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28 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and twelve players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors. 

Last updated 3-26-2024
 
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PITCHERS: 15
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Caleb Kilian
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
Jameson Taillon
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
Alexander Canario
# 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 

 



 

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Projected Cubs Stats

Inspired by this post from the MVN Brewers site, a look at some Cubs players projected stats from their ESPN.com player pages (through Friday's games). Derrek Lee 126 R, 276 H, 12 HR, 126 RBI's, 102 2b's Alfonso Soriano 111 R, 208 H, 15 HR, 37 RBI's, 89 2b's Aramis Ramirez 89 R, 179 H, 33 HR, 117 RBI's, 7 3b's Mark Derosa 60 R, 140 H, 27 HR, 100 RBI's, 7 3b's Michael Barrett 46 R, 139 H, 27 HR, 113 RBI's, 13 2b's Ryan Dempster 81 IP, 87 K, 23 BB, 29 Saves, 6 HR Allowed Michael Wuertz 81 IP, 81 K, 23 BB, 12 HR Allowed Jason Marquis 23-6, 220 IP, 110 K, 75 BB, 12 HR Allowed Rich Hill 17-6, 203 IP, 168 K, 64 BB, 17 HR Allowed Ted Lilly 12-12, 220 IP, 220 K, 35 BB, 12 HR Allowed Carlos Zambrano 11-11, 223 IP, 163 K, 123 BB, 50 HR Allowed

Comments

I don't think the win-loss record for Z and saves for dempster have been updated for today's game though.

"Aramis Ramirez 89 R, 179 H, 33 HR, 117 RBI’s, 7 3b’s" Minus the triples, this may come true.

Another very good win by the Cubbies. They are beating these teams they should be beating. I hope they have turned the corner and have .500 in their sights. They have a tough late May stretch, that will be a real good test.

Cub team won/loss projection: .500 record certainly an improvement over last year in major leagues weakest division.

[...] So, without further ado, here are the big issues going into the weekend: Aside from the King Felix/Dice-K matchup, the most intriguing showdown in the young season will take place Friday: Cole Hamels vs. Tim Lincecum. I’m predicting either 20 K’s or 12 BB’s between them, maybe even both. How will Brett Myers handle his first weekend in the closer role? Will Soriano and Lee (who is on pace for 276 hits) stay hot, pushing the Cubs past .500? What to make of the Toronto closing situation? Accardo or Frasor? What will Phil Garner do next? After a chat with Barry Bonds, when will Ryan Howard finally start hitting? [...]

By my figuring, the recent stretch of 6 wins, 1 loss in seven games, equals the BEST stretch (also 6-1) in ALL of last year, which started about ten days after the ASG. But of course we know how that ended up, more or less 0-for-August. Actually it was a 3-18 stretch, and as I recall we were practically eating our young on the chatboard out of disgust and frustration. Things are better now, aren't they? Just from today put DLee and JJ video highlights into your brain and savor. PS I hope the CF-RF grandstanders can do something to show props to JJ for decent throws and hustle lately.

Teams starting to play like the team I envisioned. D-Lee is murdering the ball, Soriano is starting to hit, Theriot has been good and needs to start, and JJ is seeing the ball well and hitting it on the nose. He hasn't had a big blunder in the outfield either. I agree with Dave, he's hustling and playing well and the fans need to acknowledge that.

Floyd hasn't been awful either. De Rosa has been OK. Marquis, Lilly and Hill have been ridiculous. Wuertz and Dempster have replaced Howry and Eyre as our two best relievers. Good stuff overall. Problems--Barrett not hitting and his usual suspect defense. Where has "Cy" Zambrano gone? Howry, Eyre and Ohman, abducted by aliens? Ronny Cedeno still sucks. Felix Pie so very promising, but not ready. Who has kidnapped Matt Murton? Daryl Ward is fat and a waste of roster space. Cesar Izturis is just plain BAD. One possible solution--Trade Murton to a team that can better utilize him, see if we can pawn off one of the unwanted vets with him, and get a solid reliever or nice prospect in exchange. Send Cedeno to Iowa where he belongs, allowing you to keep Pie as a 4th OF and defensive replacement. We need a 5th starter, Guzman can't get the job done. Bobby Howry to Philly for Jon Lieber and cash?

hell, ward's barely played...and he's lost a few chances cuz the pitcher sees him and says "no thanks" giving him a walk. at that point cedeno gets to play...heh. well, at least i wanna see more of him before i dismiss him...not like im expecting the world of him, but some doubles and the occasional homer would be worth 1m.

btw...its damn nice to have excess players without a glaring need somewhere. yeah, it'd be nice to have a SS that could both hit and field, but who's selling....a "solid" 5th starter would be nice, too, but hey, its a 5th starter.

