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39 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (one slot is open), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL and one player has been DESIGNATED FOR ASSIGNMENT (DFA)   

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and eight players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and two players is on the 10-DAY IL

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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
* Matt Mervis
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Pete Crow-Armstrong 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 8 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2
* Cody Bellinger, OF  
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 3
Kyle Hendricks, P 
* Drew Smyly, P 
* Justin Steele, P   

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

DFA: 1 
Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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Submitted by Rob G. on

New MLBPA union boss Michael Weiner during his introductory press conference.

“There is a lot of sentiment for a seven-game division series,” Weiner said. “I think a properly constructed postseason schedule could accommodate three seven-game series but still have it extend over a shorter period of time than what happened this year.”

There's nothing I hate more than the 5-game Division Series in baseball...besides the Cardinals...and Ed Lynch...Neifi!...Tony LaRussa too...anything related to the White Sox...Red Sox fans...Barry Bonds...players that tilt their cap to the side...flat-billed caps...okay, this could take awhile.

But I welcome the new union boss overlord. At the glacial pace that baseball responds to the times, I look forward to the fix by the 2020 season.

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Submitted by John Beasley on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 12:13 pm

That is a mischaracterization of Jake Fox the third baseman. I know that .921 fielding percentage looks pretty awful, but it's a small sample size and from my observations I think he improved a lot in the short time he had there until Ramirez came back. If I recall correctly, he hadn't played much if any third base at Iowa or lower levels until Ramirez went down in Milwaukee in May. With continued work, I think he could be at least passable at third base. Unfortunately for Fox, Lee and Ramirez aren't the kind of guys for whom you pinch-hit late in the game. I wish him well and hope his boss is smart enough to fetch the Cubs something of value when he trades a long-term club control guy who can straight-up hit.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 12:15 pm

he was clumbsy and caught too much off the hip rather than getting in front of the ball (aram used to have this problem BAAAAAD). he had a surprisingly decent arm, though. still, if lou is willing to march some of the dead-arm no-field guys out there to play RF/LF over the past many years i don't see why fox didn't get more time out there. he's far from slick, but the talent chosen over him last season to fill the roles was odd at times.

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Submitted by Ryno on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 12:50 pm

Goodbye, Aaron Miles. Here's to hoping your reign of terror on my nerves is over. It's bad enough you were a Cardinal for all those years, then to come to Chicago and blow like you did (and then go to Iowa and blow...)... bleh...

Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 12:31 pm

part-time playing and all, but just a .779 OPS, .332 wOBA (about league average) and struck out a ton(20%) with not a lot of walks (6% per PA). Hard to think that would be missed too much. When the Cubs figure out they can't unload all of Burrell's deal after making that trade, might as well have Burrell take Fox's bench spot.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 12:52 pm

Davis or Sweeney sure, Hairston I don't know about, but I don't think Hairston is really much of an answer for CF. The other 2 guys are nothing special. I know Davis is crazy fast, so would help the defense, but good chance he turns into the bad Taveras on an off season. I don't know enough about Sweeney, offense looks average at best, defensively his UZR suggest he can handle CF, but he did get moved to play RF, but probably because Davis is a better option there.

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Submitted by The Real Neal on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 12:20 pm

I think you're undervaluing Fox's defensive flexibility. He can, in theory, play five positions, and he lets an NL team use their second catcher to PH. I disagree with the basic premise that he won't hit better given regular at bats - just like I always do.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 12:27 pm

the 2nd catcher is nice, Burrell can play 1b/LF/RF probably just as well as Fox, not that you were necessarily comparing them. But since Lou won't play him at 3B, LF or RF, what's the point of keeping him? Would he do better with regular at-bats? I'm sure, maybe he's an .850 OPS guy, great power...but he's not gonna get regular at-bats from most teams cause of his defense. And I don't think he'll ever get a regular DH job, not when there are easily 14 Vlad, Dye's, name your vet player that can't play the field anymore...

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Submitted by John Beasley on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 12:20 pm

Price expects his group and the people in Arizona will both put together similar offers. But he says the team wants the place offering a better family experience off the field. "I think it's quality of life. I think it's recreation - destination," he said.
Of course it is. It wouldn't be about a more comfortable experience for the players with short bus rides. That and Arizona Phil.

Submitted by JD on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 12:45 pm

There's nothing I hate more than the 5-game Division Series in baseball...besides...flat-billed caps... Intrepid Reader: Troy Tulowitzki What, Rob? You might hate them, but you LOVE me!

Submitted by The Joe on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 12:33 pm

Reworking the postseason would be awesome. Being able to watch the Cubs get swept in 4 games would greatly increase my enjoyment. Burrell for SS!

