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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL 

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, twelve players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, one player is on the 15-DAY IL, and one player is on the 10-DAY IL

Last updated 4-21-2024
 
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PITCHERS: 14
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 
* Justin Steele, P   

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




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Cubs vs. Marlins Weekend Preview

Submitted by Cubnut on

Sorry to be so brief—there's an all-block garage sale happening on our street today and I think I just overheard my 13-year-old agreeing to sell our second car. 

Saturday: Anibal Sanchez (1-2, 4.13) v. Ted Lilly (2-2, 3.80). Sanchez is making his first career start at Wrigley Field. Lilly was telling Carrie Muskat about his plans to revive the Cubs attack by generating his own offense, by "going deep" and "maybe swipe a couple bags." Sounds like someone is experiencing delusions of grandeur. TLFC—this is your fault!

Sunday: RIcky Nolasco (1-2, 6.92) v. Carlos Zambrano (2-1, 4.64). Juan Pierre Ricky Nolasco, who has seemed primed to be the Florida ace, won the Marlins' season opener and has gone winless in the four starts since. As for Zambrano, nice of the Cubs to give their ace pinch-hitter an opportunity to try his hand at pitching. Who knows—maybe the guy will have a future on the mound. 

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Carlos Zambrano

Comments

Submitted by Old and Blue on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 05:47 am

If we lose to someone named Anabelle I am moving to East St. Louis. Oh, wait, it's Anabolic. No, Anibal. Whatever. Is Hoffpauir officially in the Lou doghouse? I haven't had a chance to watch games lately but I haven't seen his name much.

Submitted by Wes on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 05:15 pm

Gotta say, I think we've played as well in the last couple of days as we may have all year. We're playing so well, in fact, that the widget on the right has no way to quantify it. We're null games back as I write this. Next stop is N/A. Then we'll go after undefined. Gotta play 'em one day at a time. Love the new logo, btw.

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 05:52 pm

bleh...coming thur-sun nothing but early (pre-3pm) day games. in june there's a stretch of 9 games where 10 of them are day games. bleh...

Submitted by Jeff_Pico on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 05:57 pm

Great Win! I'm still cautious but lets hope that this team starts to play like the talent that they actually have. Some of these guys around the Mendoza line and under are going to have to start to hit and get those averages up. Lilly looked awesome today and even had a big hit, awesome for him. Only negative today was Gathright doing something embarrasing again. I do like his speed on the bench but if they do want to make a move for Fox he'd probably be the guy to go. Lets get 3 out 4 tomorrow!

Submitted by carlosrubi on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 05:14 pm

I like the new logo; as Crunch said, it needs some depth, shadows and palette integration, but the latter can be easily fixed. It's a nice new look for the site.

Submitted by Rob G. on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 05:48 pm

"How about if I get run over by a car on the way to the ballpark?" said Piniella, who has a short bench because of injuries. "I've got [Milton] Bradley, who I didn't want to use, and I've got [Aramis] Ramirez, who I don't want to use, so I've got Reed Johnson and [Koyie] Hill. When you're too cautious at times, you're going to get hurt. When you play the game and throw a little bit of caution to the wind, usually nothing happens. You're always taking chances. The fans enjoy watching [Zambrano] come up, too. He sort of gives the fans that finishing touch for a ballgame. You're right, in a way, but as shorthanded as we are, we have to be careful."

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Submitted by mannytrillo on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 05:03 pm

I like Lou, but it was one of the most idiotic things he has ever down and his reponse to a questions was just as nonsensical. And if he is doing things because the fans like it, why the FUCK is Cotts on this team? I could only imagine what Cubs fans would be saying if Dusty did and said what Lou did.

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Submitted by crunch on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 05:12 pm

lou has said a lot of stupid crap...in the 3rd week of the season he made a comment about how he just found out about gregg's not being able to be warmed and not used that went mostly ignored. managers say stupid shit...it happens. luckily, people currently care more about the players than some elderly fat man.