"Problems–Barrett not hitting and his usual suspect defense. Where has “Cy” Zambrano gone? Howry, Eyre and Ohman," Good, if guys start to cool down and come back to career averages, we have a few that are to to heat up.

yanks pitching is just...painful. good thing they got mussina back even if his stamina isnt there and his stuff isnt was 2-3 years ago. they're trying to slug their 100million lineup through this season independant of the pitching if this keeps up.

Another guy who won a job based on his spring training performance bites the dust. Lance Niekro was DFA'd by the Giants today. "Niekro hit .362 with three home runs and 10 RBI during spring training."

Amazing how upbeat we Cub fans get after a few wins over even worse teams, Pittsburgh and Washington. Today in the stands, pennant fever was really catching on after lots of fan anger in the earlier 5 games I attended. Still I am realistic and hoping for a .500 season.

sod that. we could really catch fire. our offense is just now starting to produce. if our pitching maintains, we are in very good shape. 88 wins.

even discouting the hot starts of marquis/lilly and settling for "they're good enough even if not this good"...the bats can produce pretty much randomly out of 6-7 slots everyday. soriano/dlee/aram ... jones/barrett/floyd-murton ... derosa/theriot/pie ... if everyone stays healthy the biggest worries about hitting should be izturis vs. theriot and barrett vs. blanco...and depending on how you feel about pie/jones, them too. personally, i'd rather have jones in CF over pie but others feel differently.

jones' play is perfect. either we trade him at good value, or we have a productive outfielder who can play right or center....

Nice to see second place already. Chad, this means that your step 2 happened before your step 1 -- could this cause serious injury, given that the hole has not yet been cut in the box?

Nice to see second place already. Chad, this means that your step 2 happened before your step 1 — could this cause serious injury, given that the hole has not yet been cut in the box? ================ Yeah, I laughed out loud at this. TCR has the funniest comment posters in the whole Cubs Blogoshpere. You heard it here, folks. And that's without me getting warmed up at all.

This one's for everyone at home who noticed right away that Z's arm angle was too low: from the SunTimes: Zambrano righted himself with a higher arm angle. ''My arm was down the first few innings,'' he said. ''After I made a pitch to Ryan Zimmerman [a leadoff walk in the third], I told myself, ''Come on, get your arm up.'

OK all caught up on the SNL "Step one, cut a hole in a box" reference, thank you YouTube. Interestingly, I performed in a comedy revue seven years ago, and we did that same schtick-in-a-box dressed as UPS salesman, each one carrying a delivery box, doing a Chippendales sort of line dance, with the comic payoff at the end: all the guys start spinnng their boxes. Except me: mine was tiny, on a spring and just kinda flopped around. It got a big laugh.

102 doubles by D. Lee? That would be awesome! I wouldn't even care if he had 0 HR's if he hit that many doubles.

Tennessee had a fun time last night, 16-1 at Birmingham. 5 guys with three hits: Fuld, Fox, Craig, Dopirak and Robinson. Craig with 6 rbi. Holliman 4-0, 0.55 era.

Holliman, Holliman!!! Wonder if he changed anything this offseason?

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Javier Assad started the Lo-A game (Myrtle Beach versus Stockton) on the Cubs backfields on Wednesday as his final Spring Training tune-up. He was supposed to throw five innings / 75 pitches. However, I was at the minor league road games at Fitch so I didn't see Assad pitch. 

  • crunch (view)

    cards put j.young on waivers.

    they really tried to make it happen this spring, but he put up a crazy bad slash of .081/.244/.108 in 45PA.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Seconded!!!

  • crunch (view)

    another awesome spring of pitching reports.  thanks a lot, appreciated.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Here are the Cubs pitchers reports from Tuesday afternoon's Cardinals - Cubs game art Sloan Park in Mesa:

    SHOTA IMANAGA
    FB: 90-92 
    CUT: 87-89 
    SL: 82-83 
    SPLIT: 81-84
    CV: 73-74 
    COMMENT: Worked three innings plus two batters in the fourth... allowed four runs (three earned) on eight hits (six singles and two doubles) walked one, and struck out six (four swinging), with a 1/2 GO/AO... he threw 73 pitches (52 strikes - 10 swing & miss - 19 foul balls)... surrendered one run in the top of the 1st on a one-out double off Cody Bellinger's glove in deep straight-away CF followed one out later by two consecutive two-out bloop singles, allowed two runs (one earned) in the 2nd after retiring the first two hitters (first batter had a nine-pitch AB with four consecutive two-strike foul balls before being retired 3 -U) on a two-out infield single (weak throw on the run by Nico Hoerner), a hard-contact line drive RBI double down the RF line, and an E-1 (missed catch) by Imanaga on what should been an inning-ending 3-1 GO, gave up another run in the 3rd on a two-out walk on a 3-2 pitch and an RBI double to LF, and two consecutive singles leading off the top of the 4th before being relieved (runners were ultimately left stranded)... threw 18 pitches in the 1st inning (14 strikes - two swing & miss, one on FB and the other on a SL - four foul balls), 24 pitches in the 2nd inning (17 strikes - three swing & miss, one on FB, two SPLIT - six foul balls), 19 pitches in the 3rd inning (13 strikes - seven swing & miss, three on SL, two on SPLIT, one on FB - three foul balls), and 12 pitches without retiring a batter in the top of the 4th (8 strikes - no swing & miss - four foul balls)... Imanaga throws a lot of pitches per inning, but it's not because he doesn't throw strikes...  if anything, he throws too many strikes (he threw 70% strikes on Tuesday)... while he gets a ton of swing & miss (and strikeouts), he also induces a lot of foul balls because he doesn't try to make hitters chase his pitches by throwing them out of the strike zone... rather, he uses his very diverse pitch mix to get swing & miss (and lots of foul balls as well)... he also is a fly ball pitcher who will give up more than his share of HR during the course of the season...   
     
    JOE NAHAS
    FB: 90-92 
    SL: 83-85 
    CV: 80-81 
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day... relieved Imanaga with runners at first and second and no outs in the top of the 4th, and after an E-2 catcher's interference committed by Miguel Amaya loaded he bases, Nahas struck out the side (one swinging & two looking)... threw 16 pitches (11 strikes - two swinging)...   

    YENCY ALMONTE
    FB: 89-92 
    CH: 86 
    SL: 79 
    COMMENT: Threw an eight-pitch 5th (five strikes - no swing & miss), with a 5-3 GO for the first out and an inning-ending 4-6-3 DP after a one-out single... command was a bit off but he worked through it...   

    FRANKIE SCALZO JR
    FB: 94-95
    CH: 88 
    SL: 83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 6th inning... got the first outs easily (a P-5 and a 4-3 GO) on just three pitches, before allowing three consecutive two-out hard-contact hits (a double and two singles), with the third hit on pitch # 9 resulting in a runner being thrown out at the plate by RF Christian Franklin for the third out of the inning... 

    MICHAEL ARIAS
    FB: 94-96
    CH: 87-89
    SL: 82-83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and allowed a hard-contact double on the third pitch of the 7th inning (a 96 MPH FB), and the runner came around to score on a 4-3 GO and a WP... gave up two other loud contact outs (an L-7 and an F-9)... threw 18 pitches (only 10 strikes - only one swing & miss)... stuff is electric but still very raw and he continues to have difficulty commanding it, and while he has the repertoire of a SP, he throws too many pitches-per-inning to be a SP and not enough strikes to be a closer... he is most definitely still a work-in-progress...   

    ZAC LEIGH: 
    FB: 93-94 
    CH: 89 
    SL: 81-83 
    CV: 78
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and tossed a 1-2-3 8th (4-3 GO, K-swinging on a sweeper, K-looking on another sweeper)... threw 14 pitches (11 strikes - one swing & miss - eight foul balls)... kept pumping pitches into the strike zone but had difficulty putting hitters away (ergo a ton of foul balls)... FB velo is nowhere near the 96-98 MPH it was a couple of years ago when he was a Top 30 prospect, but his secondaries are better...   

    JOSE ROMERO:  
    FB: 93-95
    SL: 82-84
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 9th (14 pitches - only six strikes- no swing & miss) and allowed a solo HR after two near-HR fly outs to the warning track, before getting a 3-1 GO to end the inning... it was like batting practice when he wasn't throwing pitches out of the strike zone...

  • crunch (view)

    pablo sandoval played 3rd and got a couple ABs (strikeout, single!) in the OAK@SF "exhibition"

    mlb officially authenticated the ball of the single he hit.  nice.

    he's in surprisingly good shape considering his poor body condition in his last playing seasons.  he's not lean, but he looks healthier.  good for him.

  • crunch (view)

    dbacks are signing j.montgomery to a 1/25m with a vesting 20m player option.

    i dunno when the ink officially dries, but i believe if he signs once the season begins he can't be offered a QO...and i'm not sure if that thing with SD/LAD in korea was the season beginning, either.

  • crunch (view)

    sut says imanaga getting the home opener at wrigley (game 4 of the season).

  • crunch (view)

    cubs rolling out the who's who of "who the hell is this guy?" in the last spring game.

  • videographer (view)

    AZ Phil, speaking of Jordan Wicks having better command when he tires a bit, I remember reading about Dennis Lamp 40 years ago and his sinker that was better after 3 or 4 innings when he would tire a bit and get more sink with a little less speed on the pitch.  The key for Lamp was getting to the 4th inning.