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28 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and twelve players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors. 

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PITCHERS: 15
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Caleb Kilian
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
Jameson Taillon
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
Alexander Canario
# 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 

 



 

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Cubs Recap for April 7, 2012

I didn't get to do a major league recap and I'm off on vacation this week. Apologies in advance if things get untidy around here. As for the major league game, it was déjà vu all over again. Marmol and Wood blowing a second consecutive game, the bullpen blowing a win for Garza or the Cubs just blowing a game, pick whatever storyline suits your needs...it's like choose-your-own adventure Cubs storytime.

Round Rock 7 - @Iowa 2; The Rangers affiliate took it to Chris Rusin who goes 5.1 IP with 4 ER, 3 K, 2 BB, although he did manage 2 pick-offs at first base. Jackson had the only extra-base hit of the game for the Cubs and him and Lalli the only multi-hit games.

@Chattanooga 10 - Tennessee 2; D. Beeler with the start and actually pitched well, going 5 innings and giving up a run. It was Daniel Berlind that got toasted for 8 runs in two thirds of an inning. C. Weathers is gonna C. Weathers, 3 BB's in 1.1 IP and 1 run allowed. Watkins and Ha with the only multi-hit games, although Ha did committ an error.

@Brevard County 1 - Daytona 0; An encouraging start from Hayden Simpson who went 4.1 IP, giving up just a run on 5 hits with 2 K's and a 0 walks. He did give up a home run. OF John Andreoii with two hits and a walk was the only offense worth speaking about.

Peoria 6 - @Beloit 2; The only win in the organization last night. J. Rosario with the start and gets the win on the back of 5.1 IP, 2 H, 2 ER, 3 BB, 2 K. Yao-Lin Wang, A. Reed and A. McKirahan combine for 3.2 IP of scoreless ball out of the pen. Multi-hit games from Eduardo Gonzalez, Brad Zapenas and Taylor Davis. DeVoss and Hoilman get on-base twice as well with a hit and walk, DeVoss's of the extra-base variety.

Cubs try to avoid the sweep on Sunday with this lineup against Jordan Zimmermann ; DeJesus rf, DeWitt 2b, Castro ss, Soriano lf, Stewart 3b, LaHair 1b, Byrd cf, Clevenger c, Samardzija p

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Max lefty lineup. 4 left-handed hitters in the lineup. No remaining lefty pinch hitters though. (Z giggles).

So I feel we can base the entire season on this one game: 1) the Shark is gonna be the best pitcher in the MLB 2) Castro is the worst fielder ever though also the best hitter ever 3) Marmol is clearly an epic closer who's gonna post a 0.00 ERA the rest of the season 4) Clevenger is clearly a great hitter and might compete for a batting title 5) Soriano is the best cleanup hitter ever I'm ok basing all that on this one game right?

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In reply to by John Beasley

$375m of combined payroll...$200/$175...philly is barely 2nd in payroll at a touch above BOS's $175. it's hard to screw that up even if you're carrying mistakes and bad contracts...at least staying competitive right til the end, anyway. laa/det/tex..and maybe SF (dunno how the cain contract effected money, if at all) all at $120m+...miami really close. the graduate course in moneyball, i mean TB...$65m

Just watched Cashner on mlb.tv. Fastball sitting at 98-99 mph and missing bat, control a little shakey. Really hope the front office man crush on Rizzo is on target.

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In reply to by Sonicwind75

Here's the rotoworld blurb: Andrew Cashner pitched an inning of scoreless relief in Sunday's game against the Dodgers. Cashner's fastball was clocked between 96-101 mph. The Padres want to limit his exposure initially, but he's looking like the closer of the future. PitchFX data had Cashner averaging 102.2 mph with his fastball last month.

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In reply to by WISCGRAD

Olney tweets above that Samardzija averaged 96+ mph in the ninth inning. Regarding Rizzo, you're right, that man crush better be right. They've gone after him what? Three times between the two of them? If they're right, I'll take an impact player at first base for years over a closer any day. I hope it just turns out to be a trade that works for both sides.

