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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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Game Thread: Rockies (19-19) @ Cubs (17-22)

The Cubs go for a third consecutive win and try to close out the homestand at 4-4 before they get the crap beaten out of them in Philadelphia as they match-up with the Rockies.

Jhoulys Chacin (yo-LEES cha-SEEN), 2-1, 2.66, goes up against Carlos Silva (CAR-los SIL-va). Silva, 4-0, 3.40, is attempting to become the first Cub pitcher to begin a season 5-0 since Greg Maddux did so back in 2006.

Big news: Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will be in the house. She is scheduled to be part of the home plate ceremony with the umpires before the game and appear with Kasper and Brenly on Comcast Sportsnet during the 3rd inning.

No appearance scheduled with Santo and Hughes in the radio booth as far as I can tell. For obvious reasons, that's a loss to WGN listeners and fans of unintentional comedy everywhere.

Looking at the lineups, Soriano will rest in favor of Colvin, while Ryan Theriot and his very sore elbow return to action.

Rockies:
Gonzalez 8, Smith 7, Hawpe 9, Tulowitzki 6, Helton 3, Olivo 2, Stewart 5, Barmes 4, Chacin 1

Cubs:
Fukudome 9, Theriot 4, Lee 3, Ramirez 5, Byrd 8, Colvin 7, Soto 2, Castro 6, Silva 1

Comments

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100518&content_id=10166458&vk…
"We'll put him back in his usual habitat, and that's starting baseball games and we'll go from there," manager Lou Piniella said on Tuesday of Zambrano, who was the Cubs' Opening Day starter. "I just don't know how long it'll take, and I told Carlos to be honest with me and let me know when he's ready."
How eager is Zambrano to start again? On Tuesday, he was taking batting practice with the other Cubs starting pitchers.
and this lineups sucks.

Phillies down 2-1 in the 7th...they pinch-hit for Juan Castro batting 8th and Dobbs reaches first base. With one out, they don't pitch hit for Halladay who K's (I assume he was trying to sac bunt) and end up not scoring.

Boy, that Carlos Silva. He sure is lucky! You go, you "Lucky Dude", you! Sould he get another "lucky" W tonight, I stand by my words that Silva and Byrd are the Cub MVP's so far. An odd thing, indeed.

Lindsey Vonn in the booth with Ron and Pat, they asked if she's been to Wrigley before. "yeah, I stopped by and visited but I guess I wasn't a gold medalist back then." awkward laughter follows.....

That entire 7th inning made me feel... wrong. Maybe it was Bob's figgets... maybe it was Len's... maybe her singing...or maybe, it was all of it. But in the end... wrong.

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In reply to by Ryno

She also won three consecutive overall World Cup championships (2008, 2009, 2010),[2] the first American woman and second woman ever to accomplish this. Lindsey also won World Cup discipline championships in downhill (back-to-back) and Super G (the first American woman to do so).
With her Olympic gold and bronze medals, 33 World Cup wins in four disciplines (downhill, Super G, slalom and super combined) and two World Championship gold medals (plus two World Championship silver medals), Vonn has become the most successful American woman skier in history.
OVERRATED! /sarcasm She does look good in hi and low-def.

Carlos Silva is an important lesson for Zambrano, imo. Z's stuff is what, 10-15 times better than Silva's, yet Silva goes out there and throws strikes and presto... 5-0 record. It's like little league. Just throw strikes, bro. Unless you are Kevin Gregg, in which case you might want to nibble.

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In reply to by The Real Neal

Yes I am already pleasantly surprised. My point was I will be surprised (pleasantly) if he continues to pitch at this level the rest of the year. Ya know, regression to the mean and all that. Simply comparing the average ERAs of the AL and NL isn't really conclusive either because the pitchers and hitters are different. Regardless of where you fall on the notion that the AL is generally better than the NL (lately), you have to admit that having pitchers bat in the NL makes it slightly easier for pitching and defense.

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In reply to by The Real Neal

I wasn't suggesting anything. I only asked a question. "How much of Silva's success can we attribute to him pitching in the National League?" I brought up Halladay because he is another pitcher who switched leagues in the off sesaon who has seen his ERA drop a full point. Of course in both (all) cases there are many factors of which changing leagues is one of them. I believe it is you who said that making assumptions on two (or in this case one) pieces of data can lead one to make an erronious conclusion.

Recent comments

  • 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

  • crunch (view)

    alzolay...bro...