Cubs MLB Roster

Cubs Organizational Depth Chart
40-Man Roster Info

40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full) 

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

Last updated 3-26-2024
 
* bats or throws left
# bats both

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 

 



 

Minor League Rosters
Rule 5 Draft 
Minor League Free-Agents

Game 10 Recap - Another One Run Game

Box Score | HighlightsFangraphs WP chart

  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9   R H E
Cubs 2 2
0
1
0 0
0
0 0
  5
8 1
Astros 0
0
0
0
1
0 3 0
0   4
10
0

The Gist: The first three times through the order, the Cubs one through three hitters went 7/8 with a walk and the Cubs first stolen base on the season(overall 7/13 with 2 BB's). The 4-9 hitters went 1/21 with 4 BB's for the night. The lesson learned? Try to bunch your hot/good hitters together if possible. It's insightful anaylsis like this that keeps you folks coming back for more. Castro, Barney (with a sweet hit'n run triple) and Byrd did the most damage with an assist by Soriano on a clutch 2-out double in the first (that being the 1 of the 1/21 from above). In all seriousness though, managers do tend to worry about protection and putting guys in front of other hitters to see good pitches. It does seem - and I'm sure there have been studies on this - that just putting your 3-4 best hitters next to each other is the better plan.

Dempster pitched another great first four innings. He did it against the Pirates in his first start and then gave up the Neil Walker grand slam in the 5th and the 2-run HR in the 7th. Against the DBacks, he gave up two runs in the third (one being the unearned missed dive by Byrd and subsequent fumble by Soriano) and then 3 more in the 5th. Today it was scoreless through the 4th, a run in the 5th, lots of trouble in the 6th but bailed out when Joe Inglett swung at the first pitch and grounded out after Dempster walked the previous two batters to load the bases and then was getting shelled in the 7th before Q-Ball woke up from his mid-game nap. Q-Ball seems to be deferring to Dempster on when to take him out, which is perfectly reasonable considered the honored and storied career of one Ryan Dempster.

Dempster's ERA from inning 1-4 now stands at 0.75. Dempster's ERA for innings 5-7 is 14.63 with a 24 ERA for inning #5. I'm sure it's just one of those things, but I hope it's not some early warning sign of a fatigue injury ready to rear its ugly head.

Q-Ball went to the lefty Grabow to try and get righties Hunter Pence and Carlos Lee and they both promptly reached base. Grabow got out of it by getting the lefty Brett Wallace and then the righty Chris Johnson. Grabow is suppose to have  a good change to get righties and his career splits bear that out, but tonight was not that night. Sean Marshall got himself in trouble in the 8th although he got a big Michael Bourne strikeout with a man on third and one out. Q-Ball did show some life by going to Marmol for the 4-out save and he eventually came through.

James Russell on a 45-50 pitch count tomorrow vs. Brett Myers.

 


 

Hitter Results for April 11
Name Level Pos AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS
Michael Burgess A+ LF 4 2 3 0 0 2 5 0 0 0 0
Welington Castillo A+ DH 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0
Matthew Cerda A+ 3B 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0
Ryan Flaherty AA SS 3 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0
Reginald Golden












Brett Jackson AA RF 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
DJ LeMahieu AA 2B 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marquez Smith AAA 3B 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
Matthew Szczur A CF 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Josh Vitters AA 3B 3 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0

 


 

Pitcher Results for April 11
Name Level IP R ER H 2B 3B HR SO BB
Christopher Carpenter AAA 2.0 2 0 1 0 0 0 5 2
Jay Jackson                    
Austin Kirk                    
Kenneth McNutt                    
Christopher Rusin                    
Hayden Simpson                    

Scores...

Comments

Thanks for the 'cap ROB G, plus the reveal of Dempster's + inning 5 ERA. Brutal. Yet so dominant in the earlier innings. IF we only had Terry Mulholland on this team to pitch middle relief. And spot start. And, be a fifth starter. I looked at Colvin and Pena's lines last night. The automatic outs coupled with zero power (from Pena to this point) is pretty pathetic. The Cubs are right in the NL middle with 7 HR's (Cinci leads w/13, Dodgers the fewest with 5). However, with ONE stolen base, and poor team speed overall, the team needs to have its supposed long-ball hitters (other than Soriano) start doing something.

[ ]

In reply to by Rob G.

