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39 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (one slot is open), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL and one player has been DESIGNATED FOR ASSIGNMENT (DFA)   

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and eight players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and two players is on the 10-DAY IL

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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
* Matt Mervis
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Pete Crow-Armstrong 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 8 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2
* Cody Bellinger, OF  
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 3
Kyle Hendricks, P 
* Drew Smyly, P 
* Justin Steele, P   

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

DFA: 1 
Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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A Double-Dare to the Baseball Gods

Submitted by Dr. Joseph Hecht on

It's official. I've double-dared (if I were Ryan Theriot, it would be a single dare) the Baseball Gods to invoke their wrath. All I can hope for is that they won't think about reversing reverse psychology.

My spouse loves to travel. I love baseball season. This has lead to 30 years of negotiating the avoidance of travel during just a few parts of the year. Early April and September-October.

I'm serious losing this battle. Last year we took a 3 week trip to China, breaking my string of being at Wrigley Field for opening day, a streak of over 30 years (I've been back in Chicago since college days).

The one absolute taboo was that we wouldn't take a major trip in September or October because that was the wrapup of the baseball season and playoffs. Her argument was September/October is the best weather for travel to many of her favorite places. For years, she checks in every so often asking that if the Cubs were out of contention, could we take a trip in September or October.

After taking this seasons beatings and holding out hope as long as I could, I've given in. The plane tickets are booked to southern France and I'm daring the Baseball Gods to beat me up, invoking the 1935 Cubs as my lesson on what I'm about to miss...

1935 was the year Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into Law. The US was in the peak of the Great Depression. Alcoholics Anonymous was formed. Nylon was created by a DuPont chemist. George Gallup started his now famous poll. Radar was invented. Persia was renamed Iran. Mussolini attacked Ethopia. Germany passed the Nuremburg laws. Benny Goodman brought "swing" to the music world.

In Chicago, "Big Ed" Kelly was elected mayor. Polk brothers started the first "big box" appliance warehouse which grew into the signature department store chain. Cubs owner Phil Wrigley had all his team's games broadcast on radio.

1935 in Major League Baseball, Babe Ruth's career ended as a Boston Brave and...

The Chicago Cubs won the NL Pennant is a very unique way.

I'm always interested in mentioning a well written book. This one goes to author Doug Feldmann and his 2003 book, September Streak: The Chicago Cubs Chase the Pennant. You can get a taste of the first 26 pages here.

The Chicago Cubs ended the year with a record of 100-54 and beat out Dizzy Dean and the "Gashouse Gang" Cardinals by 4 games (winners of the 1934 NL Pennant as written about by author Feldmann in another book). The '35 Cubs had an outstanding team lead by manager Charlie Grimm with some star power in catcher and 1935 NL MVP, Gabby Hartnett (.344), 2B  Billy Herman (.341), 3B Stan Hack (.311) and an 18 year old 1B, Phil Cavarretta (.275).

The starting staff was lead by Lon Warneke (20-13), who also won two World Series games. Bill Lee (20-6), lefty Larry French (17-10) and ageless Charlie Root (15-8) all pitched more than 200 innings.

So why bring up the 1935 Cubs? One word: September.

After a lackluster August of 15-15, they ran off the greatest of all end of season runs, winning 23 of 26  in September (and two losses were after they had clinched!) including a miraculous 21 game winning streak to blow past the Cardinals.

The Cubs were in 3rd place on September 4th, 2.5 games behind the Cardinals and their player-manager Frankie Frisch, when the streak started. The streak included four shutouts and two double header wins, with a critical double win vs StL on Sept 27th to clinch the title.

That is the longest consecutive win streak in MLB history. The NY Giants won 26 games in 1916 but in that streak, game 13 was a tie.

October wasn't as kind to the Cubs. The Cubs lost the World Series 4-2 to Detroit and slugger Hank Greenberg.

Don't worry, I don't mistake the 2010 Cubs from the 1935 version and neither should the Baseball Gods. Still, just to get back at me for turning my back on the team in September...well, you never know. Twenty-one game win streaks can cure a lot of badness even if they only happen once per century. 

Here's comparison #1: The 1935 Cubs were 15-7 vs the Pirates. The 2010 Cubs are 3-9 vs Pitt with 3 games to play at Wrigley.

This 2010 team ends July hovering 9 games under .500. They haven't had a stretch of good baseball beyond 3-4 games. By winning the first two games of the current series vs Stl, they won their first series against a divisional foe since April, a stretch of 10 series losses (PIT, CIN, PIT, STL, PIT, HOU, MIL, PIT, CIN, HOU). Somehow I noticed 4 series losses vs the Pirates which just may be the 2010 Cubs signature memory. My wife sends her best to the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. Bonjour 2010 Cubbies, only heaven can help you now.

