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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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In reply to by superjimmer

Javier Baez was shut-down with a sore arm halfways thru Instructs. I don't know whether it was an elbow or shoulder problem though. Also, he did something you don't often see an 18-year old do... The Instructs Cubs had been working on pick-off plays at 2B in the morning workout, and they tried one during the game. The pitcher delivered the pitch without even looking back to 2nd base where Baez was standing, and Baez had a fit, throwing his hands up in the air and yelling at the pitcher to pay attention. You very seldom see a young player yell at a teammate like that on the field.

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In reply to by Arizona Phil

some guys from high end highschool baseball programs have issues with bullying or pushing around their teammates. this has become a lot more prevalent the past 5+ years, imo. there's some real horror story control-issue kids out there who aren't even 20 years old yet and a lot more coming up through high schools. i dunno what baez's issue is, but any 18 year old barking at a teammate like that on a pro contract needs to get his ego in check...hopefully it was just a bad night/day and his immaturity was venting in a way time and experience will tame.

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In reply to by superjimmer

i still think baseball would be a lot more interesting if someone hired kevin mitchell to manage a mlb team. ozzie couldn't hope to compete. i'm shocked mitchell hasn't done prison time for his temper...i don't mean jail time...i mean prison. he's not "crossed the line" too hard, but he was/is a guy who can snap and do some screwed up stuff at any given moment. i wonder what elijah dukes is up to...last i heard he was trying to be a rapper.

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In reply to by superjimmer

Wed, 01/18/2012 - 7:33pm — superjimmer New Well it's a good thing Zambrano won't be his big league mentor then! Phil, you think he is a SS long term? ========================== SUPERJIMMER: Baez was bit erratic at SS when i saw him in the AZL and Instructs. He makes all the plays, but he also plays too fast and tends to rush his throws. He does have more range than I had expected given the pre-draft scouting report that projected him as a 3B. He might have hurt his arm overthrowing trying to impress his new organization, but he does have a strong arm. If it gets to the point where he does not display enough range to remain at SS, he certainly has enough arm for 3B. But hopefully the Cubs will give him a full-shot at SS, because a bat like that at SS is pretty rare. BTW, I think his demeanor on the field (he's chippy with umpires, too) is just a part of his competitive personality. He plays with a lot of fire, and while having a Billy Martin or a Jimmy Piersall on the field can be kind of annoying at times, I'll take intensity over doesn't give a shit anyday.

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In reply to by JohnT

I see the parallel, but most of Z's worst behavior occurred later in his time with the Cubs. The Edmonds stuff was earlier, but not when he was first up if I remember right (not looking it up). I guess my point is that Z seemed to get worse the longer he was on the team. If Baez gets worse from here instead of maturing and getting better, only then will I have any concern about him

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In reply to by Jumbo

If you recall, when Z first came up he used to get angry on the mound, stomp around muttering, give the ump the butt, yell at the centerfield scoreboard...that type of thing. But I think he left all his frustration out there on the field. Even though Z said he was just being angry with himself, Cubs opponents didn't like it, so the Cubs told him he needed to act "more mature" and made him bottle all that up when he was on the field. And I think that led to him bringing the frustration and accompanying emotion into the dugout.

I already emailed my Senators and State representatives. SOPA has no chance to pass. PIPA is a bit more likely though.

Tom Verducci is out with his latest Red Flag list of young pitchers who saw significant increases in their innings pitched over the season before. Says that in the last six years compiling these lists ~80% of pitchers on it saw an injury or significant decrease in performance the next season. Notables for Cub Fans: #3 is Jaime Garcia, 24, Cardinals (+57) #7 is Yovani Gallardo, 25, Brewers (+41 1/3) #11 Mike Leake, 23, Reds (+36 2/3) Interesting: Verducci gives the responsibility for Leake's increase on Reds GM Walt Jocketty rather than Dustbag Baker. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/tom_verducci/01/18/year.a…

