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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 nine players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and one player 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
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 9 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 1 
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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Miles Activated; Fox Trots to Iowa

Submitted by Rob G. on

As mentioned earlier, Aaron Miles has been activated and slugger Jake Fox has been sent down giving the Cubs the worst bench that has ever been assembled. Okay, tonight's actually isn't so bad with the lefty Wandy Rodriguez on the mound: Fontenot, Hill, Blanco, Fukudome and Hoffpauir. But for the next couple of weeks, assuming the normal starters of Fukudome, Fontenot and let's say Miles at second base, the bench will be: Hill, Johnson, Hoffpauir, Scales and Blanco. 

Wittenmyer though says the plan is to give Jake Fox regular at-bats so that they can call him up in 11-12 days so he can sit on the major league bench again when interleague games begin. I suppose he'll DH a bit, but he'll have to fight Hoffpauir for those at-bats and Fox is on the short side of that platoon.  Also, don't be too suprised if Lou changes his mind on all of this in a week and a half and realizes he wants to give some regulars a break by DH'ing them and Fox's defensive limitations get him passed over by the Miles, Scales and Blancos of the world.

Lineup for tonight: Soriano, Theriot, Bradley, Lee, Johnson, Soto, Scales, Miles, Zambrano

versus

Bourne, Tejada, Pence, Lee, Berkman, Blum, Kata, Quintero, Wandy.

Also, the Astros have been flipping starters for tomorrow's finale between the originally scheduled Mike Hampton to Roy Oswalt back to Hampton and currently settling on Russ Ortiz. It's like Cecil Cooper wants to get fired.

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Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 06:37 pm

Has any NL outfielder been worse than Bradley so far this year? If so, it would boggle the mind. He seems too close to the plate -- inside fastballs eat him alive.

Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 06:46 pm

Vitters with another 0-fer tonight. I don't think he has a hit since the Trib labeled him "the real deal" several days ago -- his average has dropped about 30 points since then.

Submitted by SheffieldCornelia on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 06:04 pm

Good thing we still have that hot-hitting righty bench bat around to help us solve lefties... Oh, wait... Can we send Miles to the DL again yet?

Submitted by dc60124 on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 06:17 pm

the outfielders tonight went 1 for 11 plus 1 walk. seems like grumbling about the bench becomes immaterial. was hoping lou would have kosuke run for bradley and let hoff-power hit for johnson. kosuke looked as though he had been awakened from a sound sleep to pinch-hit. doubly aggravating to waste a no-antics gem from z. those are rare enough that pissing one away just plain hurts.

Submitted by rokfish on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 06:30 pm

yeah kosuke made lou look smart on that at bat they can say what they want lou may give fox 2 games at dh i see him giving poor hitting and poor defensively soriano some dh spots and then you have one dh game for lee and hey what about bradley.

Submitted by Jeff_Pico on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:10 am

Good news of the night the Brewers lost so still 2.5 games out...bad news of the night the Cards and Reds both won so we are in 4th place again.

Submitted by champsummers on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:39 am

Anyone else curious why the Goozer got the call tonite? Actually, at the time, I was really pleased with the decision. Silly me.

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Submitted by Ryno on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:04 am

Nothing heals a tough loss like busting TRN's balls. Seriously, though, I know they aren't going to score a bunch of runs every day, and yes Wandy 'Who the f*** is Wandy?' Rodriguez has been good decent this year. He has good home stats, and why not? Two of his 7 home starts have been against an anemic Cub's offense. The thing is... every time the Cubs have been presented with a challenge this year, they've just rolled over. They don't grind. They don't make the opposing pitcher work. They're lost. I know, I know, Aramis this Aramis that... but they need to find ways to win without Aramis. What if they somehow make it to the playoffs but Aramis has a bad series?

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Submitted by big_lowitzki on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:32 am

If you win 60% of your games, you will win 97 games. If the Cubs won 97 games, they would make the playoffs. Amazingly, they are winning with a lot of players underperforming. If you really think that Bradley will finish the year with an OPS 130 points lower than his career numbers, or that ARam won't come back and play, then sure, go ahead and freak out every time the Cubs lose. You are becoming manny...

