Cubs MLB Roster

Cubs Organizational Depth Chart
40-Man Roster Info

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 eight players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and two players is on the 10-DAY IL

Last updated 4-24-2024
 
* bats or throws left
# bats both

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
* Pete Crow-Armstrong 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 8 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2
* Cody Bellinger, OF  
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 
 




Minor League Rosters
Rule 5 Draft 
Minor League Free-Agents

Bradley's Mammoth Shot

Submitted by Rob G. on

Milton was the talk of the town last night with the moonshot to replace all moonshots...one of the farthest non-steroid enhanced home runs I've ever seen. You can see the video at MLB.com. The story coming out this morning was that he may have been jawing with some of the fans in the on-deck circle and right at the end of the clip you can see him put his hand to his ear as if to say, "oh now you love me".  Bradley may have been addressing it to the whole crowd,  but with the little head nod at the end accompanied by the "we'll shut up now" looks on the faces of the clowns with the good seats, it looks more like a little give and take with the Wrigley faithful. Screen grabs after the jump....


 
 

 

It's all games and smiles and puppy dog tails as long as the Cubs are winning. In 2006, Bradley takes the bat and Al Capone's them.

UPDATE: Reader Chris points out this is actually now a pattern for Milton. His other home run at Wrigley against the Marlins he shooshes the crowd around the 0:36 mark of this clip. There's some yelling and laughing by the fans right as it happens, so not sure if he directed it at someone or this is going to be Milton being Milton.

Tags
Milton Bradley

Comments

Submitted by Ryno on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 05:39 pm

Even in the at-bat before this one, Bradley was really swinging the bat hard. MB is going to take his hitting slump out back and f*** it up big time.

Submitted by joebwan on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 05:45 pm

Glad to see it. Sadly, Cub fans are too quick to boo, as if we were accustomed to 110-win teams or something. What did Sandberg start out as a Cub - 1 for 21? The current fan crop would have bood him back to Philadelphia.

[ ]

Submitted by WISCGRAD on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 05:36 pm

Sandberg started 0-19 with the Cubs and was 1-30 before he finally got it going in mid-April. Of course he ended the season with a .271/.312/.372 and 32 SB. He also was a rookie playing for the minimum for a team that was 73-89, and a team coming off of a dismal 38-65 strike-shortened season in 1981 with no expectations. Bradley was signed for $10 million a year for a team expected to make the playoffs. So the comparison only goes so far, but I do agree with your larger point that the recent success for the Cubs has led to a situation of rising expectations amongst Cub fans. There is a great deal of anger now at failure that we were so accustomed to we took in stride just a decade 15 years ago.

[ ]

Submitted by iowaCub on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 05:02 pm

I actually think the booing, if measured, is a good sign. If measured, I emphasize. We should start expecting our team, with this kind of talent, to be better than it was 15 years ago. I mean, those were the days of Larry Himes, we should've been pissed, at the ballclub if not at individual players.

Submitted by toonsterwu on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 05:46 pm

We need Bradley to heat up and hold the fort until Aram can come back. That said, with all the things that have gone on early this year, from injuries, to ineffectiveness, I'm pleased enough with where we are. _________ On a side note, 3rd straight solid outing from Jay Jackson today. 6 innings, 2 runs, 5 K's, giving up 5 hits and 2 walks against WTN. Stands out because he struggled against WTN last time (granted, this time he was at home).

Submitted by jacos on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 05:51 pm

"non-steroid enhanced home runs " We hope. I thought I heard the bald guy in the pix was the president of the Spanish speaking radio station that was doing the Cubs games. Not saying he was the guy who was yelling, he had that great seat in the corner by the dugout and on deck circle. I would love to sit there for a game.

Submitted by Ryno on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 05:03 pm

Congrats, Neil Cotts. You are officially worse than Glendon Freaking Rusch against lefties... Cotts: 3.0 IP, 4H, 6BB, 2K, 1HR, 3.33 WHIP, .308 BAA Rusch: 4.1 IP, 6H, 0BB, 3K, 0HR, 1.38 WHIP, .353 BAA

Submitted by Ryno on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 05:22 pm

Okay... I guess according to sports radio we're supposed to be offended and pissed off about Bradley pointing to his ear. That's news to me. Geez.

Submitted by Rob Richardson on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 05:47 pm

'"It's nice to hear some cheers," Bradley said. "I didn't come here to suck; I know I've sucked so far, but give me some love, you know what I'm saying? I am a Cub." When asked about putting his hand up toward his ear after hitting the home run, Bradley said, "You want a bunch of duds walking around with their shoulders slumped with no emotion and no feeling? I don't think the fans want that. I think they want a guy who feels it a little bit."' http://espn.go.com/chicago/columns/blog?post=4162656&name=levine

Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 05:06 pm

Just curious about your claim that Bradley is not artificially enhanced. I know nothing about PEDs, but . . . overmuscled, breakable--isn't that the profile?

Submitted by SJS on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 05:12 pm

I saw the highlight at a bar with no sound and it was easy to see that moment as him hopefully turning the corner.

Submitted by Ryno on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 05:23 pm

Dear Bradley, doing the same thing again tonight against Chris Young would buy you a lot of Wrigley Field popularity capital.

Submitted by 433 on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 05:37 pm

I can't believe Bradley is getting a hard time for the ear-point. If it's OK to boo him, it's certainly OK for him to say "suck it" after he does something good. (Actually I think both responses are bad choices, but MB's response is fair and predictable after being booed.) And I like his quotes in the paper, too. Sure, fans have the "right" to boo, but it doesn't mean there aren't consequences to booing. (By the way I love the "I paid for my ticket, I can boo if I wanna" argument that meathead fans rely on. Yes, you have the right to boo. Just like you have the right to cheat on your wife or hate minorities or be a dick to your neighbors -- none of those things are illegal, either. Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD do it.)