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In reply to by navigator

Isn't a 36-inning increase for a 23-year-old pretty normal? That doesn't seem like a huge increase. Can't argue with Garcia and Gallardo - if you're pushing for a championship, you gotta go for it.

http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/42159/mlb-insider-keith-law I think they're going to be creative with the major league roster while they try to boost the farm system (which, sneak preview here, isn't going to rank very high, even with the addition of Rizzo/Cates). If there's a younger free agent, or an upside play, they'd be in on him, but I don't see them going after the John Lackeys of free agency any time soon. Brian Lahair and Matt Adams, any chance either of them profile as more than a AAAA or bench player? And what would you expect a full seasons in the majors stat line look like? KLaw: Adams is more than that, certainly. Not really sold on LaHair, nor do I expect him to get much rope now that Rizzo has been reunited with his baseball guardians. Keith, why on god's green earth would any team be willing to take on Soriano for his final 3 years of his deal even if the Cubs pick up 46 of the 54 million remaining on his deal? KLaw: Well, so far no one has proven that stupid, so I think that's your answer. thinks Domonic Brown is a change of scenery guy...get them on the phone Jedstein.

View of rival executives: Matt Garza's $10.225 million arbitration request greatly complicates any interest in him as a trade target. ...GMs...like cost certainty and aren't wild about chance of $10.2 million salary. from Buster Olney

whoops... from Heyman and Bruce Levine garza actually filed at $12.5M, w/ #cubs at $7.95M. misread chart. the $10.225M was midpoint (seemed like weird filing #) well there's an easy win for Cubs although trading him will be harder until deal is settled.

From Rotoworld: According to a report by broadcaster Yancen Pujols, Indians' right-hander Fausto Carmona was arrested in his native Dominican Republic for using a false identity. The story was passed along by Jorge Arangure of ESPN Deportes. Maximo Baez Aybar, who handles PR for the Dominican police, confirms that Carmona (whose real name is actually Roberto Hernandez Heredia) was arrested outside the consulate while trying to secure a work visa.

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In reply to by Rob G.

Rodrigo Lopez was an MLB Article XX-D free-agent post-2011, so per the new CBA he will get an automatic $100K retention bonus if he is not released by the 5th day prior to MLB Opening Day or added to an MLB 40-man roster by MLB Opening Day, and he has automatic "opt-out" rights on June 1st if he is not added to an MLB 40-man roster by that date.

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In reply to by 10man

btw, i still find it odd the cubs have a "new school" front office...not in a sabermetric/etc. way, but in a FLA way where everyone knows the GM isn't really pulling the strings and there's the "real" president doing business stuff with the "operations" president that acts as a GM. larry benifest hasn't been the FLA GM for like 4 years, but everyone knows he's running the roster and management.

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In reply to by 10man

McPhail was president in Baltimore as well and probably GM/president with Cubs in the time between Lynch and Hendry. Theo's job title just means he doesn't have to answer to anyone on baseball decisions which is of course why he took the job. I'm sure Jed has plenty of leeway to pursue deals on his own with Theo's approval and they sound like they discuss everything.

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In reply to by Rob G.

yeah, no one's getting paid to sit around and pretend to fill a role. everyone's working...it's just that "president of baseball operations" is starting to define itself as more important/influential than the GM on some teams. there's weirder organizations. the power mike scioscia has over the roster, including minors and involvement in upper management, is kinda awesome for a guy who's "just" a manager.

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In reply to by Arizona Phil

I'm willing to bet that the Theoworld is more like the tech biz, which is the business I work in. We have some pretty rough and tumble meetings. They can get a little tense sometimes, especially when somebody throws a tantrum, which happens. When it does, they will sometimes walk out to cool down, while the rest us of sit somewhat amused. I think a well run group doesn't have any interest in group think, and it doesn't creep in because things work best when people don't agree. Divergent points of view and all. You see a lot of it in the tech business, and I get the sense that even Ricketts, who himself comes from a tech-oriented company in Ameritrade, has some of the qualities I'm used to seeing. I'm not worried about groupthink with these guys. I think the roster is still shit right now, but I don't think it's because of group think. I think it's because Hendry handed off an abomination and, hopefully, they're not done yet.

