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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full), plus two players are 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

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PITCHERS: 14
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 
* Justin Steele, P   

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Major League Playoffs to Begin; Cubs, Rays Hold Down Top Spots

Submitted by Cubnut on

You are traveling through another dimension...

Having shared baseball's best, regular-season record, the Cubs and the surprisingTampa Rays, making their first-ever trip to baseball's post-season, enter the 2008 playoffs assured of home-field advantage in the first two rounds.

In the NL, Lou Piniella's Cubs, reaching the post-season in consecutive years for the first time since 1908, when they also won their last World Championship, will hope to continue their superb play at Wrigley Field this season as they host their National League Division Series with the NL West champion, Arizona.

Florida, which won the NL East and left the division's prohibitive pre-season favorites, the Mets, in the dust, will host the Cardinals, the NL Wild Card winner and another unexpected participant in baseball's playoff derby.

...a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind.

In the ALDS, Tampa will host the almost-as-surprising White Sox, while the Angels will host the Red Sox, the defending World Series champs and this year's AL Wild Card team.

A journey into a wondrous land of imagination.

It's impossible, at least for a Chicago baseball fan, to look at this year's post-season field and not imagine a Cubs-White Sox World Series match-up. If it comes to pass, it will be a replay of the 1906 series, in which the White Sox dumped the Cubs, four games to two.

The '06 White Sox were known as the "Hitless Wonders" for compiling a .230 team batting average, lowest in the AL. This year's edition of the team also won despite an often feeble offense that featured three regulars, Nick Swisher, Jim Thome, and Paul Konerko, whose averages were barely above .200.

Cubs manager Lou Piniella has announced that Carlos Zambrano will start the first game of the Cubs/Arizona series, with Ryan Dempster taking the mound to start Game 2.

The rest of the Cubs rotation remains undetermined.

Next stop, the Twilight Zone.

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Comments

Submitted by navigator on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 05:09 pm

Bryan Roberts .262 .352 .417 28R 17RBI Cubs' 2B'ers .317 .400 .429 34R 31RBI Cubs are solid. JMHO but Hendry really wasted too much time on the big deal that never happened when anyone with eyes could see that CF was the problem he should have been fixing.

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Submitted by Charlie on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 05:13 pm

The only move I thought made sense that Hendry could've bothered looking into was signing Hiroki Kuroda as a free agent. Instead we got Lieber, who has been pretty good anyway. We looked set in CF with Pie and Patterson, as the only big bats available were Hunter and Andruw Jones, and, well, they don't really fit. The Cubs didn't have that much money to spend and really wanted a lefty slugger, not a righty. I definitely agree though that not getting Brian Roberts worked out pretty well.

Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 05:44 pm

anyone know what happened? from Rotoworld Troy Percival collapsed on the mound after striking out Brandon Boggs on Wednesday.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 05:46 pm

ah...Rotoworld just being retarded...can't even get the names right

Wheeler apparently injured himself after planting his left leg. He stood up and started limping around, but the Rays took him out of the game. It's unclear just how serious the injury is, but Dan Wheeler would likely assume the closing job if Percival misses time.

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Submitted by big_lowitzki on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 05:30 pm

Rob... it was Percival who got hurt, at least according to Dave Pinto:
Troy Percival just struck out Boggs looking, but on the third strike pitch fell over. At first I thought he just threw the ball hard, but he stood up and started limping. The Rays took him out of the game, and Wheeler comes on to try to finish the game. Watching in slow motion, it's clear that his left leg gave way after he planted and delivered the pitch. The Rays may need to find a different closer for a while.

Submitted by Chifan on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 05:47 pm

NL fans got it right at: C: Soto 1b: Berkman 3b: Chipper Got it wrong, but not badly at: 2b: Utley (Uggla) SS: Hanram (Furcal) Were really wrong: OF: Soriano, Fukudome, Griffey (should be McLouth, Holliday, Burrell) AL Fans are worse voters, they only got it right at: DH Ortiz SS Jeter Got it wrong, but not badly at: 1b Youkilis (Morneau) OF Manram/Ichiro (of the guys on the ballot these two are a tie for 3rd IMO, but Quentin deserves to go) 3b Arod (Crede, Does have the best numbers of the AL 3b with enough ab's to qualify for the batting crown but Arod will end the 1st half with better numbers anyways) Totally screwed up: C: Varitek (Mauer) 2b: Pedroia (Kinsler) OF Manram/Ichiro (Bradley) OF Vlad (Hamilton)

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Submitted by Charlie on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 05:00 pm

Agreed. Utley belongs there. Uggla and Utley's numbers are pretty similar right now, but Utley is the better defender. Soriano and Fukudome don't look like they belong in the All-Star game right now, though Fuki is doing everything anyone should've expected him to (he just doesn't have the pop to contend with other potential All-Stars). Of the Cubs, guys who should be shoe-ins are Zambrano, Marmol, and Soto. Guys who should probably back up the starters are A-Ram and Lee (though neither will probably make it, since Jones and Wright will likely be the 3B guys and Berkman and Pujols will man 1B). Theriot in at 4th? Really? Hanley, Rollins, Furcal, Tejada, Reyes, Drew... I mean, I like Theriot and all, he's a good, cheap player who hustles and is having a good year with the bat so far, but he beat out all but three of those guys?

