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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. 

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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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Cubs' Right Field Options

The Kansas City Star says the Cubs are making a play for Mark Teahen. This on the heels of a radio report that the Cubs are very interested in Milton Bradley. The KC Star article also says the Cubs have interest in Raul Ibanez, but his cost may be prohibitive.

The Cubs would prefer David DeJesus according to the article, but he seems unavailable as the Royals want to move him to left field and acquire a new center fielder. Teahen though might be attainable. The names thrown out by the author are Felix Pie, Mike Fontenot and Ronny Cedeno.

Comments

Out of fear of Bradley mangling one of our white scrappy middle infielders on one of his 'off' days (or himself), I'm much more in favor of a KC deal. I'd prefer David of Jesus, though.

but is it suppose to be

Cubs' Right Field Options or Cubs Right Field Options

and if I was doing a page of Cubs that won the Cy Young Award, is it?

Cubs' Cy Young Winners or Cubs Cy Young Winners

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In reply to by Rob G.

Cubs' RF options...options that are theirs. Cubs Cy Young Winners...Cy Young Winners who are Cubs. "He is a Cubs pitcher" Cubs' Cy Young Winners...Cy Young Winners that the Cubs Organization has. "He is the Cubs' pitcher"

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In reply to by Rob G.

I think that technically, your title is now correct. I also think that, because 'Cubs' is the name of the team and a Cy Young winner is a 'Cubs' player, that you can write it without the apostrophe. 'He is a Cubs pitcher' doesn't indicate ownership of the pitcher by the Cubs (I don't think), but Cubs' pitcher does. Perhaps it goes down the argument, 'Am I a Cub fan or a Cubs fan?'. Because there are multiple pitchers who are collectively 'Cubs', I think it's ok. If it was one player, you'd have to put 'Cubs' Cy Young Winner' or 'Cub Cy Young Winner' depending on what, exactly, you're trying to indicate.

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In reply to by WISCGRAD

to start everyone off...take a look at this page

http://wiklifield.thecubreporter.com/Baseball_America_Prospect_Rankings…;

on player pages on Baseball Cube, they list if a player was on one of the BA Prospect Rankings since 1992. I've filled in basically everyone I can think of, but anything labeled "Missing" is doing just that.Any persons care to try to fill in the gaps?

Supposedly if you have a subscription you can get from 2002 online, but the rest has proved troublesome. It's basically been a trial and error of typing in Cubs prospects that I can think of.

I'm missing #10 on 2004 and then a bunch from 2000 and before...

unless there's a page on Baseball Cube that actually gives the team-by-team lists for each year, but I couldn't find it 

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In reply to by Rob G.

Rob, there isn't a list of that on Baseball Cub, but you can find the rosters for each of the minor league teams for each year. So by clicking through I just found Nate Frese as #10 in 2001 and filled that in. I'll try to find a few more before I have to get to work.

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In reply to by WISCGRAD

thnx again, filled in a bunch as well, got from 1999 through 2008 done, 1994 and 1995.

Missing - #8 in 1996, #7 in 1993, #8 in 1992

I don't think Baseball Cube has 1997 and 1998 in there because BA.com has Kerry Wood #1, but it doesn't show up on his player page. I also found a bio on Brian Ramsey saying he was a top 10 prospect in 1998 according to BA, but doesn't show up on his page either. 

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In reply to by Arizona Phil

why did I know you would have the answer? you happen to have the 1997 or 1998 lists somewhere?

Baseball Cube lists players that were on their top 100 major league list, but is missing the organizational top 10 for those years. From some BA.com pages I know Wood was #1 both years and I have a couple of other names that should be on the top 10 lists but can't confirm where.

Teahan... Pinhead and Perry better be damned sure that they can fix him if we trade anything more than a bucket of balls for him. I wouldn't trade Pie even up for him. DeJesus doesn't hit well enough to be a left fielder, but I'd take him for center.

Current Payroll numbers will probably be around 137 Million when you factor in Gregg, Gaudin and Reed's salaries in arbitration. So unless we're looking to package a few players with large salaries and reports are around a 150M payroll budget, I would think we're going the cheap route. Lets hope someone will take Marquis off our roster. I hope dempster lives up to that contract...after one good year.

