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Last updated 3-26-2024
 
* bats or throws left
# bats both

PITCHERS: 15
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Caleb Kilian
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
Jameson Taillon
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
* Miles Mastrobuoni
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
Alexander Canario
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Ben Brown, P 
Alexander Canario, OF 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Keegan Thompson, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

 



 

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Giants @ Cubs: Peavy vs. Arrieta (Game 110 Thread)

SF (59-51): RHP Jake Peavy (2-4, 3.77)

CHC (61-48): RHP Jake Arrieta (12-6, 2.50)

First pitch: 1:20pmCT

Aoki* lf

Blanco* cf

Duffy 3b

Posey c

Pence rf

Belt* 1b

Crawford* ss

Adrianza# 2b

Peavy p        

 

Fowler# cf

Schwarber* lf

Coghlan* 2b

Rizzo* 1b

Bryant 3b

Soler rf

Montero* c

Arrieta p

Russell ss


Arrieta did what Arrieta does on Tuesday: 7 IP and 0 ER to beat the Pirates. He lost in SF last May (6 IP, 4 ER). The Giants are 5-21 (.238) against him. Pagan is 2-3, Pence is 2-4.

Peavy was on the shelf (back) for a good part of the start of the season but has been effective since his return, going 2-2 with a 2.84 in July. He had a no-decision against ATL his last time out (6 IP, 1 ER). The Cubs are 21-86 (.244) against him. Coghlan is 4-10, Montero is 6-23 (.261) with a HR.

Go Cubs!

Comments

Boston Globe, Nick Cafardo's Sunday baseball article...Cub related stuff:
Apropos of Nothing: 1. Cubs catcher David Ross says Jon Lester has developed a “frontdoor two-seamer” he did not have while with the Red Sox. “It’s been a great pitch for him,” Ross said. “He’s really pitching well. He’s been outstanding on and off the field as the leader of our staff. He’s pitched a lot better than the record [7-8] has indicated.” And when Lester pitches well, his throwing yips to first base don’t show up.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/08/08/suggestions-how-fix-red-so…

from the twitterverse: Screenshot from yesterday... 4 Cub rookies vs SF, this series: Bryant 3-9, HR, 2B, 3 RBI, 3BB, 3R Schwarber 5-12, HR, 2B, 6 RBI, 5R, BB Soler 5-10, 2B, 4 RBI, 2R, 2BB Russell 5-12, 2 2B, RBI, 3R Combined: .419 batting average, 2 HR, 14 RBI

As CT Steve showed above, lineup today vs Peavy is unchanged (except for Arrieta). Don't fix what isn't broken.

Did you pooh-pooh pitcher batting 8th? Interesting from Bleachernation: Meanwhile, Cubs No. 9 hitters are slashing .235/.291/.350/.640 this season. That slash line is better than what American League ninth-place hitters average (.224/.274/.326/.600) and is easily significantly better than what with the average NL nine-hitter is working with (.181/.225/.250/.475). Interesting to note that the .640 OPS posted by Cubs ninth-place hitters is better than 12 of 15 American League teams. The 43 runs scored by Cubs No. 9 hitters is seventh most in baseball and more than 9 of 15 AL teams. http://www.bleachernation.com/2015/08/09/anecdotally-re-visiting-pitche…

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In reply to by The E-Man

seeing as there's stupid lineup magic involved in that lineup shift that mentally allows maddon to treat the 2 slot like a real hitter should be there, i can live with swapping the 2 worst hitting slots on the team at the end of the lineup. it's stung more than once with the 8/9 swap, but having the 1-2-3 in the lineup constructed like they currently are has most likely paid off way more than that 8/9 swap has hurt.

1 run in and 38 pitches thrown by peavy in the 1st. fowler had a 12 pitch ab (for a K).

coghlan the emergency/spot-start 2nd...good enough, great luxury. coghlan the everyday 2nd...naw.

j.arrieta is gonna cost some serious loot pretty soon. he's an ace that baseball fans/media/etc on whole aren't treating like an ace (yet). 2016+2017 are locked in for the cubs without negotiating on contract length, though. phew.

cubs win. that was way too dramatic, but so damn sweet after loading the bases with 0 out. unf. SWEEP!

