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

28 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and twelve players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors. 

Last updated 3-26-2024
 
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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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TCR Friday Notes

A buck short and a day late....the story of my life. - A hat tip to reader Jacos for this link, but check out the Michael Barrett Blues over at Bricks and Ivy Radio. It's number four on their playlist to the right. - Aramis Ramirez is pegged as a breakout candidate this year due in part to his exceptional spring training numbers. The theory set forth by STATS, Inc. co-founder John Dewan is that a hitter with a slugging percentage 200 pts greater in the spring over his career numbers often has a better than normal regular season. We can only hope. - Check out the new MLB roundtable here at MVN. Me or one of the TCR writers will be making appearances about every three weeks and this week it was more useless predictions by yours truly. - Our minor league site, Road to Wrigley, has a new writer Mike Wellman who will be providing eyewitness accounts from Principle Park in Iowa. You'll see him in the comments here once in awhile and I'm sure some of his writing will find its way on the front page on occasion. - And congrats to brand new papa, TCR founder Christian Ruzich. - We're going to make our quota for the ad-free version of Parachat plus a bit extra, so thanks to everyone who donated. I'll announce the final tally next week.

Comments

Cubs WIn!! Good pitching Good Hitting good fielding Good Times!!!

Not being a smartass here but if Aram, who usually goes 30+ homers and @100 rbis has a breakout season, we are looking at a 05 Lee type of year. 45 - 50 homers 125 - 150 rbis. Maybe an outside shot at a triple crown? That would be nice.

yeah, that would be a breakout year definitely and he's certainly capable of it.

Rich:
That’s a sweet link Rob….thanks. I see Lilly is #9 in the Cy Young predictor too!
Lilly for Cy Young, Aram for triple-crown. My how the tune changes when the Cub's win a few games. Geesh. The Transaction Guy:
Hmm, we don’t comment as much when we win.
Maybe after last year everyone forgot what to do after a Cub's win. Cub fan 1: "What now?" Cub fan 2: "I dunno, do we drink?" Cub fan 1: "Hmm... yeah, that sounds right." The Chicago Cub's: Driving fans to drinking since the 1970's.

Thanks for the nod, Rob! Also, for the record that's Principal, not Principle, Park here in Des Moines, as in the insurance/annuity giant. It used to be Sec Taylor Stadium, in honor of a locally legendary late Sports Editor of The Des Moines Register in the days before corporate naming rights. Now they call it Sec Taylor Field @ Principal Park, which is also where Peter Piper picks pickled peppers by the peck whenever he's in town...I-Cubs home opener is next Friday the 13th...

jacos — April 7, 2007 @ 2:13 pm Cubs WIn!! Good pitching Good Hitting good fielding Good Times!!! and someone i know napped through the 2nd half!

3 and 2 with Lou! Roy Oswalt just came through for the Cubs with a complete game gem over the Cards. 20 ground ball outs! Now both of them are 1-4.

For the cynical fans: "Same view, new Lou." Of course, I don't think that way, I'm real optimistic about this year. But it's clever, you have to admit. Actually, it's not all that clever either, I got it from a Mountain Dew can... it said, "Same Dew, new view."

After going 0-4 with 4 K and an F-7 dropped fly ball on Opening Night and then not playing yesterday, Jake Fox was back behind the plate tonight and goes 4-5 with two doubles, two HR, and 5 RBI (plus a CS on defense), to lead Tennessee to a 10-6 victory over Jacksonville.

Sammy hit his first 2007 HR, a 2 run HR in the 6th tonight over Boston. It's ghostly weird seeing him and Lofton in the same lineup. Oddity #2 is that Jerry Hairston Jr started tonight giving the Ranger lineup an even stranger ex-cub twist. All we need is David Caruthers to visit in the Ranger dugout.

Wow, Big Z talking about being ahead in the count... since when has he ever worried about that?
"Today was way different," Zambrano said. "When you're ahead in the count and throw a lot of strikes, the game goes faster and it's easier for you.
And then here's a quote from Hall I found amusing:
"If he's going to pick himself to win the Cy Young, he'd better pitch like that," Milwaukee's Bill Hall said of the right-hander's preseason prediction.

Overall, Z pitched pretty well. What was disconcerting was how he seemed to lose his composure after that HR broke up his perfect game in the 4th...

That's pretty much standard operating procedure for Big Z. Throw a perfect game / no hitter through the first 4-7 innings of the game, then have a meltdown after the first hit. He'd probably be a much better pitcher if he wasn't so focused on the glory (Cy Young, perfect games, etc.).

For those old enough to remember the old " The Mary Tyler Moore Show"....Ted Baxter: "Please, Louuuuuuuuuuu"

Z would be a much better pitcher if he didn't walk batters. It's that simple. It would cut down on his pitch counts, his frustration, the damage done by homers he gives up etc. He's still good. He's just not quite the stud yet that so many Cub fans want/believe him to be.

I'm very encouraged though by Lou taking control of the situation when both Dempster and Z lost focus. Piniella went out there and got things straightened out mentally. That is exactly what a manager/leader is supposed to do. When you lose focus and forget the overall goal, the leader reminds you of the vision.

congrats ruz! * * * * * * * are these "good friday" notes? * * * * * * * have lou, can do uncle lou & wrecking crew * * * * * * * happy easter, good passover

We used to be Losers, Now we're LOUsers! (that didn't come out right, did it?...)

Did anyone catch Dusty doing the Twins game last week? He was touting the secret HR power of Louis Castillo and the batting prowess of Paul Bako. Classic. Lou it to it!

Bako and Castillo are both crafty veterans. Every ballclub could use a pair or two of them.

