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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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Gameday Open Thread / Cubs @ Angels

Submitted by Rob G. on

The Cubs travel to Tempe today to face the suddenly depleted Angels. Carlos Zamrbano's final tune-up before Opening Day and he'll be opposed by Jered Weaver. The game is on MLB.tv.

The Cubs also settled on their position players to start the season, choosing the lefty bat and infield abilities of Mike Fontenot over the superior righty bat of Matt Murton's. A difficult, but understandable decision on the Cubs part. While Murton is the better hitter, the addition of Fontenot gives the Cubs two lefty bench bats and someone besides Ronny Cedeno to back up the middle infield. The bench will consist of Henry Blanco, Daryle Ward, Ronny Cedeno, Reed Johnson and Mike Fontenot. I can't say I'm thrilled, but I do hope that if Soriano or Fukudome go down with an injury that Murton is still the top choice to replace them on an everday basis. The Cubs also released non-roster invitee Alex Cintron.

Finally, a loyal reader has four tickets for the April 2nd game at Wrigley versus the Brewers. I'm not too interested in becoming a ticket exchange or broker, but he's offering them at below face value, so I thought I'd pass along the note. Drop me an email and I'll forward it to him if you're interested. They're in Aisle 434, Row 2 and retail for $23 each. He's willing to break them up into pairs and is only asking $20 for each ticket. In other words, $40 or $80 instead of $46 or $92. I take no responsibility for their authenticity and don't think I'll do this for everyone.

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Comments

Submitted by navigator on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 03:16 pm

only the play-by-play announcer is pronouncing it wrong. weird, huh? and now he's doing it right as well. Someone musta told them.

Submitted by navigator on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 03:26 pm

a late scratch What's wrong with him?

Submitted by navigator on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 03:37 pm

Looks like he's got it in shape! 2nd inning assist that was a bullet.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 03:12 pm

i live with it. i have to take steroids once or twice a year to shrink tissue growth in my sinuses. yeah, fun stuff. at least he can easily afford the $200 a month in meds he may need if its chronic. wildflower season in arizona is in its best flush in almost a decade. i think its the best flush they've had out there since 02/03 or so. the desert is alive. they have to get a concentrated amount of rain over the winter or there's little to no wildflowers at all.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 03:35 pm

i can believe it...but i can't. as much as i'd like to keep murton around...wow...he is absolutely done with AAA. he's not going to gain arm strength suddenly by playing the bus-leagues in RF. he's not going to suddenly turn into a defensive wizz in AAA. and unless there's some part-100 of tinkering with his swing (which i doubt at this point) i definitely dont see what his bat is doing in the minors. even with floyd injured 1/2+ or so of the season it was nice having the R/L bench power option (for the first time in a long time) of murton/ward.

Submitted by Green Lantern on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 03:19 pm

wish your opening day tickets post had been up a week ago, i paid $50 each for about those same seats...knew i could do better if i waited but didn't want the anxiety since i'm flying back into town specifically for opening day. Rob, any chance that we could have some sort of section of TCR where people could post extras/needs for tickets? i have a mini-season ticket plan and will have some tickets that i would be happy to dump for face value. this would be awesome if possible. also, sad that murton won't be on the opening day team but i guess it makes sense, i still would have taken him over fontenot.

Submitted by crunch on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 03:53 pm

kerry wood comes in with men on to relieve marmol (pitching unsuccessfully into his 2nd inning of work)...wild pitch...then retires the next 2 to escape the inning. neat. -edit- wood going for another inning after .2ip (both fielded outs) the inning before. groundout to 1st, K (swinging), and K (looking) 1.2ip 0h 0bb 2k

Submitted by Seamhead on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 03:04 pm

Murton was basically doomed the moment that Soriano moved from CF to LF last year. He would a great fit for the A's, who would value his OBP and low cost.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 03:10 pm

murton would be a great fit for a lot of clubs. question i have is why these clubs dont have him yet. at least it *seems* like hendry doesn't want to give him away just for the sake of moving him...so far... either way, if he tears up AAA and gets another callup he could move into that easy-to-get-hard-to-maintain cubs fan cult status. kerry wood could get 1/2 of wrigley to give him a standing O just getting up off the pen bench during a game to take a leak.

Submitted by Green Lantern on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 03:14 pm

ah yes, not for opening day indeed. my bad. i'll check over at the blog whose name shall not be spoken for ticket stuff. thanks for the heads-up. Pie! Pignatello for MVP!

