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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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Royals Flush Cubs into 13-Run Pool

Melky Cabrera drove-in three runs with a bases loaded triple to key a five-run 1st inning and the Royals never looked back, as the Cubs were thumped 13-4 by Kansas City in Cactus League action at Dwight Patterson Field at HoHoKam Park in sunny & warm Mesa, AZ, this afternoon.  

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The Royals did much of their damage against Cubs starter Matt Garza, who had an abysmal outing (especially his first inning), allowing a total of six runs on four hits and four walks in 2.2 IP (69 pitches - 40 strikes, 3/1 GO/FO).

The Royals scored five times in the top of the 1st, an inning in which Garza threw a whopping 39 pitches (23 strikes). Lorenzo Cain and Mike Aviles both drew walks to start the KC uprising, as Garza appeared to be over-throwing. Billy Butler ripped an RBI single for the 1st Royal run, and then Jeff Francouer drew a one-out walk (Garza's third free-pass of the inning). Melky Cabera then made Garza pay for his wild indiscretions, drilling a triple into deep left-centerfield to plate Aviles, Butler, and Francouer, and give the Royals a 4-0 lead. Alex Gordon followed with an RBI single to drive-in Cabrera.

The Cubs scored a single run in the bottom of the 1st against KC starter LHP Bruce Chen. Jeff Baker walked on a 3-2 pitch, and advanced to 3rd on a one-out single into the LF corner by hot-hittin' Marlon Byrd (with Byrd taking 2nd on the throw to 3rd). Aramis Ramirez then knocked-in Baker with an RBI ground out.

Although he issued another walk and had trouble locating the strike zone, Garza did retire 8 of 9 hitters after Gordon's 1st inning RBI single, before allowing another Gordon single with two outs in the 3rd, the last batter he would face. RHP Jay Jackson relieved Garza, and Gordon promptly stole a base to get into scoring position (a weak one-hop throw to 2nd by Geovany Soto). Manuel Pina then drove Gordon home with an RBI single, as Jackson allowed his inherited runner to score.

Marlon Byrd cut the KC lead to 6-2 with a solo HR over the LF fence with two outs in the 3rd. Over his last four Cactus League games, Byrd has nine hits (including four doubles and a HR) plus a walk in ten AB (11 PA).   

But J. Jackson gave the run right back in the top of the 4th, as Aviles and Butler hammered consecutive one-out singles to put runners on 1st & 3rd, giving Wilson Betemit the opportunity to plate Aviles with a SF (which he did). J. Jackson surrendered another run in the 5th on back-to-back doubles by Cabrera and Gordon. For the day J. Jackson allowed two runs (not including the inherited Garza runner who scored) on five hits (including two doubles), with no walks or strikeouts. Getting stretched-out for when he joins the Iowa Cubs starting rotation at Minor League Camp (probably next week), Jackson was permitted to go 2.1 IP, throwing 48 pitches (31 strikes), with a 1/5 GO/FO (almost all of his pitches were up in the strike zone).

Carlos Marmol threw a 1-2-3 6th with two strikeouts (Jeff Bianchi and Kila Ka'aihue) and a ground out. Marmol had really nasty stuff today.  

Down 8-2, the Cubs looked like they might mount another 6th inning rally like the one they pulled off against the Angels on Monday. Facing LHRP Everett Teaford, Josh Vitters (who has looked very good both at the plate and in the field this Spring) laced a one-out double, and Max Ramirez walked. Reed Johnson doubled to score Vitters and send M. Ramirez to 3rd (although in true Cubbery, all three runners were between 2nd and 3rd at one point), and Carlos Pena walked to load the bases, with the eventual potential tying run now moving to the On-Deck Circle. But Jim Adduci rolled into a room-service 4-6-3 DP to end the inning and kill the rally in its infancy.

RHP Justin Berg was next to take the hill for the Cubs, and he had another poor outing (a walk, a HBP, and an RBI single in 1.0 IP), throwing 18 pitches but only nine for strikes. 