I was trying to find out if I could listen to a radio broadcast of games that aren't on WGN TV and found this notice:
(Hoping I did the HTML right....) Does anyone know if there's any way to hear the game?

Hell. Here's the notice: Effective May 1, 2001, Major League Baseball is prohibiting radio stations including WGN from providing streaming audio simulcasts of our baseball programming from our websites. These webcasts are being made available, for a fee, by Major League Baseball through their Gameday Audio package. (Details are available on the www.mlb.com website.) We regret that we are unable to continue presenting this service to our Internet listeners. Anyone know a work-around?

That is awesome, it's gonna look great on Aug/Sep T-shirts: "Sweet Lou's Wrecking Crew" w/a pic of Sori DLee Aram Barrett Murt/Cliffy standing shoulder to shoulder, a la Murderers' Row

And when it happens, and I don't see a dime, remember, you heard it here first (or actually, from DC60124 in post #30, but you know...)

and yeah, I thought BP were all over it, but that article with the blurb on Aram was a joke. The "monster year" line they gave was damn near the exact line from last year. Genius.

O. Julius, Would recommend dropping the $14.95 or whatever it is for MLB Audio. You get radio of every game of every team for the whole season + playoffs. That's about the only way around it. You won't find Cubs radio on the internet any other way.

"Oddity #2 is that Jerry Hairston Jr started tonight giving the Ranger lineup an even stranger ex-cub twist." Forgot to mention this, but I was in Phoenix a couple weeks ago for some Spring Training action, and was out at a club in Scottsdale (Suede, for anyone who knows the area), and in walks Barry Bonds with Jerry Hairston. Thought that was a little weird since they aren't teammates, nor have they ever been. The only connection I can think of is that they both have been implicated in HGH scandals. Interesting... Also, Bonds' head is even bigger in person.

and yeah, I thought BP were all over it, but that article with the blurb on Aram was a joke. The “monster year” line they gave was damn near the exact line from last year. Genius. I think you're confused on this one Tony.... BP's PECOTA projections came out before spring training although they do tweak them here and there, they also include percentages for improve, breakout and I think attrition. The PECOTA projections though have nothing to do with the Dewan's little stat toy that he discovered about players having slugging percentages 200 pts higher than their career averages. 2 separate entities that happened to cross paths in the same article. BP was just writing an article based off Dewan's findings and then threw in their PECOTA projections as a separate thing.

Recent comments

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    LHP Blake Weiman appears to have been the last cut from the AAA Iowa roster. He is with the Tennessee group at Minor League Camp.

     

  • crunch (view)

    bruce bochy is hobbling rather badly for a guy who's had 2 hip replacements.  his gait is extremely wonky taking the lineup card to the ump.

  • crunch (view)

    yeah, for me this isn't about who's better at 3rd.  it's madrigal, period.  for me it's about who's not hitting in the lineup because madrigal is in the lineup.

    occasional play at 3rd for madrigal, okay.  going with the steele/ground-ball matchup...meh, but okay, whatever.

    seeing madrigal get significant starting time...no thanks.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Yeah I am very disappointed Madrigal is starting. He has no business as a starter. He is AAA insurance, a back up at best. Sure his defense looks fine because he plays far enough in that his noodle arm isn’t totally exposed. It comes at the cost of 3B range.

    He’s garbage, and a team serious about winning would NOT have him starting opening day.

  • crunch (view)

    in other news, it took 3 PA before a.rizzo got his 1st HBP of the season.

  • Eric S (view)

    With two home runs (so far) and 5 rbi today … clearly Nick Martini is the straw that stirs the Reds drink 😳

  • crunch (view)

    madrigal at 3rd...morel at DH.

    making room for madrigal or/and masterboney to get a significant amount of ABs is a misuse of the roster.  if it needed to get taken care of this offseason, they had tons of time to figure that out.

    morel played almost exclusively at 3rd in winter ball and they had him almost exclusively there all spring when he wasn't DH'ing.

    madrigal doing a good job with the glove for a bit over 2 chances per game...is that worth more than what he brings with the bat 4-5 PA a game?  it's 2024 and we got glenn beckert 2.0 manning 3rd base.

    this is a tauchman or cooper DH situation based on bat, alone.  cooper is 3/7 with a double off eovaldi if you want to play the most successful matchup.

    anyway, i hope this is a temporary thing, not business as usual for the rest of the season.  it will be telling if morel is not used at 3rd when an extreme fly ball pitcher like imanaga is on the mound.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    There are two clear "logjams" in the Cubs minor league pipeline at the present time, namely AA outfielders (K. Alcantara, C. Franklin, Roederer, Pagan, Pinango, Beesley, and Nwogu) and Hi-A infielders (J. Rojas, P. Ramirez, Howard, R. Morel, Pertuz, R. Garcia, and Spence, although Morel has been getting a lot of reps in the outfield in addition to infield). So it is possible that you might see a trade involving one of the extra outfielders at AA and/or one of the extra infielders at Hi-A in the next few days. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    18-year old SS Jefferson Rojas almost made the AA Tennessee Opening Day roster, and he is a legit shortstop, so I would expect him to be an MLB Top 100 prospect by mid-season. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Among the relievers in the system, I expect RHRP Hunter Bigge at AAA Iowa and RHRP Ty Johnson at South Bend to have breakout seasons on 2024, and among the starters I see LHP Drew Gray and RHP Will Sanders at South Bend and RHP Naz Mule at ACL Cubs as the guys who will make the biggest splash. Also, Jaxon Wiggins is throwing bullpen sides, so once he is ready for game action he could be making an impact at Myrtle Beach by June.