Andrew Cashner left yesterday’s game with tightness in his shoulder and had an MRI after the game. The results revealed a tear in his rotatar cuff. It’s what they are calling a mild strain, which is the same thing as a mild tear.
Randy Wells also landed on the DL becasue of pain in his forearm. Hendry has said it has nothing to dow ith the elbow, but it’s one of those areas of the arm that you often hear about before the elbow itself.
Casey Coleman has been re-called from AAA and will make Wells’s start on Sunday. No other players have been called up yet to replace Cashner whose next start was scheduled for Tuesday. Coleman’s average projection for this season is a 4.45 FIP.
Wood is gonna start, dumbasses.
In the long history of this blog, the OV banner image was never more appropriate.
[quote name=Mish]Wood is gonna start, dumbasses.[/quote]He just needs to tell Quade to schedule him in. Dempster told Quade he can now be scheduled for all nine innings of the rest of his starts.
Good thing we got Silva, Wellemeyer, J. Jackson, and Looper on the backburner. Oh, wait…
[quote name=Suburban Kid]In the long history of this blog, the OV banner image was never more appropriate.[/quote]
I don’t know that this is even worthy of a facepalm. Just more of a goddamit
[quote name=jtsunami]Good thing we got Silva, Wellemeyer, J. Jackson, and Looper on the backburner. Oh, wait…[/quote]It would be nice if Jay Jackson was healthy, but the rest of them aren’t any better than a few other options the Cubs have. The difference is that they’d cost more.
Time to trade Brett Jackson for Joe Saunders
The only good thing about this is where it falls on the schedule. With the Cubs having every Thursday off this month, they could theoretically get by on a 4-man rotation until Wells comes back.
The 5th starter candidates I can think of
Wellemeyer
Russell
Diamond
Samardzija
McNutt?
It would require a 40-man roster move, but if McNutt makes the opening day start for Tennessee and it goes well, we could see him.
Wasn’t Wellemeyer released?
I think we could see McNutt too and that would be awesome.
[quote name=shadasrevenge]The only good thing about this is where it falls on the schedule. With the Cubs having every Thursday off this month, they could theoretically get by on a 4-man rotation until Wells comes back.[/quote]That’s a good point.
[quote name=mb21]I think we could see McNutt too and that would be awesome.[/quote]
If for no other reason than the number of times we refer to him as Marvin McNutt (dying laughing)
From what I understand, the Cubs do not intend to ever use Samardzija as a starter again. I thought they made a final decision sometime last year and said he’s a reliever only. Did I make that up?
[quote name=mb21]Wasn’t Wellemeyer released?[/quote]He’s not on the Iowa roster.
[quote name=mb21]From what I understand, the Cubs do not intend to ever use Samardzija as a starter again. I thought they made a final decision sometime last year and said he’s a reliever only. Did I make that up?[/quote]I don’t think it was finally final.
[quote name=Berselius]If for no other reason than the number of times we refer to him as Marvin McNutt (dying laughing)[/quote]Every time I saw his name for about a year I kept thinking it was Marvin McNutt. For the non-B1G fans: http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/mcnutt_marvin00.html
[quote name=Suburban Kid]I don’t think it was finally final.[/quote]Officially official?
Wellemeyer was hurt and contemplating retirement when he got cut.
If Mark Prior isn’t with the Yankees by June 1st, he’s a free agent. We could go with 4 until then at which point we could reasonably count on Prior for 200 more innings, right?
Wow, so we have NO infielders on our 40-man that aren’t also on the 25-man. Admittedly, there’s 6 of them, but any injury to Ramirez or Pena is probably going to require a 40-man move. Hendry needs to shit or get off the pot with some of these ‘project’ pitchers he has stashed away on the 40-man.
[quote name=mb21]If Mark Prior isn’t with the Yankees by June 1st, he’s a free agent. We could go with 4 until then at which point we could reasonably count on Prior for 200 more innings, right?[/quote]
I would shit a brick if the Cubs reunited Prior and Wood, even if they were only in the pen.
[quote name=mb21]I think we could see McNutt too and that would be awesome.[/quote]
That would be the sensible thing to do, so look for Wellemeyer to get the call.
If it’s just one start (due to off-days, etc.) then I don’t care who does it. Trade for Aaron Miles and let him pitch (dying laughing).
[quote name=Sam]Wow, so we have NO infielders on our 40-man that aren’t also on the 25-man. Admittedly, there’s 6 of them, but any injury to Ramirez or Pena is probably going to require a 40-man move. Hendry needs to shit or get off the pot with some of these ‘project’ pitchers he has stashed away on the 40-man.[/quote]
Nevermind, I’m an idiot, I apparently need to ignore cubs.com’s 40-man roster, because it’s not up to date.
We could trade Brett Jackson, Trey McNutt, and Wellington Castillo for Scott Baker.
Wellemeyer is in XST working out.
“We could trade Brett Jackson, Trey McNutt, and Wellington Castillo for Scott Baker.”
That’s only good if you flip him for Matt Cain.
Damn, now instead of finishing fourth the Cubs will finish fourth.
Kevin Slowey is available.
bubbles is upset. hopefully cashner dont need knife
[quote name=GBTS]We could trade Brett Jackson, Trey McNutt, and Wellington Castillo for Scott Baker.[/quote]
And flip him for Nolasco.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/section/blogs?blogID=business-of-sports&plckController=Blog&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&uid=f5555513-c950-4657-a93a-80db16fdf4ad&plckPostId=Blog:f5555513-c950-4657-a93a-80db16fdf4adPost:cb07c256-6a5b-40ba-85d1-37ce78d45c83&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest
get out and see ‘em cheep.
[quote name=sitrick2]“We could trade Brett Jackson, Trey McNutt, and Wellington Castillo for Scott Baker.”
That’s only good if you flip him for Matt Cain.[/quote]
I think you actually have this the other way around. You trade for Matt Cain, and then flip him for Scott Baker.
Remember me?
[quote name=Hector Villanueva ]I think you actually have this the other way around. You trade for Matt Cain, and then flip him for Scott Baker.[/quote]
I didn’t say that was all. You trade Baker for Carl Crawford (because he’s struggling and the Red Sox will want to trade him before his value dips.
You then flip Crawford for Aubrey Huff, because Huff knows how to win in the playoffs (he just did it last year!)
[quote name=shadasrevenge]The only good thing about this is where it falls on the schedule. With the Cubs having every Thursday off this month, they could theoretically get by on a 4-man rotation until Wells comes back.[/quote]
Excellent point. I wonder if this played into the decision to put both Wells and Cashner on the DL now.
I guess this is a good way to limit Cashners innings… Am i rite?
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/06/rotation-chaos-the-cubs-place-andrew-cashner-randy-wells-on-the-dl/
game thread is up: http://www.obstructedview.net/chicago-cubs/games/diamondbacks-at-cubs-4-6-11.html
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There is some silver lining: Cashner’s injury is just a “very minor” strain of the Rotator Cuff. So he could be back in as little as three weeks, and Wells is pretty much on the same schedule. So we can basically go all month on a four man rotation and have them back in early May.