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

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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

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

OPTIONED: 10 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2 
Seiya Suzuki, OF
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 2
* Justin Steele, P  
Jameson Taillon, P 

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




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A Double-Dare to the Baseball Gods

Submitted by Dr. Joseph Hecht on

It's official. I've double-dared (if I were Ryan Theriot, it would be a single dare) the Baseball Gods to invoke their wrath. All I can hope for is that they won't think about reversing reverse psychology.

My spouse loves to travel. I love baseball season. This has lead to 30 years of negotiating the avoidance of travel during just a few parts of the year. Early April and September-October.

I'm serious losing this battle. Last year we took a 3 week trip to China, breaking my string of being at Wrigley Field for opening day, a streak of over 30 years (I've been back in Chicago since college days).

The one absolute taboo was that we wouldn't take a major trip in September or October because that was the wrapup of the baseball season and playoffs. Her argument was September/October is the best weather for travel to many of her favorite places. For years, she checks in every so often asking that if the Cubs were out of contention, could we take a trip in September or October.

After taking this seasons beatings and holding out hope as long as I could, I've given in. The plane tickets are booked to southern France and I'm daring the Baseball Gods to beat me up, invoking the 1935 Cubs as my lesson on what I'm about to miss...

1935 was the year Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into Law. The US was in the peak of the Great Depression. Alcoholics Anonymous was formed. Nylon was created by a DuPont chemist. George Gallup started his now famous poll. Radar was invented. Persia was renamed Iran. Mussolini attacked Ethopia. Germany passed the Nuremburg laws. Benny Goodman brought "swing" to the music world.

In Chicago, "Big Ed" Kelly was elected mayor. Polk brothers started the first "big box" appliance warehouse which grew into the signature department store chain. Cubs owner Phil Wrigley had all his team's games broadcast on radio.

1935 in Major League Baseball, Babe Ruth's career ended as a Boston Brave and...

The Chicago Cubs won the NL Pennant is a very unique way.

I'm always interested in mentioning a well written book. This one goes to author Doug Feldmann and his 2003 book, September Streak: The Chicago Cubs Chase the Pennant. You can get a taste of the first 26 pages here.

The Chicago Cubs ended the year with a record of 100-54 and beat out Dizzy Dean and the "Gashouse Gang" Cardinals by 4 games (winners of the 1934 NL Pennant as written about by author Feldmann in another book). The '35 Cubs had an outstanding team lead by manager Charlie Grimm with some star power in catcher and 1935 NL MVP, Gabby Hartnett (.344), 2B  Billy Herman (.341), 3B Stan Hack (.311) and an 18 year old 1B, Phil Cavarretta (.275).

The starting staff was lead by Lon Warneke (20-13), who also won two World Series games. Bill Lee (20-6), lefty Larry French (17-10) and ageless Charlie Root (15-8) all pitched more than 200 innings.

So why bring up the 1935 Cubs? One word: September.

After a lackluster August of 15-15, they ran off the greatest of all end of season runs, winning 23 of 26  in September (and two losses were after they had clinched!) including a miraculous 21 game winning streak to blow past the Cardinals.

The Cubs were in 3rd place on September 4th, 2.5 games behind the Cardinals and their player-manager Frankie Frisch, when the streak started. The streak included four shutouts and two double header wins, with a critical double win vs StL on Sept 27th to clinch the title.

That is the longest consecutive win streak in MLB history. The NY Giants won 26 games in 1916 but in that streak, game 13 was a tie.

October wasn't as kind to the Cubs. The Cubs lost the World Series 4-2 to Detroit and slugger Hank Greenberg.

Don't worry, I don't mistake the 2010 Cubs from the 1935 version and neither should the Baseball Gods. Still, just to get back at me for turning my back on the team in September...well, you never know. Twenty-one game win streaks can cure a lot of badness even if they only happen once per century. 

Here's comparison #1: The 1935 Cubs were 15-7 vs the Pirates. The 2010 Cubs are 3-9 vs Pitt with 3 games to play at Wrigley.

