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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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# bats both

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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Cubs Get 2008 Season Started at Fitch Park

With security understandably tight (well, there was one off-duty Mesa cop in the players parking lot), the Cubs had their first "official" work-out of the 2008 season under mostly cloudy skies (around 60 degrees, with a wind chill of about 59) this morning at Mesa's Fitch Park, as Pitchers & Catchers and eight position player "early birds" took the field. It was a smaller crowd than usual for the first day (maybe about 40 or 50 fans), but at least nobody got arrested. As usual, the pitchers were broken up into four groups, and rotated from Field #2 (PFP - practice covering first base) to Field #3 (pick-off practice) to the pit (side-throwing), under the eagle-eye supervision of coaches Larry Rothschild and Lester Strode and ST instructors Mark Riggins, Mike Mason, and Dennis Lewallyn. GROUP: 1: Edward Campusano Scott Eyre Adam Harben Rich Hill Jon Lieber Carlos Marmol Kerry Wood Carlos Zambrano GROUP 2: Ryan Dempster Chad Fox Bob Howry Ted Lilly Jason Marquis Sean Marshall Michael Wuertz GROUP 3: Neal Cotts Kevin Hart Geoffrey Jones Tim Lahey Juan Mateo Billy Petrick Shingo Takatsu GROUP 4: Jose Ascanio Esmailin Caridad Jose Ceda Carmen Pignatiello Jeff Samardzija Mike Smith Les Walrond Angel Guzman (who is rehabbing from TJ elbow surgery) definitely did not participate, and I don't recall seeing Sean Gallagher with any of the groups, either, although I might have missed him. Meanwhile, the catchers were working hard out on Field #4 with Matt Sinatro and Minor League Catching Coordinator Casey Kopitzke. This group included: Henry Blanco Welington Castillo J. D. Closser Josh Donaldson Koyie Hill Casey McGehee Geovany Soto Corey Miller (bullpen cacher) Edgar Tovar (bullpen catcher) While the pitchers were out on Fields #2 & #3 and the catchers were doing their thing on Field #4, the position players who arrived early were on Field #1 taking BP. Coaches Gerald Perry, Alan Trammell, Mike Quade, Von Joshua, Dave Keller, Bobby Dickerson, Carmelo Martinez, Bobby Dernier, and Billy Williams were out on the field with the players, taking turns throwing BP for about 10 minutes each. This group of eight players (taking BP in groups of four) included: Tyler Colvin Jake Fox Sam Fuld Micah Hoffpauir Eric Patterson Felix Pie Ryan Theriot Daryle Ward (looking almost thin?!) After the position players finished their BP and the pitchers completed their work-out, the catchers moved to Fields #1 and #2 and took BP. FIELD 1: W. Castillo Donaldson McGehee FIELD 2: H. Blanco Closser K. Hill Soto For those of you who might be interested in such things, there have been several uniform number changes for 2008 (in bold), and here is the current Cubs Spring Training Roster (with uniform numbers), as least as things stand right now (and certainly subject to change). 