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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL 

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, ten players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, two players are on the 15-DAY IL, and two players are on the 10-DAY IL

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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* 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: 10 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2 
Seiya Suzuki, OF
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 2
* Justin Steele, P  
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Biting My Blue-Pinstriped Tongue

Submitted by Cubnut on

I encountered a number of Cardinals fans heading for Chicago Union Station during this evening's rush hour. I thought about making a smart remark or two in their direction, but I held back.

It's the middle of April, there are two games left in this series, and they're still in first place.

Besides, those Saint Louis-bound fans were going to be dealing with Amtrak for the next five and a half hours.

A person should only be subjected to so much grief in a single day.

Freaky Stat of the Day: The four Cardinal pitchers—Walters, Miller, Boggs, and Perez— combined to fan 13 Cubs this afternoon. That's the highest number of strikeouts by Cub hitters in a nine-inning game in which they beat St. Louis going back to 1954, when Baseball-Reference's Play Index data begins.

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Submitted by joshb on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 04:02 pm

i was interested in one thing really from this win. Zambranos pitch count. Ya he gave up 7 runs and 3 walks, but he still managed 7 innings on 109 pitches. For some reason i am really pleased with that.

Submitted by Cubnut on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 04:16 pm

Absolutely agree. Piniella said before the game he needed his starters to go deeper into games so he wasn't always having to go so deep into his bullpen, and Zambrano did that for him.

Submitted by navigator on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 04:22 am

Yo Phil! Looks like it may be time for RHSP CASEY COLEMAN to break into your top 15 Cubs Prospects list. Last year all he did was go from FGCU starting shortstop to their SP rotation to our 15th round draft choice to Boise to Peoria to Daytona. Now he's pitching for Tennessee and Smokin' the opposition.
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Smokies starter Casey Coleman is quickly making a case to be the ace of the Smokies pitching staff. Following up on his solid Double-A debut last Saturday in Jacksonville, Coleman shut down the Birmingham Barons Friday night and led the Smokies to a 9-0 win in front of 4,003 at Smokies Park. For the second night in row, Tennessee’s pitching staff led the way. Coleman (2-0 0.75 ERA 0.83 WHIP) set the pace Friday night, allowing only three hits in seven innings.
And he's only 21 http://www.volunteertv.com/sports/headlines/43213482.html

Submitted by artskoe on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 04:03 pm

Go Casey Coleman! I want to open a can of worms. For those of us who follow all Chicago Sports (except WSock of course), the last three games of the Blackhawks regular season were so much fun to watch. Why? Because they were in an intense battle for home ice advantage, and the first playoff game that home ice 6th man was a key in the OT win. The Cubs already know they will not have home field advantage in the World Series. Some obscure Mets short stop in the all star game who doesn't give a darn will commit two errors in the 9th inning of the All Star Game and the American League will win again. And the Cubs will start the 7 game series in Arlington, Texas, or some other "historic" park like Royal's stadium (just examples, not saying anything), whether the Cubs win 97 or 100 games. Can someone (like us) start lobbying to change that stupid ASG ratings gimmick rule? Best Record in the majors would make for some kinda fierce games, building momentum to the very end for the best prize of October: Home field advantage all the way through the playoffs. Reward the team who has to weigh the benefits of September call-ups vs every game means something! Plus I would guess MILLIONS of dollars is at stake for the players who earned it. OK, I know it won't happen this year. But if we keep reminding Selig "NO WBC" and "September games mean something too" we can makes some historic changes to the game we love most. Emails to MLB? Facebook campaign? Whatever grassroots we can muster, please...

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Submitted by SJS on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 04:41 pm

Um, the Hawks were fighting in the last three games for home ice advantage alright...for the first round of the playoffs. They finished the season 8 points behind Detroit in their division (112-104), let alone 13 points behind the Sharks for the most points in the conference. The Sharks will host every series they play in the playoffs. Even if the Hawks do make the Stanley Cup Finals, they would still not have home advantage if they were to meet up with Boston (116), Washington (108), and New Jersey (106). The Hawks will probably only have home ice for the 1 series w/ Calgary. I'm assuming you are talking about the all-star game from last year. If you are, it was a Marlins (not a Mets) middle infielder (a 2b nonetheless, not the SS you claimed) named Dan Uggla who had the two errors that cost the NL the game (and subsequently home field advantage). Facts are...well your facts are wrong. The Cubs had home field advantage against the Marlins in 03, and that didn't end well. They had home field against LA last year, and got swept. Home field doesn't matter much if you fail to show up (or take out your ace after 120+ pitches and a 3-0 lead going into the 8th), you will lose. The Cubs need to worry about getting to the playoffs, and keeping the players in their rhythm. The results of the all-star game didn't matter for anyone since there hasn't been a game 7 in the world series since 2002 (and before that, only 7 others prior to 1980). The Cubs need to get to the World Series before I take gripes about the all-star game seriously.

