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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, ten players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, two players are on the 15-DAY IL, and two players are on the 10-DAY IL

Last updated 4-17-2024
 
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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
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* 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: 10 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2 
Seiya Suzuki, OF
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 2
* Justin Steele, P  
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Cubs Week In Quotations

Submitted by Rob G. on

False Modesty
"I'm not the ace. All five (starters) are the ace."
- Carlos Zambrano

"To me? On the first and 15th when the paycheck comes, that tells you the ace."
- Lou Piniella

We're Scared That You're Under Contract Through 2014
''It's more I'm scared because I was running a lot today and it was a little cold out. I think I'm OK. I have to play a little more and feel confident about my leg.''
- Alfonso Soriano

Questions Such As, "How Much Do You Hate Kevin Orie?"
"I've answered more questions about [the 20-K game] in the last three, four days than the week after it happened."
-Kerry Wood


And Then Came the Diamondbacks...
"We're getting people on base, it's just a question of getting them in more consistently.We talk about all these numbers, but the only numbers I enjoy talking about are wins and losses, and lately the losses are greatly outnumbering the wins, and I'm not too pleased with that."
- Lou Piniella earlier in the week

Well, We Started Playing Better
"I maintain we're going to play better. But I also maintain two things, that the division has gotten better, and two, teams enjoy beating the Cubs a lot more than they did last year. I see it. I see how excited St. Louis was when they beat us, I saw how excited Milwaukee was when they beat us."
- Lou Piniella

In Case You Haven't Heard, Zambrano Likes to Hit
"The other day when I took him out after eight innings, he wasn't happy. But he was unhappiest the most because he wasn't getting his at-bat in the bottom of the inning."
- Lou Piniella on Carlos Zambrano

''I've used him to pinch hit and pinch run. The first thing he tells me when a runner is on base, 'You want me to hit or bunt?' I don't think he knows the bunt sign.''
- Lou Piniella on Carlos Zambrano

''He's an athlete. You should see him run with a soccer ball. He's fun to watch.''
- Lou Piniella on Carlos Zambrano

"What I've noticed this year in the National League is that the pitchers in general are swinging the bats better than I've seen in prior years, last year, for sure. A pitcher can really help himself if they can put the ball in play or they can bunt a guy over. It's a big help."
- Lou Piniella

Better to Be Lucky Than Good
"Put it this way: He wouldn't sell many hitting tapes if he were the instructor. It's choppy at best. I think he's trying a little bit of a Fukudome swing, running to first base and then swinging. … Lilly better just keep pitching."
- Lou Piniella

"He had his 'Will Clark' stance going today."
- Derrek Lee on Ted Lilly

"That was fun. I think [Haren] threw it right into my swing."
- Ted Lilly

Not That There's Anything Wrong with That
"I will be wearing pink shoes and pink batting gloves, approved by MLB. This will be for breast cancer. It is a great thing; anything I can do for the people."
- Carlos Zambrano

The Club Needs You to Tank Your Start so Hill is Called Back Up
"Whatever the club needs me to do, I'm willing to do it. It's an unfortunate thing to me, because I think Rich Hill is a Major League pitcher. Right now, it's command issues. He'll be back up here soon. We need him to be where he needs to be to help us win."
- Jon Lieber before his start Wednesday

"It's just terrible pitching and I put my team in a hole right off the bat."
- Jon Lieber after that start

Must Have Watched Rich Hill and Sean Marshalls' games with a Mirror

"I don't think we have too many choices. That's why I like left-handers in our rotation, because it pitches into the strength of our right-handed bullpen."
- Lou Piniella

Who Else Texts Kasper During A Game?
"Ask [Len] Kasper -- I would text him all the time when he's on TV. I think I've only missed [watching] a couple of games. It's been hard just to watch. I sat on my bed, just as if I was here. It was hard. I just missed it."
-Scott Eyre

There Was No Joy in Game 2 Last Year
"I don't think at any point I've gotten a fastball by [Young]. Knowing he has good bat speed, it's a little hard-headed of me to try to beat him. We're competing, and that's the joy of it."
- Ted Lilly

And The Rest...
"Any time I have a man on second, I have a special sign for Ronny or [Mark DeRosa] or [Ryan] Theriot. I'm always paying attention to the runner at second and first. I like to do the best I can to get one, two, three out."
- Carlos Zambrano

