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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 eight players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and two players 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
* Pete Crow-Armstrong 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 8 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2
* Cody Bellinger, OF  
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 @ Reds: Lester vs Moscot (Game 17)

Submitted by CTSteve on

Now it's Lester’s turn.
It was just another day at the office for Jake Arrieta. As he said in a post-game interview, he didn’t have his best stuff, so he just tried to pitch to avoid making contact. Good call.

Maybe the only thing worse than trying to hit Arrieta is to follow him in the rotation, but that is Lester’s task.

CHC (12-4): LHP Jon Lester (1-1, 2.21)
CIN (8-8): RHP Jon Moscot (0-0, 4.76)
First pitch: 6:10pmCST

Lester gave up 1 ER in 7.1 innings and struck out 10 but lost to the Rockies on Sunday, in a game the Cubs bats could only manage 3 hits. He was 1-0 with a 2.57 in his two starts at Great American Ball Park last year, and the Reds hit .157 against him in those games. For their careers, the Reds are 22-82 (.268) off of Lester. Hamilton is 5-7 with a HR, and Phillips is 6-15.

Moscot gave up 3 ER in 5.2 in St. Louis on Sunday, for his first appearance of the year, for a no-decision. He was 1-1 with a 4.63 in his three starts last year. None of the Cubs have faced him.

Lackey (3-0, 3.66) vs. Straily (0-0, 2.70) tomorrow at 6:10pmCST.

Go, Cubs!

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Comments

Submitted by Old and Blue on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 04:55 am

Cubs well on their way to that dream I had during the winter where they were 53-17. Heyward needs to find a few more holes though - he's hitting ok, just always at somebody.

Submitted by Sonicwind75 on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 04:55 pm

If I remember correctly, didn't Ted Lilly follow up Zambranos no hitter by taking one of his own into the 7th/8th. Maybe Lester can go all Ted Lilly on the Reds and follow it with a no hit bid himself. That series against the Astros played in a "neutral" Miller Field still seems weird to this day.

Submitted by Ryno on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 04:07 pm

MLB considering adding two additional teams. Where do you think they would/should go? I wouldn't be surprised to see a Mexican/Cuban team added. Manfred in discussions with Montreal. Meh. Portland? Charlotte? Buffalo?

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Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 04:43 pm

Unless there's slot machines in the back of the seats, people aren't going to Vegas to catch a ballgame. They go to bet on games, drink and do more gambling. It's a terrible place for a baseball team unless Vegas and Nevada are gonna subsIdize the entire stadium. Which is what this will ultimately come down to...who is willing to screw taxpayers to build a stadium.

Submitted by The E-Man on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 04:20 pm

I think Vegas as well. PLENTY of money, and they could do a domed stadium. Due to their tremendous growth now and in the next 15 years, I'd rank them this way: Vegas, Nashville, Austin. Not 100% sold on Mtl. Their attendance - even in the few good years - was not great. I'd rank Portland prior to Mtl. personally.

Submitted by First.Pitch.120 on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 04:36 pm

I would call a North Carolina team a virtual lock. Add up the media markets for Charlotte, R/D, & Greensboro, and you have something slightly larger than the media markets in Philly or Dallas (http://www.tvb.org/media/file/2015-2016-dma-ranks.pdf). And that is a conservative estimate that doesn't include Greenville, etc. Throw them in, and you are looking at a # of TV homes larger than Chicago.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 04:50 pm

Not unless they get some new lawmakers in office...no one is touching that state right now. Granted expansion is probably 5-6 years away, but that probably means some decisions in 2-3 years.

Montreal and Vancouver from what I read are the 2 biggest markets without a team at moment but doubtful they'd go 2 Canadian teams. Austin has the biggest growth of any cities mentioned and is close enough to San Antonio, yet far enough from Houston and Arlington surprisingly. 

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Submitted by crunch on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 04:00 pm

unfortunately, they might (probably) will do something really stupid with where they place the park in NC based on past rumblings when expansion talk came up. it's been one of those things where they want the big-3 metro areas within traveling distance to the park so pretty everyone has to travel 30-60+ minutes to even get to the park no matter the starting point. some of the mock sites they've proposed when this has come up in years past have been really uninspiring. ...and they kinda gotta take care of that stupid business/event/income destroying "there's a lot more than the bathroom part of the bill going on, HB2" legislation they passed. it's been sucking money and jobs out of the area faster than supporters can pretend that their reasons for wanting HB2 is rooted in reality.

