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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* 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: 10 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2 
Seiya Suzuki, OF
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 2
* Justin Steele, P  
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Miles Activated; Fox Trots to Iowa

Submitted by Rob G. on

As mentioned earlier, Aaron Miles has been activated and slugger Jake Fox has been sent down giving the Cubs the worst bench that has ever been assembled. Okay, tonight's actually isn't so bad with the lefty Wandy Rodriguez on the mound: Fontenot, Hill, Blanco, Fukudome and Hoffpauir. But for the next couple of weeks, assuming the normal starters of Fukudome, Fontenot and let's say Miles at second base, the bench will be: Hill, Johnson, Hoffpauir, Scales and Blanco. 

Wittenmyer though says the plan is to give Jake Fox regular at-bats so that they can call him up in 11-12 days so he can sit on the major league bench again when interleague games begin. I suppose he'll DH a bit, but he'll have to fight Hoffpauir for those at-bats and Fox is on the short side of that platoon.  Also, don't be too suprised if Lou changes his mind on all of this in a week and a half and realizes he wants to give some regulars a break by DH'ing them and Fox's defensive limitations get him passed over by the Miles, Scales and Blancos of the world.

Lineup for tonight: Soriano, Theriot, Bradley, Lee, Johnson, Soto, Scales, Miles, Zambrano

versus

Bourne, Tejada, Pence, Lee, Berkman, Blum, Kata, Quintero, Wandy.

Also, the Astros have been flipping starters for tomorrow's finale between the originally scheduled Mike Hampton to Roy Oswalt back to Hampton and currently settling on Russ Ortiz. It's like Cecil Cooper wants to get fired.

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Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 06:37 pm

Has any NL outfielder been worse than Bradley so far this year? If so, it would boggle the mind. He seems too close to the plate -- inside fastballs eat him alive.

Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 06:46 pm

Vitters with another 0-fer tonight. I don't think he has a hit since the Trib labeled him "the real deal" several days ago -- his average has dropped about 30 points since then.

Submitted by SheffieldCornelia on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 06:04 pm

Good thing we still have that hot-hitting righty bench bat around to help us solve lefties... Oh, wait... Can we send Miles to the DL again yet?

Submitted by dc60124 on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 06:17 pm

the outfielders tonight went 1 for 11 plus 1 walk. seems like grumbling about the bench becomes immaterial. was hoping lou would have kosuke run for bradley and let hoff-power hit for johnson. kosuke looked as though he had been awakened from a sound sleep to pinch-hit. doubly aggravating to waste a no-antics gem from z. those are rare enough that pissing one away just plain hurts.

Submitted by rokfish on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 06:30 pm

yeah kosuke made lou look smart on that at bat they can say what they want lou may give fox 2 games at dh i see him giving poor hitting and poor defensively soriano some dh spots and then you have one dh game for lee and hey what about bradley.

Submitted by Jeff_Pico on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:10 am

Good news of the night the Brewers lost so still 2.5 games out...bad news of the night the Cards and Reds both won so we are in 4th place again.

Submitted by champsummers on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:39 am

Anyone else curious why the Goozer got the call tonite? Actually, at the time, I was really pleased with the decision. Silly me.

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Submitted by Ryno on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:04 am

Nothing heals a tough loss like busting TRN's balls. Seriously, though, I know they aren't going to score a bunch of runs every day, and yes Wandy 'Who the f*** is Wandy?' Rodriguez has been good decent this year. He has good home stats, and why not? Two of his 7 home starts have been against an anemic Cub's offense. The thing is... every time the Cubs have been presented with a challenge this year, they've just rolled over. They don't grind. They don't make the opposing pitcher work. They're lost. I know, I know, Aramis this Aramis that... but they need to find ways to win without Aramis. What if they somehow make it to the playoffs but Aramis has a bad series?

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Submitted by big_lowitzki on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:32 am

If you win 60% of your games, you will win 97 games. If the Cubs won 97 games, they would make the playoffs. Amazingly, they are winning with a lot of players underperforming. If you really think that Bradley will finish the year with an OPS 130 points lower than his career numbers, or that ARam won't come back and play, then sure, go ahead and freak out every time the Cubs lose. You are becoming manny...

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:43 am

''We found something I think will help him get to the ball much easier,'' said Piniella, who wouldn't elaborate. Piniella spent about five minutes talking in the clubhouse to Bradley about it before Wednesday's game, at one point standing to demonstrate stance balance and back-arm hitting motion. ''It's fairly minor. He doesn't have to change much at all except one little thing. ''I have a pretty good feeling that this'll help.'' and then we have this... Jake Fox, the hitter without a position, was sent back out to Class AAA Iowa to make room for infielder Aaron Miles (shoulder), who was activated from the DL -- despite Fox's 5-for-6 production as a pinch-hitter. ''My God, don't tell me that,'' Piniella said. ''Really? Five-for-six pinch hitting? Oh, well.'' http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cubs/1617816,CST-SPT-cubnt11.ar…

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:18 pm

The Cubs offense by the numbers... 4.38 Runs per game, 11th in the NL .738 OPS, 9th in the NL .408 SLG, 9th .330 OBP, 10th .250 BA, 11th 10th in BB's .249 BA with Runners On, 13th .743 OPS with Runners On, 12th .233 BA with RISP, 14th .695 OPS with RISP, 15th

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Submitted by Doug Dascenzo on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:22 pm

Dismal. Shows how lights out the starting pitching has been considering we're still 2 games above .500.

