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Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
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Colten Brewer
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Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

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Yan Gomes

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Garrett Cooper
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

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* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

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Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
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Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

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Seiya Suzuki, OF

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Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Cubs @ Indians: Wada vs. Marcum (Game 63 Thread)

Submitted by CTSteve on

CHC (34-28): LHP Tsuyoshi Wada (0-1, 4.84)
CLE (30-33): RHP Shaun Marcum (3-1, 4.09)
First pitch: 6:10pmCT
 

Fowler# cf

Rizzo* 1b

Bryant 3b

Coghlan* lf

Castro ss

Schwarber* dh

Denorfia rf

Ross c

Russell 2b

 

Kipnis* 2b

Lindor# ss

Brantley* cf

Santana# 1b

Raburn dh

Gomes c

Moss* rf

Urshela 3b
Aviles lf

Update: Montero was scratched with a tight back.

Still looking for his first win of the season, Wada has pitched only 6.2 innings in his last two games (vs. CIN, @WAS), giving up 8 ER. His last W was Aug. 24. None of the Indians have faced him.

Marcum got the win against Seattle in his last outing, going 7 scoreless in the 6-0 game. The Cubs are 12-59 (.203) against him. Fowler is 2-12, Castro is 2-19 with a HR, Montero is 1-5 with a HR.

Marcum has a 3.00 ERA on the road but 4.71 at Progressive Field. That difference is one of the reasons the Indians have a losing record at home (12-18). The Cubs are 16-15 away from Wrigley.

Rosscup went on the DL today with left shoulder inflammation. RHP Yoervis Medina, acquired from SEA in the Castillo trade, takes his place. His numbers for Iowa are pretty schlitty: 11.2 innings, 6 runs, 15 hits, 4.63 ERA, 1.88 WHIP.

Bryant has a 12-game hitting streak, his second of the season, and is hitting .327 in June. Meanwhile, Rizzo is 3 for his last 29.

As advertised, Schwarber DHs, after making his debut last night. He caught the top of the 9th (after Montero got tossed for saying what needed to be said about balls and strikes) and struck out swinging on three straight pitches to lead off the bottom half. Schwarber hails from the Cincinnati area, so he’ll have a good contingent of family and friends on hand to see him get his first hit.  

Go Cubs!

 

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Comments

Submitted by crunch on Wed, 06/17/2015 - 06:52 pm

rizzo HR! cubs up 6-0 with 2 out in the 2nd. s.marcum is pitching some really shitty baseball.

Submitted by johann on Wed, 06/17/2015 - 06:17 pm

See this game is a perfect reason never to worked up about any one game either way. We get blown out yesterday, we are blowing out tonight but it'll still just ultimately be 1 win and 1 loss.

Submitted by The E-Man on Wed, 06/17/2015 - 06:38 pm

You know Marcum's knick-name when he was with the Brewers, right? Meatball Marcum Glad Cleveland pitched him tonight so the Cubs can regain some confidence.

Submitted by Cubster on Wed, 06/17/2015 - 06:50 pm

Pierce Johnson 5 shutout innings at AA. 3H, 1BB, 4K Corey Black 2 shutout IP, innings 8-9. 1H, 0BB, 1K Neil Ramirez (rehab) 1 shutout IP, inning 6. 0H, 0BB, 0K Smokies won 8-0.

Submitted by jacos on Wed, 06/17/2015 - 06:32 pm

~walks into room~ ~sits down straightens pants and shirt~ What did I miss?

Submitted by JoePepitone on Thu, 06/18/2015 - 06:22 am

Anybody ever play the Backyard Baseball computer game? Tonight's game reminded me of a Backyard Baseball game where the other team's pitchers all ran out of juice and had to be switched out for position players every few batters. Ridiculous.

Submitted by Old and Blue on Thu, 06/18/2015 - 06:12 am

If that had been Bryant's 74th home run of the season, would there be an asterisk? Based on his reaction on his way to the dugout I think so.

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Submitted by WISCGRAD on Thu, 06/18/2015 - 06:47 am

He does have a fair amount of strikeouts, but he also has a lot of walks, thus the ratio. The numbers don't match up exactly with the rankings, but they based this on the BB/SO ratio (if you read the topic paragraph brefore the rankings). You can see that listed for each player. For Schwarber it is 0.86. Major League average this year is 0.38, so article highlights 10 guys in the minors who are much better than that and doing well, thus projecting well going forward.