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:43 am

''We found something I think will help him get to the ball much easier,'' said Piniella, who wouldn't elaborate. Piniella spent about five minutes talking in the clubhouse to Bradley about it before Wednesday's game, at one point standing to demonstrate stance balance and back-arm hitting motion. ''It's fairly minor. He doesn't have to change much at all except one little thing. ''I have a pretty good feeling that this'll help.'' and then we have this... Jake Fox, the hitter without a position, was sent back out to Class AAA Iowa to make room for infielder Aaron Miles (shoulder), who was activated from the DL -- despite Fox's 5-for-6 production as a pinch-hitter. ''My God, don't tell me that,'' Piniella said. ''Really? Five-for-six pinch hitting? Oh, well.'' http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cubs/1617816,CST-SPT-cubnt11.ar…

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:18 pm

The Cubs offense by the numbers... 4.38 Runs per game, 11th in the NL .738 OPS, 9th in the NL .408 SLG, 9th .330 OBP, 10th .250 BA, 11th 10th in BB's .249 BA with Runners On, 13th .743 OPS with Runners On, 12th .233 BA with RISP, 14th .695 OPS with RISP, 15th

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Submitted by Doug Dascenzo on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:22 pm

Dismal. Shows how lights out the starting pitching has been considering we're still 2 games above .500.

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Submitted by The Real Neal on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:27 pm

It's those bottom numbers that are really killing us, and with the pressing caused by the offensive woes, I think it's becoming a it's own problem.

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Submitted by dc60124 on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:33 pm

o come on, small sample size, right? are you certain those charts were not printed upside-down?

Submitted by jacos on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 06:49 pm

He was ESPN 1000 and kept saying "Cubs need better pitching" along with the hitting. Better pitching? What do you want shutouts every game? Your mullet must have sucked out any brains you had left.

Recent comments

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Walker was a complimentary piece who was well past his prime. Edmonds, Holliday, Ozzie Smith and a few others were good trades. Notably, they have almost always been quiet in the free agent market. But the fundamental workings of the organization were always based primarily upon the constant output of a well oiled minor league organization. That organization has ground to a halt. And when did that hard stop start to happen? Right at the beginning of the Goldschmidt/Arenado era, perpetuated by the Contreras signing, followed by the rotation purchases during the last offseason. The timing is undeniable and, in my mind, not coincidental.

    Again, we are all saying that player development became deemphasized. I’m just linking it directly to the recent trades and involvement in the free agent market. I don’t see how the two concepts can be decoupled.

  • Charlie (view)

    The Cards also traded for both Jim Edmonds and Larry Walker. It's the developing part that has fallen off. Of course, it could also be the case that there are no more Matt Carpenters left to pull out of the hat. 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Cubs sign 28 yr old RHRP Daniel Missaki. He was in MiLB from his 17yr old to 19yr old years and did pretty well.
    He's been in Mexico and Japan the last four years and has done well also.
    He's supposedly Japanese and Brazilian.
    Interesting sign. We obviously need to RP in the system
    Injuries are mounting everywhere!!

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Sure, they made generally short term trades for established players to enhance what they already had or traded for players early enough in their careers that they were essentially Cardinals from the start. What they never did was to try to use the more established players as foundational cornerstones.

    Essentially we’re saying the same thing. They have given up on player development to the point that even their prospects that make it to the bigs flop so that they have to do things like buy most of their rotation and hope for the best.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    I don’t buy that. They had been doing that for years.

    They did it with Matt Holliday. They did it with John Lackey. They did it with Mark Mulder. They did it with Jason Heyward, who had a great year for them. I’m sure there’s more but those come to mind immediately.

    I attribute it more to a breakdown in what they’re doing in terms of development than a culture thing.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    They won those trades and sacrificed their culture. That’s exactly their problem.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    The other part that’s kind of crazy is they made two very high profile trades, one for Goldschmidt and one for Arenado, and they very clearly won those trades. They just haven’t been able to develop players the last handful of years the way they usually do.

    I guess the moral there is it’s hard to stay on top of your game and be good at what you do in perpetuity.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Marmol was extended at the beginning of the year. Two years I believe.

  • crunch (view)

    Jesse Rogers @JesseRogersESPN
    Craig Counsell doesn’t have a timetable for Cody Bellinger who technically has two cracked ribs on his right side. CT scan showed it today.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Thought it might have been David Peralta given the open 40 man spot and how PCA has played so far. 

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