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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

Last updated 3-28-2024
 
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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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Milton's Really, Really Sorry

"I chose Chicago as a free agent," Bradley said in the statement, "because I wanted to be part of finally bringing a championship to Cubs fans. I expected to have a great season and I am deeply disappointed by my performance and the team's struggles. I played every game with everything that I had and wanted to desperately win.

"My frustration and disappointment boiled over and I said and did certain things that I regret," he said. "In hindsight, I wish that I had handled certain things differently and I apologize for those things that did not work out for the better.

"The air has been cleared," he said, "and we all want to move on and look forward to better days."

The union will not file a grievance and Milton will be paid for the rest of the year, but not rejoining the team.

Comments

I always love the transparently ghost-written quality of these apologies, though Milton's has a juco quality to it with the misplaced "desperately" modifier. Imagine him shaking hands with Jimbo and saying, "The air has been cleared." Maybe I've finally found my way into a baseball job. I'm off to see if sportsapologist.com has been registered yet.

I envision that the apology was co-written on a napkin during a dinner meeting between MB and Jimbo. ..."and wanted to desperately win" Jim: yeah, like Desperado...my favorite Eagles album MB: Eagles? Never heard of em. I listen to Rage Against the Machine ..."The air has been cleared" Jim: sniff, sniff (looks around) MB: who cut the cheese? "and look forward to better days". MB: What else ya got? Jim: That's all we got (to write).

more Muskat... cubs players didn't know about Milton Bradley's apology until shown the statement handed out to media Wednesday cubs broadcaster Bob Brenly on life w/out Bradley: "The last 3 days have been better than any of the days he was here"

Speaking of missing and the grass-is-greener, what is the Cubs record 2009 w/o Sorry-ano. He should apologize too!!!

Interesting that Bruce Miles (Miles mannered reporter for...) article in the herald has a Hendry quote to follow the Bradley statement. Also Hendry hasn't talked to Bradley, just his agent Seth Levinson. "It's done," Hendry said. "There's nothing. It's over. There's no story." http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/2647 --- Poof. No story? Unless that quote was in the recovery room after JH's frontal lobotomy.

"The air has been cleared." So there. Nuff said then. That fixes everything. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming, which is already in progress (Cut to Andy Griffith Show, in medias res, which, by coincidence, is one of the episodes with Howard Morris playing Ernest T. Bass).

Here's the sun-times/Wittenmeyer take: The Cubs have filed the required written notice of the suspension, and they expect no grievance from the players' union. Hendry said speculation of a grievance was a non-story. When asked about Bradley's future with the team, Hendry said: "We'll worry about next season when this one is over." By all accounts, next season will not include Bradley in a Cubs uniform. Or, for that matter, ever. http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cubs/1786928,cubs-milton-bradle…

Alright, that's a respectful enough apology. In other news, has he been traded yet? What's the hold up? In all seriousness, this is a rather boilerplate apology from a PR point of view. Take ownership of the bad behavior, apologize for it, look forward to better days ahead... And I can understand why he wouldn't want to do this in person in front of the Chicago sports media. I guess for me the news isn't so much his apology, but the fact that he's working with someone from the Cubs to improve his image for the trading block this off season.

I saw MB's last game (9/17) as a member of the Cubs in person. As the only game we got into this year, it's an interesting distinction. I'll remember that and Jody Gerut's slam. Typical. Oh, and I had Wells in my fantasy lineup. Maybe I should have kept the stub. Before the game, I was dumbfounded to find myself trying to defend MB in conversation (in the "it's not all his fault" kind of way). I still feel that way to an extent, but his season has really been a comedy of errors. When I think of the game where he threw the ball into the RF bleachers with two outs, I truly believe he was told to do it and had it in his head so much that it led to the timing faux pas. "Toss a ball to them the next time you get a chance." Doh! Has it been said that MB has a persecution complex? There is something called that, right? If not, we coin it after him. But there seems to be some bad luck in there, too. Oh well. I realize it's petty to look back now, but how did we not sign Abreu? That one still puzzles me.

I thought Shark looked OK, and was the victim of some bad luck -- Prince hit a high, harmless foul pop-up that the lumbering Jake Fox couldn't get to, then Prince whacked the next pitch for a 2-run HR to LF. Nice consistent 95+ fastball, but he still needs other pitches. Still seems to have bullpen stuff, to me. Come in for an inning, air out at 97-98 mph, have a seat.

Per Bob Brenley: The league has figured Jake Fox out. Slider that starts in the middle of the plate and breaks low and away is "kryponite" to Fox. Jake is hitting .234 in Aug/Sept.

Lol...a slider like that is kryptonite to a lot of hitters... Let's see if he can adjust to what they are doing to him?

Samardzija is still not a guy you want to depend on in the rotation or bullpen right now, but he has a future in the rotation and no better time to give him some MLB experience than when your team is out of it anyways. Loved the homer. And I agree on Jake Fox, too. Now is when you find out what a guy is made of... It's not uncommon to see a guy come up and have some success right away. The question is how does he handle a struggle? Can he rediscover success? I'd like to see Lou play Jake Fox the rest of the year just for this reason. Sure he's seen some difficult sliders, but that's not an excuse it's part of the game.

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In reply to by Old and Blue

As awful as the Bradley signing looks in hindsight, I wonder if things would have been different if the Cubs had gotten off to a good start and Bradley had played well out of the gate. I suspect that Bradley's psyche can only function in either very positive or very low-pressure situations. But once the Cubs and Bradely both got off to a slow start and the fan frustration began to boil over, Bradley began to crumble and Hendry's gamble was cooked.

Recent comments

  • 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.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Use pitchers when you believe they're good. Don't plan their clock.

    I'm sorry. I'm simply anti-clock/contract management. Play guys when they show real MLB potential talent.

    If Brown hadn't been hurt with the Lat Strain he would've gotten the call, and not Wick.

    Give him a chance. 

    But Wesneski probably gets it

  • crunch (view)

    alzolay...bro...