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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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Barrett Gets 10 Games

The long arm of MLB law reached out Friday and handed Michael Barrett a ten game suspension and an undisclosed fine. The only other player suspended for the fracas was White Sox outfielder Brian Anderson. Barrett rightfully appealed the suspension and will play in today's game versus the Braves. Hopefully MLB won't get around to hearing the appeal until Lee is back and hopefully MLB will reduce the suspension to a more appropriate 7 to 8 games. And if you want to be really annoyed by Andy McPhail, feel free and read this interview with the Trib. On the other hand, if you want to enjoy the 3 day weekend, just avoid that link. [UPDATE:] Tony Womack called up, Ryan Theriot sent down. I don't even have a joke here, actually I do, it's the previous sentence.

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I am really surprised Mabry did not a suspension or even a fine. Maybe they looked at his .186 batting average and figured he was suffering enough.

So can we assume Womack will be hitting second or leadoff today?

MLB should start hearing the appeals of suspensions the day the suspension is announced. I'm tired of these morons appealing and it not being heard for 3 months. Perhaps there should also be a penalty for losing an appeal - an extra game suspension. That would be a deterrent from wasting everyone's time.

Rob - what's inappropriate about 10 games vs. 8? And "rightfully appealed"? The link I read, at excite, says that Barrett doesn't even know what the basis for his appeal is, he's just going to appeal for the hell of appealing, because everyone knows that MLB will then mitigate it to 8, anyways. Announceing a 10 game suspension is the functional equivalent of actually giving an 8-gamer. So just give the 8-gamer already, and MLB thereby spares the world these mindless appeals.... Regarding Womack: Given that Hairston, Neifi, Bynum, and Theriot are Known "Not Answers" for second-base, what's the harm in trying another one? Seriously, here. Theroit has no part of our future plans, and he's as likely to help the Cubs lose, now, as any of the rest are. Maybe from an organizational perspective, it would be nice to see the Cubs promote/reward from within, but that's about all I see.

Since Womack was not on the 25 man roster, who gets the pink slip? Is this how in McFails words, we are going to do an Astro's kind of turn around. I am so sick of hearing that reference. For every Astro's type turnaround there are 50 examples of teams that continued to flounder, like this one will. I hear Manny Alexander is still around. That would be a great DP combo.

10 games seems excessive when compared to Tavarez's suspension in spring training. "rightfully appealed" because if he can delay the suspension until Lee comes back, then might as well make the system work for the team. I wasn't trying to open up a discussion on the B.S. that is the suspension/appeal process. It is what it is at the moment and might as well work it to our advantages. It's Tony Womack, enough said. I dont' care much for Theriot (although I'd like to see him get a chance to flash some of his defensive skills), but I'm beyond tired, sick, annoyed that the Tony Womack's (enrique wilson, neifi perez, etc, etc, etc) of the world keep finding work with the Cubs every year. It's a joke and not a very funny one.

Trans, I'd rather have Theriot get a shot, a guy who is young and unknown, than Tony effing Womack, who is 36, and is known to not get on base. This is not a team needing 1 guy at a fill-in spot for a week, we need to evaluate for the future.

Er, Sweet Suzy. You and Big Jim certainly think alike.

cubs.com has 42 players on the 40-man and one of them is someone named Miguel Negron. Who the hell is he?

actually 41, cause Miller is on the 60 day DL. I thought the Cubs were at 39 so moving Womack up shouldn't cost anyone a spot. This Negron fella though is interesting....

Rob - fair enough on the point about Lee's return, but by my estimation of the lenght of time he's still supposed to be out vs. the length of time for an appeal, I think it'll be a moot point - hopefully, I'm wrong. "Tony Womack" however, is not enough said. It's not Womack, or even the trend of Womack, Wilson, Perez, Harris, Ordonez (etc. etc.,) that I'm sick of, it's having a roster populated by so many marginal to bad players who have no prospect of helping our team in any noticable way. Maybe you guys know something about Theriot that I don't, but from my view, he's as likely to Womack in the most Womackian of ways, as Womack himself is....

well I'm going to assume Negron on the 40-man is a mistake, looks like he was with the Blue Jays organization and has played 3 games for the Jaxx starting on May 21st....

