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

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* bats or throws left
# bats both

PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

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

OPTIONED: 10 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2 
Seiya Suzuki, OF
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 2
* Justin Steele, P  
Jameson Taillon, P 

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




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Two Teams for Every Cub (Beisbol City, Here We Come!)

Submitted by Arizona Phil on

CF Albert Hernandez singled and doubled and drove in two runs, and five Cubs pitchers combined to throw a two-hitter, as the DSL Cubs #1 defeated the DSL Tigers 7-3 yesterday afternoon on Dominican Summer League (DSL) Opening Day at Baseball City, near Boca Chica, DR.

box score

In other DSL Opening Day action, Miguel Gonzalez had three hits and drove in two runs, but the bullpen could not hold a 4-1 8th inning lead, as the DSL Orioles/Brewers co-op team took advantage of five errors to rally and edge DSL Cubs #2 5-4.

box score

20-year old Albert Hernandez hit .324 with 17 extra base hits in 54 DSL games last year, and he will likely be the star of DSL Cubs #1 (managed by ex-Cubs 1B prospect Alberto Garcia) this year, but the three most highly-regarded Cubs prospects playing in the DSL right now are 3B Joel Altagracia and SS Carlos Henry (both signed as 16-year olds by the Cubs during the International Signing Period last Summer), and Venezuelan catcher Ricardo Parra, who also signed last Summer and who turned 18 yesterday. (RHP Jose Tineo was signed to a substantial bonus as a 16-year old in July 2007, but he is not presently on a DSL Cubs Active List).  

Altagracia (signed for $140K) and Henry (signed for $110K) are now 17, and both are assigned to DSL Cubs #2, as is Parra. If all goes according to plan, I would expect to see all three of them at Fitch Park this time next year.

NOTE: 11 of the kids who played for Cubs DSL teams last season were invited to Fitch Park for Minor League Camp and Extended Spring Training this year, including RHP Rogelio Carmona, Eduardo Figueroa, George Pineda, and Andres Quezada (ex-OF), LHP Marcos Perez and Melvin Vasquez, catcher Juan Medina, infielder Robert Bautista, and outfielders Francisco Guzman (now at Peoria), Jesus Morelli, and Jose Valdez. Although they spent most or all of the 2008 season playing in the DSL, Figueroa, Carmona, and Quezada have been at Fitch Park before, and Medina was invited to the AZ Instructional League last Sepember.

Here are the rosters for DSL Cubs #1 and DSL Cubs #2: 

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# bats both

DSL CUBS #1 (29 players):

PITCHERS (17):
Frank Batista
* Welington Cruz
Diego Encarnacion
Ramon Garcia
Luis Liria
Hector Mayorga
Jade Mendez
Enyelberth Pena
Roderik Pichardo
Ramon Reyes
Ramon Rivera 
Melvin Rosa 
* Abner Ruiz
Tomas Sanchez
Francisco Turbi 
Roberto Vargas 

CATCHERS (3):
Yonan Fuenmayor 
Carlos Romero
Jose Vigay

INFIELDERS (5):
# Arismendy Alcantara
Yohan Astacio
# Vismeldy Bieneme
Juan Pena
Jesus Rodriguez 

OUTFIELDERS (4):
Xavier Batista 
Gregori Gonzalez 
Albert Hernandez
Manuel Pestana

MANAGER
Alberto Garcia

COACHES
Ramon Caraballo (hitting coach)
Leo Hernandez (pitching coach)

 

DSL CUBS #2 (30 players):

PITCHERS (18)
Jane Bremon
Darlin Castro 
Antonio Encarnacion
Alvido Jimenez
* Richard Leyba 
Eric Martinez 
Pedro Medina (ex-OF)
Roneidy Mejia
Loiger Pardron
Amaury Paulino 
Felix Pena
Genezeret Pena
Roeldwin Reyes
Alberto Robles 
Santo Rodriguez
Braulio Rosario
Jose Rosario
Yilver Sanchez
Deuris Severino

CATCHERS  (3)
Yamel Liria
Ricardo Parra
# Hector Suarez 

INFIELDERS (6):
Joel Altagracia 
# Rafael Disla
Miguel Gonzalez
* Carlos Henry
# Jose Montecino
* Melido Perez

OUTFIELDERS (3):
Melvin Camarena
Jasly Gonzalez 
# Gregorio Robles

MANAGER:
Franklin Blanco

COACHES:
Leonel Perez
Anderson Tavarez

 

DSL CUBS – NOT ASSIGNED

NOTE: The following players were on DSL Cubs Reserve Lists prior to the start of Spring Training. A player on this list could be injured, or could be inactive for some other reason, or may have been released prior to the start of the DSL season.