Jeff Stevens had an impressive (for him) 12-pitch 1-2-3 8th, but Esmailin Caridad struggled with his command and was tagged for three runs in a 23-pitch (14 strikes) 9th, surrendering a single, a triple, and a Mitch Maier HR (plus an HBP) before getting the third out.  

The Cubs scored once in the bottom of the 9th, as pinch-hitter Chris Robinson rammed a double off the fence in left-centerfield, and scored a moment later on a Jeff Baker line-drive RBI single to right.

Comments

Good to hear that Vitters is looking good by AZ Phil's eye. Especially the defense. I guess he'll be down in the minor league camp by the time I get out there for spring training the week of the 22nd. I really don't know how that shit works. As for Grabow, he's just another poster child, like Scott Eyre and Mike Remlinger and I'm sure a few hundred others, for not spending a bunch of money on relievers. He's making $4.8 million this year. You could build a nice prospect development facility in some nether region for that kind of cash.

AZ Phil - Do you think Matt Camp or Scott Moore are even being considered to make the team. They are both having a good spring training and offer good utility left bats. Camp can play almost anywhere (including 2B) and has speed and could lead off. Moore has has power potential and has played 2B in both the major and minor leagues in addition to 1B and 3B (I believe he was drafted as a SS) Thanks

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Submitted by skavoovee on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 10:26am. AZ Phil - Do you think Matt Camp or Scott Moore are even being considered to make the team. They are both having a good spring training and offer good utility left bats. Camp can play almost anywhere (including 2B) and has speed and could lead off. Moore has has power potential and has played 2B in both the major and minor leagues in addition to 1B and 3B (I believe he was drafted as a SS) Thanks ======================================= SKAVOOVEE: I can't see Scott Moore or Matt Camp making the Cubs Opening Day roster unless a couple of infielders start the season on the DL. Both should be on the Iowa Cubs Opening Day roster, though, and one or both could get called up to Chicago sometime later in the season. Moore isn't much of a hitter when facing MLB pitchers, but he has plus-power and has been worked-out all over the infield this spring, and (as you said) Camp can play anywhere, and would be a good PR in September if the Cubs are still in contention.

C'mon Cubs, the notion that Randy Wells is still competing for a rotation spot just reached "ridiculous" on the baseball banalities scale. 4.0 IP 1 hit 1 BB 2K's ST ERA 0.00

I decided to look up what the actual Cubs home spring training attendance has been so far this season, just for kicks. The az central website said just as spring training was beginning, "The HoHoKams have already sold about 118,000 tickets for this season, after the Cubs drew 152,000 last season for 14 home games. This season there will be 18 games. The Cubs averaged 10,900 fans per game last year." http://www.azcentral.com/community/mesa/articles/2011/02/28/20110228chi… So I looked up actual attendance numbers this year using Yahoo's box scores: Cubs spring training home game attendance this year: 2/27 vs OAK - 6,892 (Sunday) 2/28 vs Mil - 5,405 3/3 vs Tex - 6,229 3/5 vs SD - 10,445 (a Saturday game) 3/6 (SS) vs LAD - 8,669 (Sunday) 3/7 vs LAA - 6,804 3/9 vs KC - 5,529 --------------------- 7 home games before today, total/avg attendance: 49,973, 7,139 What is most interesting is that the first article says they had sold 118,000 tickets before spring training began, to 18 games, which is an avg of 6,555. Actual attendance so far is 7,139 avg, meaning only about 600 extra tickets per game are being sold (beyond what they had already sold pre-ST). They averaged 10,900 fans per game last year, and they are averaging 3,761 fewer butts in the seats this year, that's a 35% drop. WOW.

looking like dumpster/z/garza/wells are locked in...barring injury or mega-wells-fails. silva's gotta be sweating his next start or 2...wellemeyer is nipping and cashner is bobbing above/below water enough to stay in some kind of consideration (though i wouldn't mind seeing cashner starting in AAA and stretching out more). it's one thing to pitch like crap in spring, it's another to do it on the level silva has while not even showing good stuff behind the bad numbers. meh, it's still too early...kinda...

whomever C Chin-Hsiu Chen is, he really wants the Cubs to win this game after a Marquez Smith double, wild pitch followed by a throwing error by him, then a BB to Matt Camp followed by a passed ball

so does the $14.99 MLB At Bat 2011 let me watch games on my Iphone if I've already bought the MLB.tv subscription?