Pierre Perez Walker Barrett Jones Ramirez Bynum Cedeno Zambrano Please kill me.

The only thing wrong with a Theriot is you already have one in CF, one in LF, and one at SS. The Cubs, unbelievably, are looking for RBI's out of second base. He never had a chance.

The idea that the same person who posts as Big Jim is the same person as Sweet Suzy is really really creepy.

Perez at #2? Is Dusty trying to get himself fired?

often they wait until the team makes a trip to New York (or nearby), but the Cubs aren't going that way for awhile. I belive the next preferred option is to hear the appeal on an off-day which is June 1st or June 12th for the Cubs. So it's doubtful it will make a difference, but it can't hurt as far as I can tell.

Negron is on the 40 man roster. And he with his skills he should fit in nicely with our organization. AT HIS BEST, Miguel Negron homered three times in a row and set Fisher Cats records in a performance against the Binghamton Mets last season. At his worst, he was picked off first base on consecutive nights this season. The 23-year-old from Puerto Rico tantalized the Blue Jays with his major-league tools and lack of development. So when Toronto needed to create space on its 40-man roster, the center fielder became expendable. He has tools but his tools suck. He has shown no improvement or discipline and goes to the Jacque Jones and Moises Alou school of base running. But hey he is a leadoff hitter.........and he sucks at that....... Negron, a leadoff hitter who stole a team-high 23 bases last season, never showed much patience at the plate. His on-base percentage was only .266 with New Hampshire. He walked five times compared to 25 strikeouts.

That lineup has to be a misprint. Would the Dusty Defenders please come out from underneath their bagged heads and defend Pierre and Perez at the top of the order.... uneffingbelievable

At this point in the season, every game that a Known Scrub starts in LF over Murton, who may or may not become something more than a Known Scrub, is a game that justifies firing Dusty.

#15 of 19: By Rob G. (May 26, 2006 12:47 PM) well I'm going to assume Negron on the 40-man is a mistake, looks like he was with the Blue Jays organization and has played 3 games for the Jaxx starting on May 21st.... -- ROB G: The Cubs claimed Miguel Negron off waivers last week, and he was optioned to AA West Tenn. Negron was a one-time Blue Jays #1 pick in the Rule 4 Draft (2000), back when Cubs Scouting Director Tim Wilken was Scouting Director with the Blue Jays. So that's the connection. Negron was rated the Blue Jays best defensive outfielder, with the strongest arm, and the fastest runnner, by Baseball America. He would be best-compared to Angel Pagan, but Pagan is a better hitter. As far as making room on the 40-man roster for Womack, as I posted on a previous thread, the Cubs can just transfer Mark Prior to the 60-day DL. Time Prior has spent on the 15-day DL (exactly 60 days so far, BTW) is considered part of the 60 days, so the Cubs could transfer Prior to the 60-day DL today and reactivate him tomorrow if that was something they wanted to do.

Womack sucked when he was with the Cubs in 2003, then had an astounding, completely out of character 2004 for the Cardinals (who get all of the Cubs good luck quotient) and the Cardinals were wise enough to know the odds on that repeating were slim and none and let him go steal a lot of money from the Yankees. This monomania for speedy contact hitters with no power or patience is evidence that neither Dusty or Jim Hendry or Andy McPhail have any ability to judge what makes a good major league player.

Someone help me here - but wasn't Mabry mauled by WHite Sux outfielder Scott Podsednik? No suspension for Pods?

Hey Dusty!! Here's an idea, why not bat Murton second, and put Bynum at SECOND BASE?????!!!!! Dusty Baker is dumber than a sack of hammers!!!

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433- That is funny....it'd be funnier if it wasn't true....

These guys are so flamingly incompetent that they've completely eliminated all the casual fan interest they gained after 2003. I hope everyone who defended these guys each step of the way down is satisfied. It's hard to believe that people who get paid to live baseball, breathe baseball, and win baseball games can be so stubborn regarding what does and does not contribute to that end. I almost hope Womack tears it up for the remainder of the year and guarantees himself a spot on the 2007 club. (Possibly the 2009 club as well, seeing how Neifi's still cashing in off the best 65 PAs of his career.)

