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Last updated 3-28-2024
 
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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# 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 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 1 
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 1 
Caleb Kilian, P 

 



 

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Cubs' Worst Game in, Oh, About 48 Hours: D-Backs 7, Cubs 2

The Cubs dropped their fourth game in five as Arizona's Dan Haren pitched a complete game, three-hitter to beat Ted Lilly, who just pitched like hell.

Why the Cubs lost: Aside from Alfonso Soriano's leadoff home run, Mike Fontenot's eighth-inning solo shot, and Lilly's third-inning single, the Cubs could do nothing against Haren.

On the mound, Lilly had little command of his breaking ball and it was painful to watch him try to steer his pitches over the plate. After walking but two hitters in his first 18 2/3 IP this season, the Cub lefty passed four men in his five innings Monday night. Worse, a number of the pitches that were in the strike zone got massacred, including one to Arizona catcher Chris Snyder (hitting just .094 coming into the game), that wound up 425 feet or so from home plate, in the seats beyond straightaway center field.

On defense, Fontenot, continuing to fill in for the injured Aramis Ramirez, looked awful, committing two errors, getting betrayed by his footwork on a routine ground ball (resulting in an "infield hit" for Justin Upton), and dropping the ball after what would have been a caught stealing on the Diamondbacks' Mark Reynolds in the early going. Fontenot also allowed a chopper hit by Haren to go over his head for a two-run double during the home team's decisive four-run, fourth-inning rally.

Speaking of caught stealing, the Diamondbacks weren't, not in five other attempts against the Lilly and Soto or David Patton and Soto batteries. Arizona seemed to come into this game determined to test Soto's balky right shoulder and the results for the Cubs on this night were dismal. I would think we can expect to see a lot more of this from Cub opponents in the near future.

On a positive note: Kosuke Fukudome gunned down Reynolds, attempting to score from third on a medium-deep fly ball. Fukudome threw the ball to Soto on the fly and Reynolds was tagged out without ever touching home plate. Also, Jeff Samardzija followed Patton to the hill and struck out two men in his one inning of work.

In honor of the Chicago Blackhawks, winners of their first-round playoff series against the Calgary Flames, here are your 3 stars of the game: Dan Haren, Dan Haren, and Dan Haren.

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if theyre gonna play both miles and fontenot i still don't get why it's not miles at 3rd. miles may be a better 2nd than fontenot, but fontenot can play a good enough 2nd that having miles at 3rd isn't much of a downgrade at 2nd.

Bullet points: - Thus far, we haven't continued with our 2008 ability of beating the other team's best pitchers, or at least touching them for some runs in the early going. - I had thought Petit was starting today for AZ, so it's a bit more understandable that it was Haren that stifled the (as yet thoroughly unimpressive) offense, but still, these subpar offensive performances are starting to set a trend for the season. - Lilly's been very good before this -- maybe he was having trouble getting bite on his breaking stuff, but this is the danger of having a pitcher whose fastball is barely 90 mph. - I'm afraid that that the biggest downside of losing DeRosa and Wood will not be on the field but off the field leadership and clubhouse experience. This team seems to lack focus right now.

mlb scoreboard as of sunday had Y. Petit listed to pitch monday (and Haren tuesday) but I think they just had it wrong, hence Y. Petit Tuesday night. Useless factoid: Soriano career is 4-6 vs Petit. in the pregame, they said Bradley would start Tuesday night. He did pinch hit in the 8th but made no contact (swinging strike/curveball, called strike/curveball, called strike/fastball). Thankfully he didn't re-injure his groin, rib cage, hamstring or ACL. On the telecast, Len/Bob kept mentioning how abysmal the Cubs record is in Arizona. 14-27 (now 28)...not including 2 playoff losses. Sick. I saw two of those wins during the regular season in 2003, including a near no-no Zambrano took into the 8th. Misery loves company: Kerry Wood got the loss vs Boston last night giving up a 9th inning 3 run HR to Jason Bay. MLB gameday says it was on a 99 mph fastball. Eerily familiar to how things go bad when KW has an off night usually a HBP is in there somewhere on those nights.

Well I guess Dan Haren is going to shut any team down, let alone a team without its usual 3,4,and 5 hitters. We all pine for Derosa and Wood back, but as of right now, Derosa is hitting .200 and Wood has a 7.71 ERA...ouch. I'm hoping both of them start to turn the numbers around a bit. We need to get everyone healthy and get it going again, I want to get back to the days when our main concern was middle relief :) not a complete lack of hitting.

Ha, I don't know why I never noticed this, but Bobby Scales has one of those MLB blogs and it's called "30 is the new 20". Nice. Call up Bobby. He'll belt a few nice hits for the Cubs given the chance. Figures that the Cubs finally get a guy in AAA that I like and he turns out to be 31 years old.

A IF that woulda helped this team, on the cheap: O-Dawg This puts Fontenot on the bench where he belongs, and Miles on someone else's team, where I'd be pleased. As AZ PHIL called it in March: "It's going to be a long season." I fail to see this as a Championship-caliber baseball team. Fuck you Hendry!

Ugly game. Errors. SB's. No hitting. I guess it shouldn't be a shocker with Reed Johnson as our cleanup hitter against a top tier pitcher like Haren. But still not fun to watch. The most important thing is to tread water and get healthy. We can't have Soto, Bradley, Lee, ARam banged up all year, so get them 100% and then bring them back to get this team whole and make somekind of run. But let's just hope we don't fall too far behind (already 4 back of STL).

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  • crunch (view)

    steele MRI on friday.  counsell expects an IL stint.

    no current plans for his rotation replacement.

  • hellfrozeover (view)

    I would say also in the bright side column is Busch looked pretty good overall at the plate. Alzolay…man, that hurts but most of the time he’s not giving up a homer to that guy. To me the worst was almonte hanging that pitch to Garcia. He hung another one to the next hitter too and got away with it on an 0-1. 

  • crunch (view)

    amaya blocked like 6-8 of smyly's pitches in the dirt very cleanly...not even an exaggeration, smyly threw a ton of pitches bouncing in tonight.

    neris looking like his old self was a relief (no pun), too.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    In looking for bright spots the defense was outstanding tonight. The “stars” are going to need to shine quite a bit brighter than they did tonight offensively though for this to be a successful season.

  • Eric S (view)

    Good baseball game. Hopefully Steele is pitching again in April (but I’m not counting on it). 

  • crunch (view)

    boo.

  • crunch (view)

    smyly to face the 2/3/4 hitters with a man on 2nd in extras.

    this doesn't seem like a 8 million dollar managerial decision.

  • crunch (view)

    i 100% agree with you, but i dunno how jed wants to run things.  the default is delay.  i would choose brown.

    like hellfrozeover says, could be smyly since he's technically fresh and stretched.

    anyway, on a pure talent basis....brown is the best option.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Use pitchers when you believe they're good. Don't plan their clock.

    I'm sorry. I'm simply anti-clock/contract management. Play guys when they show real MLB potential talent.

    If Brown hadn't been hurt with the Lat Strain he would've gotten the call, and not Wick.

    Give him a chance. 

    But Wesneski probably gets it

  • crunch (view)

    alzolay...bro...