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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 nine players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and one player 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
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 9 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 1 
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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Cubs vs. Mets

Submitted by Cubnut on
Compare and contrast:
You can just look in their dugout and it's just like panic mode. Guys are pacing up and down the dugout.

--Florida's Cody Ross, speaking of your Chicago Cubs

Randolph, who rarely says anything while walking through the clubhouse with reporters present, saw a cluster of reporters crowded around Wagner and said to no one in particular as he passed by, “We’re still going to win this thing, we’re still going to win it.”

--New York Times

Comments

Submitted by Cubnut on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 09:51 am

Before anybody asks, I'm not thinking that Randolph is showing any more resolve or confidence than those guys pacing in the Cub dugout. The picture of the Mets manager more or less muttering to himself isn't a very encouraging one if I'm a Mets fan.

Submitted by Chad on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 09:55 am

Panic mode? I would just say that they are all (Cubs and Mets) feeling the pressure. Who wouldn't?

Submitted by cubswinthedivision on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 09:07 am

Hey, we are the team with the 2 game lead with 3 to play. Contrast that with this from today's Milwaukee Journal, (snip)......here's how the Brewers reacted with the chance to win a pennant for the first time in 25 years: Five errors in the 9-5 loss to San Diego. Are you kidding me? It might not be over, but you can almost see the next stop. And it sure looks a lot like the strip malls around Maryvale. One would suppose anything is still possible where the Cubs are concerned, but the Brewers haven't exactly handled this grace-under-pressure thing like a Hemingway character. They blew up in Atlanta, losing their cool with the umps in the process. Then came the dubious revenge factor Wednesday night against St. Louis. Yes, they were going to walk Albert Pujols, anyway. And, yes, it was on Derrick Turnbow to throw strikes. But why worry about getting your leader's back right there? Can't it wait until next year? More to the point, this lost opportunity is becoming a group effort, from the manager to the players to the front office. How ironic was the critical moment in loss to the Padres on Thursday? Bases loaded, two out in the fifth, said leader Prince Fielder at the plate and San Diego brings in Joe Thatcher, one of the Brewers' minor-leaguers dispatched in return for Scott Linebrink. Thatcher has been absolutely lights out from the bullpen during the Padres' playoff chase, allowing almost nothing. And so on a hitter's pitch, 3-1 to the possible MVP, Thatcher coaxed Fielder into a groundout. It was a spirit-crushing moment for the 34,918 fans hoping for one down with three to play, but certainly no more than the Brewers waiting eight years to commit five errors in one game. In this particular game, with all the Cubs have given them, it was unpardonable, just a brutal way to all but determine their fate......(snip)

Submitted by DC Tom on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 09:10 am

I don't even think you can compare the Cubs and Mets right now. On September 12, 17 games to go, the Mets had a 7 game lead and the Cubs were only tied for first. And during their fall the Mets took three of four from the Marlins (Sep 20-23). See, you can't compare the two at all.

Submitted by mannytrillo on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 09:10 am

Chad: "I would just say that they are all (Cubs and Mets) feeling the pressure. Who wouldn’t?" Correct, they all should feel pressure, but it is how they are handling it.

Submitted by Johann on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 09:13 am

Actually, a whole bunch of Mets fans are very pissed at Willie that he hasn't showed more emotion. If you ask a Met fan, there isn't very much going right in New York. But yeah, I'm sure the Cubs players are stressed. Don't doubt that one at all.

Submitted by DC Tom on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 09:17 am

The "big guns" are coming out tonight for the pennant races, should be a great night to watch: Z for the Cubs (against Arroyo) Oliver Perez for the Mets Brandon Webb v. Jeff Francis in crucial AZ/CO match-up Maddux for Padres And the poor souls in Milwaukee are tossing out Chris Capuano because Ben Sheets is, well, Ben Sheets, and this time his little left leg has a boo-boo and feels a little tight.

Submitted by Virginia Phil on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 09:26 am

But yeah, I’m sure the Cubs players are stressed. I don't see it that way. This isn't Dusty's team, where eight regulars in the lineup were going to do or die, probably die. The Cubs have a deep bench. If Monroe is stressed, Murton isn't. If Jones is stressed, that's okay with Felix Pie. Same with DeRosa/Fontenot, Theriot/Cedeno, Kendall/Soto (or vice versa, since Soto has been showing a little stress lately). So I expect a group of Cubs to do a good job, I just can't tell you which ones.

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    bases loaded for the cubs, 0 out...and no runs score.

    cubbery.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Walker was a complimentary piece who was well past his prime. Edmonds, Holliday, Ozzie Smith and a few others were good trades. Notably, they have almost always been quiet in the free agent market. But the fundamental workings of the organization were always based primarily upon the constant output of a well oiled minor league organization. That organization has ground to a halt. And when did that hard stop start to happen? Right at the beginning of the Goldschmidt/Arenado era, perpetuated by the Contreras signing, followed by the rotation purchases during the last offseason. The timing is undeniable and, in my mind, not coincidental.

    Again, we are all saying that player development became deemphasized. I’m just linking it directly to the recent trades and involvement in the free agent market. I don’t see how the two concepts can be decoupled.

  • Charlie (view)

    The Cards also traded for both Jim Edmonds and Larry Walker. It's the developing part that has fallen off. Of course, it could also be the case that there are no more Matt Carpenters left to pull out of the hat. 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Cubs sign 28 yr old RHRP Daniel Missaki. He was in MiLB from his 17yr old to 19yr old years and did pretty well.
    He's been in Mexico and Japan the last four years and has done well also.
    He's supposedly Japanese and Brazilian.
    Interesting sign. We obviously need to RP in the system
    Injuries are mounting everywhere!!

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Sure, they made generally short term trades for established players to enhance what they already had or traded for players early enough in their careers that they were essentially Cardinals from the start. What they never did was to try to use the more established players as foundational cornerstones.

    Essentially we’re saying the same thing. They have given up on player development to the point that even their prospects that make it to the bigs flop so that they have to do things like buy most of their rotation and hope for the best.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    I don’t buy that. They had been doing that for years.

    They did it with Matt Holliday. They did it with John Lackey. They did it with Mark Mulder. They did it with Jason Heyward, who had a great year for them. I’m sure there’s more but those come to mind immediately.

    I attribute it more to a breakdown in what they’re doing in terms of development than a culture thing.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    They won those trades and sacrificed their culture. That’s exactly their problem.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    The other part that’s kind of crazy is they made two very high profile trades, one for Goldschmidt and one for Arenado, and they very clearly won those trades. They just haven’t been able to develop players the last handful of years the way they usually do.

    I guess the moral there is it’s hard to stay on top of your game and be good at what you do in perpetuity.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Marmol was extended at the beginning of the year. Two years I believe.

  • crunch (view)

    Jesse Rogers @JesseRogersESPN
    Craig Counsell doesn’t have a timetable for Cody Bellinger who technically has two cracked ribs on his right side. CT scan showed it today.

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