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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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Game 158 Thread / Cubs @ Mets (4 of 4)

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SP Rich Harden
SP Pedro Martinez
(NL)
5-1, 1.66, 85 K, 25 BB, 65 IP
5-6, 5.50, 78 K, 40 BB, 103 IP
       
LF
*Felix Pie
SS
#Jose Reyes
SS
Ryan Theriot LF
*Daniel Murphy
1B
*Micah Hoffpauir 3B
David Wright
CF
*Jim Edmonds
1B
*Carlos Delgado
2B
*Mike Fontenot
CF
#Carlos Beltran
3B
Casey McGehee
RF
*Ryan Church
RF
*Kosuke Fukudome
2B
Ramon Martinez
C
#Koyie Hill
C
Robinson Cancel
P
*Rich Harden
P Pedro Martinez

 

The Cubs play their last-ever regular season game at The House That Jesse Gonder Built. In 44 years of play at Shea (the Mets played their first two years in the Polo Grounds), the Cubs have a 146-164 record.

Mark DeRosa and his strained calf muscle will enjoy tonight's game from the bench. Rich Harden makes his first-ever start against the Mets and Pedro Martinez, who is making his first start against the Cubs in 11 years, when he was still with the Expos.

A Cub win will give the team 97 wins for the first time since 1945.

WIth last night's extra-inning battle taxing the Mets' bullpen, Jerry Manuel has said he would consider using starter John Maine out of the pen tonight if/when he has to lift Pedro, who has only won twice in his last 11 starts.

I can't wait for all of these exhibition games to end so we can get down to real baseball.

Comments

Think TBS/Fox could be much happier? 1 possible NY team (#1 TV DMA) 2 LA Teams (#2) 2 Possible Chicago teams (#3) 1 Possible Philly (#4) 1 Boston (#7 DMA, but huge following in region) I suppose they could bitch about Tampa instead of the Yanks, but 7 large market teams is pretty damn lucky. Now just watch the Brewers make the playoffs setting up the possibility of a Milwaukee/Tampa Bay World Series.

Question: What happens if tonight's game is rained out? It looks like it will start, but they say once the rain starts, it ain't stopping. If that happens, AND the Mets finish the season .5 game out, or .5 game ahead of the Brewers, then what? Does that mean we have to fly to New York, to play one game, against a team that we would probably be better off losing to anyway? (I would rather play the Mets than the Dodgers round 1, wouldn't you?) And, what happens if the seasons finishes with the Mets and Astros tied for WC, yet there is a game we missed against BOTH OF THEM! What kind of craziness would then ensue?

??? now this is the way to get back at them for the Victor Diaz game. Did Hoffpauir grow up a huge Mets fan?

Kevin Hart in a tie game in the 9th...if the Mets can't win this game they SUCK hard and long. Ok they did what was expected....now the Pirates have to do their part.

Personally I'm rooting for the Mets to be the wild card. I think the Brewers have the potential to be a much tougher opponent should we have to face them in the NLCS.

Interesting discussion on Chad's part in the other thread about Theriot being shit. I was just thrilled with the comment about him not being in a slump, rather him coming back to earth. Yeah, if you can hit for 5 straight months, thats not coming back to earth, that isn't being lucky, that is skill and talent. The biggest point being missed is what i like to call "best bang for your dollar" which Theriot provides. Unless your the Yankees you can't put All-Stars at every position and the Cubs have some serious cash already invested in Soriano, Lee, Ramirez, and Fukudome. Any organizations goal is to fill out the roster around their stars with players who simply wont embarrass you when they play. Theriot isn't the best, but he holds his own and isn't a black hole of death with the glove or the bat. We could, and have in the past, wasted millions to find someone below average to cover the position who is either a major liability with the bat or glove or both. We can look for a SS in the off-season but we arent desperate for one. CF is of more concern..do we entrust it to a worn down old vet on his last legs or do we give Pie another chance to figure out how to hit a curveball? I wouldn't trust either option.

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In reply to by MikeC

Theriot isn't the best SS out there, but there is no way anyone sane could possibly want Cedeno over him. Theriot is the best SS WE'VE had for a long time. To me, the time of the all glove, no bat SS has come to an end in baseball with all the excellent hitters out there, and the Izturises out there are simply no longer worth carrying. There's a reason he isn't on winning teams. I hope we start looking at getting a SS who might actually compete in the OPS department.

Whole lot of pitchers on the Cubs pitching themselves into Lou's dog house. Let's hope starters go at least 7 in every playoff game. Our middle relief is no better than the Mets.

anyone else?

Z, Harden, Dempster, Lilly Marquis, Marshall, Wood, Marmol, Cotts, Samardzija

like you'd ever want to use Howry, Hart or Gaudin for anything.

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In reply to by Rob G.

