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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)   

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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 

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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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Ryan Dempster Breaks Big Toe; Hart Returns

Submitted by Rob G. on

Ryan Dempster heads to the disabled list with a broken toe on his right foot and Carlos Zambrano will get the start tonight on three days rest. To fill the roster spot, Kevin Hart has been recalled from Iowa, just a day after being demoted, and will start tomorrow versus the Braves. This should set up the four game series versus the Cardinals to be Harden, Lilly, Wells and Zambrano for the Cubs and then the All-Star break. 

For those planning their second Mark DeRosa returns parties, he's gone on the disabled list as well and will miss this weekend's series. Get your deposit back on the balloons and catering....

UPDATE: Dave Kaplan is "hearing" that the injury is non-baseball related and could be anywhere from a 3-6 week stint. Paging Doc Halladay...

UPDATE #2: From the twitterverse, Demp says the injury happened jumping over the railing celebrating Sunday's win. Earlier photos show Kevin Hart tying Dempster's shoelaces together...

Dempster thinks he'll miss about 3 starts, Lou and the training staff may disagree.

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Submitted by Chad on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 07:39 pm

i better not be something stupid. i mean if he was carrying groceries up some stairs and tripped fine. but if he was out drinking and decided to kick a pinball machine or some shit, imma gonna have a fit.

Submitted by The E-Man on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 07:51 pm

I wish I could laugh at this, but this significantly weakens the team within the Division. With Harden a 50% efficient pitcher (meaning he performs one out of every two starts), it means that the rotation is now Z, Lilly, Wells, and this Harden guy - or whoever inhabited his body. So, three serviceable starters, none of whom have "Ace" material in the top 10 of the N.L. Again, this is really, really bad.

Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 07:11 pm

Hart has been impressive as a starter at Iowa. 52.1 innings, 39 hits, 20 walks, 57 strikeouts, 1.13 WHIP. Ascanio has been a starter this season also, with interesting results. 33.2 innings, 22 hits, 13 walks, 36 strikeouts, 1.04 WHIP. Then there's Samardzija, and Atkins with his 81 strikeouts. So opportunity knocks for someone. (The one guy we can't seem to get on the DL is Bradley.)

Submitted by The E-Man on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 07:18 pm

"Hart has been impressive as a starter at Iowa. 52.1 innings, 39 hits, 20 walks, 57 strikeouts, 1.13 WHIP." Indeed. However, this is Iowa. He has had success at Iowa, pretty much, since he came from Baltimore. However, when he steps on the rubber in a MLB uniform, he becomes transformed and forgets what he did in AAA that was successful. That has been his MO since with the Cubs, and the reason he always gets demoted after short stints with the team. Personally, I am not holding my breath for him as a starter here. I hope he proves me very wrong.

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Submitted by Charlie on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 07:16 pm

I assume I'm one of the few here who couldn't care much less about whether we have another bullpen lefty. But how many wins difference does even an effective bullpen lefty make? I guess Fox doesn't have that big an impact coming off of the bench either, but he's cheap, he has upside, and he could step in full-time if there is an injury to Lee, Soriano, Bradley, or perhaps Aramis. Sherill ain't going to mix into the rotation. If anyone can make a strong argument about the effect of a lefty reliever--with stats in addition to the theories we hear regularly--I would honestly like to see it. Surely THT or some other blog or sabermetrician has conducted this sort of study?

Submitted by Cubster on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 07:13 pm

Sgt Hulka...he's like our big toe. I listened to Dempster explain his injury to the media, hooking his foot on the chain link fence by the dugout then falling. DLee saw him do this and laughed because it was so stoopid. Then all the media went out to the dugout ala CSI and Paul Sullivan reinacted this based on Dempsters description and almost killed himself...so the media believes Demps story is plausible. Dempster he said he thought the nail was torn and the trainers would numb it up for tonites outting... but they got an xray before treatment...which showed the fracture. Didnt Sosa have an infected toenail in 2004? I'll have to check but I think he was out 3 weeks. Heading to the game right now, so I'll try to do a writeup later. E-Man, please chill out...methinks this is not that big of a deal in that Dempster will want to get back quickly since his alternative is round the clock diaper changes.

Submitted by The E-Man on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 07:17 pm

"Dempster will want to get back quickly since his alternative is round the clock diaper changes." LOL, let's hope so. It would be amazing if KEvin HArt pitches 6.5 innings of 2-run ball. Maybe he'll be the beneficiary of the "we've never seen this pitcher before", scenario?

Submitted by Chad on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 07:41 pm

Let's forget the actual reality of whether this is possible or not but IF: The Blue Jays would take a package that included Vitters and a pitcher or two, do you pull the trigger?

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