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Submitted by The Real Neal on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 05:02 pm

1. Comparing choosing a PH to making roster decisions 2. Perepetuating the fantasy that there is some huge risk that Zambrano will get hurt while batting. 3. Implying that the manager has some great influence over the roster, after denying that blatantly obvious fact for 4 years.

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Submitted by mannytrillo on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 05:00 pm

I always thought you were just acting like a dumb fuck, but I guess you really weren't acting. Please show me where I said there is "some huge risk that Zambrano will get hurt while batting". PLEASE!! This is like the third time I have called you out in the past couple threads for flat out making shit up that I said. Dumb fuck or piss poor reading comprehension? I actually think both!

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Submitted by Charlie on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 05:45 pm

Maybe you two should just not respond to each other? But I have to say, you did seem to imply on a previous thread that having Z take additional ABs as a pinch hitter increased his risk of injury. Telling people that they should go back and memorize your posts isn't reasonable. If that's not what you said, why not tell us what you said? Or, maybe you could assume that it's at least equally possible that you were unclear as that someone consistently misreads what you wrote. Can't we even get along after a 6-1 victory? Not that this argument is at all baseball related.

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Submitted by mannytrillo on Sun, 05/03/2009 - 05:22 am

Charlie, "But I have to say, you did seem to imply on a previous thread that having Z take additional ABs as a pinch hitter increased his risk of injury." I absolutely did say that having Z take additional ABs as a pinch hitter increased his risk of injury. And that is 100% true. But I DID NOT say that there is "some huge risk that Zambrano will get hurt while batting." Big difference. But The Real Neal would need to have at least a small grasp of reading comprehension to understand that. "Or, maybe you could assume that it's at least equally possible that you were unclear as that someone consistently misreads what you wrote." No, I think it is just The Real Neal as mostly I don't have that problem with anyone else. Hope that clears it up for you Charlie and yes, GO CUBS!!!

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Submitted by The Real Neal on Sun, 05/03/2009 - 05:30 am

Sorry Manny, I generally don't read your responses. It takes so much effort to print them out and roll them onto those little cardboard tubes to hang next to my toilet. But I won't play the 'I didn't say those exact words' game with you. You pull that stuff all the time. Everyone who has read your nonsense about Zambrano pinch hitting over the last three days would agree that you are perpetuating the myth, just like I said. You fail to understand that simply repeating the same stupid idea ad nauseum does not make it true. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28S-aOWtFdo about 1:18 in

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Submitted by mannytrillo on Sun, 05/03/2009 - 05:26 am

Of course you don't want to play that game because you love to put words in peoples mouths and basically lie about what they say. I don't care if you read my posts or not but just don't change or flat out lie about what I said or I will continue to call you out like I have the past couple days to show everyone the crap you are trying to pull, even though I am sure other regulars on here know those silly reindeer games you play. GO CUBS!!

Submitted by The E-Man on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 05:56 pm

I love Z. He can PH for me anytime. Until he gets hurt, of course. He is a better hitter than half the team now, and has as much or more power than anyone save two or three of his team-mates. If he was on another team, we'd be in awe of his talent and wish we'd have him. You GO Z! Have fun - you deserve it. Maybe the other millionaires will figure out a way to outhit you regularly so you won't have to embarrass them by PH-ing.

Submitted by artskoe on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 05:49 pm

Hate to bring up a dead horse, but the first Marlin's hit was a gift from the ump at first, and at home plate Lilly would've been even better than his stats with a little league umpire that sees curves AS THEY GO OVER THE PLATE. Plus he was so stiff he struck out Lee with a pitch at Lee's shoulders because the catcher stood up to make a throw on K-Fu's steal. Lilly had a conversation with the ump later - Len & Bob didn't comment but Ted shoulda had 10-15 less pitches and maybe a complete game if the ump had called that beautiful curve (at various speeds BTW) correctly. Umpires today=FAIL

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