I'd at least carry Gaudin. He was effective at times this season and I give him a shot in low-leverage situations (if any truly low-leverage situations emerge) to show whether he's recovered from the injury or not. Howry and Hart, though, seem like the type that should only pitch in blowouts at this point. That's not valuable enough to drop a exclude another position player.

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In reply to by Rob G.

Gaudin & Howry vs. Pie & Ward. Let's split the difference, one shit pitcher (Gaudin) and one shit position player (Pie). Gaudin has at times looked good this season and Pie can be a defensive replacement/pinch runner. Hopefully, none of this group will see any meaningful playing time in the playoffs.

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In reply to by Rob G.

We should probably have 11 incase somebody gets shelled and you have to use the pen for 6 1/3 innings in a game. The safe spots are likely: P (10): Demp, Harden, Z, Lilly, Wood, Marmol, Cotts, Shark, Marshall, Marquis H: (13): Soto, Dlee, Dero, Theriot, Aram, Sori, Edmonds, Fukudome, Johnson, Blanco, Cedeno, Fontenot, atleast one of Hoff (my pick)/Dward So thats 23 of the 25 spots. The only hitters who have a chance are Pie or the other of Hoff/wardosourous. I am assuming the only other P they would think about is Gaudin. I dont think he would be any worse a pick than either Pie or Ward. I would go with Pie and Gaudin for the last 2 spots myself. I wonder why Jimbo did not get a RH bench bat at some point its about the only glaring weakness on this team as an October team. I mean really the Rangers were practally ready to dump Nelson Cruz at points this season, we could have probably had for a Randy Wells type.

Not only do you get to first base slower when diving, but you also risk injurying yourself: "Backup middle infielder Ronny Cedeno was scratched from Thursday's lineup because of a shoulder strain he suffered with an ill-advised dive into first base trying to beat out a grounder. He's expected to miss at least tonight's series opener in Milwaukee."

Right-hander Randy Wells, who was recalled from Class AAA Iowa when rosters expanded this month, has a stress fracture in his right forearm and has been shut down.

Not that this really matters to the Cubs, but in the 8th inning when Church scored, why wasn't he called out for running out of the baseline? He was a good 6-8 feet into foul territory. I don't think I've ever seen that called on a play at the plate, but why not? The umpires call it appropriately in the other basepaths. And it's strictly enforced on the first base line when the catcher hits the runner on a throw to first. Just wondering.

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In reply to by Iowa Cub

Good question. You are right, it is rarely called at home plate. The relevant rule is 7.08(a)(1) Any runner is out when -- (a) (1) He runs more than three feet away from his baseline to avoid being tagged unless his action is to avoid interference with a fielder fielding a batted ball. A runner’s baseline is established when the tag attempt occurs and is a straight line from the runner to the base he is attempting to reach safely; So I don't think you are expected to always be within 3 feet of the chalk. They anticipate that by "rounding" square bases you sometimes end up outside. When Hill caught the ball and made the tag attempt, Church was already running on the grass just off of the dirt. He didn't move 3 MORE feet into the grass off of the imaginary line from where he was then to home plate. In fact, if you watch the video, he pretty much runs straight the entire time, Hill was just too far inside to tag him. http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200809253550448&c_id=chc

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In reply to by WISCGRAD

Agreed - you're not always expected to be within 3 feet of the baseline. I never knew the second sentence in the above rule; that's interesting. According to the way the rule reads, I would agree, Church didn't go 3 more feet out of the way to avoid the tag. However, when he got to home plate, he was probably 5 feet away, as evidenced by the fact that he needed to dive back to touch the plate. So if you draw that imaginary line from where he was when the tag attempt occurred, it ends at the plate, right? So then he's 5 feet away from the line, and therefore, out of the baseline. I'm really nit-picking here, and sort of playing devil's advocate, and it doesn't matter at all to the Cubs. But what else is there to talk about today, right? Oh, I guess we could talk about how Hart and Howry have proven they don't belong on the postseason roster. Or how Hoffpauir has proven that he clearly does. I did like the idea about using Marquis as the 7th inning reliever. Outside of Marmol and Wood, he's the best non-starter (in the playoffs) we have.

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  • 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.

  • crunch (view)

    dbacks are signing j.montgomery to a 1/25m with a vesting 20m player option.

    i dunno when the ink officially dries, but i believe if he signs once the season begins he can't be offered a QO...and i'm not sure if that thing with SD/LAD in korea was the season beginning, either.

  • crunch (view)

    sut says imanaga getting the home opener at wrigley (game 4 of the season).

  • crunch (view)

    cubs rolling out the who's who of "who the hell is this guy?" in the last spring game.

  • videographer (view)

    AZ Phil, speaking of Jordan Wicks having better command when he tires a bit, I remember reading about Dennis Lamp 40 years ago and his sinker that was better after 3 or 4 innings when he would tire a bit and get more sink with a little less speed on the pitch.  The key for Lamp was getting to the 4th inning.