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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full) 

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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Game 141 Thread/Cubs @ Pirates (2 of 3)

Game Chat : BR Preview : Game Notes Carlos Zambrano vs. Ian Snell Lineups:
Soriano LF Morgan CF
Theriot SS McLouth RF
Lee 1B Sanchez 2B
Ramirez 3B Bay LF
Floyd RF LaRoche 1B
DeRosa 2B Bautista 3B
Kendall C Paulino C
Jones CF Wilson SS
Zambrano P Snell P
Notes: We need this one. Man, do we need this one.

Comments

Len Kasper just announced a Tennessee win tonight. I don't know if Pittsburgh has any fight in them, but Soriano stood at home plate for a long time on the ball to the stands in left that McLouth could have caught in the pocket of his glove.

Kasper's really on a roll tonight. Go, Len! First he nails Kendall for turning his glove around--switching from the normal backhand catch to forehand while in the middle of catching a Zambrano curve--that cost Zambrano a strikeout in the seventh inning. (Kendall did it again to Marmol in the eighth.) Now in the bottom of the eighth, Kasper mentions that Marmol has become "slider-happy," and Brenly backs him up. I can't believe I'm hearing this! Someone is saying out over the airwaves what I've been writing here for weeks. First of all, it's a Kendall thing (or a lazy catcher thing). But Rothschild just sits there and watches it while Marmol morphs into Ryan Dempster. What was Marmol's fastball tonight, 91? Remember when he used to throw hard? All these pitchers could be good, including Wuertz, if we had a pitching coach.

"I can’t believe I’m hearing this! Someone is saying out over the airwaves what I’ve been writing here for weeks." newsflash, kendall also hits singles. and lou is old and needs to shave. breaking news: neifi perez isnt a good hitter. im researching a rumor that nick punto may be having a bad year, i'll get back to you on that when i crunch the numbers.

k, seriously...marmol throwing a slider isnt new, nor is him throwing a ton of them new. you seem to have a new thing with rothschild since you're on a 1-man campaign. should have been here 2 years ago when people still cared about wood/prior. btw... "What was Marmol’s fastball tonight, 91? Remember when he used to throw hard?" you know that's begging for a k.hill joke, right?

I just want to bang my head against the wall. Cooky theories formed in somebody's head are automatically the correct answer and 130 years of pitching are worthless. Flush 'em. We've formulated an entirely new theory. I've been waiting for this day all my life. Now I can throw 99 like everybody else.

Now I can throw 99 like everybody else. Only if Koyie Hill is catching. He is so good that the Cubs minor league pitchers need him more than the Cubs big league pitchers.

Looks, it's simple common sense. You guys just like to argue. Hill didn't feed his pitchers HGH, but he called for more fastballs, and so they threw more, and they threw them on strike two, and they got in better shape to throw fastballs. Remember when it took Howry two months this season to get his fastball from 91 to 93-94? (Maybe you don't remember, because it's not in BR.) Well, it works the other way, too. If you don't use it, you lose it. Why do pitchers warm up, by the way?

Why do pitchers warm up, by the way? Two different things. This just shows that you don't know what you are talking about.

No, it's not common sense. You have no idea what you're talking about. If you threw 95 yesterday, you throw 95 today. If you throw 95 in the first inning and don't throw another fastball until the fourth inning, you still throw 95. There is no, "if you don't use it, you lose it." If 95 is in your arm, it's not going anyway when you throw 11 pitches and 4 of them are fastballs as opposed to throwing 11 pitches and they're all fastballs. You warm up so you can throw 95. If Koyie caught every day, we wouldn't need to warm up. We could just come in cold and they'd already throw 95.

Fuckin' STL, up 6-3. Both STL and MIL were down 3-0 at one point today. UGH!!!!!

Allow me to amend #23 slightly. Every day is not identical. Some days your velocity is down, and some days your velocity is up. Multiple factors determine that, however. None of which include pitch selection, which was my original point. Things like the weather, if you pitched yesterday, if you've pitched a lot in the last week, your confidence, how good/bad your arm feels. how long you had to warm up, and game situation/nerves (among other things) all effect how hard you throw. I can promise you this VA Phil. Throwing sliders does not make your arm go cold. And it really puzzles me why you think that they do. How can Marmol throw 91 in the 7th, SIT DOWN FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES, then come out and still throw 91-92 in the eighth? If he can do that, how in the world does throwing three sliders in a row make your velocity go down? I've yet to see you provide a physical explanation for this. It's all "it just does." No mechanical reasons. It just does. Tell me, what happens in his arm? Why does it do that? Educate me, coach.

todd wellemeyer still rules..ARZ up by 2 in the top (STL) of the 5th.

VA Phil: I don’t know if Pittsburgh has any fight in them, but Soriano stood at home plate for a long time on the ball to the stands in left that McLouth could have caught in the pocket of his glove. No, it's only the San Diego Madres that are sensitive to those things.

Moore hit a granny against the suddenly struggling Dice-K, Leicester with the win and Cherry with 2 scoreless. Go Cubs Minor League Power!!!

Game over, Rover - byebye Birdies!!! Brew-screw and Cubs up 2 on the Cards. How are things on the West coast? I'd say they're doing just fine.

Nice to see Arizona fight back. Cincy is fucking worthless ... contract the Reds. Preferably before our next series against them.

Valverde just rocked the Tards to sleep. he made Edmonds look old. Older than usual I should say. Despite the fact that the Brewers won tonight, watching Fielder run the bases gave me a good laugh.

