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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)   

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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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Recap of Monday Night's Game at Wrigley, By Way of the Twilight Zone

Submitted by Cubnut on

Monday night's game seemed otherworldly from even before the first pitch.

A Wrigley Field home game on a holiday at night? It made scheduling sense, given that the Cubs had to fly all the way east from San Diego following Sunday's game, but it still felt wrong.

Then the lineups were published and owing to a combination of illness, injuries, and an opposing lefthander, we saw Reed Johnson hitting cleanup and an infield of Freel, Theriot, Miles, and Hoffpauir. In other words, the stuff of split squad spring training games.

The game itself was pure freak show: Freddy Sanchez had six hits, Ryan Theriot had three doubles, Ryan Dempster had a dugout tantrum, Ted Lilly was ejected from a game in which he didn't pitch, Pittsburgh's Matt Capps was drilled by a wicked line drive off the bat of Geo Soto, Sean Burnett earned his first career save after 60 Major League appearances, and oh, yeah, the Cubs actually scored some runs.

On the flip side, Neal Cotts was knocked around, and the Cubs lost their eighth game in a row.

So there was something familiar in the air Monday night.

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Comments

Submitted by superjimmer on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 05:47 am

I think Lou is on the Dusty baker emotional cycle: 2009 Lou = 2005 Dusty. (Like Dusty, after two competitive but disappointing years the team will finish around .500. And it will start getting ugly.) Question: will Lou come back or retire if this year goes as bad as it is looking? - Jim

Submitted by jacos on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 05:52 am

Was at the game on the roof top last night. Not panicing yet. When I saw the pregame and saw the red hats, I was like wtf? But I remembered MLB wanted to market... I mean are fallen heroes. I can't wait to see what the Labor Day hats look like. The eagle was pretty cool I was hoping he would pick off one of the seagulls cirlcing the field so I could start a "USA! USA!" chant Miles sucks, sucks bad. I watched Bradley closely after the hr and his run to rf, the fans gave him a big cheer and he looked up and pounded his heart very intensely. He very consistent with his intesnsity. Other wise another bad game.

Submitted by Dmac on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 05:11 am

In honor of Rod Serling: "Offered for your inspection, consider the plight of an older man entrusted with the well - being of a group of relatively young men, all engaged in the sporting scene. Now this elderly man, one who has seen much success in his career so far, suddenly becomes enamored of one particular player, a player who inexplicably cannot perform even the simplest of tasks. This elderly man continues to rely on this same player, regardless of his immediate and prolonged failure at his job, to the consternation and frustration of the rest of the team. Will the elderly man finally see the error of his ways, or is his team doomed to failure because of his wayward and strange obsession?"

Submitted by Cubster on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 05:58 am

Neil Cotts just posted on his blog... "How I make the crowd appreciate Carmen Pignatello." --- can Z throw an inning every now and then with his left hand? --- It's fun watching Z pinch hit (the crowd really likes chanting 'Go Z') but with a runner in scoring position, 7th inning...how short is this team's roster if he's their 2nd (righty) pinch hitter off the bench. Sickening. The only other righty was Koyie Hill, so rock meet hard place. Still it's sickening. --- Also some subtle mistakes make it tough for a team to overcome, the Cubs are making too many. Last night Theriot didn't advance to 3rd on a slowly hit grounder to SS and subsequently didn't score. The next double he's on 2nd and tries to advance to 3rd on a sharply hit grounder to SS and gets thrown out a 3rd. Stupid baserunning and it amounts to losing baseball.

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Submitted by WISCGRAD on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 05:41 pm

Well, I don't think it's that cut and dry. You could just as easily say that Abreu has ZERO homeruns so far, and is likely to hit a few before the season is out. His slugging percentage is going to get a lot better. Also, Bradley has played in 3/4 of the games that Abreu has, and I would predict that their season totals end up similar to that given Bradley's history of injury and Abreu's history of health. Not to mention the fact that if the Cubs had Abreu instead of Bradley they would have $5 million more to spend and could have kept DeRosa or added depth somewhere else, which - in my opinion - would have been better than the slight downgrade from Bradley to Abreu. But that was just my opinion.

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Submitted by The Real Neal on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 05:14 pm

Had the Cubs been interested in Abreu he would have signed for more money.

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Submitted by WISCGRAD on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 05:33 pm

These scenarios are hard to figure out. Had the Cubs not signed Bradley, he would have signed elsewhere too, changing the market. If he signed for less than he did with the Cubs (likely) that would have driven down the price of outfielders. Also, had the Cubs offered Abreu THREE years as they did Bradley, they likely could have still gotten him for $5 this year. Hell, he might have even taken a pay cut to get more than one-year. Bradley will probably have an ok year, barring injury, I'm just saying that if I were GM, I would have done things a bit differently this off-season. I basically would have kept last year's roster with the exception of Abreu for Edmonds, Hoffpauir for Ward, Hill for Blanco, and a veteran who can play 2B-SS-3B well for Cedeno. I would have then put Marshall in the rotation for Marquis, and added a couple of bullpen arms - keeping Wuertz, but getting rid of Howry and Cotts. That's about it.

Submitted by navigator on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 05:09 am

He's back. Cincy just purchased Mark Pawelek's contract from the St. George (Utah) Roadrunners.

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