And Looper had been out of baseball for a year, is 8 years older, and Gorzelanny showed he can start or relieve. Gorz isn't great by any means, but they cried wolf about his salary and talked about the need to trim payroll, then rushed out within days and signed Looper to a deal that could have paid him 50% more than Gorz. And the 3 guys we got for Gorz are not much in the way of prospects. Maybe Burgess does something, but being back in A ball again this year doesn't give much hope. I'm just wondering what plan Hendry has? Any? It seems like he's constantly reacting to his own moves. His moves have left us two big league pitchers short, for no legitimate reason. And I wouldn't have been upset with dumping Silva if we had some actual pitching prospects who were ready to come up here.

[ ]

In reply to by Paul Noce

what is hard to understand here? They obviously weren't confident enough in Gorz to be part of the staff for the whole year, yet he still had enough going for him to get some prospects (rather then trading Silva whom you'd have to eat salary and get nothing). You might disagree, fine, to a degree I do as well, but I understand why they moved him and then signed guys to incentive-based non-guaranteed deals instead. It's always been Hendry's way of doing things to trade guys without options that aren't sure bets to make the club. I don't think dumping Silva was really part of the plan, but I also think him and Casey Coleman are about the same thing at the end of the day. I'm sure you thought the 3 guys Cubs got from the Indians were crap too when that trade was made.

[ ]

In reply to by Rob G.

Exactly, what's hard to understand here? Hendry dumped off a low-priced lefty starter for 3 bums with almost zero chance of playing in the majors, while claiming he had to make the trade for salary reasons, then signed a worse pitcher for half price but who could make 50% more than the traded pitcher. Then, the same GM who cried of budget restrictions all off-season decided to eat $8.5 million to release a pitcher who went 10-6 4.22 last year. We end up with Casey Coleman, Russell, and perhaps Ortiz and Davis pitching here. My only hope is the year goes so poorly now that Ricketts has no choice but to fire Hendry. However, I have no confidence Ricketts will ever choose a GM with brains since the owner himself has shown no desire to build a solid organization to this point. He's only concerned with raising ticket prices and maximizing advertising.

[ ]

In reply to by Paul Noce

Exactly, what's hard to understand here? Hendry dumped off a low-priced lefty starter for 3 bums with almost zero chance of playing in the majors if you say so while claiming he had to make the trade for salary reasons don't recall him claiming that, I'd be surprised if he ever said that in public actually, although I'm sure that was the behind-the-scenes motivation anyway, you said they don't make sense, they just don't make sense to you. There's reasoning behind it, reasoning you and I and others may disagree with, but reasoning nonetheless. I'm not even defending the moves, I just can see why they were made. Having to pay Gorz $2.1 M vs possibly paying Looper $3M if and only if needed and he pitches well are big differences. D. Davis is obviously just a reaction to the injuries.

[ ]

In reply to by Paul Noce

It's pretty common to give non-roster invitee veterans incentive-laden contracts to spring training. They feel like they deserve the chance, GMs do so out of respect to past performance, etc. It's just the way it is done. But they are rarely paid out. Looper is not on the team, and would only have been so had he excelled or there were a number of injuries. So when you compare Looper's contract that was never even paid out (effectively $0 minus ST pay) to $2.1 million guaranteed there is a big difference. Gorzelanny has a career ERA of nearly 5.00 and gave up 5 ER in 5 IP in his only start this year. I liked him too, but you can see why a GM would not want to pay over $2 million for that and have no flexibility to send the player to the minors during the season either.

Holy shit, 4 walks in one game! Woo prospects. Seeing the minor leaguers is the only thing keeping me interested and it's only April. What a ho-hum team we have.

I'm all for the Ortiz/Davis crap. When the starters finally get healthy we can move these guys into the pen supposing they can actually throw strikes. They can replace guys like Samardzija and Grabow who can't throw strikes.

h.j.lee still hasnt played for A+ (TB). wonder where he is and/or what he's working on. he's on their roster, but yet to play. -edit- he's on their DL...the chicken pox thing...oh yeah, this has been covered. dur.

http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/5461 "The Cubs boast a .475 batting average (19-for-40) out of the leadoff spot this season, by far the best mark in the majors. Philadelphia has the second best batting average at .366 (15-for-41) ... the Cubs' .553 on-base percentage out of the leadoff spot is also best in the majors, well ahead of Pittsburgh's second-best .457 mark." Got that going for themselves. 6th in runs scored in NL so far at 4.3 R/G 4th in BA, 4th in OBP, 7th in SLG, 7th in OPS tied for 10th in R/G, 13th in ERA, 1st in K/9, 14th in BB/9, 14th in HR/9

[ ]

In reply to by Rob G.

he's one of those guys who goes all "jim rome" with sports and politics. also, that article is stupid as hell. his attack on adults wearing jerseys at a game is just plain weird from a guy who's been doing sports for 20+ years. even "idiots" who do things like wear a BOS/NYM jersey to the NYY bleachers don't get beat down even if they get yelled at for 3 hours by NYY "fans" who are too busy yelling at them to watch the game...speaking of things adults should be more mature than to do.

