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28 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and twelve players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors. 

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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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Cubs Opening Day Lineup Quiz

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.

Comments

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.

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)

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

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.

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.

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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In reply to by Rob G.

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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In reply to by Rob G.

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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In reply to by crunch

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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In reply to by Aisle 424

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

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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In reply to by The Real Neal

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.

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.

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.

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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In reply to by Rob G.

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.

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'.

Recent comments

  • 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. 

  • crunch (view)

    cards put j.young on waivers.

    they really tried to make it happen this spring, but he put up a crazy bad slash of .081/.244/.108 in 45PA.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Seconded!!!

  • crunch (view)

    another awesome spring of pitching reports.  thanks a lot, appreciated.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Here are the Cubs pitchers reports from Tuesday afternoon's Cardinals - Cubs game art Sloan Park in Mesa:

    SHOTA IMANAGA
    FB: 90-92 
    CUT: 87-89 
    SL: 82-83 
    SPLIT: 81-84
    CV: 73-74 
    COMMENT: Worked three innings plus two batters in the fourth... allowed four runs (three earned) on eight hits (six singles and two doubles) walked one, and struck out six (four swinging), with a 1/2 GO/AO... he threw 73 pitches (52 strikes - 10 swing & miss - 19 foul balls)... surrendered one run in the top of the 1st on a one-out double off Cody Bellinger's glove in deep straight-away CF followed one out later by two consecutive two-out bloop singles, allowed two runs (one earned) in the 2nd after retiring the first two hitters (first batter had a nine-pitch AB with four consecutive two-strike foul balls before being retired 3 -U) on a two-out infield single (weak throw on the run by Nico Hoerner), a hard-contact line drive RBI double down the RF line, and an E-1 (missed catch) by Imanaga on what should been an inning-ending 3-1 GO, gave up another run in the 3rd on a two-out walk on a 3-2 pitch and an RBI double to LF, and two consecutive singles leading off the top of the 4th before being relieved (runners were ultimately left stranded)... threw 18 pitches in the 1st inning (14 strikes - two swing & miss, one on FB and the other on a SL - four foul balls), 24 pitches in the 2nd inning (17 strikes - three swing & miss, one on FB, two SPLIT - six foul balls), 19 pitches in the 3rd inning (13 strikes - seven swing & miss, three on SL, two on SPLIT, one on FB - three foul balls), and 12 pitches without retiring a batter in the top of the 4th (8 strikes - no swing & miss - four foul balls)... Imanaga throws a lot of pitches per inning, but it's not because he doesn't throw strikes...  if anything, he throws too many strikes (he threw 70% strikes on Tuesday)... while he gets a ton of swing & miss (and strikeouts), he also induces a lot of foul balls because he doesn't try to make hitters chase his pitches by throwing them out of the strike zone... rather, he uses his very diverse pitch mix to get swing & miss (and lots of foul balls as well)... he also is a fly ball pitcher who will give up more than his share of HR during the course of the season...   
     
    JOE NAHAS
    FB: 90-92 
    SL: 83-85 
    CV: 80-81 
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day... relieved Imanaga with runners at first and second and no outs in the top of the 4th, and after an E-2 catcher's interference committed by Miguel Amaya loaded he bases, Nahas struck out the side (one swinging & two looking)... threw 16 pitches (11 strikes - two swinging)...   

    YENCY ALMONTE
    FB: 89-92 
    CH: 86 
    SL: 79 
    COMMENT: Threw an eight-pitch 5th (five strikes - no swing & miss), with a 5-3 GO for the first out and an inning-ending 4-6-3 DP after a one-out single... command was a bit off but he worked through it...   

    FRANKIE SCALZO JR
    FB: 94-95
    CH: 88 
    SL: 83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 6th inning... got the first outs easily (a P-5 and a 4-3 GO) on just three pitches, before allowing three consecutive two-out hard-contact hits (a double and two singles), with the third hit on pitch # 9 resulting in a runner being thrown out at the plate by RF Christian Franklin for the third out of the inning... 

    MICHAEL ARIAS
    FB: 94-96
    CH: 87-89
    SL: 82-83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and allowed a hard-contact double on the third pitch of the 7th inning (a 96 MPH FB), and the runner came around to score on a 4-3 GO and a WP... gave up two other loud contact outs (an L-7 and an F-9)... threw 18 pitches (only 10 strikes - only one swing & miss)... stuff is electric but still very raw and he continues to have difficulty commanding it, and while he has the repertoire of a SP, he throws too many pitches-per-inning to be a SP and not enough strikes to be a closer... he is most definitely still a work-in-progress...   

    ZAC LEIGH: 
    FB: 93-94 
    CH: 89 
    SL: 81-83 
    CV: 78
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and tossed a 1-2-3 8th (4-3 GO, K-swinging on a sweeper, K-looking on another sweeper)... threw 14 pitches (11 strikes - one swing & miss - eight foul balls)... kept pumping pitches into the strike zone but had difficulty putting hitters away (ergo a ton of foul balls)... FB velo is nowhere near the 96-98 MPH it was a couple of years ago when he was a Top 30 prospect, but his secondaries are better...   

    JOSE ROMERO:  
    FB: 93-95
    SL: 82-84
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 9th (14 pitches - only six strikes- no swing & miss) and allowed a solo HR after two near-HR fly outs to the warning track, before getting a 3-1 GO to end the inning... it was like batting practice when he wasn't throwing pitches out of the strike zone...

  • crunch (view)

    pablo sandoval played 3rd and got a couple ABs (strikeout, single!) in the OAK@SF "exhibition"

    mlb officially authenticated the ball of the single he hit.  nice.

    he's in surprisingly good shape considering his poor body condition in his last playing seasons.  he's not lean, but he looks healthier.  good for him.

  • crunch (view)

    dbacks are signing j.montgomery to a 1/25m with a vesting 20m player option.

    i dunno when the ink officially dries, but i believe if he signs once the season begins he can't be offered a QO...and i'm not sure if that thing with SD/LAD in korea was the season beginning, either.

  • crunch (view)

    sut says imanaga getting the home opener at wrigley (game 4 of the season).

  • crunch (view)

    cubs rolling out the who's who of "who the hell is this guy?" in the last spring game.

  • videographer (view)

    AZ Phil, speaking of Jordan Wicks having better command when he tires a bit, I remember reading about Dennis Lamp 40 years ago and his sinker that was better after 3 or 4 innings when he would tire a bit and get more sink with a little less speed on the pitch.  The key for Lamp was getting to the 4th inning.