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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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Bradley's Option Clause

Submitted by Rob G. on

Jon Heyman at SI claims to have seen Milton Bradley's contract, and says the clause that would automatically kick-in the third year is that he needs to spend fewer than 75 days on the disabled list in 2009 to guarantee the full amount.

When it was first reported, Wittenmyer said it was a multilayered set of clauses, so I'm guessing the wording and legalese is a little more complicated than just spending less than those 75 days, maybe there's something about it not being due to a specific injury.

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Comments

Submitted by crunch on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:29 pm

imo...3/30m for m.bradley is an insanely cheap price, especially with almost any out-clause for the team (and none for bradley in case he's exceeded his pay value by year 3). i don't think he's fit for a NL team or everyday OF, but at that price...phew...wow. before "OH SHIT! WTF MONEY AND BANKS AND BAILOUTS!" people were kicking around 3/40m numbers as a starting point even taking the injury risk into account.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:59 pm

meh...they're not that big. it's amazing how far upper-body fitting clothing and bras have come just in the past 10 years. according to the "women of my life" bra technology was moving faster than CPU speed technology over the same time period. =p ...that and they say now many girls are willing to shell out more loot for 3-5+ "good" bras rather than having a dozen they shop for like guys shop for tube socks. go cubs. go bewbs.

Submitted by navigator on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:05 pm

From the same article, Does Heymann have a HoF vote? No doubt where he comes down on Ron Santo, "Personally, I'll be the one crying if Ron Santo, who fielded his position brilliantly and gave so much to the game, has to watch (Jeff) Kent get into Cooperstown before he does."

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:16 pm

kent should be a 1st ballot HOF'r. this is "blyleeven-ism"...pure and simple. granted, no amount of kent-hate will keep him out of the hall after all he did while playing a decent 2nd...there's no "on the fence" with kent like bly... still...kent is a no-brainer HOF'r and kent not being a very friendly baseball guy with the media (and other players) doesn't take away from what he did on the field and at bat. the whole statement stinks, though i get the sentiment behind it...ron deserves it because he is a life-time baseball man who played damn well and stuck around for decades+ adding to the game. i don't think kent needed to be thrown under a bus to make that point, though...

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:23 pm

if by 1st ballot, you mean any player worthy of the HOF should be a first ballot HOF'r because nothing changes from the first ballot to the one that they get in on....

otherwise, he's pretty borderline in my opinion....Ryno hit nearly as well with better defense and far more "fame" and recognition in his career and it took him a few tries.

I think Kent's personality is going to keep him out w/o any obvious hallmarks to back him up.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:32 pm

jeff kent is *the* HR hitting 2nd baseman by a not-close margin...high on the all-time-all-player doubles list, too...he's no biggio there, though. and overall it all looks solid...the avg/doubles/ob% and though he was a "hitter's 2nd baseman" he managed to play there for a long time and do it well enough to not be a liability. he wasn't in the mike piazza class of defender.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:39 pm

well yeah, during a time when HR's were quite inflated...anyone who made a name for themselves from the mid 90's to mid 2000's with power is going to have to have something else to get them in, even if Kent is pretty vocal about wanting blood testing.

Robbie Alomar deserves it before Kent...think he's up next season for voting.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:58 pm

the game's been played for a over a 100 years and he's #1 by almost 100 vs. his peers. it's not like we're talking overshadowing his peers marginally. ...and i dont think r.alomar has much to worry about HOF-wise at all. he was pure awesome in every aspect of his game even if he wasnt hitting 20-30 homers a year.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:04 pm

he's got plenty to worry about, he was a general malcontent upstaging umps and went from slugging over .500 to unable to top .400 during the PED boom..

all that shit will come up next year or whenever he's eligible...

I think he's a no-brainer to get in, but the writers have their own whacked out agenda, like giving Jeff Kent an MVP...

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:05 pm

and I'm amused by your willingess to compare Kent to his 2nd base peers for HOF candidacy but it doesn't count for MVP voting...

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Submitted by The Real Neal on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:46 pm

WARP3's Sandberg 108.7 Alomar 132.6 Kent 110.2 Add 10 to Sandberg, 6 to Alomar and subtract 2 from Kent for baserunning, and that's about how they stand.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:48 pm

i don't see the connection, that's why. there is no argument on the planet you can make to me that would make mauer a MVP. your ideas about the MVP aren't in the public realm on whole and that showed firmly in the voting. ranking HOF members by their peers isn't an uncommon practice and is accepted without much debate.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:50 pm

common practice was to bat the fastest guy first and the most important stat was a player's batting average...

there's good reason to debate and question the common, often out-dated practices of baseball...

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:57 pm

well, just go back to the first comment where i don't see the two related. i don't think we'll ever live in a baseball world where a guy like mauer can win MVP with a season like last year just because he played a hard position well compared to his peers.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:03 pm

i don't think we'll ever live in a baseball world where a guy like mauer can win MVP with a season like last year just because he played a hard position well compared to his peers.

really? why do you think Pedria won it? because of  the 17 HR, 83 RBI's?

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:08 pm

and his D, and his running, and his playing in all but 5 games, and his average/ob%...and...because he plays 2nd but...while playing a 2nd helped him...it was everything else he did that got him to the point where him being a 2nd baseman made that aspect worth looking at. i remember saying pedoria would most likely win...lot of others, too. MVP is erratic in nature (1984 AL MVP, ted williams hitting .400 and finishing 2nd, *insert a dozen other ones*), but we're yet to see the kind of voting situation you subscribe to come close to being a reality. defensive handicapping just isn't on that level...yet. hehe...

