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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 161 Thread / Cubs @ Reds (2 of 3)

Game Chat Rich Hill vs. Aaron Harang Lineups: Who Cares?

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"Lineups: Who Cares?" thread of the year.

What do you think the playoff roster is going to b Phil? I see Blanco, Monroe, Trax and maybe Eyre left off.

my name's not phil, but im a loudmouth, so whatever... monroe's probably got a 'bye' into the postseason cuz he's a righty who can cover all 3 OF slots. JJ cant be risked to cover CF by himself and pie's barely worked recently (and is a lefty). monroe could/probably make it based solely on his given tools, independent of his batting performance so far.

God, I'm an idiot. Or I'm still drunk. Either way, I forgot that THAT'S how you put a big photo into Word Press. Thanks, Rob!

Mets up 5-0 in the 2nd.... so how bad would it be for the Phils to go up a game and then blow it?

and Eyre will make the roster, he's been pretty lights out since the ASB (0.84 ERA) I do wonder how short the leash will be on Dumpster?

Brick's photo is awesome. Now 8-0 Mets...someone put something in the pregame spread, I think. BP Odds Report on Playoff Opponents: The way things shook out last night, it really looks like we will face the Diamondbacks, an 82.5% chance. There is an outside 12.5% shot of facing the Padres, a 3.5% chance of meeting the Phillies, and 1.5% chance of meeting the Mets. The odds of a Wild Card tie decreased significantly yesterday with the Rockies and Mets losing and the Diamondbacks and Padres winning. I like our chances against the Diamondbacks, in part because Phoenix is a familiar environment for the team. Essentially the entire major and minor league coaching and training staff will be available to them. I don't want to come within 100 miles of the Phillies this October.

OK, I'll bite. Here's my 25-man roster for the first round: Starters: Zambrano Lilly Hill Marquis Bullpen: Dempster Howry Eyre Marmol Wood Ohman Wuertz Catchers: Soto Kendall Outfield: Soriano JJ Murton Floyd Pie Ward Infield: Ramirez Theriot DeRosa Lee Fontenot Cedeno I'm assuming that Uncle Lou will want 11 pitchers, and he'll be able to get by with four starters. I can't Monroe making it, he's just not done well enough, and Blanco has barely played at all in the last month.Ohman makes the team as a LOOGY. We don't have a long man, but hopefully we won't need one - I can't recall a game this year where a long man was brought in to pitch the bulk of a game when the starter faltered. Marshall and Trachsel are ready reserves, in case someone gets hurt. Just my $0.02 worth.

thanks Brick, your photo looks fantastic as a desktop for my 20" apple monitor!

Lineup - um, someone in another thread and chat mentioned Dave Veres picking up a few innings today. What I heard anyway.

On Cubs.com, it shows Gallagher getting the spot start over Rich Hill...

i hate u fox. evidently the mets are in a fighting move...and i can't see it. its being described as "classic" amongst other things.

fighting mood... lots of punches, multiple bench clearings... THAAAAAAAANKS FOX.

theriot, fontenot, murton, Soto, Pie, Cedeno (3B), Blanco (1B), Fuld (RF), Hill vs. Hopper, Keppinger, Votto, Phillips, Encarnacion, Cantu, Ross, Ellison I expect some of the regulars to get a couple of Ab's tomorrow.

Interesting... Theriot is the one guy whom I thought would sit for sure because of his back. But it makes sense to get Cedeno some defensive reps at 3B in case he's needed there during the playoffs.

I turn to fox to see if they cut to the Mets game and lo and behold, it's the Cubs v. Reds!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Theroit could have used an offday. I probably would have called up Fox put him at 1b and put Blanco at 3rd. Though I guess if he sits tomrrow that is still 3 days off before Game 1.

Too funny. I predicted this exact line-up last night with the exception of Cedeno at 3B instead of Theriot.

Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome your 2006-2007 Iowa Cubs to Great American Ballpark!

