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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, twelve players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, one player is on the 15-DAY IL, and one player is on the 10-DAY IL

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PITCHERS: 14
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Garrett Cooper
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 
* Justin Steele, P   

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




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Cubs Opening Day Lineup Quiz

Submitted by Rob G. on

Reader Lawhide created a quiz on the Cubs Opening Day lineups from 1990-2009. I scored a 151.

Here's the link. 

As not to ruin the quiz for you, I'll mention my screw-ups in the comments.

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Comments

Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:56 pm

mad that I missed Girardi, Orie and Rey Sanchez the most...

got the full lineups from 2003-2009, except 2006 where I missed Pierre and Cedeno.

Got every Opening Day Starting pitcher except Bullinger, Mulholland and Navarro. also missed Villanueva, Salazar, Nieves, DeShields, Bullett, Maldonado, Santiago, Hernandez, Gaetti, Andrews, Mueller, White, Stynes

if anyone says they got Chris Stynes or Bullett, they're lying...unless they are or are related to them.

Submitted by JoePepitone on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:24 pm

120/180. My best run was for 1990-92 and 2003-09. Says something about how brutal the mid to late 90's teams were. Also about how my life was falling apart in '98-99. (Sigh)

Submitted by jacos on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:46 pm

121 I forgot Barrett and Pierre. Only 3 guys from 2002. And couldn't spell Grudzlianack if you held a gun to my head.

Submitted by Lawhide on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:01 pm

Thanks for posting the quiz as a blog entry! I had way too much fun making it. For the record, even though I created the quiz and should know the answers, my highest score taking it is 138. There's just so many easily forgettable names.

Submitted by Cubster on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:25 pm

per the Dallas Star-Telegram: Rudy's set free...now a free-agent hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo, who has been the Rangers' hitting coach the past 15 seasons, turned down a one-year offer to remain with the club this morning and won't be back in 2010. An offer had been made by general manager Jon Daniels and team president Nolan Ryan late last week, and Jaramillo mulled his future over the weekend and the first two days of this week.

Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:33 pm

cubswillwin09 wrote:

I really would like some comments back from you guys. This is my 2010 Cubs team if I was in hendrys seat. B. Roberts 2b, Crawford rf, lee 1b, rameriz 3b, derosa ss, soriano lf, fukodome cf, soto c. theriot, baker, hill, fuld, R.Johnson the starters: zambrano, dempster, liily, wells, groz the reliever: grabow, marshall, berg, caridad, guzman, marmol, and samarj I think this is a excellent lineup. Has speed, some left handed bats, power, and if soriano and soto have pick it up next year, this might be just as good as the yankees.

10/14/2009 4:08:25 PM

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:48 pm

yes, that's why you avoid that place. i'm also of the opinion that people that respond to stories on general news sites should be banned from breeding, even to the point of destroying their already born. yeah, i got opinions.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:41 pm

the cubs really could use a new stadium if they want to be a continuously high-spending team. boston is going to have to give up fenway someday, too. both will most likely happen within our lifetime.

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Submitted by Aisle 424 on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:34 pm

Thanks for the linkage, Rob. If the Cubs can start playing nice with the city and make some changes to the exterior of the ball park that will allow them to expand the concourses and provide better concessions and conceivable room for a luxury PSL section, they can make Wrigley work for awhile. With the Tribune pretty much out of the way, I think the relations will improve with the city. It's no secret that Daley and the Tribune don't always get along and I have a feeling that a lot of his screwing the Cubs was actually him screwing the Tribune by way of the Cubs. I think a lot of people think it's because he's a Sox fan, but from everyting I've heard from folks who know him, he barely even cares about baseball anymore. The 1994 strike soured him completely. If that is true, suddenly he has a lot of reasons to be nice to the Cubs. No Olympics are coming, so he needs to keep them in the city to keep that money here and not out in the suburbs. It will be very interesting to see how things go forward.

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Submitted by Tony S. on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 10:33 pm

Side note.... Is this the author of the former best part of Vineline (you know, that part that NEVER should have gone away)???