Womack... Neifi... that ought to... oh hell. How can you not laugh? It's high-larious. Since I have Tim Hudson starting for my $ fantasy team today and the Cubs are almost best off losing out at this point ... go Braves?

Someone help me here - but wasn't Mabry mauled by WHite Sux outfielder Scott Podsednik? No suspension for Pods? I thought it was Anderson and Mabry seemed to be an innocent bystander who got dragged into it by Anderson (or Podsednik).

Perez is batting 2nd!!!!! NEIFI FREAKIN .195 BA PEREZ IS BATTING 2ND!!!!!

Really, I don't think it's much more than throwing darts at this point and seeing what players they hit...and those start. Nothing is working...we lose if Neifi plays, we lose if he doesn't...we lose if Murton is playing, we lose if he isn't. I agree that considering nothing is working...we should play those who have the best chance at being useful to the Cubs in the future...but in the scheme of things...This lineup gives me no more reason to dislike Dusty more then I did yesterday...it's impossible to put together a good line up with this bunch of underachievers.

Brendly says Jones made the right decision by catching a ball on the warning track, instead of letting it bounce off the wall. Have things really gotten so bad, that we need to praise people for catching routine flyballs? don't answer that.

Don't worry Dusty on WGN radio said Womack will be starting at 2nd base a majority of the time and bat #2. Only reason he isnt playing today is because Hudson is tough on righties. So Womack is our new starting 2nd baseman and #2 hitter. Theriot didnt even get one chance to start and is cast aside. That is the stupidity of our organization. That is why they are losing in a nutshell. Dumbass decisions like this.

theriot isnt worth the number on the back of his uniform...hell, bynum has more upside and that's a joke in itself. theriot can play SS/2nd/CF-LF and run...take the occasional walk. his main stregnth, besides resting another fielder, is his above average speed. he's barely auggie ojeda with just a touch of speed. he has absolutely no strength to his stroke and he doesnt even make solid contact. nothing about playing him regularly in a MLB uniform will change that and at this point in his career a minor league uniform probally won't help it either. any decision involving theriot isnt really worth worrying about at all unless he's your everyday starter.

Did Dusty really say Womack is going to play everyday and bat 2nd? Kill me now....

Womack?? Come on, what's this going to solve? I still do not understand why the organization won't give Mike Fontenot a shot? He's hitting .315 at Iowa and he has a lot more pop than Theriot. (.382 OBP and .445 SLG) The only real enjoyment I've gotten out of this season has been watching Murton, Cedeno and Marshal play. This seaon is going nowhere and the organization might as well try some more youth. Fontenot at second!!

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  • 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.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Here are the Cubs pitchers reports from Tuesday afternoon's Cardinals - Cubs game art Sloan Park in Mesa:

    SHOTA IMANAGA
    FB: 90-92 
    CUT: 87-89 
    SL: 82-83 
    SPLIT: 81-84
    CV: 73-74 
    COMMENT: Worked three innings plus two batters in the fourth... allowed four runs (three earned) on eight hits (six singles and two doubles) walked one, and struck out six (four swinging), with a 1/2 GO/AO... he threw 73 pitches (52 strikes - 10 swing & miss - 19 foul balls)... surrendered one run in the top of the 1st on a one-out double off Cody Bellinger's glove in deep straight-away CF followed one out later by two consecutive two-out bloop singles, allowed two runs (one earned) in the 2nd after retiring the first two hitters (first batter had a nine-pitch AB with four consecutive two-strike foul balls before being retired 3 -U) on a two-out infield single (weak throw on the run by Nico Hoerner), a hard-contact line drive RBI double down the RF line, and an E-1 (missed catch) by Imanaga on what should been an inning-ending 3-1 GO, gave up another run in the 3rd on a two-out walk on a 3-2 pitch and an RBI double to LF, and two consecutive singles leading off the top of the 4th before being relieved (runners were ultimately left stranded)... threw 18 pitches in the 1st inning (14 strikes - two swing & miss, one on FB and the other on a SL - four foul balls), 24 pitches in the 2nd inning (17 strikes - three swing & miss, one on FB, two SPLIT - six foul balls), 19 pitches in the 3rd inning (13 strikes - seven swing & miss, three on SL, two on SPLIT, one on FB - three foul balls), and 12 pitches without retiring a batter in the top of the 4th (8 strikes - no swing & miss - four foul balls)... Imanaga throws a lot of pitches per inning, but it's not because he doesn't throw strikes...  if anything, he throws too many strikes (he threw 70% strikes on Tuesday)... while he gets a ton of swing & miss (and strikeouts), he also induces a lot of foul balls because he doesn't try to make hitters chase his pitches by throwing them out of the strike zone... rather, he uses his very diverse pitch mix to get swing & miss (and lots of foul balls as well)... he also is a fly ball pitcher who will give up more than his share of HR during the course of the season...   
     