Well, the Chicago Cubs can't beat Harang, but the Iowa Cubs don't have much problem doing it.

Combined 1-hit shutout? Wow.... Didn't anybody tell the pitchers that this game was meaningless?

Hey Rich Hill and bullpen RINSE AND REPEAT, please.

"Yeah, I send Marshall in a millisecond over Ohman." I'm thinking that Ohman has experience as a LOOGY, while Marshall would need time to warm up. But today's performance was pretty impressive - granted, against an utterly demoralized Reds team. No doubt Uncle Lou and Jim will confound all our predictions.

Marshall looked pretty healthy to me.........looked like he was throwing free and easy.

AP - "Piniella wasn't aware that several Marlins suggested the Cubs were panicking while they got swept in Florida on Thursday. ``You know, they've got a lot of talent over there to lose 90 games,'' Piniella said, pointedly. ``Outside of that, I don't have much to say about the situation.'' I love it! Go Lou!! F*** the fish!

Haven't caught any of the brawl story today but seems like the fish were letting the 'spoiler' role go to their heads.

yeah, evidently marshall's pretty good at pitching on 2 weeks rest. a lot better than pitching on 8 days rest, anyway. good to see him out there today...was worried about his state of health seeing so little of him.

And most people were worried about the Reds series because there was NO way we could beat both Arroyo and Harang....the B team had no problem with Harang.

Ah, schucks. I missed the first 20 mins of the Cubs special. Have to watch for when it airs again.

URBS: "I’m thinking that Ohman has experience as a LOOGY..." NOOOOOOOOO! No Fucking WAY! ANYONE ELSE. He is not a LOOGY. Not a ROOGY! Leave this crap-ass pitcher with Trachsel OFF the Roster. PLEASE, LOU!

Ohman IS a LOOGY. That doesn't mean we need one, but he is good in that role. I personally want Marshall on the roster though. Good the entire season except for one month. Maybe he just got tired, because he looked every bit as dominating as he did the first three months. Please let him pitch over Marquis (I know, ain't happening, but I can hope.)

"The Cubs are the first team in the NL Central to go from last to first in consecutive seasons. The last NL team to pull off the feat was Arizona in 1999", Cubs.com As per my request to CHAD, Cubs are in elite company as he did some research on this previously and found that only five teams have done this during the last 30 years. We're in elite company. CWTD - You may now change your moniker back to CWTP! GO CUBS!!!!

They’re not showing the Cubs game on Fox in Chicago? Seriously? Somebody explain this. I mentioned it a couple days ago, Fox is only allowed to carry one team up to 9 times. Today was the 10th game for the Cubs, so it was blacked out in Chicago. I'm still not sure how WGN then gets the rights to a Saturday afternoon, when that's supposed to be Fox's exclusive time... BTW, Thanks Brick. Your photo is now my desktop wallpaper.

Hill's 4 K's gave him 183 on the year which will likely give him the team lead unless Lilly can strike out 10 in his 2-3 innings of work tomorrow. He also lowered his ERA under the 4 mark to 3.92 which will likely be 2nd on the team behind Lilly unless he gets rocked tomorrow. Marshall also lowered his ERA to 3.92 with his 2 innings. All 5 Cubs starters (I'm using Marshall) with ERA+ over 100.

BRICK! What a terrific shot! Many, many thanks! Jacos - That is hysterical!! =D

Brick, thanks for the picture! Jacos, thanks for the video! This is too much fun.

You know, they’ve got a lot of talent over there to lose 90 games HAHAHA... VA Phil - Lou is making fun of your Marlins!

I think the choice for the 11th pitcher will come down to Kevin Hart or Marshall. Based on experience, he would be a second lefty out of the pen, and how he looked today, you would think Marshall will get the nod. Hart has looked very good this month, though.

Well Elias was half right about the '83 Cubs, they would hit. More than could be said for the 2006 version.

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  • 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. 

  • 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.