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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

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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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Cubs' Right Field Options

The Kansas City Star says the Cubs are making a play for Mark Teahen. This on the heels of a radio report that the Cubs are very interested in Milton Bradley. The KC Star article also says the Cubs have interest in Raul Ibanez, but his cost may be prohibitive.

The Cubs would prefer David DeJesus according to the article, but he seems unavailable as the Royals want to move him to left field and acquire a new center fielder. Teahen though might be attainable. The names thrown out by the author are Felix Pie, Mike Fontenot and Ronny Cedeno.

Comments

Out of fear of Bradley mangling one of our white scrappy middle infielders on one of his 'off' days (or himself), I'm much more in favor of a KC deal. I'd prefer David of Jesus, though.

but is it suppose to be

Cubs' Right Field Options or Cubs Right Field Options

and if I was doing a page of Cubs that won the Cy Young Award, is it?

Cubs' Cy Young Winners or Cubs Cy Young Winners

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In reply to by Rob G.

Cubs' RF options...options that are theirs. Cubs Cy Young Winners...Cy Young Winners who are Cubs. "He is a Cubs pitcher" Cubs' Cy Young Winners...Cy Young Winners that the Cubs Organization has. "He is the Cubs' pitcher"

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In reply to by Rob G.

I think that technically, your title is now correct. I also think that, because 'Cubs' is the name of the team and a Cy Young winner is a 'Cubs' player, that you can write it without the apostrophe. 'He is a Cubs pitcher' doesn't indicate ownership of the pitcher by the Cubs (I don't think), but Cubs' pitcher does. Perhaps it goes down the argument, 'Am I a Cub fan or a Cubs fan?'. Because there are multiple pitchers who are collectively 'Cubs', I think it's ok. If it was one player, you'd have to put 'Cubs' Cy Young Winner' or 'Cub Cy Young Winner' depending on what, exactly, you're trying to indicate.

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In reply to by WISCGRAD

to start everyone off...take a look at this page

http://wiklifield.thecubreporter.com/Baseball_America_Prospect_Rankings…;

on player pages on Baseball Cube, they list if a player was on one of the BA Prospect Rankings since 1992. I've filled in basically everyone I can think of, but anything labeled "Missing" is doing just that.Any persons care to try to fill in the gaps?

Supposedly if you have a subscription you can get from 2002 online, but the rest has proved troublesome. It's basically been a trial and error of typing in Cubs prospects that I can think of.

I'm missing #10 on 2004 and then a bunch from 2000 and before...

unless there's a page on Baseball Cube that actually gives the team-by-team lists for each year, but I couldn't find it 

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In reply to by Rob G.

Rob, there isn't a list of that on Baseball Cub, but you can find the rosters for each of the minor league teams for each year. So by clicking through I just found Nate Frese as #10 in 2001 and filled that in. I'll try to find a few more before I have to get to work.

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In reply to by WISCGRAD

thnx again, filled in a bunch as well, got from 1999 through 2008 done, 1994 and 1995.

Missing - #8 in 1996, #7 in 1993, #8 in 1992

I don't think Baseball Cube has 1997 and 1998 in there because BA.com has Kerry Wood #1, but it doesn't show up on his player page. I also found a bio on Brian Ramsey saying he was a top 10 prospect in 1998 according to BA, but doesn't show up on his page either. 

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In reply to by Arizona Phil

why did I know you would have the answer? you happen to have the 1997 or 1998 lists somewhere?

Baseball Cube lists players that were on their top 100 major league list, but is missing the organizational top 10 for those years. From some BA.com pages I know Wood was #1 both years and I have a couple of other names that should be on the top 10 lists but can't confirm where.

Teahan... Pinhead and Perry better be damned sure that they can fix him if we trade anything more than a bucket of balls for him. I wouldn't trade Pie even up for him. DeJesus doesn't hit well enough to be a left fielder, but I'd take him for center.

Current Payroll numbers will probably be around 137 Million when you factor in Gregg, Gaudin and Reed's salaries in arbitration. So unless we're looking to package a few players with large salaries and reports are around a 150M payroll budget, I would think we're going the cheap route. Lets hope someone will take Marquis off our roster. I hope dempster lives up to that contract...after one good year.

