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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
 
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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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Is This Really Happening?

5 innings...goose egg in the you-know-what column for Lilly.

Words fail me...

At least I'll be around to watch this one.


ANSWER: No it isn't. Lilly makes it through six with a no-hitter, but then a kind error call on Ramirez before a soft single to right field by Mark Loretta. Cubs prevail though and knock their magic number down to six. If they sweep the Brewers AND the Astros lose at least one game to the Marlins they will clinch the division.

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This just in: Cubs have asked for permission to play the rest of the season at neutral sites within 100 miles of Chicago.

thanks, in part, to another highlight reel HOF quality layout by Jim Edmonds in the 6th the kind of catch that used to be generally described here as "fake"

Nice to see Bob Howry get some work in. Hopefully he can put it together for the playoffs.

amazing amazing couple of days. i have no words for the brewers firing yost....i know he's awful but jeez....what's the brewers record since the no-hitter and complaining by yost? 3-10? karma. cubs can clinch vs the brewers if they sweep. the pitching matchups are tough but the way the brewers are playing right now who knows. Tu: dempster vs sabathia (wow) W: marquis vs sheets (eek but marquis has been great for the last few starts) Th: harden vs parra (if they've won the first two this is a good sweep/clinch opportunity)

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. One game at a time. I agree that firing Yost now is pretty strange.

to tie Dempster, Z trails with 14. The last time the Cubs had 2 15-game winners was 1992. The last time they had 3 was 1989. Years Cubs had 3 15-game winners since 1945: 1989 1970 1969 1945 They did it a bunch before that as well when starters finished almost all their games. http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/Ntrg

Cubs now 6-0 at Miller Park, I believe. Both times sweeping a hot team when the Cubs had been in a funk. Dunno -- maybe the Cubs should upgrade the home locker room at Wrigley. Mark Cuban would/will.

While this is certainly complaining about the gravy, but I hope the Cubs don't drop their magic number to 1 on Friday Afternoon. It would just be too anti-climatic for this season to be clinched after another team loses 5 hours after the Cubs game has ended. I want to see the team celebrate on the field, damnit!

Might I go back to Zambrano? Good. I liked his response to the stupid question posed to him at the post-game press conference: "Do you think you would have still pitched the no-hitter if this game were in Houston?" (paraphrased) Z: "I don't know, we'll have to ask Criss Angel." That is all. Go Cubs.

It is now very possible that the Cubs will clinch on Sunday or before. Yes the could clinch by Thursday night, but let's look at a more realistic scenario. We take 2 of three from the Brewers and even if we lost 2 of three to the Cards, if the brewers lose once this weekend it's OVAH! I am predicting a Cubs clinch this saturday.

It would be fantastic to make the end of the season road trip completely meaningless. The nasty ghost of the September '04 weekend at Shea still haunts me now and again.

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In reply to by CA-Phil

Let's put the horse before the cart and win the division before we starting gloating about finishing off the Brewers' season. Olney mentioned that the Cubs will do their damndest to beat the Brewers, though, because they think they're probably the second best team in the league. I have to agree. If your options are The Dodgers, The Mets, The Phillies, The Brew Crew and The Assholes, give me the Mets, Dodgers and Astros.

"Officials are held accountable for their calls. They are graded on every play of every game," Aiello said Monday. "Ed has been an outstanding official for many years, but he will be marked down for this call. Under our evaluation system, an official's grades impact his status for potentially working the playoffs and ultimately whether or not he is retained." When does MLB get this?

Remember we are actually playing at the "real" Wrigley today, where the Brewers have been spanking us. I'm not writing them off this series. Afterall, they are "Fired up." ....I'm here all week. Is that WGN rebroadcast of the no-no the superstation or just Chicago again?

Why is there a picture of Darth Vader on today's date on the schedule page at cubs.com? Also, I am going to be in town for my 20-yr. HS reunion and I'm going to the game on Friday. What scenario could I hope for that would lead to an on-the-field clinch Friday afternoon. That would be sweet!

Intersting discussion on the September rosters from Len and Bob during Z's no-no -- it seems kind of silly to let a team use a 35-man roster and have minimal constraints on using Pinch Hitters, Relief Pitchers and Pinch Runners in meaningful games. The "game management" aspect is significantly minimized when you can burn a PH, PR or RP with little consequence. I liked the suggestion that you still have Sept call-ups, but can only activate 25 for each game. That way, you can still rest your regulars, but don't completely change the dynamic of using your bench and bullpen.

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In reply to by billybucks

Intersting Idea, but if it was going to have any impact, you'd have to somehow regulate how it was used. Basically, you'd have to find a way to keep mangers from simply deactivating their starting pitching staff - which would basically create 4 extra rosters spots, and negate the point of a rule change.

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  • 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?

    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.

  • 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.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Seconded!!!

  • crunch (view)

    another awesome spring of pitching reports.  thanks a lot, appreciated.