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:59 pm

sorry, can't let this one go...

your ideas about the MVP aren't in the public realm on whole and that showed firmly in the voting.

well yes, the people that brought us MVP's Jimmy Rollins, Andre Dawson, Sammy Sosa, Jeff Kent and many other head-scratchers don't agree with me...clearly I'm in the wrong.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:03 pm

no one said you're wrong...i'm just saying you're in a minority that's been around a while but seem to be getting nowhere. i'm not calling "flat earth society" stupid or anything...i understand the argument...i just outright reject it and it doesn't seem i'm in the minority on the issue. it's a philosophy issue, not a right/wrong issue...

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Submitted by Chad on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 01:50 am

Cause without McGwire they would have never made the playo....ooooh yeah. They finished 6.5 games out of hte playoffs in 3rd place. Sosa carried that team himself. And if it wasn't for Bonds in 01, Sosa would have won again.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 01:59 am

last I checked baseball was played with anywhere from 9 to 20 players in any one game over a span of 6 months...

by your definition, Gary Gaetti deserved some votes.....

Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:44 pm

according to Randy Bush http://blogs.suntimes.com/cubs/2009/01/will_heilman_deal_end_peavy_ta.h… ''We've had no talks about Jake Peavy since they were well documented during the winter meetings,'' said Cubs assistant general manager Randy Bush, who was speaking for the team as general manager Jim Hendry returns from a trip to Italy. ''I don't anticipate anything happening with that.'' also says, Cubs won't even pick up the phone until ownership is settled. Same info about Bako and Rich Hill from earlier.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:23 pm

MLBTR

6:23pm: I just spoke to a source familiar with the Cubs' thinking.  Hopefully I can further douse the flames of the Peavy-Cubs rumors - the Cubs aren't planning to restart the Peavy talks, and none of their recent trades for pitching were related to Peavy.  Keep in mind that the team's ownership situation is far from resolved. - Tim Dierkes

 

Submitted by Ryno on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:12 pm

"Of course, I think odds are high Rich Harden will be doing the Mark Prior-spring-training-DL-trip around March 20th routine because he wasn't quite ready when spring training began." lol!

Recent comments

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Is it just me or does it seem that official scorers are becoming less likely to call a misplay an error? 

     

    Guess I've hit my cranky old-man phase in life.  "I remember back in the day when an error was an error.  Official scorers have gone soft.  Now where did I put my readers?!!??"

     

    Sidenote, maybe Bellinger should be a little more careful against the Astros.  That was the series last year that a play at wall put him on the IL.   

  • crunch (view)

    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.

    i already miss cooper, but yeah...the thin OF roster backup the team seems to want to carry probably got wisdom preference over cooper.  i could live without seeing wisdom at 3rd unless it's a blowout, though.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Things I've been wrong about:

    -Tauchman is fine as a 4th OF. I knew that. I just want a better LH DH option and he was really the DH for us until Seiya got hurt. I'm glad Mervis is getting a chance at it. Caissie is coming for that job for sure. But Tauchman continues to be highly useful as a 4th OF with Seiya being hurt

    -I wanted Yency to go to get guys at Iowa a chance. Guys like Palencia and Sanders or RileyT. Maybe even Hodge! But Yency has been better the last two plus weeks. He did hit 96 the other day. He was 93 in Texas to open the season.

    -Leiter has his split working enough. It just needs to stay there

    -I was surprised Jed picked Wisdom over Cooper. I wonder if this happens if Seiya wasn't hurt. Wisdom has more power. Cooper is the better hitter. Jed picked Wisdom and Wisdom had an option left as well.

    -Palencia just doesn't miss enough bats. Similar to ManRod, just two yrs younger. ManRod is killing AAA for TB right now!

    Things I got right so far:

    -Hendricks. Sorry Kyle. You got paid though!

    Jed, you missed there.

    -Smyly. If Jed could've traded him before or during ST, then he should have and saved some cash.

    -Mastro.  Not a LH DH. Pinch runner. Defensive utility. Maybe he's better than Madrigal but didn't get a legit chance to prove it.

    -Luke Little is good. He's had one bad outing. That's it. Needs to get better entering with guys on base. But he needs to stay in MLB.

    -Oh yeah....Morel is doing fine at 3B! He'll get better as well!!

  • crunch (view)

    bellinger "right rib contusion"

  • Childersb3 (view)

    South Bend just lost the lead in the bottom of the 9th on the weirdest scenario, ever.

    It's absolutely pouring rain....men on 1st and 2nd, 1out....JPatterson asks for a new ball, but no time out was called....he throws the old ball toward the dugout (not sure if it rolled out of play).....the ump declares the runners get two bases each so one run scores. Then a single up the middle ties the game.

    The rain was coming down in buckets at this point.

    Just weird

  • crunch (view)

    ...and bellinger is gone in the 7th because of that 2nd blown chance and the wall he bounced off of...

    hopefully his rib cage/shoulder feels better tomorrow, we just got happ back.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Phil,

    Any thoughts on Y. Rojas' stuff and Y. Melendez's game (I believe I've asked about him before, sorry)?

  • crunch (view)

    wow, things are moving fast.  hopefully it continues.

  • crunch (view)

    morel with 4 clean plays in 4 innings...showed off his 100000000mph arm a couple times.

    cody bellinger not having a good 4th, though...5 run leads are handy when your CF is making your pitcher have a 5-out inning.  2nd blown chance was ruled a hit even though it went in/out of his glove...1st was lost in the lights, also ruled a hit.

  • crunch (view)

    welcome back happ!  double off the wall 1st PA back.

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