    JOE NAHAS
    FB: 90-92 
    SL: 83-85 
    CV: 80-81 
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day... relieved Imanaga with runners at first and second and no outs in the top of the 4th, and after an E-2 catcher's interference committed by Miguel Amaya loaded he bases, Nahas struck out the side (one swinging & two looking)... threw 16 pitches (11 strikes - two swinging)...   

    YENCY ALMONTE
    FB: 89-92 
    CH: 86 
    SL: 79 
    COMMENT: Threw an eight-pitch 5th (five strikes - no swing & miss), with a 5-3 GO for the first out and an inning-ending 4-6-3 DP after a one-out single... command was a bit off but he worked through it...   

    FRANKIE SCALZO JR
    FB: 94-95
    CH: 88 
    SL: 83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 6th inning... got the first outs easily (a P-5 and a 4-3 GO) on just three pitches, before allowing three consecutive two-out hard-contact hits (a double and two singles), with the third hit on pitch # 9 resulting in a runner being thrown out at the plate by RF Christian Franklin for the third out of the inning... 

    MICHAEL ARIAS
    FB: 94-96
    CH: 87-89
    SL: 82-83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and allowed a hard-contact double on the third pitch of the 7th inning (a 96 MPH FB), and the runner came around to score on a 4-3 GO and a WP... gave up two other loud contact outs (an L-7 and an F-9)... threw 18 pitches (only 10 strikes - only one swing & miss)... stuff is electric but still very raw and he continues to have difficulty commanding it, and while he has the repertoire of a SP, he throws too many pitches-per-inning to be a SP and not enough strikes to be a closer... he is most definitely still a work-in-progress...   

    ZAC LEIGH: 
    FB: 93-94 
    CH: 89 
    SL: 81-83 
    CV: 78
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and tossed a 1-2-3 8th (4-3 GO, K-swinging on a sweeper, K-looking on another sweeper)... threw 14 pitches (11 strikes - one swing & miss - eight foul balls)... kept pumping pitches into the strike zone but had difficulty putting hitters away (ergo a ton of foul balls)... FB velo is nowhere near the 96-98 MPH it was a couple of years ago when he was a Top 30 prospect, but his secondaries are better...   

    JOSE ROMERO:  
    FB: 93-95
    SL: 82-84
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 9th (14 pitches - only six strikes- no swing & miss) and allowed a solo HR after two near-HR fly outs to the warning track, before getting a 3-1 GO to end the inning... it was like batting practice when he wasn't throwing pitches out of the strike zone...

  • crunch (view)

    pablo sandoval played 3rd and got a couple ABs (strikeout, single!) in the OAK@SF "exhibition"

    mlb officially authenticated the ball of the single he hit.  nice.

    he's in surprisingly good shape considering his poor body condition in his last playing seasons.  he's not lean, but he looks healthier.  good for him.

  • crunch (view)

    dbacks are signing j.montgomery to a 1/25m with a vesting 20m player option.

    i dunno when the ink officially dries, but i believe if he signs once the season begins he can't be offered a QO...and i'm not sure if that thing with SD/LAD in korea was the season beginning, either.

  • crunch (view)

    sut says imanaga getting the home opener at wrigley (game 4 of the season).

  • crunch (view)

    cubs rolling out the who's who of "who the hell is this guy?" in the last spring game.

  • videographer (view)

    AZ Phil, speaking of Jordan Wicks having better command when he tires a bit, I remember reading about Dennis Lamp 40 years ago and his sinker that was better after 3 or 4 innings when he would tire a bit and get more sink with a little less speed on the pitch.  The key for Lamp was getting to the 4th inning.