[ ]

Submitted by 433 on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 05:54 pm

Yes I am getting crabby in my old age, but don't change clothes on my account. Not sure why the "I do it because it's my right and I wanna" logic bugs me so much. But it really does. It seems this is the best (only?) argument that the pro-booing crowd uses to justify their booage. On second thought, maybe I should start using this logic more often in my own life; it could be fun. I could pee in my kitchen sink, wear Doritos as earrings, go Christmas caroling in July and make fun of my neighbors' kids clothes. And boo the home team.

Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 05:38 pm

Iowa Cubs going nuts today, 18-3. That 16-15 loss yesterday must have really ticked them off. Fox with 42 RBI; Chris Robinson still trying to hit .400.

[ ]

Submitted by Ryno on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 05:29 pm

Whatever days not given to Bradley should go to the umpire, because clearly reducing the punishment from 2-games to 0-games would be an admission that the umpire was wrong. I forget who said it earlier this year, but some of these umpires think the game is about them. It's irritating.

Submitted by Dmac on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 05:31 pm

"Okay... I guess according to sports radio we're supposed to be offended and pissed off about Bradley pointing to his ear. That's news to me. Geez." This is exactly what I hoped Bradley would do when he got hot - take all that guff and tell the fans to stick it where the sun don't shine. Larry Bowa always had the best reaction to fans that never got off his case at Wrigley - he got hits in crucial situations and then flipped them off as he neared the dugout. Fans have every right to boo, but the players have every right to go back at them just as hard. Both constituencies should learn to have thicker skins, and take the bad with the good.

Recent comments

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Miguel Cruz walked six in 1.2 IP in his last start, so I guess he is improving. Wilme Mora also walked six in one of his appearances a week or two ago, and one or two others have walked five. I don't know what would be the most I have ever seen a pitcher throw in a game out here, because the manager / pitching coach usually gets the pitcher out of the game if it gets too ridiculous. 

    As for the attendance, probably about 20 of the 25 were early arrivals for the Savannah Bananas game who came over to Field # 1 to see what was going on, and once they saw all the bases on balls (12 walks by Cubs pitchers and four by Angels pitchers) they ran away screaming. I'm used to it so it didn't bother me that much. 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Jed has added Teheran, Tyranski, Kissaki, and now Straily and Nico Zeglin today.

    Zeglin is 24 yrs old. Pitched well at Long Beach St in '23 and well in some Indy Ball.

    They also added Reilly and Viets in late ST.

    Have to search for MiLB arm depth anywhere you can and at all times!!!

  • Childersb3 (view)

    25 in Attendance!!!

    Phil, is that a backfield record?

    Also, 6 BBs for Cruz in 2 IP. What's the most walks you've seen in one EXT ST outing that you can recall?

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    He has a pulse. Apparently that’s the only requirement at this point.

  • crunch (view)

    cubs sign dan straily...for some reason.  minor league deal.

    welcome back.

    zac rosscup is down in mexico trying to make it happen...maybe they could throw him a contract, too.  junior lake is his teammate.  shore up a bunch of holes with some washups.

  • fullykräusened (view)

    The great thing about going to live sports events is you don't know if you're going to see something historic. Today I went to the Cub game, after putting the liner back in my coat and fishing my Cubs knit hat out of the closet. I needed all that- my seats are in the upper deck, left, so the east wind was in my face. Both teams failed to capitalize on good situations, but both starters did a good job to accomplish this. So, we go to the bottom of the sixth inning. The Cubs tie it up, and then Pete Crow-Armstrong comes up. We all know he would still be in AAA if not for injuries, and future Hall-of-Famer Justin Verlander absolutely carved up the young fellow up in his first two plate appearances. So this time he hits a fly ball. The wind was blowing in and had suppressed several strong fly balls- including a rocket off Altuve's bat that Canario hauled in (does anybody else remind me of Jorge Soler?) , but the ball kept carrying and carrying. 107mph, legit angle and carry. The crowd went nuts, the dugout went nuts. Maybe, just maybe, I saw the first homer from a long-term Cub.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Which was my original premise. They won the trades but lost their souls. They no longer employ the Cardinal way which had been so successful for so long.

  • crunch (view)

    STL traded away a lot of minor league talent that went on to do nothing in the arenado + goldschmidt trades.  neither guy blocked any of their minor league talent in the pipeline, too.  that's ideal places to add talent.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Natural cycle of baseball. Pitching makes adjustments in approach to counter a hot young rookie. Now it’s time for Busch and his coaches to counter those adjustments. Busch is very good and will figure it out, I think sooner than later.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    In 2020, the pandemic year and the year before they acquired Arenado, the Cardinals finished second and were a playoff team. Of the 12 batters with 100 plate appearances, 8 of them were home grown. Every member of the starting rotation (if you include Wainwright) and all but one of the significant relievers were home grown. While there have been a relative handful of very good trades interspersed which have been mentioned, player development had been their predominant pattern for decades - ever since I became an aware fan in the ‘70’s

    The Arenado deal was not a deal made out of dire need or desperation. It was a splashy, headline making deal for a perennial playoff team intended to be the one piece that brought the Cardinals from a very good team to a World Series contender. They have continued to wheel and deal and have been in a slide ever since. I stand by my supposition that that deal marked a notable turning point within the organization. They broke what had been a very successful formula for a very long time.
     

Click HERE for the last 50 comments