1 - Kosuke Fukudome, OF 2 - Ryan Theriot, INF 3 - Alan Trammell, COACH (was #6) 4 - Eric Patterson, IF-OF (was #3) 5 - Ronny Cedeno, INF 6 - NOT ASSIGNED AT THIS TIME 7 - Mark DeRosa, INF 8 - Mike Quade, COACH 9 - Jake Fox, C 10 - RETIRED (Ron Santo) 11 - Ivan DeJesus, COACH (was #59) 12 - Alfonso Soriano, OF 13 - NOT ASSIGNED AT THIS TIME 14 - RETIRED (Ernie Banks) 15 - Andres Torres, OF 16 - Aramis Ramirez, INF 17 - Mike Fontenot, INF 18 - Geovany Soto, C (was #58) 19 - Matt Murton, OF 20 - Felix Pie, OF 21 - Jason Marquis, RHP 22 - Kevin Hart, RHP (was #55) 23 - RETIRED (Ryne Sandberg) 24 - Henry Blanco, C 25 - Derrek Lee, 1B 26 - Billy Williams, ST INSTRUCTOR 27 - Sam Fuld, OF (was #57) 28 - Gerald Perry, COACH 29 - J. D. Closser, C 30 - Ted Lilly, LHP 31 - NOT ASSIGNED AT THIS TIME 32 - Jon Lieber, RHP 33 - Daryle Ward, 1B-OF (was #32) 34 - Kerry Wood, RHP 35 - Lester Strode, COACH 36 - Sean Gallagher, RHP 37 - Angel Guzman, RHP 38 - Carlos Zambrano, RHP 39 - Matt Sinatro, COACH 40 - Larry Rothschild, COACH 41 - Lou Piniella, MGR 42 - RETIRED (MLB-wide - Jackie Robinson) 43 - Michael Wuertz, RHP 44 - Chad Fox, RHP 45 - Sean Marshall, LHP 46 - Ryan Dempster, RHP 47 - Scott Eyre, LHP 48 - Neal Cotts, LHP 49 - Carlos Marmol, RHP 50 - Jeff Samardzija, RHP 51 - Juan Mateo, RHP 52 - Tim Lahey, RHP 53 - Rich Hill, LHP 54 - Shingo Takatsu, RHP 55 - Koyie Hill, C 56 - Billy Petrick, RHP 57 - Andres Blanco, INF 58 - Jose Ascanio, RHP 59 - Adam Harben, RHP 60 - Les Walrond, LHP 61 - Mike Smith, RHP 62 - Bob Howry, RHP 63 - Carmen Pignatiello, LHP 64 - Casey McGehee, C-3B 65 - Luis Figueroa, INF 66 - Tyler Colvin, OF 67 - Micah Hoffpauir, 1B 68 - Josh Kroeger, OF 69 - NOT ASSIGNED (this number is NEVER assigned!) 70 - Geoffrey Jones, LHP 71 - Esmailin Caridad, RHP 72 - Welington Castillo, C 73 - Bobby Scales, IF-OF 74 - Josh Donaldson, C 75 - Pat Listach, ST INSTRUCTOR (AAA manager) 76 - Jose Ceda, RHP 77 - Dave Bialas, ST INSTRUCTOR (Minor League Field Coordinator) 78 - Edward Campusano, LHP 79 - NOT ASSIGNED AT THIS TIME 80 - Carmelo Martinez, ST INSTRUCTOR (Latin American Field Coordinator) 81 - Bobby Dernier, ST INSTRUCTOR (Minor League Outfield & Base-running Coordinator) 82 - Von Joshua, ST INSTRUCTOR (AAA Hitting Instructor) 83 - Buddy Bailey, ST INSTRUCTOR (AA Manager) 84 - Bobby Dickerson, ST INSTRUCTOR (Minor League Infield & Bunting Coordinator) 85 - Mark Riggins, ST INSTRUCTOR (Minor League Pitching Coordinator) 86 - Mike Mason, ST INSTRUCTOR (AAA Pitching Coach) 87 - Dave Keller, ST INSTRUCTOR (Minor League Hitting Coordinator) 88 - Casey Kopitzke, ST INSTRUCTOR (Minor League Catching Coordinator) 89 - Dennis Lewallyn, ST INSTRUCTOR (AA Pitching Coach) 90-97 NOT ASSIGNED AT THIS TIME 98 - Edgar Tovar, BULLPEN CATCHER 99 - Corey Miller, BULLPEN CATCHER Position players do not have to report until next week. Players do not start to receive their salaries until the start of the regular season, so every player in big league camp---whether it be Alfonso Soriano or Welington Castillo---gets paid the same, which amounts to about $1,000 per week (adding the MLB Spring Training allowance, housing allowance, and per diem together). .