Not only bases loaded no outs but last two batters with full counts and that last one with 3 or 4 fouls. My god Rondon earned that save today and wow that was an amazing sweep. Cubs bats were just relentless everytime the Giants came back.

How sweep it is /the great one // for o&b and anyone old enuff to remember

Bloody NL Central DeathMatch Fangraphs' sim is predicting an almost 88% chance that the Wild Card game is going to feature 2 NL Central teams. Pirates 77% Cubs 76.9% Cardinals 22% Giants 11.5% Mets 5% Nationals 4.6% Dodgers 2% Diamondbacks 0.3% Padres 0.2%

Continuing the Almora Watch -- 2 more hits and a BB tonight. Last 5 games: 12 hits and 5 BBs. C'mon kid! Oh, and Wilson Contreras leads the Southern League in batting average and OBP, and is second in OPS. He has been raking all year -- wonder why he hasn't been moved up?

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In reply to by billybucks

Except for "core" prospects, it's hard to advance in the organization mid-season any more. Iowa already has two catchers--Luke Carlin, age 34, and Taylor Teagarden, age 31--who have major-league experience and have to be ready for a call-up in an emergency. At Tennessee, Contreras can play every day. Maybe the Cubs will call him up in September. As a devoted minor-league box-score watcher, I don't recall seeing a Tennessee box score this year in which Contreras had a zero in the hit column. Looking at his last ten games, sure enough there have been 21 hits total, and no zeroes. He looks like the Cubs' best minor-league hitter right now, with Gleyber and Chesny Young in pursuit.

Dodgers led Pirates 5-3 in the 7th...Pirates scored 9 in the inning. Once that game is done, the top 3 NL records will be Cards, Pirates and Cubs. What a division....

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Javier Assad started the Lo-A game (Myrtle Beach versus Stockton) on the Cubs backfields on Wednesday as his final Spring Training tune-up. He was supposed to throw five innings / 75 pitches. However, I was at the minor league road games at Fitch so I didn't see Assad pitch. 

  • crunch (view)

    cards put j.young on waivers.

    they really tried to make it happen this spring, but he put up a crazy bad slash of .081/.244/.108 in 45PA.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Seconded!!!

  • crunch (view)

    another awesome spring of pitching reports.  thanks a lot, appreciated.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Here are the Cubs pitchers reports from Tuesday afternoon's Cardinals - Cubs game art Sloan Park in Mesa:

    SHOTA IMANAGA
    FB: 90-92 
    CUT: 87-89 
    SL: 82-83 
    SPLIT: 81-84
    CV: 73-74 
    COMMENT: Worked three innings plus two batters in the fourth... allowed four runs (three earned) on eight hits (six singles and two doubles) walked one, and struck out six (four swinging), with a 1/2 GO/AO... he threw 73 pitches (52 strikes - 10 swing & miss - 19 foul balls)... surrendered one run in the top of the 1st on a one-out double off Cody Bellinger's glove in deep straight-away CF followed one out later by two consecutive two-out bloop singles, allowed two runs (one earned) in the 2nd after retiring the first two hitters (first batter had a nine-pitch AB with four consecutive two-strike foul balls before being retired 3 -U) on a two-out infield single (weak throw on the run by Nico Hoerner), a hard-contact line drive RBI double down the RF line, and an E-1 (missed catch) by Imanaga on what should been an inning-ending 3-1 GO, gave up another run in the 3rd on a two-out walk on a 3-2 pitch and an RBI double to LF, and two consecutive singles leading off the top of the 4th before being relieved (runners were ultimately left stranded)... threw 18 pitches in the 1st inning (14 strikes - two swing & miss, one on FB and the other on a SL - four foul balls), 24 pitches in the 2nd inning (17 strikes - three swing & miss, one on FB, two SPLIT - six foul balls), 19 pitches in the 3rd inning (13 strikes - seven swing & miss, three on SL, two on SPLIT, one on FB - three foul balls), and 12 pitches without retiring a batter in the top of the 4th (8 strikes - no swing & miss - four foul balls)... Imanaga throws a lot of pitches per inning, but it's not because he doesn't throw strikes...  if anything, he throws too many strikes (he threw 70% strikes on Tuesday)... while he gets a ton of swing & miss (and strikeouts), he also induces a lot of foul balls because he doesn't try to make hitters chase his pitches by throwing them out of the strike zone... rather, he uses his very diverse pitch mix to get swing & miss (and lots of foul balls as well)... he also is a fly ball pitcher who will give up more than his share of HR during the course of the season...   
     