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Submitted by WISCGRAD on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 05:41 pm

Then why not just pick him in 2000, he was the manager that year too? It also seems that Torre was not biased towards his own guys in this regard. I went back to the early 1990s and couldn't find a single instance of a non-starter or non-closer being selected to the All-Star game until Torre took Texas' Jeff Zimmerman in 1999. Bruce Bochy selected Scott Williamson that same year, but this is a borderline case since him and Danny Grave split closing duties that year. There were no set-up men selected in 2000, but in 2001 Torre took THREE - Jeff Nelson, Mike Stanton, and Paul Quantrill. Mike Remlinger made the NL team in 2002, Brendan Donnelly made the AL team in 2003, Tom Gordon was an AL member in 2004, and Justin Duchscherer made the 2005 team. None made it in 2006, but Hideki Okajami was selected in 2007 (via fan vote - note that Pat Neshek was also on the ballot).

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Submitted by Chifan on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 05:53 pm

and for me that is the tiebreaker. The fact is if Uggla was a household name and Utley was having a breakout year on the least popular team in MLB their voting results would also switch. The problem with the voting is that Home-field advantage in the WS is on the line and the average fan is either filling out a homer ballot (looking at you Bahston, Houston, and BCB type Cub Fans) or just voting for the people they hear about on Sports Center. If Selig wants to keep the "this time it counts" theme then the balloting for starters should be divided into a third between Fans, Players, and Media like the NFL does for the Pro bowl. Then let the manager pick the bench and pitchers.

Submitted by MikeC on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 05:01 pm

I did an all-star ballot just now but the question i have to ask is why does MLB allow you to vote 25 times? I find that dumb, but oh well. Chipper, Berkman, Utely/Uggla are pretty much no brainers to vote for. OF is really wide open so I gave votes to Fuku, McClouth, and Dunn. Someone from the Pirates (and the Reds) needs to go and its a hard decision between McClouth, Bay and Nady. Just an outstanding productive OF.

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Submitted by navigator on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 05:27 pm

Because they figure that even if you don't want them to spam your email account you'll probably forget to uncheck the boxes that give them that right at least once if you vote 25 times. It's all about marketing, not baseball.
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Submitted by MikeC on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 05:16 pm

Uhhhh cuz if you choose either one (You can vote 25 times!) you really can't go wrong. Both having outstanding seasons. Is that so hard to understand? Or. Do. You. Want. Me. To. Slow. It. Down. For. You?

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Submitted by big_lowitzki on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 05:23 pm

A no-brainer would mean that there is only one choice. But you gave two choices. It isn't too difficult to understand - you even gave two good examples of no-brainers along with your bad one. Chipper Jones and Lance Berkman are currently obvious choices to be starting in the all-star game at their respective positions. Neither Uggla or Utley are obvious choices to be starting, because they have each other to compete against. But maybe if you slow down a little more it will allow me to show you even more how you cannot have a "no-brainer" decision if two choices are equal.

Submitted by Tito on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 05:20 am

I just can't believe anyone would think picking Utley over Uggla would be in any way "wrong." Obviously Uggla is doing extremely well, but Utley's the best 2B in baseball.

Recent comments

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Players on the 40 can be recalled and be placed on the MLB Taxi Squad for one day, like for example if a club is unsure if a player might or might not be placed on the IL ("game time decision"). Like maybe Happ, for example. 

    Also, a player on the MLB Taxi Squad must be returned to his optional assignment the next day if he is not officially recalled to the 26-man roster. 

    The player is NOT paid at the MLB split rate and does NOT accrue MLB Service Time while he is on the Taxi Squad. Also, it is not considered to be an official recall / option back if he is not added to the 26-man roster. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Wesneski has not spent 15 days on optional assignment since he was optioned so he cannot be recalled unless he is replacing a player being placed on the IL or other MLB inactive list (Paternity, Bereavement / Family Medical, et al), a player who is traded, or a player who is claimed off waivers.

  • crunch (view)

    excited to see more power in the lineup.

    HOU going with 3 righty starters vs the cubs and their only lefty pen arm is hader.

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  • fullykräusened (view)

    More than 50 years ago (I'm old), I was in the audience when my HS choir performed the whole thing. (It was a really elite choir and director.) That was my first exposure to the piece. You're right, Sonicwind75, there is a lot more to it than "O Fortuna," just like there's a lot more to Beethoven's Ninth than the Ode to Joy, etc. Much if it, as you say, is bawdy: "O! O! Totus florio! Iam amori virginali, totus ardeo!" Basically, "I'm really horny for these virgins!" And the guys in the choir adopted the "Skoal"- type greeting from the tavern scene: "Wafna!" 

  • crunch (view)

    i would have pause if the cubs had a pitching squeeze.   as it is, they have more guys than they have roster.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Maybe Brewer

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    I don't think Jed would do that.

  • crunch (view)

    brewer has done nothing to keep him on the big league roster...imagine that's 1 guy gone.

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  • Childersb3 (view)

    Yeah it is.....sorry......closers don't throw 89mph

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  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Hmmm. Maybe my idea of transitioning Hendricks into a closer role isn’t so crazy.

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