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Submitted by The Real Neal on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:27 pm

It's those bottom numbers that are really killing us, and with the pressing caused by the offensive woes, I think it's becoming a it's own problem.

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Submitted by dc60124 on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:33 pm

o come on, small sample size, right? are you certain those charts were not printed upside-down?

Submitted by jacos on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:49 pm

He was ESPN 1000 and kept saying "Cubs need better pitching" along with the hitting. Better pitching? What do you want shutouts every game? Your mullet must have sucked out any brains you had left.

Recent comments

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    So, let’s do a little war gaming. Taillon is back for tonight’s game. He pitched two rehab games, just a few innings each, and not especially sharp. Let’s face it, he hasn’t been lights out since the Cubs gave him the big contract. In other words, as flat out bad as Hendricks has been, the chances of Taillon being the savior don’t look exactly promising.

    If Taillon is equally ineffective or perhaps even worse, what’s the next move? Winning teams can often find a way to work around a dud fifth starter - kinda. Two dud starters make things much more difficult.

    I believe the biggest reason for the recent bullpen moves was dissatisfaction with the recent blowing of big leads and the recognition that the bullpen wasn’t all it was thought to be. In other words, they are exploring alternate options and configurations. If similar juggling becomes necessary (even more so than it already is), what kind of reasonable maneuvering do we think could be explored?

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Cubdom needs to prepare themselves for Wicks to be sent to Iowa for Taillon to come up.
    Ben Brown has 4 appearances. Wicks has 4 appearances.
    Ben has 16.1 IP.  Wicks has 17 IP
    Ben was a 1.1 WHIP.  Wicks has a 1.7 WHIP. Wicks does have significantly more SOs. 
    Ben has been better, though.
    I love Wicks. I think he's a fighter and his stuff has improved.
    But, Jed isn't ditching Hendricks just yet. He should. But he won't.
    Hendricks should go to the IL and Taillon-Imanaga-Assad-Wicks-Brown should be the rotation.
    Wont' happen though.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    AZ Phil,
    Did you agree with the demotion of Luke Little? He'd been pretty good up until the AZ/wild pitch appearance. I know that can't jettison Smyly (just yet) so they didn't need another LHRP. Especially with Leiter effectively being a LHRP. I still thought he deserved to stay. It's not permanent. He'll be back. Lots of moves to come with Taillon, Steele and other guys coming and going.

    Also, do you see Hodge being able to "control/command" his stuff to get a chance this year?
    Is Arias better than Hodge?   Thanks

  • crunch (view)

    just waiting to hear patrick wisdom and masterboney are spotted at the airport going in opposite directions...

    aj puk going for the marlins (lefty)...gotta imagine we'll see wisdom in the lineup.

    someone has to make room for taillon, too.

  • crunch (view)

    he's a low-level cubs star in the modern history of the cubs (c.zambrano, k.wood, r.dempster, etc), but that star has dimmed...and has been dimming since 2021.

    2024 has been ugly the whole way and we're only in mid-april.  homers aside (even though there's been 7 in 17ip) he gave up 29 hits in 20 spring innings and 31 in 17 regular season innings.

    he's pretty much only got 2 pitches at this point in his career and the mix isn't fooling anyone.  he threw a noticable amount more curves in his last start to add to the mix and it didn't help his issues.  he don't have many moves left to break out.

  • Eric S (view)

    Definitely needs a 10 day stint for the hangnail - have to nip those things in the bud or suffer the consequences (ie, more opponent home run derby, etc)

  • Eric S (view)

    Thanks for checking and yeah, that’s a double ouch

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Believe you are correct, checked and appears Cubs have a $2.51 million obligation to Barnhart this season per Cot's Contracts.  Also paying Trey Mancini $7mil this season.  Ouch.  

  • crunch (view)

    m.busch had 0hr and 2 doubles when he was last at wrigley.

    we'll probably see a few more of his jerseys in the seats when they return tomorrow.

    wonder who will go down for taillon.  hey hendricks, you got a hangnail or something?

  • Eric S (view)

    Nice work by Wesneski with some solid defense behind him and the late tack on runs were welcome. Gladly take a 5-4 West Coast swing, particularly down two key starting pitchers … Now just don’t get swept by the Marlins for Pete’s sake. 

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