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In reply to by Old and Blue

lucky you. at a NCR division i worked at a hivemind group ran us all into the ground with the overwhelming reach in vision without the ability to keep up with it. salespeople made promises that didn't exist in the software, or worse not even in it's development timeline, and that was -our- problem, not sales. if it wasn't part of the software development timeline, it is now. upper management and sales were so in bed with each other this went unchecked. they only cared that they picked up the client. no one worked 40 hour weeks...50+ was the norm. we had a cot office set up for people to sleep in like a dorm. within a 12 month span a single-office, 40 person operation ballooned to a near-200 person, 2 office operation in 2 different states across the country (which lead to unsynched work between offices who start and end work with a 3 hour discrepancy). 5 months of this was followed by the other office being suddenly shuttered when management realized they made a needlessly stupid mistake...one of many. ...at IBM the problem was the opposite for me. there was tons of levels of management and they were so out of sync no one knew what anyone was doing and you could go days without anything to do.

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In reply to by crunch

I love internal business chatter. Our accounting software is so antiquated that I went through two years of completed projects (over about 6 months time) so that someone in the company could start to measure our actual performance versus the estimated costs. And accounting is pissed at me now because we're upgrading our accounting system to something without a Stegasaurus logo on it. We're a small company, but I still can't believe that it got this far and that I'm the only one in the joint who can tell you how much it costs us to do something

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In reply to by crunch

Lucky me maybe but I am lucky only in that I have a good nose for smelling out crap. I can usually tell on an interview if a place is toxic. I can't think of any places I really hated working at off the top of my head -- a little contract gig at Bell & Howell years ago I guess, but even then there was a guy who would stop by and ask me if I saw that week's Hill Street Blues butt shot of the week, so there was some humor there at least. I can't tell since I don't work in the TheoCorp but I get the sense they are not running a ship like what you experienced at NCR. For one thing, it's a much smaller group. I would imagine, or at least hope, that the meetings they have are boisterous. Theo talks like he likes to gather opposing opinions together. If he doesn't and just looks for yes men, then I doubt the Cubs will be successful. Those kinds of environments rarely are.

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In reply to by navigator

Doesn't change the gut feeling I had about his coming from a tech biz culture. from wikipedia
From 1995 to 1996, he served as vice president with Mesirow Financial until moving to ABN AMRO as vice president in their brokerage division.[1] Ricketts is credited with pioneering the idea of using of the Internet and other technologies to help companies sell their investment-grade bonds directly to retail investors, as opposed to limiting sales only to institutions.[13][14] He helped launch the first successful version of this system while at ABN AMRO. In 1999 he left ABN AMRO to found Incapital.[1]

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In reply to by navigator

i'm doing a contract right now for the founder of E*Trade...who oddly, or not, is/was an old guy in the 80s who foresaw computer + internet + stocks before people were really using the internet. what's even more odd is the contract i'm doing is a greenhouse design for indoor vegetable production using an entirely different pre-mid-life crisis degree in horticulture. if they actually get the funding (or he gives up the loot to do it himself) the island of Kauai (Hawaii) has one hell of a community center in the future. he's building a performing arts space and already has a mini-golf course on this piece of land he's looking to turn into a mish-mash of distracting/educational entertainment. there's not a lot there for kids/youth/expression right now. hell, they only got a Walmart and Costco on the island in the past decade.

the anti-humor/pro-bro "The Heckler" twitter feed almost had me believing the compensation issue had been settled...then i finished reading the sentence.

gary carter's brain cancer is getting worse...not responding to treatment and new tumors are forming. he's probably not too much longer without some good luck. :/

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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.