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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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Archie Bradley Shoots Broken Arrows at Cubs

Pinch-hitter Matt Jensen clubbed a two-run home run with one out in the top of the 9th to turn a 4-3 deficit into a 5-4 lead, and the Diamondbacks held-on to edge the Cubs 5-4 in AZ Instructional League action at Fitch Park Field #3 in Mesa this afternoon.

19-year old 6’4 225 RHP Archie Bradley (Broken Arrow HS - Broken Arrow, OK) got the start for the D’backs, and threw three perfect innings with eight strikeouts. The only non-strikeout was a feeble broken bat 5-3 ground out.

I can certainly see why Bradley was the 7th overall pick in the 2011 June draft.

He is a beast.

While Bradley was calmly mowing down the Cubs, the Diamondbacks got on the board as Raywilly Gomez blasted a solo HR over the RF fence leading off the top of the 2nd inning against Cubs starting pitcher Starling Peralta.

The Cubs remained hitless into the 5th, when Reggie Golden broke-up the no-hitter (and tied the game) with a one-out gargantuan 400+ ft solo HR over the left-centerfield fence (just to the left of the “Green Monster” Batter’s Eye) onto 8th Street off D'backs RHP Juan Valdez. Then with two outs, Neftali Rosario grounded a single through the 5.5 hole into left, and Dustin Geiger smoked an RBI double off the RF fence to drive-in Rosario from 1st base with the go-ahead run. Carlos Penalver followed with a line-drive opposite-field single to right to plate Geiger, and then after Garrett Schlecht walked and Zeke DeVoss reached base on an error to load the bases, Penalver scored the fourth and final run of the inning on a WP.

The Cubs took their 4-1 lead into the 8th, but the D’backs fought back to score two in the 8th and two in the 9th. 

Cubs RHRP Dustin Fitzgerald took the loss, surrendering an RBI double in the 8th (inherited runner scored - run charged to Kyler Burke) and what would prove to be the eventual game-winning two-run HR in the 9th.

The Cubs did get the tying run to 3rd base in the bottom of the 9th as Dan Vogelbach drew a one-out walk, stole 2nd base, and advanced to 3rd on an E-2 overthrow into CF. But Reggie Golden struck out and Eliecer Bonne grounded out to end the game.

Cubs hitters struck out a total of 15 times in today’s game.

Here is today's abridged box score (Cubs players only):

LINEUP:
1. Zeke DeVoss, 2B: 0-2 (K, BB, E-4, BB, SB)
2. Javier Baez, SS: 0-4 (K, P-3, K, L-7)
3. Rubi Silva, DH #1: 0-4 (5-3, 4-3, 4-3, 5-3)
4. Dan Vogelbach, DH #2: 0-3 (K, 3-1, K, BB, SB)
5. Reggie Golden, LF: 1-4 (K, HR, K, K, R, RBI)
6a. Taiwan Easterling, CF: 1-3 (K, F-8, 1B, CS)
6b. Eliecer Bonne, CF: 0-1 (4-3)
7a. Neftali Rosario, C: 1-2 (K, 1B, R)
7b. Rafael Lopez, C: 0-1 (F-9)
8. Dustin Geiger, 1B: 1-3 (K, 2B, F-8, R, RBI)
9. Carlos Penalver, 3B: 1-3 (K, 1B, K, R, RBI, SB)
10. Garrett Schlecht, RF: 0-2 (K, BB, K)
11a. SLOT WAS SKIPPED FIRST TWO TIMES THRU BATTING ORDER
11b. Alberto Mineo, DH #3: 1-1 (1B)

PITCHERS:
1. Starling Peralta: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R (1 ER), 1 BB, 3 K, 1 HR, 1 GIDP, 32 pitches (17 strikes), 3/0 GO/FO
2. Michael Jensen: 1.1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 0 K, 23 pitches (11 strikes), 1/3 GO/FO
3. Tayler Scott: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 0 K, 24 pitches (14 strikes), 3/1 GO/FO
4. Austin Reed: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 19 pitches (11 strikes), 1/2 GO/FO
5. Kyler Burke: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 2 R (2 ER), 1 BB, 1 K, 25 pitches (17 strikes), 3/0 GO/FO
6. Dustin Fitzgerald: 1.1 IP, 2 H, 2 R (2 ER), 1 BB, 1 K, 1 HR, 32 pitches (20 strikes), 1/2 GO/FO