I was looking at the rest of the televised spring training games. Here's the schedule. Central Time: Friday, Mar 11 @ White Sox 2:05 Saturday, Mar 12 vs Reds 3:05 Sunday, Mar 13 vs Dodgers 3:05 Saturday, Mar 19 @ Padres 3:05 Sunday, Mar 20 vs Giants 3:05 Monday, Mar 21 @ Angels 3:05 Tuesday, Mar 22 @ Dodgers 3:05 Thursday, Mar 24 vs White Sox 3:05 Friday, Mar 25 vs Mariners 3:05 Sunday, Mar 27 vs Rockies 3:05

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  • crunch (view)

    in other news, it took 3 PA before a.rizzo got his 1st HBP of the season.

  • Eric S (view)

    With two home runs (so far) and 5 rbi today … clearly Nick Martini is the straw that stirs the Reds drink 😳

  • crunch (view)

    madrigal at 3rd...morel at DH.

    making room for madrigal or/and masterboney to get a significant amount of ABs is a misuse of the roster.  if it needed to get taken care of this offseason, they had tons of time to figure that out.

    morel played almost exclusively at 3rd in winter ball and they had him almost exclusively there all spring when he wasn't DH'ing.

    madrigal doing a good job with the glove for a bit over 2 chances per game...is that worth more than what he brings with the bat 4-5 PA a game?  it's 2024 and we got glenn beckert 2.0 manning 3rd base.

    this is a tauchman or cooper DH situation based on bat, alone.  cooper is 3/7 with a double off eovaldi if you want to play the most successful matchup.

    anyway, i hope this is a temporary thing, not business as usual for the rest of the season.  it will be telling if morel is not used at 3rd when an extreme fly ball pitcher like imanaga is on the mound.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    There are two clear "logjams" in the Cubs minor league pipeline at the present time, namely AA outfielders (K. Alcantara, C. Franklin, Roederer, Pagan, Pinango, Beesley, and Nwogu) and Hi-A infielders (J. Rojas, P. Ramirez, Howard, R. Morel, Pertuz, R. Garcia, and Spence, although Morel has been getting a lot of reps in the outfield in addition to infield). So it is possible that you might see a trade involving one of the extra outfielders at AA and/or one of the extra infielders at Hi-A in the next few days. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    18-year old SS Jefferson Rojas almost made the AA Tennessee Opening Day roster, and he is a legit shortstop, so I would expect him to be an MLB Top 100 prospect by mid-season. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Among the relievers in the system, I expect RHRP Hunter Bigge at AAA Iowa and RHRP Ty Johnson at South Bend to have breakout seasons on 2024, and among the starters I see LHP Drew Gray and RHP Will Sanders at South Bend and RHP Naz Mule at ACL Cubs as the guys who will make the biggest splash. Also, Jaxon Wiggins is throwing bullpen sides, so once he is ready for game action he could be making an impact at Myrtle Beach by June.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I expect OF Christian Franklin to have a breakout season at AA Tennessee in 2024. In another organization that doesn't have PCA, Caissie, K. Alcantara, and Canario in their system, C. Franklin would be a Top 10 prospect. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    The Reds trading Joe Boyle for Sam Moll at last year's MLB Trade Deadline was like the Phillies trading Ben Brown to the Cubs for David Robertson at the MLB TD in 2022. 

  • 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.