I live in KC and watch a LOT of Royals baseball. My 2 cents: Teahan is a LH version of Mark DeRosa. He can play most every position on the field, none of them gold-glove caliber, but all of them passably acceptable. He has some speed; not a pure basestealer, but he runs smart, does 1st to 3rd well, he will sneak in 15-20 SBs per year if a manager is aggressive. He is a line-drive hitter, does not have any kind of upper-cut at all necessary for HR production. He can be had with breaking stuff low and away, and high fastballs. His plate discipline is below average. In my view, Teahan is a league-average quality player with a bit of potential upside. His biggest advantage is that he is a really an all-around super-sub type player, something we know Lou likes to have. I would very much like to have him on the Cubs in this role, but not so much if the plan is to have him be the everyday RF. So, Pie for Teahan? I'm fine with that. Pie + Cedeno? Again fine, because I can't STAND Cedeno. But anything more and I'd balk. And I certainly hope Hendry gets more than just Teahan as his off-season bat, because he ain't enough.

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In reply to by Jim Hickmans Bat

I realize that this is likely to come back and make me feel very, very stupid, but I'd rather have Pie than Teahen at this point--I definitely don't trade them straight up. This has nothing to do with the comment I'm responding to, but I also don't understand the infatuation that some people have for DeJesus--he seems to be merely okay, or sort of good. Not the sort of guy that would make me think, man, I'd really love to trade for him. A better bet than our current CF guys, but I'm not exactly drooling. And he's no more of a leadoff hitter than Mark DeRosa. I haven't seen him play much. Maybe he's a spectacular fielder and I just don't know it.

Anything the Royals have is not an option for us! Would rather have Fuk-u-do-me in R and platoon with DeRosa and Pie in center...this is crazy. Milton Bradley is a better board game maker then a player! He's also butcher in the outfield.

I think of all the possible free agents the only guy who is a real RF is Bobby Abreu, and he's declined a bit on defense, from what I've read out of NYC. There has to be better trade possibilities than Teahen. At the very least if they deal for Teahen they better sign Furcal to lead off and bench Theriot.

DeJesus' numbers look decent, but I don't know jack about either guy other than the fanfare (or what passes for fanfare for KC) when Teahen came up. I can't remember which writer it was, but I still laugh at the mental image of Burnitz waiting anxiously by the phone... sad, but probably true....

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In reply to by Tony S.

Throw the numbers out, Kauffman is brutal. The important thing is this guy is built like the perfect ball player and has all the tools. He'll have a breakout year in the next 2-3 years, you can count on that. I was calling for the Cubs to trade for DeJesus last year, but I was just yapping, I never thought it could be a real possibility.

Rob, are you left-handed? Did you ever have any time in the KC organization? Sounds like we got a new RF'r...

And I just read somewhere that we're "trying to deal Fukudome", is that true? Does Hendry or Fuk know that? I figured Jimbo would let him go for the right return (ie, we're not stuck with his WHOLE salary for the next 3 years), but I hadn't heard Hendry was shopping him.... *edit*-- "Although the Cubs are trying to deal right fielder Kosuke Fukudome, the Royals almost certainly would not take on his remaining contract of three years and $38 million." with the link: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081118&content_id=3684206&vke… (it's about halfway down)

Read it and weep. Rich Hill tonight (Tuesday): 1 inning, 3 hits, 7 runs, 5 earned, 3 walks, 2 K's, 2 wild pitches. Justin Berg, for what it's worth, pitched the 7th and fared even worse. 0.2 innings, 6 hits, 8 runs, 8 earned, 3 walks, 1 K, 1 wild pitch. Final score: Tiburones 21, Tigres (Aragua) 7.

"but he seems unavailable as the Royals want to move him to left field and acquire a new center fielder." Sometimes, rumor news reports are right on the money. The Royals just traded Ramón Ramírez for Coco Crisp.

Submitted by carlosrubi on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 9:29am.

"but he seems unavailable as the Royals want to move him to left field and acquire a new center fielder."

Sometimes, rumor news reports are right on the money. The Royals just traded Ramón Ramírez for Coco Crisp.

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CARLOS: Perhaps the nature of the talks between the Cubs and the Royals had less to do with Teahen and DeJesus coming to Chicago and more to do with Pie and/or Cedeno going to KC, with Coco Crisp the actual target?

Recent comments

  • Charlie (view)

    I worry that Morel will lose starts at 3B as long as this roster lacks a compelling DH.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    I think if you had ranked players by how much the team could ill afford to have them miss significant time, Steele would be right at the top of the list.

  • 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.