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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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TCR Friday Notes

- The Cubs made their first roster cuts, trimming the roster by nine. They included pitchers, Billy Petrick, Esmailin Caridad, Jose Ceda and left-hander Geoff Jones. Also, outfielders Tyler Colvin and Andres Torres, infielder Bobby Scales, and catchers Wellington Castillo and Josh Donaldson.

- A few folks sent me links to their Cubs sites lately and wanted to menton kosukefukudome.org, which is naturally, all things Kosuke. There's also Cubs Chat Room, which looks like it puts together all the major Cubs blogs in one place and has an ongoing chat. And finally, Just One Bad Century, which sure looks promising. Anyone doing a retrospective on great Cubs mustaches throughout the years, is my kind of place. 

- You may have seen the recap of our MLB Open Fantasy League draft. You can have just as much fun by joining our second league. We're one to two players short of a full league, so drop me a line if you want to be part of the fun. I believe the draft is Saturday, March 22nd at 11am CST. 

- Steve Holley of Inside the Ivy is going to do a little Q&A with us sometime over the next couple of weeks. I'd like to get my questions to him next week, so if you want to ask anything about our minor leaguers, drop me a note in the comments.

Comments

FYI Rob, you have an extra space at the end of the url in the One Bad Century link, so it doesn't work.

He was one of the top candidates for the right-handed-hitting utility 4th OF spot. Does anyone think that us cutting him means we have another candidate for the 4th OF spot who isn't currently on the roster? The only other alternative I can think of is keeping both Murton and Fuld around and having Murton back up at corner OF and Fuld be the CF backup.

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In reply to by SheffieldCornelia

I would guess that we'll make that trade eventually. But if we don't, Murton stays and Cedeno probably is the backup/right-hitting center fielder.
If nothing happens before Opening Day:
Bench of: Murton Blanco Cedeno Ward one of Jake Fox, Cintron, Fontenot, Eric Patterson or Fuld. I'd bet on Cintron out of that group.

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In reply to by SheffieldCornelia

I don't think he was really a top candidate. He has a career MLB average of .210 in 257 ABs and a career minor league average of .268. He's a 30-year old career minor leaguer for a reason. And the Cubs would have to add him to the 40-man roster. Option A) I think is adding someone, option B) would be to work with what they have. Option C) Torres, was never really an option. In my opinion anyway.

I would have put this in my notes if I had seen it yet: Top 5 NL Right Fielders by PROJECTED VORP in 2008 Corey Hart, MIL, .295, 35.5 Kosuke Fukudome, CHN, .303, 29.2 Jeremy Hermida, FLO, .296, 28.7 Matt Kemp, LAN, .287, 27.2 Lastings Milledge, WAS, .287, 22.2 That's encouraging about Kosuke, but how the heck is Brad Hawpe not in the top 5? (17.4 projected VORP btw).

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In reply to by Rob G.

lastings milledge? i'm sure his 200Ks and 50 walks will blow people away and impress many. he sure didn't look slick vs. righties last season no matter what his #s show. playing in FLA/WAS/NYM/ATL parks sure wont help. at least his swing is fluid and has legit pop. ...and hermida? are you f'n kidding me? can he even get to 25 homers? linedrives in those NL East parks?

casey lambert... killer curve...ordinary fastball...midget...reliever anyway...has his fastball improved (low 90s rather than high 80s)? does he have or working on a 3rd pitch? cubs gonna keep him in relief (if he has a 3rd pitch developing/developed)?

Recent comments

  • 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...

  • crunch (view)

    wow.  what a blown call.  go cubs, i guess.