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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full), plus one player is 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 3-28-2024
 
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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# 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 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 1 
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 1 
Caleb Kilian, P 

 



 

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M*A*S*H

Can Hawkeye Pierce be added to the coaching staff? It's not just incoming, we've finally got some outgoing from the M*A*S*H unit. Last week we added Kerry Wood to the bullpen (it's a miracle!) and now pinch hitter deluxe, Darryle Ward is in Colorado almost fully recovered from his calf/gastrocnemius muscle strain and just might be reactivated for the weekend. Darryle doesn't want to miss the high altitude hitting. Friday Morning Update on Aramis Ramirez follows... Under the tent with that big red cross sign was seen entering Angel Pagan with colitis and a bleeding ulcer, who has been prescribed to have a week of bedrest and is now on the DL. Aramis Ramirez missed a few games earlier in the year with wrist tendonitis. Back then they did a wrist arthrogram (dye injection XRay) to make sure no structures were torn. Now they've choppered him out to the big medical unit in Chicago to have that sore wrist examined. But with the minimal power the lineup has shown, any significant injury here is really scary. Wrist injuries tend to affect a hitters power, so this may be the explanation for what we haven't seen at the plate of late from ARam. Update: ARam had a MRI that didn’t show any structural problems and got a cortisone shot on the little finger side of his wrist. He out until Tuesday but no DL stint is planned. Recent visitor to the DL unit, Alfonso Soriano was found on the phone chatting with his little buddy Felix Pie and says that his quadriceps soreness is better and he's off crutches. He can't wait for his physical therapy appointments to start. Pitcher Sean Marshall's scratched cornea is better after wearing his eyeglasses for a few days. Now all he needs to do is pitch better than his last outing vs the Astros. In the chronic ward is Henry Blanco who's neck/cervical disc herniation is better and at last it seems he's better from his mysterious left shoulder ailment. They are looking to transfer him to a rehab assignment in about a week. If he gets past the KP and peeling potatoes without pain, he just might get back to the active roster. In the dog pound was last seen Will Ohman, who's barking shoulder had an MRI which showed some minor inflammation of the AC joint. He's still heading to AAA Iowa after a few days of rest. Transferred out to the good ship Hope's 60 day DL are Mark Prior (shoulder/Bankart repair surgery), Angel Guzman (medial elbow tendonitis/ulnar neuritis) and Roberto Novoa (scapula/shoulder blade fracture), who won't be joining the team anytime soon. A few more days of this sickly offense (losing 6 of 7 games) and I'll be cueing in the M*A*S*H themesong for us TCR bloggers...Suicide is Painless. The cure? We need to MASH alot of baseballs in Colorado.

Comments

Dr., they tell me that suicide is painless. Well, with all the pain we endure as Cub fans, I welcome the sweet relief of death!!!!

Great news that Soriano is off crutches already. He might make it back sooner than we thought, maybe he won't even miss more than the mininum.

And Dr. I have a question. Soriano says that he's a 'fast healer'. While I'm sure that some people do heal faster than others, would you not agree that part of what makes an athlete great is his/her body's ability to regenerate and heal faster? And that Soriano is a great athlete so it's easy to believe that he can come back faster than expected?

"What’s the latest on Ramirez? Stewart rumors?" According to ESPN 1000 Aram is on his way to Denver. He got a cortizone shot and most likely is out this weekend. As for Stewart, Buster Olney had a blurb in his blog where he doubts a trade will happen.

R. Theriot ss J. Jones rf D. Lee 1b M. Murton lf M. DeRosa 3b M. Fontenot 2b J. Kendall c F. Pie cf

game thread is up.... Sullivan said the Cubs won't know if they even won the claim for Stewart until this weekend.

Chad...some people are definitely fast healers so all the estimates as to time to recovery are just based on a collective experience with a type of injury and the extent of the injury. Still from what I've seen, at most we're talking a week or two less than the 4-6 wk estimate for Soriano given at the beginning of the week. Darryl Ward was expected to be out 6 weeks and he's back 2 weeks sooner...so it can happen. The key is not to have a reinjury if one returns too quickly.

I totally get that. I"m saying would you not equate athletic ability to recovering faster?

To a certain extent, I would think being in excellent physical condition helps the ability to heal an injury a bit but I'm not sure it's a universal. Particular if there are secondary medical conditions (which are sometimes silent or not publicized like Ron Santo's diabetes when he was a player). Plus you can use ballplayer comps (not sure any were similar to Soriano though) to see how long it takes to heal...just find someone who's got a quad strain of similar extent. Those were posted on a previous thread. Many were out about 5 weeks.

cubster. why do i imagine you wearing one of those groucho marx eyeglass/mustache/schnozz getups when writing this?

For anyone who has seen Kerry Wood pitch in his 2 appearances, how has he looked? Could he be a decent 6th - 7th inning pitcvher, with perhaps the ability to eventually be able to go 2 to 3 innings? Steve

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    steele MRI on friday.  counsell expects an IL stint.

    no current plans for his rotation replacement.

  • hellfrozeover (view)

    I would say also in the bright side column is Busch looked pretty good overall at the plate. Alzolay…man, that hurts but most of the time he’s not giving up a homer to that guy. To me the worst was almonte hanging that pitch to Garcia. He hung another one to the next hitter too and got away with it on an 0-1. 

  • crunch (view)

    amaya blocked like 6-8 of smyly's pitches in the dirt very cleanly...not even an exaggeration, smyly threw a ton of pitches bouncing in tonight.

    neris looking like his old self was a relief (no pun), too.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    In looking for bright spots the defense was outstanding tonight. The “stars” are going to need to shine quite a bit brighter than they did tonight offensively though for this to be a successful season.

  • Eric S (view)

    Good baseball game. Hopefully Steele is pitching again in April (but I’m not counting on it). 

  • crunch (view)

    boo.

  • crunch (view)

    smyly to face the 2/3/4 hitters with a man on 2nd in extras.

    this doesn't seem like a 8 million dollar managerial decision.

  • crunch (view)

    i 100% agree with you, but i dunno how jed wants to run things.  the default is delay.  i would choose brown.

    like hellfrozeover says, could be smyly since he's technically fresh and stretched.

    anyway, on a pure talent basis....brown is the best option.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Use pitchers when you believe they're good. Don't plan their clock.

    I'm sorry. I'm simply anti-clock/contract management. Play guys when they show real MLB potential talent.

    If Brown hadn't been hurt with the Lat Strain he would've gotten the call, and not Wick.

    Give him a chance. 

    But Wesneski probably gets it

  • crunch (view)

    alzolay...bro...