According to Colin Dunlap of the Post-Gazette. (PG+ subscription)
No details yet on when his first start will be or what the corresponding move is, but Alvarez was told after today’s game in AAA at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre that he’s been called up. Scranton is within driving distance of Pittsburgh, so Alvarez presumably won’t even have to fly is and will probably start tomorrow’s 7:05 game against the White Sox. You can put me down as “psyched” for this, as Thursday is one of the rare times when the White Sox will be broadcast on WGN instead of the Cubs, I have the day off work, and even having to put up with the White Sox horrible announcing booth won’t kill my excitement.
Update son corresponding moves and whatever else to come as they’re available.
UPDATE 1: AAA Indianapolis play-by-play man Scott McCauley and ESPN’s Buster Olney confirm the story. Still no word on a corresponding move, but it won’t be Andrew McCutchen to the DL: he left the game today, but it was only a cramp in his calf. He was taken out for precautionary reasons.
UPDATE 2: Jenifer Langosch tweets that we won’t know the corresponding move until tomorrow when Alvarez is in Pittsburgh. If it were up to me, I would cut Ryan Church simply so John Russel couldn’t start him so freaking much.