ERRORS: 3
1. P Austin Reed - E1 (overthrow on pick-off attempt at 2nd base allowed base-runner to advance to 3rd base)
2. P Kyler Burke - E1 (fielding error allowed batter to reach base safely)
3. 1B Dustin Geiger - E3 (missed catch allowed batter to reach base safely)

CATCHERS DEFENSE:
1. Neftali Rosario: 0-1 CS
2. Rafael Lopez: 0-1 CS

OUTFIELD ASSISTS:
RF Garrett Schlecht - runner thrown out 9-6-5 trying advance from 1st to 3rd on a single to RF

ATTENDANCE: 97 (mostly students & instructors from MLB Scout School)

WEATHER: Sunny & breezy with temperatures in the upper 90’s

Comments

Pirates up in the 5th over Brewers, Royals up in the 6th over Twins, Marlins down in 5th to the Nationals WC watch Red Sox losing, Rays winning, both in the 7th Braves (8th inning) and Cardinals(5th inning) both losing

ozzie gone...has booked a flight to south florida. http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/7023269/ozzie-guillen-tells-c…
The Chicago White Sox have accepted manager Ozzie Guillen's request to be released from his contract. "We certainly cannot thank Ozzie enough for all he has done during his eight seasons as manager of the Chicago White Sox..." chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said in a statement. "I personally appreciate everything he has done for this organization, our fans and the city of Chicago. We shared the greatest moments together and wish him nothing but future success in baseball and in life."

Cubs losing, Pirates winning, Royals won Marlins lost though

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In reply to by SheffieldCornelia

Submitted by SheffieldCornelia on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 9:58pm. How the heck did Dan Vogelbach steal a base?! I didn't think his body type was conducive to that sort of thing ================================ SHEFF: It might have been a hit & run. Golden swung & missed, and then the Diamondbacks catcher (Fidel Pena) made a really bad throw to 2nd base that ended up in right-center or else Vogelbach would have been out. (Vogelbach advanced to 3rd on the overthrow). While he is not fast, Vogelbach runs OK for a guy his size. He runs hard (that is, with a lot of hustle and effort). I would compare him to a "pulling guard" in football.

I believe with tonight's loss, the Cubs can do no worse than the 9th pick in the draft, currently tied for 5th and own the tiebreaker at the moment. A Cubs loss and a Royals win tomorrow I believe would clinch them the 5th spot or some combo thereof over the last 2 games.

38-game getting on-base streak continues

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In reply to by Rob G.

That kind of depends on the status of AIDS/HIV in MLB right now. How strong is the stigma associated with it, particularly in the fairly old-school social environment of professional athletics? I have no idea. Personally, I don't think it should be a problem. I do wonder whether it might be an issue, though. Probably nothing a good manager couldn't get past, though. I doubt he'll ever get a shot after two law suits filed against him accusing him of withholding information about his condition from women he was having unprotected sex with, though. That's some pretty bad publicity.

Sorry CRUNCH, you need to revise your thinking: D Barney, Age 25 PA 564 BA .276 OBP .311 SLG .354 OPS .665 R Theriot, Age 31 PA 480 BA .271 OBP .321 SLG .337 OPS .658 Its remarkable how close they are, except Barney has almost 100 more PA's - and is 6 years younger. I'd rather have Barney at this point, though.

Man, I wanted Bradley really bad in the draft. I knew he wouldn't fall to #9, but I was hoping. I like Baez, but there's no question that Bradley is a TOR type arm we need in our system.

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In reply to by The Real Neal

Oh, no doubt. We got one of those aforementioned upside HS arms in Maples. The difference is that Bradley's only question mark is an above average 3rd pitch. His fastball and curve are already plus pitches; he has a clean delivery; he has both good control and command; he has a great pitcher's build; he was monitored well in HS and doesn't have a terrible amount of abuse; etc. He is about as "safe" as a HS TOR type can be these days. As for 2012, it does appear to be a very prep-heavy draft. But as I said before, Bradley wasn't just your usual "upside HS pitcher".

granted, this is a paraphrase from a tweet, but if Ozzie said this in his press conference, it's awesome. "U gonna take your coaching staff with you? Ozzie: Hell No, They got me fired!!"