Submitted by Andrew on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 03:58 pm

any real discussion of it, but man, do I wish the Cubs had taken a longer look at Josh Hamilton in 2006's Rule 5 draft. He's hitting .455/.492/.818 this spring and apparently playing a very good outfield.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 03:01 pm

a lot of people were looking at the reds when they wanted hamilton...they've done this before with players obviously not ready (willie mo pena), but hamilton was a guy many years and many drug related suspensions away from even playing organized ball. i dunno what's more amazing...him or ankiel (even with known PEDs in ankiel's case).

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 03:53 pm

it's a bit too early to make the call on hamilton, but as of right now it would have been one of the biggest coups in cubs history if they had the foresight and willingness to risk the roster space. it was a hell of one for the reds, and it though it got what most perceive to be an under-market return on hamilton...they turned it into a nice crop of prospects.

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Submitted by Mike Vail on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 03:49 pm

We did have Hamilton if I am not mistaken. His drug problems were/are serious. Yes, he's talented, but he's older and has to have a fulltime babysitter (Johnny Narron) with him most of the time. A guy whose sobriety is that tenuous, might be considered too much of a risk and expense for many teams. The Narrons have worked for the Rangers in the past. Not to mention he is injury prone and our outfield wouldn't be too kind to him I imagine.

Submitted by Jackstraw on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 03:36 pm

Pie with 3 more hits today. Isn't he hitting like .988 since the Cubs "clearly soured on him" about a week ago? Why didn't they think of this sooner?

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Submitted by 433 on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 03:41 pm

A couple thoughts: Pie hitting .356, leading the starters in hitting. Who saw that coming? Large. Will someone please tell Lou to shut it about trading Murton? Even if we are going to trade him -- no, ESPECIALLY if we are going to trade him -- no one associated with the Cubs should be making public announcements about the fact that we don't need him anymore. It's another frustrating case of minimizing the trade value of a pretty good player who should fetch something useful in return.

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Submitted by Morris Buttermaker on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 03:00 am

I'm as excited as anyone for Pie to break out this year but let's not give him the batting crown yet. Remember these games still don't mean anything. -Debbie Downer

Submitted by navigator on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 03:02 am

and my deepest condolences to everyone who drafted Jarrod Saltalamacchia for their fantasy team.

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 03:08 am

made the Blue Jays as well, he was a Rule 5 draftee from our organization. We'll see if he sticks all year though.

Submitted by George Altman on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 03:22 am

Well, I was for getting Roberts mainly for what he would bring to the top of the lineup offensively. As long as the price was reasonable (e.g. Veal, Gallagher, and 1 of EPat, Cedeno, Murton), OK. Asking 4 or 5 players for one slightly above average second baseman is McPhail just being baseball retarded. My guess is Andy will regret not making this move by July when the O's are 25 games out of 1st, dead in the water, and it's a buyer's market for his expensive castoffs. Nonetheless, the bright side is Hendry still has all his top and mid-level prospects from which to deal with between now and July 31st. My guess, again, is that Jimbo's going to need them for his starting rotation and LH hitting off his bench and middle infield. The 'pie in the sky' hope is that Gallagher, Samardzija, and/or Veal could be ready to step into the rotation and/or bullpen by mid-July. Until then, I hope Angelos and McPhail choke on Roberts.

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Submitted by Dr. aaron b on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 03:38 am

Couldnt have said it better myself. I have a gut feeling that negotiating with McFail would be like negotiating with the IRS or a Skilled Tax attorney. Or a petulant 5 year old for that matter.

Submitted by navigator on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 03:50 am

March 23 San Diego North County Times "Prior will continue to pitch every five days and may face live hitters soon. He hopes to rejoin the team in May" March 27 Padres put MP on 60 day DL "The flame-throwing Prior is not expected to pitch until June at the earliest."

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Submitted by Doug Dascenzo on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 03:55 am

"flame throwing"? Wasn't he down around 89-90 the last time we saw him. Even Padres' beat writers are more concerned with sun/surfing than baseball. Prior could be throwing towels on the PCH and no one in San Diego would even notice.

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Submitted by Timmer on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 03:15 am

So the BJs got rid of Reed Johnson and Buck Coats makes their 25-man. What do you make of this? Coats is a left-handed hitter.

Submitted by Jackstraw on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 03:32 pm

Q: Who pitches first in an MLB game, Mark Prior or Angel Guzman? A: None of the above.

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    i hated the almonte pickup, but he's 9-10 out of 12 for good outings, following a great spring.  hope he can keep it up.

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