PITCHERS:
Francisco Acosta
* Alfredo Belizaire
Miguel Corletto
Arturo Florentino (PED SUSPENSION)
* Carlos Galvez (PED SUSPENSION)
Joel Lanfranco
Jesse Lebron (PED SUSPENSION)
Maicol Medina
Starlin Peralta
Francoris Pineda
Rafael Ramirez
Jhon Rodriguez (PED SUSPENSION)
Jose Tineo (PED SUSPENSION)

CATCHERS:
NONE

INFIELDERS:
# Ramon Bonilla
# Alexander Mejia (PED SUSPENSION)
Carlos Morales
Miguel Salazar

OUTFIELDERS:
Alejandro Damian

Tags
Albert Hernandez
DSL Cubs
Carlos Henry
Joel Altagracia
Ricardo Parra

Comments

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Submitted by Cubster on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 05:27 pm

I wonder how Donaldson is doing defensively, he is still catching a lot for the Midland team. Also wonder if sending Jake Fox in that deal for Harden, instead of Donaldson, would have made more sense (assuming it was an option). If Donaldson ultimately can't catch at the mlb level I suppose they are about the same player although I suspect Donaldson will be better defensively than Fox no matter what position he winds up at. Murton, EPat and Gallagher seem to have lost their way to the mlb club.

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Submitted by WISCGRAD on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 06:37 pm

FWIW, since Billy Beane took over as GM of the A's in 1998, players with the most at-bats at DH by season (6 LH, 1 SH, 5 RH): 2009 - Jack Cust LH 2008 - Frank Thomas RH 2007 - Mike Piazza RH 2006 - Frank Thomas RH 2005 - Scott Hatteberg LH 2004 - Erubial Durazo LH 2003 - Erubial Durazo LH 2002 - Ray Durham SH 2001 - Jeremy Giambi LH 2000 - John Jaha RH 1999 - John Jaha RH 1998 - Matt Stairs LH

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Submitted by springs on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 05:56 pm

Colvin's performance at Daytona has not inspired any confidence that he has progressed to perform at Tennessee. He was injured and recovering, so there may be some leeway. Also certain players seem to hit much better at Tennessee than Daytona (not sure why, perhaps park dimensions). But reports seem to indicate that Colvin will never hit good pitching; his best hope may be a fifth OF and even then I wouldn't expect him to be much above a .200 hitter in the majors. Jericho Jones has hit since we have gotten him. I have much more hope for him to become a prospect. Or restated, I believe the probability that he will be a useful major leaguer is, unlike Colvin, greater than zero.

Submitted by toonsterwu on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 05:48 pm

Intrigued with Albert Hernandez. Granted, it's DSL, but performance is performance. There was an arm last year, Marcos Perez, who had good numbers. Any idea where he is? I know the DSL has a bigger strike zone, but he did have some very intriguing numbers. Also curious about Ramon Reyes. Tineo has to get his control under wraps. Too many walks last year.

Submitted by navigator on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 05:28 pm

Today's lineup: Soriano, LF Theriot, SS Bradley, RF Lee, 1B Johnson, CF Soto, C Scales, 2B Fontenot, 3B MARSHALL, P Only Theriot and Johnson in this lineup have a higher batting average than Marshall (.250). Lou confirms that Marshall will head to the pen when Harden comes off the DL.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 05:39 pm

you still defending soriano leading off, too? =p

don't have much of a problem with it, no. He'd be sucking now batting 5th or 1st. It's called a slump. Giving more PA's to your better hitters is never a bad strategy. I don't think his sub-Mendoza batting average with RISP would really be helping much further down in the order though.

all i wanna know is why he's an auto-replacement vs. a lefty this year vs. last year...he's getting a nearly straight-platoon treatment right down to being subbed for vs. lefties in games he starts.

if I could draw a map on here I would, but I'll try to explain it you. See, last year there was Soriano (he bats right-handed btw), Edmonds (he bats left-handed btw) and Fukudome (he bats left-handed) starting and Reed Johnson off the bench (he bats right-handed).  So with Soriano being better versus lefties in his career and not a platoon player by any means, Johnson was going to get his at-bats for either Fukudome or Edmonds...most of the time it was for Edmond because for most of his career he hasn't hit lefties too well. And if I recall this correctly, Fukudome did start losing AB's to lefties as the season went on and he started sucking more and more.

This year, the starting lineup is Soriano (still bats righties and still hits better off lefties), Fukduome and Bradley (he's a switch-hitter that has an OPS 100 pts higher from the right side for his career). So who do you think Reed Johnson is going to take AB's from considering he has a career .833 OPS versus lefties and an .848 one last year?

I hope that explains it sufficiently.

Submitted by Rob G. on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 05:52 pm

hit 2 grand slams today for Daytona... most exciting Cubs news of the day.

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Submitted by toonsterwu on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 05:20 pm

As exciting as that was, Chirinos is an older guy. I'm more excited about/intrigued with Cashner's 4 ip, 1 bb. Don't mind the lack of K's for now. Rosa's 2/4, 2 2B, 1 R, 1 RBI. I like him a lot, and here's hoping he can break out soon and force ryan Keedy aside (let me explain that, if Vitters goes up to daytona, as I suspect should happen within the next few weeks barring a huge slump, Vitters will get most of the 3rd base time, likely pushing Rosa back to more 1st base, which might be his future anyways) Henry Williamson - 3 shutout ip, 3 h, 2 K's. The other arm in the Pie trade has been fairly solid. Kevin Hart - 6 ip, 2 h, 1 r (solo shot), 7 K's, 1 HBP. No, he's not anything more than a middle reliever, but he is on the 40 man.

