm

It's possible my opinion is affected by not having access to the Marquee network, so I'm a little starved for live TV coverage.  I've been doing most of my consumption via radio followed by watching the video highlights online.  That said, I am still underwhelmed by the Marquee commentary that is NOT Boog or JD (really miss hearing JD on a regular basis).

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Submitted by crunch on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 06:58 pm

i got very few issues with the apple tv broadcast.  the youtube ones i really have a hard time with.

some of the marquee broadcasts can be a bit "side show" filled, especially this year.  it's great someone has a project to pimp or some charity needs help, but these things are getting seriously large amounts of airtime on marquee broadcasts.  this stuff is expected and has been going on for decades, but i feel like i'm watching a telethon sometimes and the game is background entertainment.

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 06:07 pm

bit bored so i checked into how recent draft picks were doing for the cubs...2019-2021 isn't looking too sharp.  it's still way too early to write anyone off or make a career judgement, but it's not pretty.

there's an unusual amount of high-K pitchers that are awful elsewhere (too many hits/walks)...like, almost all of them.

still, a lot of guys missed time with the COVID-cancelled season and it's too early to write off even the 2019 guys.

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Submitted by First.Pitch.120 on Sat, 06/25/2022 - 06:19 pm

Yeah...  Injuries have taken a bite out of the top of those drafts. Howard, McAvene, Clarke, Moreno all have missed significant time, if I'm not mistaken.

The Growing Cubs podcast recently did a long segment on Ryan Jensen. I guess he was on the Development list for a good chunk of time & came back with a totally new arm action (ie, shorter). Two games since returning - 5.0 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 BB, 4 K, 1 HBP. So that's interesting...

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Sat, 06/25/2022 - 06:39 pm

BRADSBEARD: Ryan Jensen was at the Cubs Pitch Lab in Mesa for about five weeks recently and that's where he had his delivery re-worked. He threw "live" BP a few times toward the end of his stay and you could see how excited he was about his new approach. It's somewhat similar to what the White Sox did with Lucas Giolito a while back. Whether Jensen can remain a SP (like Giolito) is still TBD, however. 

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 06:02 pm

wow, these cardinals suck.

cubs win 3, easy.  bank it.

i got a great feeling about TBD tomorrow.  he's been rather decent for the cubs considering he's thrown about 20 games so far this season.

Submitted by JoePepitone on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 06:38 pm

Watching the post-game show.  Apple TV+ has a guy and a girl (I think her name is Lauren Gardner) showing highlights and doing analysis -- and they do several close-up shots of the guy while he's talking but only show Lauren in wide, distant pull-back shots.  She looks TV attractive, as far as I can tell.  Why the aversion to a close-up with her?  This is the second game I've watched and they haven't done a single close-in shot of her yet that I've seen.  She has nice, long auburn hair and an attractive, intelligent look to the extent I can tell from looking at her from the other rim of the Grand Canyon.  Why no close-ups?  Part of my enjoyment of watching TV sports coverage is seeing a reasonably attractive, intelligent looking and sounding woman doing sports analysis and/or coverage.  I used to like watching Paula Faris anchoring the NBC 5 sports on the evening news years back, before she switched to ABC and stopped doing sports. 

Has anyone seen a good, close-up shot of her anchoring the pre- and post-game coverage?  Her Google Images shots look nice enough.  Why do they only show her on the camera they placed in the parking lot?

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 06/25/2022 - 06:23 pm

astros combined no-hitter vs yanks.

neet.

starter c.javier threw 115 pitches through 7ip and it's not 1985 so it wasn't meant to be.

also in "other team news"...mark appel finally makes it to the majors 9 years after being the #1 overall pick (k.bryant was the #2 overall pick, btw).  he'll be with PHI @SD out of the pen.

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 06/25/2022 - 06:47 pm

phillies released d.maples...never made it out of AAA this year and did very poorly (tons of walks).

30 years old...might be the end of the line.

Submitted by crunch on Sun, 06/26/2022 - 06:04 pm

happ!

Submitted by crunch on Sun, 06/26/2022 - 06:08 pm

great win!  down 5-0, 5 run inning, back/forth 0 run battle to extras, win it in the 10th.

fun game after starting out really terrible.

Submitted by crunch on Sun, 06/26/2022 - 06:26 pm

jesse winker (SEA) tried to fight pretty much the entire LAA team after a HBP, got ejected, flipped off the LAA fans on the way back into the dugout, and created a few thousand new diehard jesse winker fans.

Recent comments

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    I don’t buy that. They had been doing that for years.

    They did it with Matt Holliday. They did it with John Lackey. They did it with Mark Mulder. They did it with Jason Heyward, who had a great year for them. I’m sure there’s more but those come to mind immediately.

    I attribute it more to a breakdown in what they’re doing in terms of development than a culture thing.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    They won those trades and sacrificed their culture. That’s exactly their problem.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    The other part that’s kind of crazy is they made two very high profile trades, one for Goldschmidt and one for Arenado, and they very clearly won those trades. They just haven’t been able to develop players the last handful of years the way they usually do.

    I guess the moral there is it’s hard to stay on top of your game and be good at what you do in perpetuity.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Marmol was extended at the beginning of the year. Two years I believe.

  • crunch (view)

    Jesse Rogers @JesseRogersESPN
    Craig Counsell doesn’t have a timetable for Cody Bellinger who technically has two cracked ribs on his right side. CT scan showed it today.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Thought it might have been David Peralta given the open 40 man spot and how PCA has played so far. 

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    I hope they keep Mozeliak a few more years. Marmol too!

  • crunch (view)

    wow, counsell coming with the early lineup.  rarity.

    canario/tauchman/happ RF/CF/LF

  • 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.

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