Tomorrow night we get to see Aramis in a Brewer uniform. So far he's 1-11 (.091), one double, one walk...in 3 games vs Stl at Miller Park. He was quoted in the sunday paper about not knowing how the Chicago fans will greet him, but expects the fans to boo Braun.

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In reply to by Dusty Baylor

This always annoys me. As a fan, I have the right to dislike a player and still value his contribution to the team. Just because I say I don't like someone doesn't mean I don't think they were a good player or helped the team or were better than other players. I greatly appreciated Ramirez's .294/.356/.531 line. And if I were given the option of that line by him and a worse line by someone I liked more I would of course take Ramirez. But I can still say that he was not my favorite Cub and that I really disliked his style of play and in fact really hated some aspects of him as a player.

Soriano, again impressing, reached out and got a low, outside slider (!) for a single with a man on third, and made another nice catch (!). LaHair with two doubles. Ninja looking like he belongs in the majors. Me likes.

I just heard from the SF/COL broadcast: "One thing Ryan Theriot is known for is coming through in the clutch." Indeed.

COL official scoring continues to be the biggest joke in the game...they did a great job trying to make Helton look better than he is for years... ...hard shot bouncing -right in front- of sandoval, lays a glove on it, goes into the OF...ruled a hit. very typical COL official scoring. no one seems to care how lax/selective they are about hits/errors in COL over the years.

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  • crunch (view)

    madrigal at 3rd...morel at DH.

    making room for madrigal or/and masterboney to get a significant amount of ABs is a misuse of the roster.  if it needed to get taken care of this offseason, they had tons of time to figure that out.

    morel played almost exclusively at 3rd in winter ball and they had him almost exclusively there all spring when he wasn't DH'ing.

    madrigal doing a good job with the glove for a bit over 2 chances per game...is that worth more than what he brings with the bat 4-5 PA a game?  it's 2024 and we got glenn beckert 2.0 manning 3rd base.

    this is a tauchman or cooper DH situation based on bat, alone.  cooper is 3/7 with a double off eovaldi if you want to play the most successful matchup.

    anyway, i hope this is a temporary thing, not business as usual for the rest of the season.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    There are two clear "logjams" in the Cubs minor league pipeline at the present time, namely AA outfielders (K. Alcantara, C. Franklin, Roederer, Pagan, Pinango, Beesley, and Nwogu) and Hi-A infielders (J. Rojas, P. Ramirez, Howard, R. Morel, Pertuz, R. Garcia, and Spence, although Morel has been getting a lot of reps in the outfield in addition to infield). So it is possible that you might see a trade involving one of the extra outfielders at AA and/or one of the extra infielders at Hi-A in the next few days. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    18-year old SS Jefferson Rojas almost made the AA Tennessee Opening Day roster, and he is a legit shortstop, so I would expect him to be an MLB Top 100 prospect by mid-season. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Among the relievers in the system, I expect RHRP Hunter Bigge at AAA Iowa and RHRP Ty Johnson at South Bend to have breakout seasons on 2024, and among the starters I see LHP Drew Gray and RHP Will Sanders at South Bend and RHP Naz Mule at ACL Cubs as the guys who will make the biggest splash. Also, Jaxon Wiggins is throwing bullpen sides, so once he is ready for game action he could be making an impact at Myrtle Beach by June.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I expect OF Christian Franklin to have a breakout season at AA Tennessee in 2024. In another organization that doesn't have PCA, Caissie, K. Alcantara, and Canario in their system, C. Franklin would be a Top 10 prospect. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    The Reds trading Joe Boyle for Sam Moll at last year's MLB Trade Deadline was like the Phillies trading Ben Brown to the Cubs for David Robertson at the MLB TD in 2022. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Javier Assad started the Lo-A game (Myrtle Beach versus Stockton) on the Cubs backfields on Wednesday as his final Spring Training tune-up. He was supposed to throw five innings / 75 pitches. However, I was at the minor league road games at Fitch so I didn't see Assad pitch. 

  • crunch (view)

    cards put j.young on waivers.

    they really tried to make it happen this spring, but he put up a crazy bad slash of .081/.244/.108 in 45PA.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Seconded!!!

  • crunch (view)

    another awesome spring of pitching reports.  thanks a lot, appreciated.