I dumped David Weathers' pasty ass in my fantasy league months ago. If only the Reds had such clairvoyance. Shiner Bock, Modest Mouse, Interpol, Kaiser Chiefs, yeah, that's how I roll.

Odd game tonight in AZ 17 runs scored in the 1st half of the game and 0 in the last 4.5 frames. Hopefully we win tommrrow and STL loses to give us a 3 game cushion on them. Also with Trax and Matt Morris going tommrrow, I wonder what going to happen 1st: A. The Cubs game ends B. Hester returns a kickoff for a TD C. Grossman drops a snap D. LT2 scores a TD E. Tony Romo throws a pass (DAL is the NBC game this week)

Va Phil, Considering Soriano looked to be more upset about not hitting the ball well enough than gloating over a HR I dont think they will be. Ryno, Dont forget Edgar "the clothsline" Renteria and Jim "mindreader" Wolf.

#14- Has this blog always run on Mountain Time? when koyie hill posts here, his entries show up on central time. * * * * * * * was awful nice to see dr. zambrano instead of mr. carlos. although i would also have been screaming at the plate ump; if the inside corner is too inside, and the outside corner is too outside, as it was for (at least) carlos' final hitter, something ain't right. and i would not mind having my catcher get tossed for pointing that fact out. with an extra catcher on the bench, why not?

IowaCub: "Brew-screw and Cubs up 2 on the Cards." Yeah, but only 1 in the loss column. That 4-game series next weekend will be a huge determination as to how the rest of the season goes. The Cubs really need to split with STL in those games.

"I wonder what going to happen 1st:" Traschel throws only 85 pitches in 7 innings - but takes over 120 minutes to do so. BTW, did anyone else notice how much Z speeded up his time b/w pitches last night? The guy was getting set up for his next pitch almost as soon as the previous one was in the catcher's mitt - it worked for him, maybe that's been the flaw all along.

If the Cubs are smart they won't "insult" Kendall with an offer for what he's worth. And with Kendall's contract winding up at $13 million this year, how low an offer can a team make for him?

team can offer him anything unless they offer him arbitration which obviously they won't.

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    yeah, for me this isn't about who's better at 3rd.  it's madrigal, period.  for me it's about who's not hitting in the lineup because madrigal is in the lineup.

    occasional play at 3rd for madrigal, okay.  going with the steele/ground-ball matchup...meh, but okay, whatever.

    seeing madrigal get significant starting time...no thanks.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Yeah I am very disappointed Madrigal is starting. He has no business as a starter. He is AAA insurance, a back up at best. Sure his defense looks fine because he plays far enough in that his noodle arm isn’t totally exposed. It comes at the cost of 3B range.

    He’s garbage, and a team serious about winning would NOT have him starting opening day.

  • crunch (view)

    in other news, it took 3 PA before a.rizzo got his 1st HBP of the season.

  • Eric S (view)

    With two home runs (so far) and 5 rbi today … clearly Nick Martini is the straw that stirs the Reds drink 😳

  • crunch (view)

    madrigal at 3rd...morel at DH.

    making room for madrigal or/and masterboney to get a significant amount of ABs is a misuse of the roster.  if it needed to get taken care of this offseason, they had tons of time to figure that out.

    morel played almost exclusively at 3rd in winter ball and they had him almost exclusively there all spring when he wasn't DH'ing.

    madrigal doing a good job with the glove for a bit over 2 chances per game...is that worth more than what he brings with the bat 4-5 PA a game?  it's 2024 and we got glenn beckert 2.0 manning 3rd base.

    this is a tauchman or cooper DH situation based on bat, alone.  cooper is 3/7 with a double off eovaldi if you want to play the most successful matchup.

    anyway, i hope this is a temporary thing, not business as usual for the rest of the season.  it will be telling if morel is not used at 3rd when an extreme fly ball pitcher like imanaga is on the mound.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    There are two clear "logjams" in the Cubs minor league pipeline at the present time, namely AA outfielders (K. Alcantara, C. Franklin, Roederer, Pagan, Pinango, Beesley, and Nwogu) and Hi-A infielders (J. Rojas, P. Ramirez, Howard, R. Morel, Pertuz, R. Garcia, and Spence, although Morel has been getting a lot of reps in the outfield in addition to infield). So it is possible that you might see a trade involving one of the extra outfielders at AA and/or one of the extra infielders at Hi-A in the next few days. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    18-year old SS Jefferson Rojas almost made the AA Tennessee Opening Day roster, and he is a legit shortstop, so I would expect him to be an MLB Top 100 prospect by mid-season. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Among the relievers in the system, I expect RHRP Hunter Bigge at AAA Iowa and RHRP Ty Johnson at South Bend to have breakout seasons on 2024, and among the starters I see LHP Drew Gray and RHP Will Sanders at South Bend and RHP Naz Mule at ACL Cubs as the guys who will make the biggest splash. Also, Jaxon Wiggins is throwing bullpen sides, so once he is ready for game action he could be making an impact at Myrtle Beach by June.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I expect OF Christian Franklin to have a breakout season at AA Tennessee in 2024. In another organization that doesn't have PCA, Caissie, K. Alcantara, and Canario in their system, C. Franklin would be a Top 10 prospect. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    The Reds trading Joe Boyle for Sam Moll at last year's MLB Trade Deadline was like the Phillies trading Ben Brown to the Cubs for David Robertson at the MLB TD in 2022.