Fired before even managing a game http://www.suntimes.com/sports/7907602-419/white-sox-fire-interim-manag… after Guillen was "released", Joey Cora was named interim manager for final 2 games. He was fired via text this morning and the job given to Don Cooper instead before he could even manage a game. says something about Cora joining Guillen in Florida, so I presume White Sox didn't know that at first.

let's throw moneyball crap aside on this rant...we all know how i feel about that. i like beane...i mean, i think he's a top 5 GM, easy. that said...why are so many articles about him maybe coming to the cubs being written? the guy has an ownership stake the A's. it could cost so much, and he's not that magical. our owner said the word "sabr" and all of a sudden that means 100 articles about beane and a few about theo.

Castro, Barney, Ramirez, Pena, LaHair, Soriano, Byrd, Soto, Garza vs. Venable 9, Bartlett 6, Maybin 8, Guzman 7, Headley 5, Hudson 4, Blanks 3, Martinez 2, Bass 1.

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Oakland-Athletics-Art-Howe-former-ma… Art Howe not happy about his portrayal in movie. Howe, who managed the A’s for seven seasons from 1996-2002, won two AL West division titles in Oakland and managed two 100-game winners (2000, 2002). But he told interviewers that after seeing how he was portrayed by author Michael Lewis in the 2003 best-seller by the same name, the former manager expected the worst. “They never called me to get my slant on things as far as the movie was concerned,” Howe said of the filmmakers. “So, I mean, it’s coming from someone. I don’t know who it is, but maybe it is Hollywood to make it sell, I guess. I don’t know. fair enough, but if he expected the worst, why did he let them use his name? I'm not exactly sure how these things work, but if Paul DePodesta was able to get his name off the film, I presume Art Howe could have. I'll apologize if that's not the case, but otherwise he's either stupid or greedy or both.

sure there's a wild card race, blah, blah, blah more importantly for Cubs, it's Twins vs. Royals - Huzzah! Royals don't score in the top of the first, also Marlins tied in 5th and Pirates tied after 1 in their respective games.

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In reply to by Rob G.

cause I know you all get your score updates through the comments Nats take a 2-1 lead over Marlins (top of 6th), Royals take a 1-0 lead (bottom of 2), Pirates/Brewers remain scoreless (top of 2). Rays and Red Sox winning, Braves losing, Astros up 1-0 over Cardinals (top 3).

Marlins win, Pirates take the lead 3-2 (top 5), Twins up 3-2 (bottom 6) but with bases loaded and 0 outs. Marlins win means Cubs will draft higher than them and Cubs can do no worse than 8th.

it must have rained in SD, like it always does...because garza is having issues picking up the ball. blown "gimmie" double play... his fielding has been unreal this year...he wasn't this bad in TB in all his years combined =p

rest until he can fuck up the Cubs as much as possible Garza threw 124 and 123 pitches his last 2 starts and after 108 so far tonight is gonna send him out for the 7th inning. Mind you also the tying run was on first with Garza's spot due, so he sends him up there to bunt to go for the tie. So he's not even trying that hard to get him his 10th win,

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In reply to by crunch

At the end of the day, you can't complain too much about Soriano hitting 7th and coming close to 90 RBI's. A lot of teams would like that type of production from the bottom of their lineup. Now, he's only been driven in 24 times, which is probably some sort of MLB record, but he's not the worst player in the majors. I'd tell him to buy a first base mitt and buy some winter league team to practice on, in case the Cubs don't land a big fish first basemen. I'd also see if the Giants would be interested in turning Zito and Huff into Soriano and Zambrano, if they realize they're wasting Burmgarner/Cain/Lincecum time frame and jump hard on Fielder or Pujols.

Question for anyone. Impressions on LaHair in the OF? Arm strength, range, glove? I haven't had time to watch many games lately, or the time to watch them closely, it's mostly been having them on in the background while working. From the little bit I've noticed he looks a little more fleet of foot than Hoffpauer was. I think I saw him make a throw to the plate from RF a week ago or so, a one hopper if I recall. It wasn't a horrible throw but looked like it was a bit wide of the 1b line and they didn't get the runner.

presuming the Cubs hold on, they need a loss and a Royals win over Twins for the 5th spot in the draft. They can drop as far back as 8th if they win and Pirates lose, regardless of what Royals do.