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 04:50 pm

"Reds designated RHP Tim Melville for assignment." cubs create another victim. it seems they doom at least 1-2 pitchers per series.

Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 04:00 pm

@ESPNChiCubsDavid Ross says Jed/Theo texted congrats last night. He told them he wouldn't retire if they extended him a qualifying offer.

Submitted by waveland on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 04:28 pm

From ESPN stats: since beginning of August last year batters have a .373 OPS against Arrieta; Jake himself has an OPS of .649. Since Aug 30th he has 2 no-hitters and 3 starts where allowed any runs at all. It would be retarded to have those kind of unrealistic numbers in a video game, much less in reality

Submitted by John Beasley on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 04:39 pm

Jeff Sullivan ‏@based_ball 24m24 minutes ago **team wRC+ so far** Braves: 62 Phillies: 65 White Sox: 70 Angels: 76 Padres: 80 Reds: 81 Brewers: 84 A's: 84 Cubs pitchers: 91 Rays: 92

Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 04:41 pm

Jeff Passan making a good point about service time right now on twitter.

@JeffPassan Snell will join Tampa's roster Saturday. That is the first day he can join with the Rays not being penalized for bringing him up too early.

Kris Bryant was Minor League Player of the Year in 2014. Blake Snell was Minor League Pitcher of the Year in 2015.

But the outcry over Kris Bryant compared to the response over Snell shows that not all teams are held to the same service-time standards.

Submitted by Cubster on Fri, 04/22/2016 - 04:55 pm

John DeWan's stat of the week features the Cubs as best defense so far...
After snatching Jason Heyward, a back-to-back Fielding Bible Award winner, away from their division rival this offseason, the Cubs have opened the season on fire defensively, posting a league-leading 17 runs saved to date. The outfield duo of Heyward and Dexter Fowler has saved the Cubs four runs apiece
http://actasports.com/statoftheweek/

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Miguel Cruz walked six in 1.2 IP in his last start, so I guess he is improving. Wilme Mora also walked six in one of his appearances a week or two ago, and one or two others have walked five. I don't know what would be the most I have ever seen a pitcher throw in a game out here, because the manager / pitching coach usually gets the pitcher out of the game if it gets too ridiculous. 

    As for the attendance, probably about 20 of the 25 were early arrivals for the Savannah Bananas game who came over to Field # 1 to see what was going on, and once they saw all the bases on balls (12 walks by Cubs pitchers and four by Angels pitchers) they ran away screaming. I'm used to it so it didn't bother me that much. 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Jed has added Teheran, Tyranski, Kissaki, and now Straily and Nico Zeglin today.

    Zeglin is 24 yrs old. Pitched well at Long Beach St in '23 and well in some Indy Ball.

    They also added Reilly and Viets in late ST.

    Have to search for MiLB arm depth anywhere you can and at all times!!!

  • Childersb3 (view)

    25 in Attendance!!!

    Phil, is that a backfield record?

    Also, 6 BBs for Cruz in 2 IP. What's the most walks you've seen in one EXT ST outing that you can recall?

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    He has a pulse. Apparently that’s the only requirement at this point.

  • crunch (view)

    cubs sign dan straily...for some reason.  minor league deal.

    welcome back.

    zac rosscup is down in mexico trying to make it happen...maybe they could throw him a contract, too.  junior lake is his teammate.  shore up a bunch of holes with some washups.

  • fullykräusened (view)

    The great thing about going to live sports events is you don't know if you're going to see something historic. Today I went to the Cub game, after putting the liner back in my coat and fishing my Cubs knit hat out of the closet. I needed all that- my seats are in the upper deck, left, so the east wind was in my face. Both teams failed to capitalize on good situations, but both starters did a good job to accomplish this. So, we go to the bottom of the sixth inning. The Cubs tie it up, and then Pete Crow-Armstrong comes up. We all know he would still be in AAA if not for injuries, and future Hall-of-Famer Justin Verlander absolutely carved up the young fellow up in his first two plate appearances. So this time he hits a fly ball. The wind was blowing in and had suppressed several strong fly balls- including a rocket off Altuve's bat that Canario hauled in (does anybody else remind me of Jorge Soler?) , but the ball kept carrying and carrying. 107mph, legit angle and carry. The crowd went nuts, the dugout went nuts. Maybe, just maybe, I saw the first homer from a long-term Cub.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Which was my original premise. They won the trades but lost their souls. They no longer employ the Cardinal way which had been so successful for so long.

  • 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.
     

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