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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full), plus one player is 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 3-28-2024
 
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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
* 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: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Ben Brown, P 
Alexander Canario, OF 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Keegan Thompson, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 1 
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 1 
Caleb Kilian, P 

 



 

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A Public Safety Alert for TCR Readers In and Around Chicago

Be forewarned—the entire downtown area is overrun with Nordic boys wearing Kirby Puckett jerseys. I know; I have seen it for myself!

This afternoon's Twins starter, Kevin Slowey (8-2, 4.21), is prone to the gopher ball. (That's "gopher" as in home run, not Golden Gopher.) Cubs starter Randy Wells is prone to getting screwed by the non-performance of his offense and/or his bullpen.

Go Cubs!

Comments

Q: What are some things people don’t know about you, away from the field? A: We do some weird things out here, man. I’m an art major. That’s usually the first thing I tell people. I really enjoy art and focus on painting ceramics. I love going to Lake Tahoe and it’s a home away from home for me. I enjoy the lake and the boat. Other than that, I enjoy my family. One of the reasons I went to school close to home was so I could see my younger siblings grow up and be close to my family. http://cubs.scout.com/2/871803.html rest is pretty standard fluff, says he had very little contact with Cubs before the draft despite all the scouts supposedly going out to see him.

Funny, awkward exchange this morning on Mully & Hanley show on The Score as they interviewed Bert Blyleven:

Mulligan asked Bert if Kevin Slowey can hit and then said, "If he can, maybe the Cubs can get him to come over. They could use the bat."

Bert then replied, "You boys are kind of rough on the Cubs, aren't you?" and then later, "It's easy for guys who've never played the game to criticize a team's hitting. But the hardest thing to do in all of sports is to hit a round ball with a round bat."

I think that is what they call "closing ranks."

Wonder if they'll have Bert back on the air anytime soon.

already signs with Brewers...

Naw, everything is fine. They'll get Ramirez back and I figure they'll win 70% of the second-half games. With their 29 wins now that's... umm... 86 wins. But they might win some games before the halfway point, too. That's just gravy. Wooo, 70% second-half games!!! Yea Cubs!

The whole bench sits up and says... "Wait... you can do that? You mean you don't have to hit the ball right to them?"

i posted this in an old thread... but is blanco out of options?

catches out number two, thinks it was number 3 and throws it in the stands. runner would have scored anyway, runner went from 1st to third though...no run ultimately.

Rob, I'm not denigrating his effort, but these were balls that looked easily catchable while diving. They weren't full-out, Reed Johnson in D.C.-type dives. (Or, as you state, Edmonds-type dives.) And he botched them. If you dive for the ball and it clanks out of your glove...

Hoff in and Patton in for the 9th, soriano to 2b....

sitting with Cubster today. we both said we had never seen a player do what Bradley did. Somehow, i'm feeling like its thr beginning of the end with Bradley after that. it will be JJ redux, and thanks to Hendry, we are all stuck. what an underachieving $140mm ballclub! blech!!

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In reply to by The E-Man

Submitted by The E-Man on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 3:57pm.

sitting with Cubster today. we both said we had never seen a player do what Bradley did.

Somehow, i'm feeling like its thr beginning of the end with Bradley after that. it will be JJ redux, and thanks to Hendry, we are all stuck. what an underachieving $140mm ballclub! blech!!

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E-MAN: You wil be happy to know that Milton Bradley's automatic "no trade" (the one he got as an Article XX MLB FA who signed a major league contract after the end of the Free-Agency Filing Period) runs through this coming Monday.

So if Hendry were so inclined, he could trade Bradley (without having to get Bradley's approval and without any restrictions) starting on Tuesday. And with the Rangers having lost Josh Hamilton for a while, they might possibly be interested in reacquirng Milton, bringing him back to the place where he had his best year and seemed the most at ease, and where he can DH full-time. Of course the Cubs would have to eat some of his salary or take back a similar contract, but so it goes. .

Now, Aaron Miles has not and does not have a "no trade," so it's just a matter of finding a taker (ANY taker) for him, even if it's the Cardinals or the Brewers. Of course that still won't bring DeRosa back, but sometimes there's something called "addition by subtraction."

Back in the early 1990's the Cubs signed free-agents Danny Jackson and Candy Maldonado, and both were lemons. But the Cubs were able to make a little bit o' lemonade out of it, by trading Maldonado to Cleveland for Glenallen Hill and Jackson to Pittsburgh for Steve Buechele, and both deals actually filled needs and made the Cubs a better club. So all is not lost.Yet.  

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090612&content_id=52… I'd have to copy and paste pretty much the whole article for all the good quotes. Here's the out gaffe though... "[I've seen it] on replays on some of that 'Best Damn Sports Show' stuff of the '50 Not Greatest Moments,'" Gardenhire said. "I think that's going to rank right up there with one of those plays. That wasn't a lot of fun for him. I'm sure he's not feeling too good about that." Did Piniella need to talk to Bradley? "Do we need to go over math? One, two, three," Piniella said. "I don't know what else to say. I'm sure he's somewhat embarrassed by it. I've never seen it before. The only thing we can do is go over how many outs there are. You've got to keep your head in the game. Outside of that, look, it didn't cost us a run but it's embarrassing to the person it happened to." Bradley put his hands on his head right away. "I wasn't embarrassed," Bradley said. "I've done a whole lot of things to be embarrassed about. That's water under the bridge. The run was going to score, the fan got a souvenir. Worst case scenario.