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Javier Assad started the Lo-A game (Myrtle Beach versus Stockton) on the Cubs backfields on Wednesday as his final Spring Training tune-up. He was supposed to throw five innings / 75 pitches. However, I was at the minor league road games at Fitch so I didn't see Assad pitch. 

  • crunch (view)

    cards put j.young on waivers.

    they really tried to make it happen this spring, but he put up a crazy bad slash of .081/.244/.108 in 45PA.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Seconded!!!

  • crunch (view)

    another awesome spring of pitching reports.  thanks a lot, appreciated.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Here are the Cubs pitchers reports from Tuesday afternoon's Cardinals - Cubs game art Sloan Park in Mesa:

    SHOTA IMANAGA
    FB: 90-92 
    CUT: 87-89 
    SL: 82-83 
    SPLIT: 81-84
    CV: 73-74 
    COMMENT: Worked three innings plus two batters in the fourth... allowed four runs (three earned) on eight hits (six singles and two doubles) walked one, and struck out six (four swinging), with a 1/2 GO/AO... he threw 73 pitches (52 strikes - 10 swing & miss - 19 foul balls)... surrendered one run in the top of the 1st on a one-out double off Cody Bellinger's glove in deep straight-away CF followed one out later by two consecutive two-out bloop singles, allowed two runs (one earned) in the 2nd after retiring the first two hitters (first batter had a nine-pitch AB with four consecutive two-strike foul balls before being retired 3 -U) on a two-out infield single (weak throw on the run by Nico Hoerner), a hard-contact line drive RBI double down the RF line, and an E-1 (missed catch) by Imanaga on what should been an inning-ending 3-1 GO, gave up another run in the 3rd on a two-out walk on a 3-2 pitch and an RBI double to LF, and two consecutive singles leading off the top of the 4th before being relieved (runners were ultimately left stranded)... threw 18 pitches in the 1st inning (14 strikes - two swing & miss, one on FB and the other on a SL - four foul balls), 24 pitches in the 2nd inning (17 strikes - three swing & miss, one on FB, two SPLIT - six foul balls), 19 pitches in the 3rd inning (13 strikes - seven swing & miss, three on SL, two on SPLIT, one on FB - three foul balls), and 12 pitches without retiring a batter in the top of the 4th (8 strikes - no swing & miss - four foul balls)... Imanaga throws a lot of pitches per inning, but it's not because he doesn't throw strikes...  if anything, he throws too many strikes (he threw 70% strikes on Tuesday)... while he gets a ton of swing & miss (and strikeouts), he also induces a lot of foul balls because he doesn't try to make hitters chase his pitches by throwing them out of the strike zone... rather, he uses his very diverse pitch mix to get swing & miss (and lots of foul balls as well)... he also is a fly ball pitcher who will give up more than his share of HR during the course of the season...   
     
    JOE NAHAS
    FB: 90-92 
    SL: 83-85 
    CV: 80-81 
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day... relieved Imanaga with runners at first and second and no outs in the top of the 4th, and after an E-2 catcher's interference committed by Miguel Amaya loaded he bases, Nahas struck out the side (one swinging & two looking)... threw 16 pitches (11 strikes - two swinging)...   

    YENCY ALMONTE
    FB: 89-92 
    CH: 86 
    SL: 79 
    COMMENT: Threw an eight-pitch 5th (five strikes - no swing & miss), with a 5-3 GO for the first out and an inning-ending 4-6-3 DP after a one-out single... command was a bit off but he worked through it...   

    FRANKIE SCALZO JR
    FB: 94-95
    CH: 88 
    SL: 83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 6th inning... got the first outs easily (a P-5 and a 4-3 GO) on just three pitches, before allowing three consecutive two-out hard-contact hits (a double and two singles), with the third hit on pitch # 9 resulting in a runner being thrown out at the plate by RF Christian Franklin for the third out of the inning... 

    MICHAEL ARIAS
    FB: 94-96
    CH: 87-89
    SL: 82-83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and allowed a hard-contact double on the third pitch of the 7th inning (a 96 MPH FB), and the runner came around to score on a 4-3 GO and a WP... gave up two other loud contact outs (an L-7 and an F-9)... threw 18 pitches (only 10 strikes - only one swing & miss)... stuff is electric but still very raw and he continues to have difficulty commanding it, and while he has the repertoire of a SP, he throws too many pitches-per-inning to be a SP and not enough strikes to be a closer... he is most definitely still a work-in-progress...   

    ZAC LEIGH: 
    FB: 93-94 
    CH: 89 
    SL: 81-83 
    CV: 78
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and tossed a 1-2-3 8th (4-3 GO, K-swinging on a sweeper, K-looking on another sweeper)... threw 14 pitches (11 strikes - one swing & miss - eight foul balls)... kept pumping pitches into the strike zone but had difficulty putting hitters away (ergo a ton of foul balls)... FB velo is nowhere near the 96-98 MPH it was a couple of years ago when he was a Top 30 prospect, but his secondaries are better...   

    JOSE ROMERO:  
    FB: 93-95
    SL: 82-84
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 9th (14 pitches - only six strikes- no swing & miss) and allowed a solo HR after two near-HR fly outs to the warning track, before getting a 3-1 GO to end the inning... it was like batting practice when he wasn't throwing pitches out of the strike zone...

  • crunch (view)

    pablo sandoval played 3rd and got a couple ABs (strikeout, single!) in the OAK@SF "exhibition"

    mlb officially authenticated the ball of the single he hit.  nice.

    he's in surprisingly good shape considering his poor body condition in his last playing seasons.  he's not lean, but he looks healthier.  good for him.

  • crunch (view)

    dbacks are signing j.montgomery to a 1/25m with a vesting 20m player option.

    i dunno when the ink officially dries, but i believe if he signs once the season begins he can't be offered a QO...and i'm not sure if that thing with SD/LAD in korea was the season beginning, either.

  • crunch (view)

    sut says imanaga getting the home opener at wrigley (game 4 of the season).

  • crunch (view)

    cubs rolling out the who's who of "who the hell is this guy?" in the last spring game.

  • videographer (view)

    AZ Phil, speaking of Jordan Wicks having better command when he tires a bit, I remember reading about Dennis Lamp 40 years ago and his sinker that was better after 3 or 4 innings when he would tire a bit and get more sink with a little less speed on the pitch.  The key for Lamp was getting to the 4th inning.