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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

Last updated 4-18-2024
 
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PITCHERS: 13
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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Dodgers @ Cubs: Urias vs Hendricks (Game 52)

Hendricks (aka, Baby Maddux, El Professor) goes for the series win.

LAD (28-26): LHP Julio Urias (0-0, 10.13)
CHC (36-15): RHP Kyle Hendricks (3-4, 2.93)
First pitch: 1:20pmCST

Hendricks went 9 complete against the Phillies on Saturday, allowing only 1 ER on 5 hits, while striking out 7 and walking none. He came one right field bloop/team error away from doing his Maddux imitation but ended up throwing a still-efficient 104 pitches. He went 2-2 with a 2.23 in May. The Dodgers are 5-28 (.179) against him. Turner is 2-5 and Gonzalez is 1-2, both with a HR.

Things didn’t go as planned for the 19y/o Urias in his debut, lasting only 2.2 and giving up 3 ER to the Mets in New York. Doing that would probably be the “best day of my life,” too, as he said afterward. The Dodgers promptly sent him back to AAA, but the injury to Wood means he’s back.

Maeda, who was scheduled to go today, is moved to tomorrow to face the Braves, even though it seems like it would have been much better for the kid to face a shitty team at home than to see the Cubs at Wrigley. But who am I to judge.

Bradley (2-0, 6.11) and the D’Backs versus Lackey (5-2, 3.16) to open the weekend series tomorrow at 1:20pmCST. Hammel's hamstring is good to go for Saturday, after a cramp ended his last start in the third inning.

Go, Cubs!

Comments

Trib article this am mentions that Kyle Hendricks has been nicknamed "El Professor" (by Pedro Strop). Baby Maddux still works for me.

Dodgers Pitching... Man, the Dodgers seem to always have some good people scouting arms. Urias signed at 16; Kershaw, Baez, Hatcher, Jansen, Jose de Leon, Grant Holmes The Cubs have... Ummm... Duane Underwood? Pierce Johnson? Carson Sands?

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In reply to by The E-Man

On the other hand they have a terrible offense and not a lot of hope in the pipeline. It's all a trade-off I suppose with what you focus on. Hopefully now that we have a great, young offensive base they can focus on pitching.

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In reply to by The E-Man

McCleod actually just said today that pitching is going to be a focus moving forward and that they need to do a better job identifying and developing pit ching so that's good to hear. They don't have a pick till the 3rd round this year though.

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In reply to by johann

Interesting how longtime legacies continue: Dodgers could always pitch (dating back to Koufax/Drysdale) but struggled to hit, Red Sox could always hit (dating back to Ted Williams!) but struggled to pitch. The ballparks may have something to do with that....

Not sure if it's been mentioned but looking like Hammel will be able to pitch his next start and Wood is back available in the bullpen today. Rondon is going to throw today and then Cubs will see if he needs some time off for his back.

Always on the lookout for minor-league pitching prospects--especially starters--who miss bats, a commodity not in great supply, it must be said, in the Cub system under the current regime. So along comes Pedro Araujo (6-3, 214, righty, just shy of 23 years, out of the DR), called up to South Bend on May 27. Last year at Eugene, Araujo struck out 70 in 50.1 innings, yielding 43 hits and 9 walks. At SB so far, he has notched 8 K's in 5 innings with no hits and a walk. Purely a reliever, so far. Someone to keep an eye on now that he's surfaced in A-ball.

When Urias is making his Hall of Fame Speech, he'll fondly recall this game as the one that humbled him and pushed him to work harder.

That was an unusual swinging-bunt for Bryant to choose to turn into a no-play. Didn't seem to have any chance at all of going foul, and seemed to get out to him fast enough to conceivably have some shot at 1st.  I'm sure he had a better read on it than me, just seems an inordinately hard-hit squib to give up on....