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  • Bill (view)

    A good rule of thumb is that if you trade a near-ready high ceiling prospect, you should get at least two far-away high ceiling prospects in return.  Like all rules-of-thumb, it depends upon the specific circumstances, but certainly, we weren't going to get Busch for either prospect alone.

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Right on schedule, just read an article in Baseball America entitled "10 MLB Prospects Outside The Top 100 Who Have Our Attention".  Zyhir Hope was one of the prospects featured. It stated that he's "one of the biggest arrow-up sleeper prospects in the lower levels right now."

     

    Not sharing to be negative about the trade, getting a top 100 prospect who is MLB ready should carry a heavy prospect cost.  But man, Dodger sure are good at identifying and developing young talent. Andrew Friedman seems to have successfully merged Ray's development with Yankees financial might to create a juggernaut of an organization.  

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    I suspect Brown will spend some time in the bullpen due to inning restrictions.  Pitched only 93 innings last year and career high is 104 innings in 2022.  I would expect them to be cautious with a young player with his injury history.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    I wanted Almonte gone last week, but that was before Merryweather went down and Little got demoted. Almonte in his last 5 appearances has gone 4.1 IP with no ER or Runs. NO hits, 3 BBs and 8 SO. He did hit 96 with his 2S FB in AZ on Tues.
    I don't see Jed waiving him when we have injuries all over and guys with options that can be sent down.
    I probably won't like the move Jed makes, but he can't play the "let's hope no one wants his 1.7mil remaining deal and we can hide him in Iowa" card.
    That's why I think the current Bullpen stays as is and Wicks goes to Iowa.
    I don't like that, but that's the fix I see.
    We'll find out soon enough!!!

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Teheran minor league deal is done, per MLB.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Based on Phil’s sound analysis it sounds like a no brainer for Almonte to be placed on waivers as today’s roster move. We shall see.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I suspect Counsell/Hottovy will use the piggy-back extensively, with Taillon and Hendricks pitching as the "pig" (and with a very short leash) and some combo of Wicks, Brown, and Wesneski (whichever two do not start) as the "backers."  

    Keep in mind that Keegan Thompson has a minor league option available, and if Yency Almonte is not outrighted by 4/26 he cannot be sent to the minors without his consent after that date. Almonte is out of minor league options, so I am talking about him getting outrighted to the minors if he is not claimed off waivers, and if he is claimed off waivers, the Cubs save the pro-rated portion of his $1.9M salary, which helps lower the Cubs 2024 AAV.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Totally agree. The 26 man roster very rarely consists of the 13 best position players and 13 best pitchers.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Based on what Jed has done in the past, I’d say the plan is to

    -give Hendricks another few starts
    -give Taillon some runway ot get his season underway

    -Mix and match in the bullpen and see what sticks

    Jed usually doesn’t do a whole lot of waiver wire plays in-season, at least early in the season. He only reallly did that after he blew up the rosters in 21 and 22 because they needed bodies (guys like Schwindel, Fargas, etc).

    I think he’s a little handcuffed by a full 40 man in that he can’t really maneuver much with giving anyone showing ability at AAA (R Thompson/ Sanders/ Edwards etc). Brewer has the most tenuous grip there, and we will see what kind of chance he gets. Other than his spot, there isn’t a ton of 40 man wiggle room.

    I’m very curious to see what happens with Brown now that Taillon returns. Bullpen? Wicks to Iowa? 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Pro teams have to play their "big money" guys if they are healthy and not "locker room" issues.
    The Cubs wanted to deal JHey off well before they bought him out. They just didn't want to pay him to play for someone else for that long. Jed did give him 20+mil to play for LAD last yr.
    Jed might also let Kyle walk at some point this year. Similar scenario to JHey, except Jed thought Kyle was going to be good/solid in '24!!
    You'd think Smyly is in the same book as well. Same with Neris (he's a 1yr vet RP, so he's not really in this convo too much).
    That's ~35mil between those three and those three are going to get opportunities until at least late June) over younger guys even if their performance is "iffy".
    But, Jed is going to play Taillon a lot. They have to try and justify that contract and hope a veteran works out.
    So, Taillon, Imanaga, and Hendricks are locks for the rest of April and probably May.
    Assad, Brown and Wicks handle the last spots until Steele is ready.
    Now, you're question has real merit when Steele comes back. That will interesting if Brown is still good and Hendricks is still bad. But Taillon is entirely safe as long as he's healthy.

    And the bullpen moves were "money" based as well. Smyly has actually been okay. But he hasn't been clearly better than Little. Little had one bad outing. But Smyly makes 9mil. If they needed another RHRP and one of Little and Smyly had to go, it was going to Little. But that doesn't mean Smyly is one of the best 13 arms for the team. 

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