    JOE NAHAS
    FB: 90-92 
    SL: 83-85 
    CV: 80-81 
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day... relieved Imanaga with runners at first and second and no outs in the top of the 4th, and after an E-2 catcher's interference committed by Miguel Amaya loaded he bases, Nahas struck out the side (one swinging & two looking)... threw 16 pitches (11 strikes - two swinging)...   

    YENCY ALMONTE
    FB: 89-92 
    CH: 86 
    SL: 79 
    COMMENT: Threw an eight-pitch 5th (five strikes - no swing & miss), with a 5-3 GO for the first out and an inning-ending 4-6-3 DP after a one-out single... command was a bit off but he worked through it...   

    FRANKIE SCALZO JR
    FB: 94-95
    CH: 88 
    SL: 83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 6th inning... got the first outs easily (a P-5 and a 4-3 GO) on just three pitches, before allowing three consecutive two-out hard-contact hits (a double and two singles), with the third hit on pitch # 9 resulting in a runner being thrown out at the plate by RF Christian Franklin for the third out of the inning... 

    MICHAEL ARIAS
    FB: 94-96
    CH: 87-89
    SL: 82-83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and allowed a hard-contact double on the third pitch of the 7th inning (a 96 MPH FB), and the runner came around to score on a 4-3 GO and a WP... gave up two other loud contact outs (an L-7 and an F-9)... threw 18 pitches (only 10 strikes - only one swing & miss)... stuff is electric but still very raw and he continues to have difficulty commanding it, and while he has the repertoire of a SP, he throws too many pitches-per-inning to be a SP and not enough strikes to be a closer... he is most definitely still a work-in-progress...   

    ZAC LEIGH: 
    FB: 93-94 
    CH: 89 
    SL: 81-83 
    CV: 78
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and tossed a 1-2-3 8th (4-3 GO, K-swinging on a sweeper, K-looking on another sweeper)... threw 14 pitches (11 strikes - one swing & miss - eight foul balls)... kept pumping pitches into the strike zone but had difficulty putting hitters away (ergo a ton of foul balls)... FB velo is nowhere near the 96-98 MPH it was a couple of years ago when he was a Top 30 prospect, but his secondaries are better...   

    JOSE ROMERO:  
    FB: 93-95
    SL: 82-84
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 9th (14 pitches - only six strikes- no swing & miss) and allowed a solo HR after two near-HR fly outs to the warning track, before getting a 3-1 GO to end the inning... it was like batting practice when he wasn't throwing pitches out of the strike zone...

  • crunch (view)

    pablo sandoval played 3rd and got a couple ABs (strikeout, single!) in the OAK@SF "exhibition"

    mlb officially authenticated the ball of the single he hit.  nice.

    he's in surprisingly good shape considering his poor body condition in his last playing seasons.  he's not lean, but he looks healthier.  good for him.

  • crunch (view)

    dbacks are signing j.montgomery to a 1/25m with a vesting 20m player option.

    i dunno when the ink officially dries, but i believe if he signs once the season begins he can't be offered a QO...and i'm not sure if that thing with SD/LAD in korea was the season beginning, either.

  • crunch (view)

    sut says imanaga getting the home opener at wrigley (game 4 of the season).

  • crunch (view)

    cubs rolling out the who's who of "who the hell is this guy?" in the last spring game.

  • videographer (view)

    AZ Phil, speaking of Jordan Wicks having better command when he tires a bit, I remember reading about Dennis Lamp 40 years ago and his sinker that was better after 3 or 4 innings when he would tire a bit and get more sink with a little less speed on the pitch.  The key for Lamp was getting to the 4th inning.