AZPhil has me spoiled. I come on here EXPECTING a recap of the Instructs game from the previous day. I should be happy we get any at all, as I'm not sure fans of other teams do. Thanks again, AZPhil.

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In reply to by Hrubes20

Seconded. My expectations of AZ Phil are also markedly higher when the MLB club has almost nothing going on to be interested in--heck, Castro's even tied the bow on leading the NL in hits. Thanks, Phil! The info is great, and I think that Hrubes is right that we are pretty privileged on this blog. Thanks for that privilege! And thanks to Rob, too! We give AZ Phil a lot of love, but we rarely thank you for keeping this thing going and for all the thoughtful and entertaining posts and comments. Running a blog seems to require some journalist skills, some editorial skills, and some host-keeping-the-party-going skills; you do a great job at all of it.

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In reply to by garsky

Very interesting, from the same article:
Given the stakes, hitting .300 is, not surprisingly, a goal of paramount importance among players. How do we know this? Pope and Simonsohn looked at hitters batting .299 on the final day of each season from 1975 to 2009. One hit and the players could vault above the .300 mark. With a walk, however, they wouldn't be credited with an at-bat or a hit, so their average wouldn't budge. What did these .299 hitters do? They swung away. Wildly. We looked at the same numbers and here's what we found. Players hitting .300 walked 14.5 percent of the time and players hitting .298 walked 5.8 percent of the time, but in their final plate appearance of the season, players hitting .299 have never walked. In the last quarter century, no player hitting .299 has ever drawn a base on balls in his final plate appearance of the season.

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In reply to by Rob G.

From what I heard through the years, Payton was a bizarre guy, and the articles up today say his family knew he had affairs, his wife even met his main mistress at the Hall of Fame induction. About 20 years ago, early 90's, I was managing a retail store for a chain and Walter Payton came in, 2 mins before closing. He walked the perimeter of the store, then walked up to my asst. manager at the cash register, leaned forward, and poked Tony's name tag while slowly saying, "Tonyyyyyy." Then left. I had already heard from a friend that he had affairs, shot his best friend in the knee in a nightclub Payton owned (while on the phone with his wife), had KFC set up a studio on the street outside his house to film a commercial and then refused to come out of the house, etc. Everything outside of football I heard about him was never good.

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In reply to by Dr. aaron b

I just saw an example of that at the post office a few minutes ago. An attractive woman was shipping some clothes and grabbed a large flat rate priority mail box off the shelf. The postal clerk, like all of them at that location, is normally grumpy and very non-helpful. Instead, with an attractive woman at his counter, he runs and gets a medium flat rate box and tells her "this will save you $5." That's nice, but he should be doing that for all the customers. (or from a management point of view, he shouldn't do it for anyone)

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In reply to by Rob G.

more excerpts and some quotes from Pearlman http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/football/nfl/09/27/walterpayton.b… Pearlman said he wanted to write a book about "someone decent; about someone caring" following his Roger Clemens biography. "Walter Payton was insanely curious, and his interest in other people -- regular fans, folks on the street -- extended beyond the scope of nearly any athlete I've ever come across (Sean Casey the possible exception)," Pearlman said. "Best of all, Payton had depth. There was so much beneath the surface with this man. But that was also a problem. Because for all of his depth, Payton spent his life as a lockbox. He trusted very few people, and confided in -- at most -- three or four. The image out there when he played is the same one out there today: Classy guy, perfect in all areas, the ultimate role model, great running back and the ultimate prankster. And while that is, in many ways, sort of true, it's also a cheap, easy and unfair portrait." Asked if he worried about facing a backlash for tarnishing the image of a deceased man, Pearlman said, "I sure do. It hurts me that this will hurt his kids. It really does because Jarrett and Brittney are wonderful, engaging, fun, caring people and they're really uplifting figures in the Chicago landscape ... That said, I set out to write a definitive biography -- period. When people would ask, 'Well, is this going to be positive?' I'd say, 'Not positive, not negative -- definitive.'"

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    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...