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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

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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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World Baseball Classic Roster Announced; 8 Cubs

Submitted by Rob G. on

The World Baseball Classic Rosters were announced and eight Cubs will be involved with the event - five from the major league squad. (Drumroll please)

  • Carlos Marmol (Dominican Republic)  (See Update below)
  • Carlos Zambrano (Venezuela) (See Update #2)
  • Kosukue Fukudome (Japan)
  • Geovany Soto (Puerto Rico)
  • Ted Lilly (USA)
  • *Vince Perkins (Canada) 
  • **Alex Maestri (Italy)
  • **Hung-wen Chen (Chinese Taipei)

* Non-Roster Invitee, ** Minor League System

So the story from yesterday turns out true about Zambrano and looks like Carlos Marmol had a last minute change of heart. Say hello to your 2009 closer - Kevin Gregg!

UPDATE: Either Muskat is doing her usual bang-up job or some things are still up in the air. Her story doesn't mention Marmol or Zambrano at all. Soto is set to DH in the first game for Puerto Rico and catch Jonathan Sanchez in their third game. Also, under the Cubs headlines on that story is the "Cubs' Marmol opts to skip Classic for D.R." article and it looks like the rosters no longer have Marmol on them, but Zambrano still is listed. Not so fast Kevin Gregg - hahahaha!!

UPDATE #2:  Zambrano said he's not pitching in the WBC. He is set to go Monday for the Cubs in Cactus League play. The Venezuelan teams attempt at the Jedi Mind Trick seems to have failed. 

"Carlos, it says right here that you're pitching for the team. You will pitch in the WBC. Look, it's been printed on the web."

"No, I'm not"

(Waves hand) "Yes, you will."

"No, I'm not, and stop waving your fucking hand around."

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Comments

Submitted by John Beasley on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 02:48 pm

Repost from the last thread. We're probably set on the keeper league pending final vote. Thanks for all the interest. Those who are signed up - stop by and make some recommendations. Possible Parachat about it if there's ample reason.

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 02:36 pm

The Team Venezuela page still has a picture of Z saying he won't play and the article from Feb. 13th, but he's on both roster pages still. Other fun notes, Cueto and Volquez both pitching for Dominican Republic...shall we pick squares for their injury date?

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Submitted by crunch on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 02:06 pm

joe got a chance to come back from a near-dead career and made some DAMN GOOD loot for himself. from what it seems he's a decent enough guy to have that happen to. later borowski...

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Submitted by Charlie on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 02:30 pm

I have fond memories of Joe that completely overshadow his hard times as a Cub. He was definitely a feel-good story, and seemed like a personality I could get behind. That said, he had a pretty good run, in comparison to almost everyone else who plays the game. I'm glad he got to be a pretty successful big league player for a while.

Submitted by rokfish on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 02:02 pm

all i hear on local chicago tv markets is who is gonna be the 5th starter should we be more worried who is gonna be the 4th starter in my eyes rich hardin should be the fifth starter if healthy if he is not then we need a 4 and 5 assuming lou wants marshall in the pen ( i think ) then samardzja would be stretched out for a starters role.

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Submitted by WISCGRAD on Wed, 02/25/2009 - 02:05 am

Except Pie himself had to reapply "for his visa that noted his change of employer." There is nothing in that article or in the information that we have available that identifies the source of the problem. Likely a combination of many factors. And yes, I am still glad he is not around. If you guys miss Pie then that's your prerogative. I think he is a worthless turd and am glad he is not around.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 02/25/2009 - 02:16 am

no there wasn't...

I was just thinking that a team would know more about the visa process than an individual player, especially if a trade goes down. You think they'd give a player a heads up.

no biggie...

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Submitted by WISCGRAD on Wed, 02/25/2009 - 02:55 am

A new article after Pie spoke to the media today indicates that he had "passport" problems. We will probably never actually know what "i" was not dotted and who was supposed to dot it.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 02/25/2009 - 02:59 am

MLB Clubs have administrative personnel who assist major league and minor league players with these matters. Perhaps the Orioles admin was on vacation when Pie was acquired.

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Submitted by WISCGRAD on Wed, 02/25/2009 - 02:04 am

Why does everything have to be a fight? If you don't miss him, why can't you just say "well, I'm glad to see him gone too." Instead you have to do this crap. I said "IF" you guys miss him, then that's fine, I don't. Simple as that. I assumed from the ferocity in which people flocked to defend him that some of you must miss him. All I pointed out was that it seems like he is always in the news for something - yelling at coaches in the tower in Arizona, late night partying with Soriano, now VISA issues, etc. Even if this problem is not at all his fault, some people are magnets for distractions and I for one am happy we are not dealing with it this year.

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Submitted by big_lowitzki on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 02:45 pm

Wow... you are getting crabbier around here these days. It is pretty funny that I am doing "crap" and you are just being nice. I just think that using Pie's visa issues to bash him is pretty laughable. I made a smart ass comment about it, and you got pissy. I don't and won't really miss the guy, though I still think that he could become a pretty productive major league player. And I still think that he is a better option than Gathright. And FWIW... he wasn't in the news for yelling at coaches in Arizona. He was on on TCR about that. And I am assuming that you have a problem Soriano also then, right?

Submitted by jacos on Wed, 02/25/2009 - 02:16 am

according to bruce levine Z IS NOT IN WBC. JUST on espn 1000, z pitching monday for cubs. z said he doesn't know why they think he s in wbc. scott eyre"broke" due to madhoff .

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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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