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In reply to by Rob G.

you know it's bad when Carrie even takes a shot at you...

"Everybody's got to relax," he said. "We have a ton of media here, everybody has expectations that we're supposed to run away with the division. It's June, and we're [three] games out. We're right there. We talked about it today -- just have fun, relax. It's hard to get me to smile, but I had to smile today. You can't keep taking yourself too seriously. Just chill, have fun."

And keep count.

 

Re: Trading Bradley. Cubs having Bradley isn't the problem. Bradley not hitting is the problem. If they get rid of him they'll have the same problem of lack of a productive power bat, right? The Real Neal: Funny, when I run that 88 MPH fastball through the reality machine it comes out 93! What did you mean by this? His fastball has been sitting around 88-90 all year. Ryno (8:40 this morning): Is Slowey still throwing a boring 89MPH fastball? Answer: Yes, but maybe not "boring". If Gameday is to be believed (and it isn't always), he finally has some life in that fastball. FWIW Slowey owned spring training.

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In reply to by Rob G.

When did I get all offended? When I called Dave names for being a little 'me too' sissy, hiding behind others comments? He'd being saving that one up for a few weeks, he should have at least done some basic research before he used it. Let's go on a wild goose chase of speculation here. Say we see 3 fastballs for K's in that video, one of which shows 91 MPH. It's not out of the realm of possibility that Slowey was rearing back for a little extra when he got two strikes on a hitter, is it? Because I was watching the game, and that's what he appeared to be doing. If you think the pitch he K'd Soto on was 88 MPH's well...

According to Bruce Levine reports Scales optioned for Harden. Unfortunately, Aaron Miles will still be onthe team. sigh...

Looks like Tony Thomas is heating up a bit again. Casey Coleman has been awesome this year. Starlin Castro keeps churning along - still a work in progress but boy, he sure doesn't get enough attention, imo, from general minor league fans. I hope Rosa is heating up, 3 game hitting streak, 6 out of the last 8. 2 solid starts from Bristow is a nice sign.

Yes, I said they looked easily catchable. The assumption there is "by a major leaguer" not "by a guy on a message board." Is it somehow a stretch to say a couple of balls Bradley dived for and missed looked easily catchable for a major league OF? I guess I need to be more clear for the likes of you. These were not "Reed Johnson in D.C., full-extension, be lucky if you caught it" plays. These were plays where the dives were ill-timed, even awkward-looking but still getting there in plenty of time and the ball clanking off his glove. So yeah, in my mind, easily catchable. Guaranteed catchable? OK, maybe not. But easily catchable. I wish I had the time/inclination to somehow search through all of Bradley's plays to show you what I meant. But I don't. It's anecdotal, and if others see it differently, so be it. It was an innocuous comment based on having seen Bradley miss at least two plays. I didn't see the diving catch in Houston that Rob mentioned, which I'm sure was a thing of beauty.

Recent comments

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    I think if you had ranked players by how much the team could ill afford to have them miss significant time, Steele would be right at the top of the list.

  • crunch (view)

    steele MRI on friday.  counsell expects an IL stint.

    no current plans for his rotation replacement.

  • hellfrozeover (view)

    I would say also in the bright side column is Busch looked pretty good overall at the plate. Alzolay…man, that hurts but most of the time he’s not giving up a homer to that guy. To me the worst was almonte hanging that pitch to Garcia. He hung another one to the next hitter too and got away with it on an 0-1. 

  • crunch (view)

    amaya blocked like 6-8 of smyly's pitches in the dirt very cleanly...not even an exaggeration, smyly threw a ton of pitches bouncing in tonight.

    neris looking like his old self was a relief (no pun), too.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    In looking for bright spots the defense was outstanding tonight. The “stars” are going to need to shine quite a bit brighter than they did tonight offensively though for this to be a successful season.

  • Eric S (view)

    Good baseball game. Hopefully Steele is pitching again in April (but I’m not counting on it). 

  • crunch (view)

    boo.

  • crunch (view)

    smyly to face the 2/3/4 hitters with a man on 2nd in extras.

    this doesn't seem like a 8 million dollar managerial decision.

  • crunch (view)

    i 100% agree with you, but i dunno how jed wants to run things.  the default is delay.  i would choose brown.

    like hellfrozeover says, could be smyly since he's technically fresh and stretched.

    anyway, on a pure talent basis....brown is the best option.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Use pitchers when you believe they're good. Don't plan their clock.

    I'm sorry. I'm simply anti-clock/contract management. Play guys when they show real MLB potential talent.

    If Brown hadn't been hurt with the Lat Strain he would've gotten the call, and not Wick.

    Give him a chance. 

    But Wesneski probably gets it