This 2010 team ends July hovering 9 games under .500. They haven't had a stretch of good baseball beyond 3-4 games. By winning the first two games of the current series vs Stl, they won their first series against a divisional foe since April, a stretch of 10 series losses (PIT, CIN, PIT, STL, PIT, HOU, MIL, PIT, CIN, HOU). Somehow I noticed 4 series losses vs the Pirates which just may be the 2010 Cubs signature memory. My wife sends her best to the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. Bonjour 2010 Cubbies, only heaven can help you now.

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Submitted by Cubster on Sun, 07/25/2010 - 07:20 pm

Muskat: #cubs lineup sun nite is rf colvin, ss castro, 1b lee, 3b ramy, cf byrd, lf sori, c soto, 2b riot, p demp RT @MLB: Dawson: "From my heart, thank you Cub fans...you are the reason I continued playing the game. You were the wind beneath the Hawk ... from Dawson's HOF Induction speech: "Nothing wrong with the game of baseball. Mistakes have hurt the game and taken a toll on all of us. Individuals have chosen the wrong road, and have chosen their legacy... Do not be lured by the dark side. It's a stain on the game. A stain gradually being removed. But that's the people, not the game. Nothing wrong with the game. There never has been." http://www.sbnation.com/2010/7/25/1587314/andre-dawson-hall-of-fame-spe… Hawk's intro acknowledged Cub Hall of Famers and fans: "We got a lotta Cubs in this group. Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Fergie Jenkins. These guys had to go through a lot to fight their way here. More than you will probably ever know. I admire you all a lot and I thank you for paving the way. Ryne Sandberg, he was a teammate of mine for 6 years and I didn't even know the man could speak until I saw him up here 5 years ago. My kind of player, never whined, never complained, showed up every day. Left it all on the field. Speaking of the Cubs, thank you Cub fans for coming all the way out here. No fighting with the Cardinal fans but lets make sure we don't hear from the Cardinal fans the rest of the day." Then quips about Tom Seaver, Tom Lasorda, Reggie Jackson and Rickey Henderson before more general stuff about his baseball career.

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  • crunch (view)

    he's a low-level cubs star in the modern history of the cubs (c.zambrano, k.wood, r.dempster, etc), but that star has dimmed...and has been dimming since 2021.

    2024 has been ugly the whole way and we're only in mid-april.  homers aside (even though there's been 7 in 17ip) he gave up 29 hits in 20 spring innings and 31 in 17 regular season innings.

    he's pretty much only got 2 pitches at this point in his career and the mix isn't fooling anyone.  he threw a noticable amount more curves in his last start to add to the mix and it didn't help his issues.  he don't have many moves left to break out.

  • Eric S (view)

    Definitely needs a 10 day stint for the hangnail - have to nip those things in the bud or suffer the consequences (ie, more opponent home run derby, etc)

  • Eric S (view)

    Thanks for checking and yeah, that’s a double ouch

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Believe you are correct, checked and appears Cubs have a $2.51 million obligation to Barnhart this season per Cot's Contracts.  Also paying Trey Mancini $7mil this season.  Ouch.  

  • crunch (view)

    m.busch had 0hr and 2 doubles when he was last at wrigley.

    we'll probably see a few more of his jerseys in the seats when they return tomorrow.

    wonder who will go down for taillon.  hey hendricks, you got a hangnail or something?

  • Eric S (view)

    Nice work by Wesneski with some solid defense behind him and the late tack on runs were welcome. Gladly take a 5-4 West Coast swing, particularly down two key starting pitchers … Now just don’t get swept by the Marlins for Pete’s sake. 

  • crunch (view)

    dansby takes the team lead in SB today after a SB with 2 SB total.  the team has 3.  madrigal has the other one.

    cubs also have 7 triples, 7 players each.

  • crunch (view)

    sure am ready for p.wisdom and m.masterboney to swap roster spots.

  • Eric S (view)

    The fifth inning has not been kind to Wicks this season. Giving up leadoff doubles to Tucker Barnhart is also not good for business. IIRC, the Cubs are on the hook for the majority of Barnhart’s salary this season to add insult to injury (could definitely be wrong here). 

  • Cubster (view)

    Kris Bryant to IL with low back strain. He’s keeping the Rockies docs busy.

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