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Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Thu, 06/18/2015 - 06:14 am

"they based this on the BB/SO ratio" I just wondered if you saw something I didn't see in the article that would explain the rankings. It's certainly not BB/SO, but I guess it's a combination of BB/SO and ISO. (The guys near the top of the list tend to have more pop.) But then how do you explain Diaz at #7 and Zagunis at #8? Oh, I see, Diaz "gun[ned] down 32 percent of basestealers." Now it makes sense.

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Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Thu, 06/18/2015 - 06:00 pm

"Most improved" can be rather faint praise. It depends what the numbers were last year. Almora's 12 walks to 20 strikeouts is certainly better than his 14/69 last year. The Cubs have eleven prospects right now with better BB/K numbers than Almora's current .60. Eight of the eleven have BB/K's of .80 or higher. They are Zagunis (1.18), Young (1.08), Rademacher (.96), Soto (.86), Schwarber (.86), McKinney (.83), Vogelbach (.80) and Chen (.80). All eight of these prospects have OBPs of .350 or higher. Almora's OBP is .290.

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Submitted by WISCGRAD on Thu, 06/18/2015 - 06:11 am

You are really overthinking this. It's not a list of the 10 best BB/SO ratios in the minors. They are simply highlighting 10 top prospects who are doing really well in that respect. They are also clearly highlighting guys you may not have heard as much about but who they think will be better hitters than you probably think (see the title) given this part of their game. 

Recent comments

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Mastrobuoni can't come back, yet

    Wisdom does have an option left. He can hide in Iowa if Jed DFA's someone else

    Does Brennan Davis get shown the door? I know it's too early for that, but these injuries are crunching the roster of a 12-7 team playoff demands and BDavis isn't going to help anytime soon.

    Someone has to go to add Peralta. And Canario isn't going to get to play everyday regardless of RHers or LHers. Neither is Tauchman. Also don't see PCA getting a chance over Peralta.

    If Jed does those moves:

    4 OF: Belli, Peralta, Canny, Tauch

    2 C: Gomes and Amaya

    2 DH: Cooper and Mervis

    5 INF: Busch, Nico, Dansby, Morel, Madrigal

    Little short on OF depth but two injuries will do that  

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I have had the pleasure of watching some of the young A's pitchers lately (first Joe Boyle the last day of Minor League Spring Training in March, and more recently Luis Morales last week and Steven Echavarria yesterday at Extended Spring Training), and it reminds me of the Miami Marlins a couple of years ago. A really nice collection of young pitchers. It will be interesting to see what the A's will get for two years of ex-Cub Paul Blackburn at the Trade Deadline (there should be a robust market for Blackburn). 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Good deal

    MB needs some talent infusion!

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Very possible. Suriel, too. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    DJL: if a pitcher is recalled to be the 27th man for a doubleheader and then is optioned back to the minors the next day, the 15-day "clock" does NOT reset. The one day call-up for the doubleheader is treated like it never happened with respect to a pitcher having to spend at least 15 days on optional assignment before he can be recalled. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Probably the only reason David Peralta is still in the organization (he is at AAA Iowa) is to be available in case anything bad were to happen to Ian Happ (which it just did). So if Happ needs to go on the IL, the Cubs can select Peralta to play LF, DFA Wisdom (and hope he and what remains of his $2.725M salary gets claimed off waivers), and recall Mervis to platoon at DH with Cooper (with Canario / Tauchman sharing RF), at least until Suzuki and Happ are back...

     

  • crunch (view)

    i'd just like to take a moment to express to the world i'm still pissed willson contreras is not a cub when the pricetag was 5/87m (17.5m/yr).

    it would be nice to have a legacy-type player to stick around, especially one with his leadership and the respect he gets from his peers.  cubs fans deserved more than 1 season of contreras + morel...that was gold.

  • crunch (view)

    happ, right hamstring tightness, day-to-day (hopefully 0 days).

    he will be reevaluated tomorrow.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    I guess I'm not looking for that type of AB 

    Just a difference of opinion

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    I don’t see Tauchman as a weak link in any position. He simply adds his value in a different way.

    I don’t know that we gain much by putting him in the outfield - Happ, Bellinger and Suzuki and Tauchman all field their positions well. If you’re looking for Taucnman’s kind of AB in a particular game I don’t see why it can’t come from DH.

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