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Submitted by Cubster on Sun, 07/25/2010 - 07:20 pm

Muskat: #cubs lineup sun nite is rf colvin, ss castro, 1b lee, 3b ramy, cf byrd, lf sori, c soto, 2b riot, p demp RT @MLB: Dawson: "From my heart, thank you Cub fans...you are the reason I continued playing the game. You were the wind beneath the Hawk ... from Dawson's HOF Induction speech: "Nothing wrong with the game of baseball. Mistakes have hurt the game and taken a toll on all of us. Individuals have chosen the wrong road, and have chosen their legacy... Do not be lured by the dark side. It's a stain on the game. A stain gradually being removed. But that's the people, not the game. Nothing wrong with the game. There never has been." http://www.sbnation.com/2010/7/25/1587314/andre-dawson-hall-of-fame-spe… Hawk's intro acknowledged Cub Hall of Famers and fans: "We got a lotta Cubs in this group. Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Fergie Jenkins. These guys had to go through a lot to fight their way here. More than you will probably ever know. I admire you all a lot and I thank you for paving the way. Ryne Sandberg, he was a teammate of mine for 6 years and I didn't even know the man could speak until I saw him up here 5 years ago. My kind of player, never whined, never complained, showed up every day. Left it all on the field. Speaking of the Cubs, thank you Cub fans for coming all the way out here. No fighting with the Cardinal fans but lets make sure we don't hear from the Cardinal fans the rest of the day." Then quips about Tom Seaver, Tom Lasorda, Reggie Jackson and Rickey Henderson before more general stuff about his baseball career.

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Miguel Cruz walked six in 1.2 IP in his last start, so I guess he is improving. Wilme Mora also walked six in one of his appearances a week or two ago, and one or two others have walked five. I don't know what would be the most I have ever seen a pitcher throw in a game out here, because the manager / pitching coach usually gets the pitcher out of the game if it gets too ridiculous. 

    As for the attendance, probably about 20 of the 25 were early arrivals for the Savannah Bananas game who came over to Field # 1 to see what was going on, and once they saw all the bases on balls (12 walks by Cubs pitchers and four by Angels pitchers) they ran away screaming. I'm used to it so it didn't bother me that much. 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Jed has added Teheran, Tyranski, Kissaki, and now Straily and Nico Zeglin today.

    Zeglin is 24 yrs old. Pitched well at Long Beach St in '23 and well in some Indy Ball.

    They also added Reilly and Viets in late ST.

    Have to search for MiLB arm depth anywhere you can and at all times!!!

  • Childersb3 (view)

    25 in Attendance!!!

    Phil, is that a backfield record?

    Also, 6 BBs for Cruz in 2 IP. What's the most walks you've seen in one EXT ST outing that you can recall?

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    He has a pulse. Apparently that’s the only requirement at this point.

  • crunch (view)

    cubs sign dan straily...for some reason.  minor league deal.

    welcome back.

    zac rosscup is down in mexico trying to make it happen...maybe they could throw him a contract, too.  junior lake is his teammate.  shore up a bunch of holes with some washups.

  • fullykräusened (view)

    The great thing about going to live sports events is you don't know if you're going to see something historic. Today I went to the Cub game, after putting the liner back in my coat and fishing my Cubs knit hat out of the closet. I needed all that- my seats are in the upper deck, left, so the east wind was in my face. Both teams failed to capitalize on good situations, but both starters did a good job to accomplish this. So, we go to the bottom of the sixth inning. The Cubs tie it up, and then Pete Crow-Armstrong comes up. We all know he would still be in AAA if not for injuries, and future Hall-of-Famer Justin Verlander absolutely carved up the young fellow up in his first two plate appearances. So this time he hits a fly ball. The wind was blowing in and had suppressed several strong fly balls- including a rocket off Altuve's bat that Canario hauled in (does anybody else remind me of Jorge Soler?) , but the ball kept carrying and carrying. 107mph, legit angle and carry. The crowd went nuts, the dugout went nuts. Maybe, just maybe, I saw the first homer from a long-term Cub.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Which was my original premise. They won the trades but lost their souls. They no longer employ the Cardinal way which had been so successful for so long.

  • crunch (view)

    STL traded away a lot of minor league talent that went on to do nothing in the arenado + goldschmidt trades.  neither guy blocked any of their minor league talent in the pipeline, too.  that's ideal places to add talent.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Natural cycle of baseball. Pitching makes adjustments in approach to counter a hot young rookie. Now it’s time for Busch and his coaches to counter those adjustments. Busch is very good and will figure it out, I think sooner than later.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    In 2020, the pandemic year and the year before they acquired Arenado, the Cardinals finished second and were a playoff team. Of the 12 batters with 100 plate appearances, 8 of them were home grown. Every member of the starting rotation (if you include Wainwright) and all but one of the significant relievers were home grown. While there have been a relative handful of very good trades interspersed which have been mentioned, player development had been their predominant pattern for decades - ever since I became an aware fan in the ‘70’s

    The Arenado deal was not a deal made out of dire need or desperation. It was a splashy, headline making deal for a perennial playoff team intended to be the one piece that brought the Cardinals from a very good team to a World Series contender. They have continued to wheel and deal and have been in a slide ever since. I stand by my supposition that that deal marked a notable turning point within the organization. They broke what had been a very successful formula for a very long time.
     

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