I live in KC and watch a LOT of Royals baseball. My 2 cents: Teahan is a LH version of Mark DeRosa. He can play most every position on the field, none of them gold-glove caliber, but all of them passably acceptable. He has some speed; not a pure basestealer, but he runs smart, does 1st to 3rd well, he will sneak in 15-20 SBs per year if a manager is aggressive. He is a line-drive hitter, does not have any kind of upper-cut at all necessary for HR production. He can be had with breaking stuff low and away, and high fastballs. His plate discipline is below average. In my view, Teahan is a league-average quality player with a bit of potential upside. His biggest advantage is that he is a really an all-around super-sub type player, something we know Lou likes to have. I would very much like to have him on the Cubs in this role, but not so much if the plan is to have him be the everyday RF. So, Pie for Teahan? I'm fine with that. Pie + Cedeno? Again fine, because I can't STAND Cedeno. But anything more and I'd balk. And I certainly hope Hendry gets more than just Teahan as his off-season bat, because he ain't enough.

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In reply to by Jim Hickmans Bat

I realize that this is likely to come back and make me feel very, very stupid, but I'd rather have Pie than Teahen at this point--I definitely don't trade them straight up. This has nothing to do with the comment I'm responding to, but I also don't understand the infatuation that some people have for DeJesus--he seems to be merely okay, or sort of good. Not the sort of guy that would make me think, man, I'd really love to trade for him. A better bet than our current CF guys, but I'm not exactly drooling. And he's no more of a leadoff hitter than Mark DeRosa. I haven't seen him play much. Maybe he's a spectacular fielder and I just don't know it.

Anything the Royals have is not an option for us! Would rather have Fuk-u-do-me in R and platoon with DeRosa and Pie in center...this is crazy. Milton Bradley is a better board game maker then a player! He's also butcher in the outfield.

I think of all the possible free agents the only guy who is a real RF is Bobby Abreu, and he's declined a bit on defense, from what I've read out of NYC. There has to be better trade possibilities than Teahen. At the very least if they deal for Teahen they better sign Furcal to lead off and bench Theriot.

DeJesus' numbers look decent, but I don't know jack about either guy other than the fanfare (or what passes for fanfare for KC) when Teahen came up. I can't remember which writer it was, but I still laugh at the mental image of Burnitz waiting anxiously by the phone... sad, but probably true....

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In reply to by Tony S.

Throw the numbers out, Kauffman is brutal. The important thing is this guy is built like the perfect ball player and has all the tools. He'll have a breakout year in the next 2-3 years, you can count on that. I was calling for the Cubs to trade for DeJesus last year, but I was just yapping, I never thought it could be a real possibility.

Rob, are you left-handed? Did you ever have any time in the KC organization? Sounds like we got a new RF'r...

And I just read somewhere that we're "trying to deal Fukudome", is that true? Does Hendry or Fuk know that? I figured Jimbo would let him go for the right return (ie, we're not stuck with his WHOLE salary for the next 3 years), but I hadn't heard Hendry was shopping him.... *edit*-- "Although the Cubs are trying to deal right fielder Kosuke Fukudome, the Royals almost certainly would not take on his remaining contract of three years and $38 million." with the link: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081118&content_id=3684206&vke… (it's about halfway down)

Read it and weep. Rich Hill tonight (Tuesday): 1 inning, 3 hits, 7 runs, 5 earned, 3 walks, 2 K's, 2 wild pitches. Justin Berg, for what it's worth, pitched the 7th and fared even worse. 0.2 innings, 6 hits, 8 runs, 8 earned, 3 walks, 1 K, 1 wild pitch. Final score: Tiburones 21, Tigres (Aragua) 7.

"but he seems unavailable as the Royals want to move him to left field and acquire a new center fielder." Sometimes, rumor news reports are right on the money. The Royals just traded Ramón Ramírez for Coco Crisp.

Submitted by carlosrubi on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 9:29am.

"but he seems unavailable as the Royals want to move him to left field and acquire a new center fielder."

Sometimes, rumor news reports are right on the money. The Royals just traded Ramón Ramírez for Coco Crisp.

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CARLOS: Perhaps the nature of the talks between the Cubs and the Royals had less to do with Teahen and DeJesus coming to Chicago and more to do with Pie and/or Cedeno going to KC, with Coco Crisp the actual target?

Recent comments

  • 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.