"I've got 3 1/2 pitches that I can throw."
- Kerry Wood

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Submitted by LSR on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 05:36 am

"Terry Forster was athletic enough and a good enough hitter that he was often used as a pinch-hitter. He even found himself in right field in the 14th inning of a 1977 game" Fernando Valenzuela was also considered a good hitting pitcher in his day. His career line isn't that impressive (.200/.205/.262) but he managed 10 HRs so he must have had some power. I recall one game (think it was extra innings) when he had pinch hit and after several switches the Dodgers had only 7 position players left so they stuck Fernando in the outfield for the last inning. They moved him from right to left based on whether or not a righty or lefty was batting. Based on bbref, this must have been in 1982 - he's credited with 2/3 of an inning in right and 1/3 in left.

Submitted by 10man on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 05:19 am

"I've got 3 1/2 pitches that I can throw." - Kerry Wood He must have saved those 1/2 pitches for the blown saves.

Submitted by 10man on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 05:44 am

'He's an athlete. You should see him run with a soccer ball. He's fun to watch.'' - Lou Piniella on Carlos Zambrano I did a little research and apparently there is a Carlos Zambrano on the roster of the German football club FC Schalke 04...

Submitted by rokfish on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 05:47 am

carlos (we have five aces) ouch jason marquis an ace far from it. i like that the cubs are lining up pitchers stretching them out for starters between gallagher,hart ,hill,marshall lets see what they can do. if 2 work out then lou can do something with marquis i dont think lou is gonna have a lot of patience with him

Submitted by Transmission on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 05:58 am

These quotations remind me of why I'm a Z-fan. Just seems like a cool, fun guy, and a hell of a competitor and teammate.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 05:56 pm

Z rules...break all the bats over your knee that you want and corkscrew yourself into the ground on every swing. I don't mind. Baseball is entertainment and people take some stuff far too seriously. Glad we have one of the true characters in the game to root for..

About the only thing that ever irritated me about Z was taking a swing at Barrett at last year.

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  • crunch (view)

    he's a low-level cubs star in the modern history of the cubs (c.zambrano, k.wood, r.dempster, etc), but that star has dimmed...and has been dimming since 2021.

    2024 has been ugly the whole way and we're only in mid-april.  homers aside (even though there's been 7 in 17ip) he gave up 29 hits in 20 spring innings and 31 in 17 regular season innings.

    he's pretty much only got 2 pitches at this point in his career and the mix isn't fooling anyone.  he threw a noticable amount more curves in his last start to add to the mix and it didn't help his issues.  he don't have many moves left to break out.

  • Eric S (view)

    Definitely needs a 10 day stint for the hangnail - have to nip those things in the bud or suffer the consequences (ie, more opponent home run derby, etc)

  • Eric S (view)

    Thanks for checking and yeah, that’s a double ouch

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Believe you are correct, checked and appears Cubs have a $2.51 million obligation to Barnhart this season per Cot's Contracts.  Also paying Trey Mancini $7mil this season.  Ouch.  

  • crunch (view)

    m.busch had 0hr and 2 doubles when he was last at wrigley.

    we'll probably see a few more of his jerseys in the seats when they return tomorrow.

    wonder who will go down for taillon.  hey hendricks, you got a hangnail or something?

  • Eric S (view)

    Nice work by Wesneski with some solid defense behind him and the late tack on runs were welcome. Gladly take a 5-4 West Coast swing, particularly down two key starting pitchers … Now just don’t get swept by the Marlins for Pete’s sake. 

  • crunch (view)

    dansby takes the team lead in SB today after a SB with 2 SB total.  the team has 3.  madrigal has the other one.

    cubs also have 7 triples, 7 players each.

  • crunch (view)

    sure am ready for p.wisdom and m.masterboney to swap roster spots.

  • Eric S (view)

    The fifth inning has not been kind to Wicks this season. Giving up leadoff doubles to Tucker Barnhart is also not good for business. IIRC, the Cubs are on the hook for the majority of Barnhart’s salary this season to add insult to injury (could definitely be wrong here). 

  • Cubster (view)

    Kris Bryant to IL with low back strain. He’s keeping the Rockies docs busy.

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