Submitted by Jim Hickmans Bat on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:53 pm

I like the idea of a veteran addition to the bullpen, since they typically take 1-year deals for reasonable $$. Cubs need a nutz 8th inning man in support of Marmol, and a decent RH middle reliever. I'm assuming Guzman/Grabow is your RH/LH 7th inning pre-setup combo, Marshall is the long man, and a plug-and-play Iowa kid is the last, 7th man in the pen. So for the 8th inning job, Billy Wagner and John Smoltz both want to pitch again, Wagner in particular really intrigues me. He's a NL guy, is familiar with the NL Central, and that LH fastball would be a nice complement to Marmol in the 9th. The only real hangup I see is that both Wagner and Smoltz may not want to accept an 8th inning role, but otherwise either makes sense for the Cubs. For middle relief, I could mention that we had the perfect guy and dumped him for nothing (Wuertz), but then that's 3/44.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 10:42 pm

seems pretty fantastic to me...

WHIP below or at 1 for the most part, K/9 over 10, ERA below 3...rinse and repeat

yes, he's getting older and yes he's coming off injury, but he doesn't look the least bit worse for wear from it at the moment....

and no the Cubs shouldn't be going there, just don't think he'd settle for a set-up role with the Cubs when I'm sure someone will give him a chance to close.

Submitted by MikeC on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:14 pm

The only piece on my off-season wish list is Johnny Gomes. He isn't going to cost you alot and worst case he is your LHP destroyer off the bench. Depending on who we get for CF, he mikes an ideal platoon partner for Fuku. If not, let him flail away in RF fulltime. Your not going to find everything you want in one player this off-season with the budget constraints this team has. Any player you get is going to have his positives and negatives.

Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:20 pm

Gomes has all the makings of the next Craig Wilson (someone I did once pine for)... the demand for guys who can hit lefties that can't play defense isn't very high...think we're set with Jake Fox there anyway if they wanted to go that route.

Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:04 pm

you suck MLB... no better way to lose interest in your product then to not have it happening...no reason there shouldn't be a game tonight.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:17 pm

yeah...it makes for a slow moving offseason. if COL makes it to the WS that should be interesting baseball weather...not like philly or NY will be too much better.

Submitted by The Real Neal on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:09 pm

142, I lost about 2 minutes trying to spell Grudzlielank, Buechelle and ... bellhorn. For some reason I was determined to spell the last with 1 'L'.

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Players on the 40 can be recalled and be placed on the MLB Taxi Squad for one day, like for example if a club is unsure if a player might or might not be placed on the IL ("game time decision"). Like maybe Happ, for example. 

    Also, a player on the MLB Taxi Squad must be returned to his optional assignment the next day if he is not officially recalled to the 26-man roster. 

    The player is NOT paid at the MLB split rate and does NOT accrue MLB Service Time while he is on the Taxi Squad. Also, it is not considered to be an official recall / option back if he is not added to the 26-man roster. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Wesneski has not spent 15 days on optional assignment since he was optioned so he cannot be recalled unless he is replacing a player being placed on the IL or other MLB inactive list (Paternity, Bereavement / Family Medical, et al), a player who is traded, or a player who is claimed off waivers.

  • crunch (view)

    excited to see more power in the lineup.

    HOU going with 3 righty starters vs the cubs and their only lefty pen arm is hader.

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  • fullykräusened (view)

    More than 50 years ago (I'm old), I was in the audience when my HS choir performed the whole thing. (It was a really elite choir and director.) That was my first exposure to the piece. You're right, Sonicwind75, there is a lot more to it than "O Fortuna," just like there's a lot more to Beethoven's Ninth than the Ode to Joy, etc. Much if it, as you say, is bawdy: "O! O! Totus florio! Iam amori virginali, totus ardeo!" Basically, "I'm really horny for these virgins!" And the guys in the choir adopted the "Skoal"- type greeting from the tavern scene: "Wafna!" 

  • crunch (view)

    i would have pause if the cubs had a pitching squeeze.   as it is, they have more guys than they have roster.

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    Maybe Brewer

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    I don't think Jed would do that.

  • crunch (view)

    brewer has done nothing to keep him on the big league roster...imagine that's 1 guy gone.

    yeah, it's only 2 appearances, but they were both unimpressive.

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    Yeah it is.....sorry......closers don't throw 89mph

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    Hmmm. Maybe my idea of transitioning Hendricks into a closer role isn’t so crazy.

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