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Submitted by SJS on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 04:59 pm

I've started the season cold after the horribleness that was my first two ballgames of the year in Milwaukee vs the Cubs. Maybe I was out of line, but year after year I am becoming increasingly more angry at the homer Cubs fans and their crazy What-Ifs, curse talk, etc. Maybe it's too much Boers and Bernstein, I don't know. As far as the all-star game goes, it adds some fuel to a fire that was dormant for the better part of a decade. If the all-star managers, and the manager of the US WBC club would actually manage the same way they would manage their world series teams, I believe that the all-star game, and the US interest in the WBC would be huge.

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Submitted by artskoe on Sun, 04/19/2009 - 04:02 am

I forgive you, I was being hypothetical. There was, however, a lot of talk about HFA for the Cubs last fall. If it's so important, and fans are 10th man, I want it for every game I can get it. Witness the lethargic Astros playing a "home game" in Miller park. I cannot watch the ASG because I know a major economic and tangible playoff decision is being made by players and managers who for the most part don't give a crap. And the Blackhawks now have a 2 game advantage and 2 games of experience that having the home fans started the puck rolling, so to speak. How much more might they want to push Detroit out of the top spot next season? But along comes Gary Bettman and says, " The east won the ASG therefore the Stanley Cup finals will start in Boston (or some other) no matter what. Yuck. If Baseball ASG was WINNER TAKE ALL....$$$$$ Now then I'd watch.

Submitted by Mike Wellman on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 04:53 pm

according to my spanking new Cubs 2009 Media Guide, as the year began Lou's 1,705 hits were against his 1,701 wins as a manager; starting today's play then, the wins had nosed in front 1,707 - 1,705...this little beauty is chock full of such nuggets...

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  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    So, let’s do a little war gaming. Taillon is back for tonight’s game. He pitched two rehab games, just a few innings each, and not especially sharp. Let’s face it, he hasn’t been lights out since the Cubs gave him the big contract. In other words, as flat out bad as Hendricks has been, the chances of Taillon being the savior don’t look exactly promising.

    If Taillon is equally ineffective or perhaps even worse, what’s the next move? Winning teams can often find a way to work around a dud fifth starter - kinda. Two dud starters make things much more difficult.

    I believe the biggest reason for the recent bullpen moves was dissatisfaction with the recent blowing of big leads and the recognition that the bullpen wasn’t all it was thought to be. In other words, they are exploring alternate options and configurations. If similar juggling becomes necessary (even more so than it already is), what kind of reasonable maneuvering do we think could be explored?

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Cubdom needs to prepare themselves for Wicks to be sent to Iowa for Taillon to come up.
    Ben Brown has 4 appearances. Wicks has 4 appearances.
    Ben has 16.1 IP.  Wicks has 17 IP
    Ben was a 1.1 WHIP.  Wicks has a 1.7 WHIP. Wicks does have significantly more SOs. 
    Ben has been better, though.
    I love Wicks. I think he's a fighter and his stuff has improved.
    But, Jed isn't ditching Hendricks just yet. He should. But he won't.
    Hendricks should go to the IL and Taillon-Imanaga-Assad-Wicks-Brown should be the rotation.
    Wont' happen though.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    AZ Phil,
    Did you agree with the demotion of Luke Little? He'd been pretty good up until the AZ/wild pitch appearance. I know that can't jettison Smyly (just yet) so they didn't need another LHRP. Especially with Leiter effectively being a LHRP. I still thought he deserved to stay. It's not permanent. He'll be back. Lots of moves to come with Taillon, Steele and other guys coming and going.

    Also, do you see Hodge being able to "control/command" his stuff to get a chance this year?
    Is Arias better than Hodge?   Thanks

  • crunch (view)

    just waiting to hear patrick wisdom and masterboney are spotted at the airport going in opposite directions...

    aj puk going for the marlins (lefty)...gotta imagine we'll see wisdom in the lineup.

    someone has to make room for taillon, too.

  • crunch (view)

    he's a low-level cubs star in the modern history of the cubs (c.zambrano, k.wood, r.dempster, etc), but that star has dimmed...and has been dimming since 2021.

    2024 has been ugly the whole way and we're only in mid-april.  homers aside (even though there's been 7 in 17ip) he gave up 29 hits in 20 spring innings and 31 in 17 regular season innings.

    he's pretty much only got 2 pitches at this point in his career and the mix isn't fooling anyone.  he threw a noticable amount more curves in his last start to add to the mix and it didn't help his issues.  he don't have many moves left to break out.

  • Eric S (view)

    Definitely needs a 10 day stint for the hangnail - have to nip those things in the bud or suffer the consequences (ie, more opponent home run derby, etc)

  • Eric S (view)

    Thanks for checking and yeah, that’s a double ouch

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Believe you are correct, checked and appears Cubs have a $2.51 million obligation to Barnhart this season per Cot's Contracts.  Also paying Trey Mancini $7mil this season.  Ouch.  

  • crunch (view)

    m.busch had 0hr and 2 doubles when he was last at wrigley.

    we'll probably see a few more of his jerseys in the seats when they return tomorrow.

    wonder who will go down for taillon.  hey hendricks, you got a hangnail or something?

  • Eric S (view)

    Nice work by Wesneski with some solid defense behind him and the late tack on runs were welcome. Gladly take a 5-4 West Coast swing, particularly down two key starting pitchers … Now just don’t get swept by the Marlins for Pete’s sake. 

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