Gotta say that it looked like Baez really expanded his "strike" zone after hitting that home run (swinging strike three on a fastball several inches high of the zone). Of course, that second called strike several inches off the inside part of the plate didn't help him in his quest to learn plate discipline.

37-15...unf. a well rested pen and with t.wood pitching an inning it seems hammel is assumed good to go.

I think with that win, the Cubs are like 36-3 against good teams....might be off a few games.

Although we beat Greinke in the first week of the season (Kyle Hendricks won 4-2 and the Cubs scored 3 runs in the first)...He's back on track lately. We might have dodged another bullet vs the Diamondbacks, given that we didn't face KKershaw in the LA series. Zack Greinke pitched for AZ today, so he's not going in the weekend series. AZ won 3-0. vs. Astros: 7 IP, 4H, No Runs, No walks, 11K

El Professor's WHIP is now 0.92 -- good for 3rd in the NL. Last year, he was tied for 11th best WHIP in the NL. Not bad for a #5 starter (full disclosure: as a fellow Dartmouth alum, I'm biased...)

Recent comments

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Mastrobuoni can't come back, yet

    Wisdom does have an option left. He can hide in Iowa if Jed DFA's someone else

    Does Brennan Davis get shown the door? I know it's too early for that, but these injuries are crunching the roster of a 12-7 team playoff demands and BDavis isn't going to help anytime soon.

    Someone has to go to add Peralta. And Canario isn't going to get to play everyday regardless of RHers or LHers. Neither is Tauchman. Also don't see PCA getting a chance over Peralta.

    If Jed does those moves:

    4 OF: Belli, Peralta, Canny, Tauch

    2 C: Gomes and Amaya

    2 DH: Cooper and Mervis

    5 INF: Busch, Nico, Dansby, Morel, Madrigal

    Little short on OF depth but two injuries will do that  

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I have had the pleasure of watching some of the young A's pitchers lately (first Joe Boyle the last day of Minor League Spring Training in March, and more recently Luis Morales last week and Steven Echavarria yesterday at Extended Spring Training), and it reminds me of the Miami Marlins a couple of years ago. A really nice collection of young pitchers. It will be interesting to see what the A's will get for two years of ex-Cub Paul Blackburn at the Trade Deadline (there should be a robust market for Blackburn). 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Good deal

    MB needs some talent infusion!

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Very possible. Suriel, too. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    DJL: if a pitcher is recalled to be the 27th man for a doubleheader and then is optioned back to the minors the next day, the 15-day "clock" does NOT reset. The one day call-up for the doubleheader is treated like it never happened with respect to a pitcher having to spend at least 15 days on optional assignment before he can be recalled. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Probably the only reason David Peralta is still in the organization (he is at AAA Iowa) is to be available in case anything bad were to happen to Ian Happ (which it just did). So if Happ needs to go on the IL, the Cubs can select Peralta to play LF, DFA Wisdom (and hope he and what remains of his $2.725M salary gets claimed off waivers), and recall Mervis to platoon at DH with Cooper (with Canario / Tauchman sharing RF), at least until Suzuki and Happ are back...

     

  • crunch (view)

    i'd just like to take a moment to express to the world i'm still pissed willson contreras is not a cub when the pricetag was 5/87m (17.5m/yr).

    it would be nice to have a legacy-type player to stick around, especially one with his leadership and the respect he gets from his peers.  cubs fans deserved more than 1 season of contreras + morel...that was gold.

  • crunch (view)

    happ, right hamstring tightness, day-to-day (hopefully 0 days).

    he will be reevaluated tomorrow.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    I guess I'm not looking for that type of AB 

    Just a difference of opinion

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    I don’t see Tauchman as a weak link in any position. He simply adds his value in a different way.

    I don’t know that we gain much by putting him in the outfield - Happ, Bellinger and Suzuki and Tauchman all field their positions well. If you’re looking for Taucnman’s kind of AB in a particular game I don’t see why it can’t come from DH.