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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

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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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Cubbie Blue Bones and Groans, Spring Training Edition

Submitted by Dr. Joseph Hecht on

The Cubs have a few nagging health problems as well as injuries this spring. Nothing critical. Just stuff like heart arrhythmia's treated with surgery.

 Mark DeRosa had ablation surgery to burn the short circuit in the electrical wiring of his heart. Now that he's got normal sinus rhythm, can dancing with the stars be far behind? Our 2nd baseman is back in Mesa and should resume baseball activities as soon as next monday.

Alfonso Soriano broke the tip (distal phalanx) of his right long finger catching during fly ball drills while coached to catch two-handed. Ouch that hurts. If this was a 16 inch softball league he'd be out there the next day (gnarly looking hands are the trademerk of us 16 inch softball players). Fortunately it's a hairline crack in the bone so it will be less sore in a week or two.

Update (from the Sun-Times):

(Soriano)... threw from the outfield in his first work since suffering the injury sunday and fared well. Next up is batting practice.

Aramis Ramires has a sore shoulder.  Not sore enough for an MRI. Expect him back soon and more importantly expect to see DeRosa at third soon too.

Update (from the Sun-Times):

...(A-Ram) had his scheduled spring debut pushed back to friday, but Piniella said it's not a concern and plans to have him in the lineup Friday and Saturday.

Michael Wuertz was held back a bit with a weak arm but he pitched a 1-2-3 inning with 2 K's yesterday looking solid. Last year Wuertz had a rough spring but was back on track once the season started, so it appears he's OK. 

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Comments

Submitted by The E-Man on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:50 am

CUBSTER: What is exactly wrong with A-RAM'S shoulder? Is this a chronic problem? He was rested since mid-October unless his fighting birds injured him. It seems as if this may not go away without rest - Any guesses?

Submitted by Dr. Joseph Hecht on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:05 am

I don't have much to go on. One of the more common things is bursitis (or impingement) but there are so many possibilities I'd need to hear something specific. If they didn't get an MRI, then the medical staff can't be too worried. If he's better with just a week or two of rest, that's probably what it was. Usually they use anti-inflammatory meds and some light stretching exercise for bursitis. If it doesn't respond, look for the MRI.

Submitted by Indiana JJ on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:50 am

of Moneyball and it's "crowd" by someone else at the worldwide leader who admittedly did not read it. I fancy myself as something of moderate when it comes to the whole SABR vs Scouting or whatever you want to call it. I can see the value in both areas. Stuff like this just pisses me off though (whichever side it comes from). I hate the smug condescending tone and the cheap shots. It even includes the always original "mother's basement" coment. Anyways enjoy... http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=garfamudis/080305&lpos=…

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Submitted by Indiana JJ on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:01 am

Okay, so upon further review it seems this may be some kind of hoax/satire. I googled "Art Garfamudis" and all links lead back to his espn.com page 2 articles except for a couple that seem to be questioning his existance. Unfortunately I can't read these as blogspot and similar sites are blocked by my company's IT Nazis. Maybe somebody else around here has some insight?

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Submitted by WISCGRAD on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:20 am

Yeah, that's one of the stupider things I've read in a long time. I also hate when people talk about Jeremy Brown like he had no talent at all. He was getting drafted by someone, just not in the first round. I mean he won the Johnny Bench award for the top collegiate catcher. And for a catcher, a .370 career on base percentage in the minors (most at high levels) is pretty good, and he went 3 for 10 in his only big league call up. It's not like he retired because he sucked. He'd likely carve out a nice career as a AAA / backup catcher for a few more years. He retired for personal reasons, part of which I'm sure was because jackasses like this guy kept writing stupid articles about him.

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Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:11 pm

Couldn't one snap throw to the plate or second base significantly worsen the injury? ============= Absolutely. Ulnar Collateral ligament injuries in hitters are more about throwing in the field than hitting. Several fielders have had Tommy John surgery though with quicker recovery than a pitcher (as one might expect). The player that comes to mind is Tony Womack who injured his elbow with the Cubs but had a really good offensive season the next yr and was even ok in the field with the Cardinals. Pujols elbow may be hanging by a thread though but it's likely he can hang in there if he wants...after all it's been done before, like Bagwell with his bum shoulder playing even though the other teams knew he couldn't throw.

Submitted by asecrest on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:00 am

A nagging injury always seems to surprisingly pop up with A-RAM during spring training. The quad shutting down his season 2005 season rolled into 06 spring training where he also experienced a finger nail injury keeping him out 5 days. I think we can all sympathize how painful a finger nail injury can be. Then he strained his butt and bruised his elbow in 06 keeping him out of a couple of games. He had the tendinitis last year causing him to hit the DL and also had a sore wrist that caused him to miss games last August. Now we have the sore shoulder keeping him out the first couple weeks of spring training. A-Rams injuries seem to chronically go from one part of his body to the next. He is a great player and I love him as a cub but the only chronic problem this guy has is laziness.

Submitted by mannytrillo on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:09 pm

Got my confirmation from the Cubs that my season tickets were sent out today via FedEx (should get by Tuesday). Still no word on the parking passes. Do you think they will be in there with the tickets or come separately? E-Man, since you live close by and you got the parking passes too, let me know. Thanks!!!

Submitted by The E-Man on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 03:43 pm

Relax. I got your back. Notices are going out "this week". By email, supposedly. OR- you may get surprised and they'll come in your Fed Ex pack before you even get the email! HA! Apparently, the dude running this thing does three jobs including some important IT tasks. You're in - I'd think. Its still a decent walk from Belmont and Sheffield - but I park twice as far when I park for free (which I plan to do most of the time).

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Submitted by Newport on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 03:36 am

"Its still a decent walk from Belmont and Sheffield" Isn't that like 4 or 5 blocks? Lazy American.

Recent comments

  • Raisin101 (view)

    Hi Arizona Phil!

    Exciting to see Naz Mule in box scores a few times. What's his stuff like now after the TJS?

  • 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

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