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crunch 3 days 1 hour ago (view)

You have to C it! (tm)

Dolorous Jon Lester 3 days 1 hour ago (view)

Best hitter: IL with oblique strain

Second best hitter: hasn’t looked the same since jamming his right hand during a swing

Third best hitter: playing through a sore hammy

Best pitcher: IL after one start 

Second best RP: IL after 1.5 weeks

Noice 

crunch 3 days 1 hour ago (view)

suzuki 10d IL.

right oblique strain.  ow.  that's generally more than a 10d thing.

Dolorous Jon Lester 3 days 1 hour ago (view)

Seiya on IL with an oblique strain

crunch 3 days 1 hour ago (view)

cooper and morel are on the field doing pre-game stuff so it's not them...

George Altman 3 days 2 hours ago (view)

I'll always remember his 3-0 No-hitter against the Braves when Aaron's HR was blown back into the LF well and BIlly Williams made the catch with his back against the ivy.

Charlie 3 days 4 hours ago (view)

I got to attend the Saturday game in person. The crowd really was half, or more, Cubs fans. It was nice to see Morel looking confident at third. Imanaga looked slightly less dominant but I was excited to be there for his first win. Almonte and Neris looked just as uninspiring as they have on TV so far. 

Arizona Phil 3 days 5 hours ago (view)

I was at the Cubs - Dodgers game at Wrigley Field in May 1967, the last game before Ken Holtzman was to report for active duty and be gone for a long time. (He ended up getting leave occasionally on weekends so he could pitch for the Cubs). Cubs won 20-3. Knocked out Claude Osteen. Holtzman pitched a complete game. Randy Hundley hit a grand slam. Adolfo Phillips hit a HR and a double and drove in six runs. Even Glenn Beckett hit a HR! Ted Savage stole home (and it was a true "Jackie Robinson" steal of home, too, not the back end of a double steal). For me, it was one of the most memorable Cubs games of the 1960's.

Arizona Phil 3 days 6 hours ago (view)

azbobbop: No update on Derniche Valdez. He is still on the Restricted List. 

crunch 3 days 6 hours ago (view)

ken holtzman has died.

crunch 3 days 7 hours ago (view)

if it's not a morel injury i'd at least like him to sit long enough to get his finger healed.  he doesn't seem to be swinging as strongly and even foul balls are bothering him.  he's been carrying the injury for a week-ish now.

dude almost lost is career and use of one of his hands years ago, and he's young...nothing short of his hand falling off will have him telling counsell or the trainers he's not good to go.

Arizona Phil 3 days 7 hours ago (view)

Could be Paternity or Bereavement.

crunch 3 days 7 hours ago (view)

weird.

morel IL (finally)?  cooper done with the cubs?  something else...

twitter detectives seem to think suzuki may have injured himself yesterday...

Childersb3 3 days 8 hours ago (view)

Heyman reports Canario is being promoted
No mention of who's going down
This seems weird
I'm not upset at all, but is he going to play?
Wisdom staying to Iowa?
Mastro going down?
Someone hurt?
We'll see

crunch 3 days 12 hours ago (view)

truth.  his velocity does tend to peak out at 80-90 pitches, but i think he has it in him with regular work given what he showed last season.

the fact he moves so seamlessly between starting and long relief may doom him to the pen, anyway.

TarzanJoeWallis 3 days 12 hours ago (view)

Phil, my presumption was that the Cubs are sellers at the trade deadline and that Happ would be willing to waive his no trade clause to play for a potential WS champion. Lots of ifs there but I don’t think completely out of the question.

Arizona Phil 3 days 19 hours ago (view)

Julio Teheran was a SP for the Brewers last season, so Counsell should know him pretty well. 

bradsbeard 3 days 20 hours ago (view)

I think it’s a fair question if he’ll be able to consistently make it through the order a third time, and if not he’s more of a 6th starter/swing guy. But he’s a very good one if so. 

Arizona Phil 3 days 21 hours ago (view)

TARZAN; Presuming he doesn't spend the next three years in AAA, Owen Caissie projects to initially be  - PRIMARILY -  a DH as long as Happ and Suzuki are on the team (and not on the IL), and both are signed through 2026 and both have a full "no trade."

Which does - NOT - mean Caissie will never play LF or RF while Happ and Suzuki are on the team, just that once he is called up, Caissie projects to be mostly and primarily a DH while Happ and Suzuki are Cubs (very likely through 2026). 

Then AFTER Happ and Suzuki are gone (beginning in 2027), only THEN will Caissie be projected as the primary LF or RF (which of the two TBD).

crunch 3 days 22 hours ago (view)

julio teheran signs with the cubs.  it's most likely a minor league deal.