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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full), plus one player is 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

Last updated 3-28-2024
 
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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
* 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: 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 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 1 
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 1 
Caleb Kilian, P 

 



 

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Cubs Inch Closer to Cactus League Opening Day

It was another day of "live" BP in Mesa, with ten Cubs pitchers throwing 30 pitches each to groups of Cubs position players this morning at Fitch Park.  

Jeff Samardzija threw the ball well again today, as his hard sinker was getting a ton of ground balls. Cubs #1 pitching prospect Trey McNutt appeared a bit nervous and struggled with his control, at one point getting admonished by veteran catcher Geovany Soto (who had to move around quite a bit behind the plate while catching McNutt's offerings).

All of the Cubs players participated in pre-BP fielding drills today, and all of the position players got to take "live" BP except Max Ramirez, who did get to hit with his group (M. Ramirez, Clevenger, and Robinson) on Field #2 (with a coach throwing) after the "live" BP session had concluded.

FIELD #2

PITCHERS
Todd Wellemeyer
Andrew Cashner
Jay Jackson
Thomas Diamond
Kyle Smit

CATCHERS
Chris Robinson (Wellemeyer & Cashner)
Steve Clevenger (J. Jackson & Diamond)
Koyie Hill (Smit)

GROUP 1 HITTERS (vs Wellemeyer & Cashner)
Matt Camp
Brett Jackson
Marquez Smith
Geovany Soto

GROUP 2 HITTERS (vs J. Jackson & Diamond)
Kosuke Fukudome
Bryan Lahair
Lou Montanez
Fernando Perez
Chris Robinson
Brad Snyder

GROUP 3 HITTERS (vs Smit)
Jeff Baker
Darwin Barney
Steve Clevenger
Augie Ojeda

FIELD #3

PITCHERS
Randy Wells
Jeff Samardzija
Chris Carpenter
Jeff Stevens
Trey McNutt

CATCHERS
Welington Castillo (Wells & Samardzija)
Max Ramirez (Carpenter & Stevens)
Geovany Soto (McNutt)

GROUP 1 HITTERS (vs Wells & Samardzija)
Marlon Byrd
Tyler Colvin
Koyie Hill
Aramis Ramirez
Alfonso Soriano

GROUP 2 HITTERS (vs Carpenter & Stevens)
Welington Castillo
Reed Johnson
Bobby Scales
Josh Vitters

GROUP 3 HITTERS (vs McNutt)
Jim Adduci
Starlin Castro
Blake DeWitt
Scott Moore
Carlos Pena

It was sunny and cool today, but weather predictions for this weekend are not good, with rain & strong winds expected on Saturday (when the Cubs are scheduled to have a work-out at HoHoKam Park), and then cold temperatures (around 50) for Cactus League Opening Day on Sunday, before a warm-up into the 70's next week.

Comments

With Samardjiza's contract as it is we all better get used to him being in the bullpen to start the year. We can't just waste a five year investment in a guy by letting him walk with 3 million before the season starts. RH Relievers: Marmol, Wood, Cashner, Samardjiza [that's a lot of heat, but command?] LH Relievers: Marshall, Grabow, Maine or Russell Starters: Demp, Z, Garza, Silva, Wells (1 option left) or Russell. I don't see management letting Silva walk with 6 million by waiving him, either. He'll be on the 25 man (maybe relief) if Hendry can't trade him. Coleman, Jackson, Wellemeyer, Looper are optioned or released. Guys like Looper and Wellemeyer could be in the Swing man role instead of a 3rd lefty like Maine. Maybe they get added to the 40 man and put on the DL to work out in Mesa or Iowa and wait for an injury or slow start.

Baseball tonight- Cubs Preview Saw Pena and Colvin getting reps at first Pena spent week in Dallas with Rudy in December(hit .205 vs RHP in 2010) Aram came in looking for help this year, according to Kurkijan his source said "last year Aram would not listen to anyone." Completely "different guy" Kurkijan saw Z in weight room at 6:45 am Players like Quade's "enthusiasm". Dempster does Farley's Matt Foley the motivational speaker. Not very good, kruk an kurkijan laugh like they being tickled by an ostrich feather

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In reply to by Rob G.

nolan ryan harps on it every few years...he also harps on bullpen being used too much, too. he hates the specialist reliever. nolan ryan doesn't get that not everyone is nolan ryan, though. there's some "nolans" out there that we'll never get to see thanks to modern pitching management and the fact a pitcher costs a zillion bucks if they can manage 200ip a year and stay healthy while producing a sub-4.00 era. the last remaining place these days that pitchers tend to be used like they're disposable is high school. some highschool coaches out there do stuff that would make arm-protection-nuts go crazy with anger.

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    steele MRI on friday.  counsell expects an IL stint.

    no current plans for his rotation replacement.

  • hellfrozeover (view)

    I would say also in the bright side column is Busch looked pretty good overall at the plate. Alzolay…man, that hurts but most of the time he’s not giving up a homer to that guy. To me the worst was almonte hanging that pitch to Garcia. He hung another one to the next hitter too and got away with it on an 0-1. 

  • crunch (view)

    amaya blocked like 6-8 of smyly's pitches in the dirt very cleanly...not even an exaggeration, smyly threw a ton of pitches bouncing in tonight.

    neris looking like his old self was a relief (no pun), too.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    In looking for bright spots the defense was outstanding tonight. The “stars” are going to need to shine quite a bit brighter than they did tonight offensively though for this to be a successful season.

  • Eric S (view)

    Good baseball game. Hopefully Steele is pitching again in April (but I’m not counting on it). 

  • crunch (view)

    boo.

  • crunch (view)

    smyly to face the 2/3/4 hitters with a man on 2nd in extras.

    this doesn't seem like a 8 million dollar managerial decision.

  • crunch (view)

    i 100% agree with you, but i dunno how jed wants to run things.  the default is delay.  i would choose brown.

    like hellfrozeover says, could be smyly since he's technically fresh and stretched.

    anyway, on a pure talent basis....brown is the best option.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Use pitchers when you believe they're good. Don't plan their clock.

    I'm sorry. I'm simply anti-clock/contract management. Play guys when they show real MLB potential talent.

    If Brown hadn't been hurt with the Lat Strain he would've gotten the call, and not Wick.

    Give him a chance. 

    But Wesneski probably gets it

  • crunch (view)

    alzolay...bro...