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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)   

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and nine players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and one player is on the 10-DAY IL

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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 

OPTIONED: 9 
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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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'.

Recent comments

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Phil,

    Any thoughts on Y. Rojas' stuff and Y. Melendez's game (I believe I've asked about him before, sorry)?

  • crunch (view)

    wow, things are moving fast.  hopefully it continues.

  • crunch (view)

    morel with 4 clean plays in 4 innings...showed off his 100000000mph arm a couple times.

    cody bellinger not having a good 4th, though...5 run leads are handy when your CF is making your pitcher have a 5-out inning.  2nd blown chance was ruled a hit even though it went in/out of his glove...1st was lost in the lights, also ruled a hit.

  • crunch (view)

    welcome back happ!  double off the wall 1st PA back.

  • crunch (view)

    oh yeah, totally, i was just chiming about why i fan like i fan.

    i would like nothing more than hendricks to keep on hendricks'ing.  guys with his stuff can throw for a long, long time as long as it works.

    he velocity is actually up a minor amount this year.  it's really "damn" when a guy like him not only has gas in the tank, but it's looking like it was years ago.  he added a curve a few years ago and it helped a little bit, but he's throwing it less and less while the fb/change combo are less effective.

  • Alexander Dimm (view)

    CRUNCH—There is no one person in this community I’m talking about.  My remarks were not directed at you or anyone, but at a tone I’ve noticed lately. 

    You have a great, dry sense of humor and there is thought behind your comments.   You and I don’t always agree but I always understand your position.  

    Lastly, and I’ll be quiet, I agree with you on Hendricks.  We can dislike the recent performance but still love the guy.  Lots of questions about his future.
     

  • crunch (view)

    myself, i make a good amount of outrageously unrealistic comments that are sometimes "violent"...like my recent suggestion of "pulling the bandaid off" by having hendricks throw every inning of every game until he's on the IL.

    i would hope any athlete that cares about what is written on the internet realizes how casual fans can be about treating their lives like scripted TV characters that don't have real lives.  it's not an excuse to do it, but there's a lot of it out there.

    but yeah, in real life i'm rooting for guys to have long and healthy careers even if i'm not happy with current performances...except for some guys...and i'm pretty sure i don't leave grey area for those comments...and almost all of them are not good humans whether they're playing baseball or not...

    hendricks was getting a good amount of boos in his last game.  i would bet a million that he will get a standing O every time he visits wrigley in his post-playing days, or a return with a new team should his career continue...or if he comes back and puts in an oldschool good performance.

  • Alexander Dimm (view)

    What are the chances we can back off on gloating over other people’s misfortune?  One of the things I appreciate about the TCR community is that the remarks are more productive and add to how I like to follow the game.  

    Lately, however, I’m reading comments that are just mean.  If I were an MLB player, I would hate to get a back or finger injury and have someone write ‘hurrah!  I hope we never see him again!’  Especially when it is someone we were praising not long ago.  I’m not saying ‘don’t express how you feel’ but some comments lately seem downright mean spirited.  Stuff I expect from other communities but don’t often see here.  The TCR community has always spoken the truth but never with such a dark tone.

    Just my two cents.  I hope Hendricks comes back and is the professor we all know. He can pitch for the Cubs as long as he wants in my book.  

  • crunch (view)

    happ is back (and starting), mervis DH, tauchman gets RF.

    morel 5th in the lineup.  hoerner continues to lead off, even vs a righty.

  • George Altman (view)

    I don't care to see Hendricks or Smyly on the 26-man Roster the rest of the season. Both, stupid signings and option pick up by Jed. 

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