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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 eight players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and two players 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
* Pete Crow-Armstrong 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 8 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2
* Cody Bellinger, OF  
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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Submitted by Mike Wellman on

I’ve been up pretty close at the KB circus here in Des Moines this week. After watching Tuesday night and yesterday afternoon from the camera well adjacent to the I-Cub dugout while our hero played 3B, I am hoping to perch in the LF corner this afternoon since he is penciled in at that spot and hitting leadoff today. Impressions so far: He is so damn disciplined at the plate! Not much glove-work at the hot corner; yesterday he swallowed an MLB popup off the bat of the game’s first hitter, fielded throws flawlessly to start a few rounds of the horn on Ks w/ no one on base, and recorded another PO on a PO of a baserunner adrift between 2nd and 3rd. As prodigious as his baseball talents may be his people skills. The kid knows how to handle himself. He’s as patient signing autos as he is at the plate. I think he’ll clout one today to remember him by and then be gone, leaving the I-Cubs to finish a season in which they are, so far, undefeated w/ him on the roster and 47-85 without him. Duensing, by the way, pitched well yesterday, if anybody cares. I’ve been up pretty close at the KB circus here in Des Moines this week. After watching Tuesday night and yesterday afternoon from the camera well adjacent to the I-Cub dugout while our hero played 3B, I am hoping to perch in the LF corner this afternoon since he is penciled in at that spot and hitting leadoff today. Impressions so far: He is so damn disciplined at the plate! Not much glove-work at the hot corner; yesterday he swallowed an MLB popup off the bat of the game’s first hitter, fielded throws flawlessly to start a few rounds of the horn on Ks w/ no one on base, and recorded another PO on a PO of a baserunner adrift between 2nd and 3rd. As prodigious as his baseball talents may be his people skills. The kid knows how to handle himself. He’s as patient signing autos as he is at the plate. I think he’ll clout one today to remember him by and then be gone, leaving the I-Cubs to finish a season in which they are, so far, undefeated (at home) w/ him on the roster and 47-84 without him. Duensing, by the way, pitched well yesterday, if anybody cares.

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Submitted by Mike Wellman on Thu, 08/30/2018 - 08:01 am

Bizarre - missing words in the post magically reappear when I try to edit them back in. I give up. Something is always amiss. Not much glove-work at the hot corner, is what I tried to say.

Submitted by Hagsag on Thu, 08/30/2018 - 08:56 pm

Cubs trade Gimenez to the Twins for C Bobby Wilson. Wilson is currently on the DL. Mazzoni DFA.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 08:35 am

Bobby Wilson (sprained ankle) was placed on the Twins 10-day DL on 8/24, so he will be eligible to be reinstated on Monday 8/3. (Days spent on the previous club's DL counts toward the minimum number of days a traded player must spend on the DL).

Since the MLB Active List ("25-man roster") expands to a maximum of 40 players on September 1st, no corresponding roster move on the Cubs MLB Active List will be required when B. Wilson is reinstated from the DL. 

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 08/30/2018 - 08:38 pm

ohtani cleared to start for LAA on sunday.

so stoked he's getting to play as a true 2-way player.  he may not be at his best freshly cleared to pitch this sunday, but a guy who can do what he can do on the mound and with a bat...at age 23...wow.

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 08/30/2018 - 08:43 pm

given that they gave him up with club control left for a slightly better D catcher with slightly less bat upside compared to gimenez, the cubs probably didn't see a future for him on the 40-man going forward.  *shrug* dunno...  going by the numbers he wasn't exceptionally awful, but he was underperforming for a 28 year old in AAA.

Submitted by tim815 on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 08:59 am

The Cubs added Wilson as an emergency catcher, which is protocol.

 

Someone had to get thwacked. Iowa's season isn't completed. I wish there was another way, but who else was going to "get it"?

 

Line up Mazzoni's numbers against most guys getting DFAd, he's rather good. Baseball myopia tends to ignore who other teams thwack.

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  • crunch (view)

    no days off til may 9th.  moves may happen if the pen gets too worked tomorrow.

  • Cubster (view)

    On top of all that…Wicks scratched for Sunday due to “forearm soreness.” Bullpen day again starting with Mervis or Wisdom (or Wesn).

  • crunch (view)

    "Morel told reporters after the game that he felt alright, just a little banged up — specifically noting his right hip and both elbows. He did say that he was optimistic about his ability to play on Sunday, though manager Craig Counsell may have other plans."

  • crunch (view)

    rsox putting pablo reyes up to pitch...an infielder...cranking 70+mph stuff.

    ...and of course he gets out of it with no runs scored...that kind of day for the cubs.

  • crunch (view)

    ...and wisdom replaces mervis on the mound to try to get the last out.

    busch is at 3rd, but i wouldn't read too much into that.

    wisdom's thrown a couple in the 80s (one of them 88mph), but both missed the strike zone badly.

  • crunch (view)

    matt mervis is no david ross on the mound.

    cubs run differential getting destroyed.

  • crunch (view)

    matt mervis pitching...wisdom replaces morel at 3rd.

    he's featuring some high-50s thunder on the fastball.

    through 15 pitches, he's straight up throwing BP...all mid-high 50s lobs.  no way he's going to jose canseco himself out of a job.

    on pitch 21 he railed a 75mph fastball missing high on a 0-1 count.  ha.

  • crunch (view)

    he's hugging canario in the dugout cuz morel will shrivel up and die if he doesn't hug at least a dozen people a day.

  • crunch (view)

    and morel is injured...nice.

    morel trying to play LF from 3rd...runs into canario while leaping and comes down ribs/arm-first.

    hopefully he sticks around to finish this terrible game, or at least is going to avoid the IL.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Amen to that last point!

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