[ ]

In reply to by Rob G.

I think it's probably a valid question... There's a thin line between wearing a jersey to support your team and wearing one to be more obnoxious when your team wins, that most people don't recognize. He probably didn't pick the best time or example to bring up the discussion. It's sort of like going to a foreign country dressed in an an American Flag T-shirt and wearing expensive jewelry around in shady areas. Do you want to or deserve to be mugged? Probably not. Are you partially culpable for putting yourself in that situation? Yeah. If you have people interested in performing violent acts, it's best not to wear targets to catch their attention.

[ ]

In reply to by Paul Noce

I do remember watching one Pirates fan that got the hell beat out of him by two drunk Cubs fans in '79, I think, back in the "We Are Family" days. The poor Pirates fan was wearing a yellow Ed Ott jersey, and these guys verbally assaulted him all game. Late in the game the Pirates took the lead and the Pirates guy made the mistake of saying something back, like, "how do you like that?' referring to the lead change, and was promptly pummeled by the two drunks. Andy Frain's came running from all directions. As for those Pirate teams, I always loved Dave Parker. Amazing player.

[ ]

In reply to by The Real Neal

We expect shady areas to be shady. We avoid them, and if we have to go them, modify our behavior (dress, etc.) accordingly. Cities don't put on huge campaigns to advertise their shady areas, encourage you to visit, encourage you to bring your children because these areas are family friendly, or encourage you to purchase clothing that would put you in danger when you are there. Baseball stadiums are expected to be safe and advertized as such. So no, the fan is not culpable in this. This is much like a string of burglaries in a traditionally safe neighborhood, or a mugging or rape in a tourist area that has not experienced such events before. The immediate reaction is shock and surprise. Some people, like you, will argue that this area has become bad, and that the victims were to blame for not acting accordingly. They will say that crime has been increasing here in the past, or other minor incidents have occurred recently, so the victims should have been paying attention. But most people will instead see this as a wake-up call, and realize that the authorities and others in the community have not been doing enough to deter such activity. They will reinvigorate such efforts, and the crime will likely disappear or move to another area. So I expect stadiums to double down efforts to maintain security before and after games and to instruct ushers to lower the bar for ejecting fans for heckling or harassing other fans, along with other related efforts to ensure stadiums are safe. In addition, I expect many fans to modify their behavior and limit the severity of their heckling, and other fans to intervene on the behalf of those visiting fans being harassed. This undoubtedly won't be the last such incident we see, but I don't see this as a reason to stop wearing your Cubs jersey in road stadiums.

[ ]

In reply to by WISCGRAD

I think you guys have coined a new logical fallacy. The TCR Fallacy: When someone makes an analogy to illustrate a point, and the readers of TCR dismiss it because the analogy does not perfectly match. At the end of the day: Someone is getting beat up after that ballgame, the likelyhood of that someone being you is increased if you wear a jersey for another team. When I am going into a situation where there may be belligerent, violent drunks, I try to think of ways not to antagonize them.

j.guthrie (BAL) about to be on MLB Network "Intentional Talk" if you've never seen him interview, you should. hope this is a good one, anyway. guthrie's a weird dude.

Bourn, Sanchez, Pence, Lee, Michaels, Hall, Johnson, Quintero, Myers vs. Castro, Barney, Byrd, Ramirez, Pena, Soriano, Soto, Colvin, Russell -edit- Brad Mills suspended for the game

Daytona: Crawford LF, Watty 2B, Ha CF, Bour 1B, Castillo DH, Burgess RF, Brenly C, Macias 3B, Lake SS Rob Whitenack-RHP Peoria Szczur 9, Silva 8, Rohan 3, Borges 7, Fitzgerald DH, Gibbs 2,Giansanti 5, Soto 3, Alcantara 6, Simpson 1 followed by Jokisch

hamstring improving, hopes to play by Friday, no DL expected

This has been an ominous beginning thus far. Maybe we'll get to see one of Koyie Hill or Blake DeWitt make their first appearance as a relief pitcher today.

well enjoy your evenings fellas! I assume ninja will be asked to get through 4. Then Mateo and Stevens for 2 innings each if Q-Ball is lucky. Grab-ass as the fallback.

Diamond gave up 9 earned runs in 3.1 tonight, so that wasn't a better option. And just pray that Muyco never gets called up. Now for some good news. Rob Whitenack's pitching line tonight: 6 innings, 1 hit, 0 walks, 12 strikeouts. Daytona is 6 and 0.

Recent comments

  • 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.

  • 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.