Submitted by Cubster on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 12:02 pm

Jim Hendry was on WGN radio, David Kaplan's Sports Central show tonight. Not much was newsworthy and there were some incredibly long winded answers (note how he doesn't answer "what is the single most important thing you would like to accomplish at the meetings?"). GM Hendry did say that he's considering one more veteran to the bullpen to go with the "kids" and thinks he'll add one by Feb (counter to what the media has reported so far). Somewhere Bob Howry and Aaron Heilman are high fiving... I'm posting the interview on my public folder... http://public.me.com/Cubster use password: TheCubReporter only one file there to download. titled: Jim Hendry w David Kaplan, 12-2-09.mp3. It was recorded via Radioshark app and converted to mp3 format The interview is 12 minutes long (and it's just the interview without the rest of the show).

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Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 12:34 pm

Utley, Howard, Rollins, Hamels, Victorino (Rule 5 pickup I believe actually) homegrown talent is a beautiful thing, cause most of the times you can get them to resign for cheaper than there FA equivelant even when they hit free agency. Howard's not so cheap, but hey, they hit the lottery on their draft picks for a few years and did a good job keeping them on the cheap. $15M a year for Utley is one of the great bargains in baseball. Cubs came close in the early 2000's, but Patterson and Choi didn't work out like they should have and then there's Prior (sigh).

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Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 12:44 pm

that's just an odd move... bat him 8th, he's a slap hitter who doesn't walk or K much with little power, they must love his glove and flexibility. Guess when you have Rollins, Utley, Howard and Ibanez, you can sacrifice some power at 3b.

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Submitted by Seamhead on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 12:21 pm

If the Cubs were really interested in signing Betancourt (before he was offered arbitration), it would have likely cost them $2-3 million/year on a multi-year deal. That would seem to suggest that Hendry had the ability to then trade some of his young relief pitchers (Caridad, Berg, etc.) for an inexpensive player (presumably a position player- CF?) and still fit within his budget constraints.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 12:29 pm

Phil's estimate is $136M at the moment and the Cubs don't have to add anybody right now if they weren't so keen on moving Bradley. And that's estamating bringing everyone that's arb-eligible back, but some may get non-tendered, some may negotiate cheaper deals. That still leaves about $5-$6M left for a reliever and some scrap parts... if they move Bradley, they might save a tad there in 2009 and then depending on what they get back, have to find a CFer it seems the Cubs wants are a new CFer, one bullpen arm, maybe a new middle infielder and I would hope at least some guys to compete for the rotation...

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Submitted by Seamhead on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 12:48 pm

If Hendry pulls off the Bradley-Burrell-Castillo shuffle and can do it within Bradley's contract parameters, he would then presumably non-tender Fontenot and have an additional estimated $1.0-$1.5 million to play with.

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Submitted by Paul Noce on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 12:43 pm

The Polanco contract sounds crazy. He's 34, never been a power guy, he's getting old, there are a lot of 3b options out there, and he gets $18 mil over 3 years, PLUS an option? I love him as a 2nd baseman hitting 2nd, which the Cubs could have really used, but 3 years AND and option is too much imo. It sets the bar high for the other guys and probably means many of these guys will be sitting out there late again this offseason because I can't picture many other teams handing out deals like that when there are quite a few similar players at 2b/3b available. Does Beltre get a 3 year deal then? I was expecting many of these guys to have to take 1 year deals.

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Submitted by Seamhead on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 12:29 pm

According to Cot's Baseball Contracts, Kevin Gregg's $4.2 million contract last year with the Cubs included a number of incentives (Rolaids Relief Pitcher, MVP of WS or LCS etc.). Lastly, Gregg would have received a $25,000 bonus for winning the Silver Slugger Award. They really do need to keep the agents and GM's out of the bars when they negotiate these contracts.

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 12:23 pm

w/o posting the article, anyone with a subscription wanna check out their Rule 5 preview? Any Cubs mentioned or anyone the Cubs might have interst in?

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 12:51 pm

via Rotoworld... Gonzalez and Soriano really need to take them up on arbitration to fuck their payroll up...

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Submitted by Dr. aaron b on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 12:22 pm

Actually a smart gamble on the Braves part. No way does Gonzales or Soriano accept arbitration to be 6th or 7th inning guys.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 12:34 pm

definitely a calculated move by the Braves that should work for them, but Juan Cruz turned down arbitration last year and almost was left without a job... just wonder who wants to give up a draft pick for those guys and if they themselves want to risk waiting until Feb/March and being forced to accept a cheap contract. I mean Soriano made $6.5M last year, he'd do quite well in arbitration

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Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 12:22 pm

besides Wagner as closer I think if you have Gonzalez, Saito and Soriano, you just let them compete and ride the hot-hand for 7th and 8th if you're Cox and play match-ups. unless Soriano and to a lesser degree Gonzalez get actual offers in the next week, I'd take the Braves arbitration offer if I were them. Although I guess the Braves can cut them in spring training and save money since the owners successfully manipulated that loophole.

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Submitted by The Real Neal on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 12:23 pm

If he strikes out 110 guys in 75 innings next year, he'll probably do just fine for 2011. How'd he get a $6.5 million contract to begin with? That's Placido Palanco money we're talking.

Submitted by Jim Hickmans Bat on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 12:19 pm

Aaron Miles--buh-bye! But Jake Fox goes too. You gotta give someone up to take on that crappy Miles contract. Nice job yet again, Fat Jimbo. Fire this moron, please?

Submitted by Cubster on Sat, 12/05/2009 - 12:23 am

Radioshark works well...like tivo for radio Could use some editing software but there are other ways to take a smaller segment out of a recording like Ambrosia software's recording studio. EyeTV has excellent editing for the tv side of this but Radio shark is good to get am/fm local channels onto the computer. Hope that helps. For example, I record the sat am Bruce Levine radio show with their pre set record features...which do weekly, daily or even custom stuff.

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Miguel Cruz walked six in 1.2 IP in his last start, so I guess he is improving. Wilme Mora also walked six in one of his appearances a week or two ago, and one or two others have walked five. I don't know what would be the most I have ever seen a pitcher throw in a game out here, because the manager / pitching coach usually gets the pitcher out of the game if it gets too ridiculous. 

    As for the attendance, probably about 20 of the 25 were early arrivals for the Savannah Bananas game who came over to Field # 1 to see what was going on, and once they saw all the bases on balls (12 walks by Cubs pitchers and four by Angels pitchers) they ran away screaming. I'm used to it so it didn't bother me that much. 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Jed has added Teheran, Tyranski, Kissaki, and now Straily and Nico Zeglin today.

    Zeglin is 24 yrs old. Pitched well at Long Beach St in '23 and well in some Indy Ball.

    They also added Reilly and Viets in late ST.

    Have to search for MiLB arm depth anywhere you can and at all times!!!

  • Childersb3 (view)

    25 in Attendance!!!

    Phil, is that a backfield record?

    Also, 6 BBs for Cruz in 2 IP. What's the most walks you've seen in one EXT ST outing that you can recall?

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    He has a pulse. Apparently that’s the only requirement at this point.

  • crunch (view)

    cubs sign dan straily...for some reason.  minor league deal.

    welcome back.

    zac rosscup is down in mexico trying to make it happen...maybe they could throw him a contract, too.  junior lake is his teammate.  shore up a bunch of holes with some washups.

  • fullykräusened (view)

    The great thing about going to live sports events is you don't know if you're going to see something historic. Today I went to the Cub game, after putting the liner back in my coat and fishing my Cubs knit hat out of the closet. I needed all that- my seats are in the upper deck, left, so the east wind was in my face. Both teams failed to capitalize on good situations, but both starters did a good job to accomplish this. So, we go to the bottom of the sixth inning. The Cubs tie it up, and then Pete Crow-Armstrong comes up. We all know he would still be in AAA if not for injuries, and future Hall-of-Famer Justin Verlander absolutely carved up the young fellow up in his first two plate appearances. So this time he hits a fly ball. The wind was blowing in and had suppressed several strong fly balls- including a rocket off Altuve's bat that Canario hauled in (does anybody else remind me of Jorge Soler?) , but the ball kept carrying and carrying. 107mph, legit angle and carry. The crowd went nuts, the dugout went nuts. Maybe, just maybe, I saw the first homer from a long-term Cub.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Which was my original premise. They won the trades but lost their souls. They no longer employ the Cardinal way which had been so successful for so long.

  • crunch (view)

    STL traded away a lot of minor league talent that went on to do nothing in the arenado + goldschmidt trades.  neither guy blocked any of their minor league talent in the pipeline, too.  that's ideal places to add talent.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Natural cycle of baseball. Pitching makes adjustments in approach to counter a hot young rookie. Now it’s time for Busch and his coaches to counter those adjustments. Busch is very good and will figure it out, I think sooner than later.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    In 2020, the pandemic year and the year before they acquired Arenado, the Cardinals finished second and were a playoff team. Of the 12 batters with 100 plate appearances, 8 of them were home grown. Every member of the starting rotation (if you include Wainwright) and all but one of the significant relievers were home grown. While there have been a relative handful of very good trades interspersed which have been mentioned, player development had been their predominant pattern for decades - ever since I became an aware fan in the ‘70’s

    The Arenado deal was not a deal made out of dire need or desperation. It was a splashy, headline making deal for a perennial playoff team intended to be the one piece that brought the Cardinals from a very good team to a World Series contender. They have continued to wheel and deal and have been in a slide ever since. I stand by my supposition that that deal marked a notable turning point within the organization. They broke what had been a very successful formula for a very long time.
     

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