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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full), plus one player is on the 60-DAY IL 

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, twelve players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, one player is on the 15-DAY IL, and one player is on the 10-DAY IL

Last updated 3-28-2024
 
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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Garrett Cooper
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
* Miles Mastrobuoni
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# 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 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 1 
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 1 
Caleb Kilian, P 

 



 

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Good thing I only had 2 points on Demp. Wood signing with Rangers looks like it could get me a win in this thing if Sabathia doesnt sign with the Yankees.

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In reply to by Rob G.

i just keep thinking of technoviking when i see a blank expressionless pointing dude...im trying to not think about technoviking... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwsntHcWiy4 ...some bad language and probably not the least bit funny to anyone not exposed to rave culture. he pulls off the "pointing thing" twice in the 1st half of the video. and for those that watch...it's some german dude and others at a "counter protest party" to berlin's "Love Parade" in 2000 which has/had lost it's techno roots and is more concerned with horrible progressive trance, big beat, house, and commercial electronic music acts.

Wasn't there points last season where Kerry Wood had the whole Technoviking Goatee-man-chu thing going on? If only Sweet Lou would bring him and upside down bottle of Wah-tah!

http://homerderby.com/archives/2986 Billy Corgan: If … If … IF … the Cubs did have a chance this last year that just passed … Fuckin’ Eddie Vedder killed that shit dead. Last I checked Eddie ain’t living here, Okay? Eddie ain’t living here to write a song about my fuckin’ team.

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In reply to by The Joe

I don't know why this would seem fresh to anyone. Pumpkins and Pearl Jam have had a media battle for years going back to the 90's heyday of when they were at the top of their respective games making mediocre music targeted for people in my demo. Don't you remember all of those Pumpkins/Hole jokes made on Pearl Jam for doing group hugs on stage and that kind of fodder? What I remember most about the forgettable "grunge" era was the time when Billy Corgan was on Sports Channel's Sports Reporters program with Rick Telander kissing his ass the entire time with Bill Gleason blowing stoagie smoke in his face for an hour. That was pull the covers over your head bad-great TV.

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In reply to by dB

I never liked Smashing Pumpkins. Way to whiny for me. I didn't like Pearl Jam then, but I appreciate some of their stuff a little more now. That feud was nothing compared to that epic Eminem-Moby feud. Seriously, Moby? That's who you choose to feud with? Big-Pac...Dre-Dupree...Jay-Nas. Man these rappers need to chill the fuck out. Ja-Rule looked like one of those child body-builders.

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In reply to by The Joe

eddie vedder asked me to reply to this thread for him since he's busy writing a song about how ticketmaster sucks. quote: "mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble. mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble."

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In reply to by crunch

actually Vedder is busy running to his next set of 50 interviews for the pen & mic club, hang with Rodman at the Crowbar, then he's going to complain about all the attention. Then he'll mark the calendar for the next time he's going to appear in the booth with Len & Bob and pull his faux-too cool for the room stance.

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In reply to by Chad

You apparently haven't heard of one Hootie and the Blowfish. Ok, but seriously: The Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band, The Eagles, Aerosmith, Van halen, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Metallica, The Allman Brothers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, CCR, The Velvet Underground more than 'compare'.

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In reply to by Chad

'horrible take'? you're quoting Jim Rome now. The biggest hack in the sports entertainment industry, but based on the women you think are attractive and the bands you listen to, I don't know why that comes as a surprise. Guns and Roses, are a band of guys whose only purposes of being 'musicians' is to get women and do drugs. They sold out as soon as they first plugged in their amps. Pearl Jam is just boring. I bought 10, listened to it four times, and when it got stolen from my car never replaced it. Why did they name their band, 'Pearl Jam' anyway, was 'Coffee House Soul Patch' already taken? "Come talk to me when you have some idea of what you are talking about." One of us has listened to these bands' albums and one of us hasn't.

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In reply to by Chad

Both of them have been around right around 15 years so you can discuss the merits of them in American Rock History. Ok maybe I reached on Green Day, but with a couple of more good albums in another 15 years I think the Foo Fighters will be up thre in the top 11-20 range of American Rock Bands where most reasonable people would put Pearl Jam.

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In reply to by Chifan

I think you are talking about something different. I said that Pearl Jam was the best band since Guns N Roses. I didn't say that Pearl Jam was one of the very best american bands ever. I was more commenting on the pathetic nature of rock and roll music since the mid 90's. I like the Foo a lot. But they are no Guns N Roses. That's what I was saying. As far as comparing to Pearl Jam, I would say they are in the conversation but looking at the bands that came from that generation (and yes I do realize that I am going to compare Dave Grohl to himself), I think they sit behind PJ, Nirvana and possibly Soundgarden.

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In reply to by Chad

It's about good albums that are filled with good songs. The Doors were as much a step away from mainstream rock as the Talking Heads were. GNR is just juvenille instrument banging. What did they do that no other band before them did? What are their great songs that stand the test of time? It seems your top qualification for being a great American rock band is to be closely associated with doing drugs and/or fucking groupies. I think there's a little more to rock music than that.

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In reply to by Chad

What? You already took Nirvana off the list. You can't decide for everyone else which bands are 'on the list', whatever the hell that means. While lists in general are flawed, the most respected lists that are generally referred to are the ones that multiple people vote on then the best is averaged from that. AFI comes to mind.

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In reply to by dB

not even close. sonic youth is garbage. they inspired the whole 90s grunge but they really suck. Dylan and Cash you can make case for. Hendrix has been sited. Iggy Pop is not nor has every been relevant. Punk is dead. Don't get me wrong, i like the music but the are a side note. Patti Smith? No cares about her. And don't get me started on the Replacements. A total PUSSY band fronted by the worst front man in modern music history. THe replacements are awful. ear bleeding awful.

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In reply to by Chad

the hard part of taking your critiques seriously is the bands you call "good/great" you're trying to hold over some of these acts you're trashing. some of us find the idea of GnR being called a great band insane...especially if you've experienced the trainwreck they were as a live act. they made a mega-influential hair metal record that showed and celebrated the "seedy" side of the strip. they were important, but no more important than jane's addiction was linking the metalheads to the psychedelic rock kids. sonic youth has been a nearly 30-year touring band and you'll be hard pressed to find any guitar-based indie band who hasn't been exposed to and/or influenced by "daydream nation". they're not an indie-pop curiosity like guided by voices. even if you don't like sonic youth they've been very important to so many acts after them.

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In reply to by Chad

with comments like those you can tell you don't actually listen to anything that you're bashing, or you don't understand anything that isn't played on commercial radio. SY didn't inspire grunge, they have no elements in their music that were used in grunge. The Pixies inspired "grunge" music way more than Sonic Youth. There would be no Nirvana if it weren't for the Pixies and other bands that they ripped off like the Vaselines and Wipers. They were simply an indie rock band that was influenced by avant garde music from NYC like Glenn Blanca. Whether you want to call that avant garde, no-wave or post punk, it's just indie rock to us. GnR was cockrock, meathead music that if it were getting made today would rest alongside of Linkin Park, Nickelback, and Kid Rock. Juvenile lyrics and generic one size fits all guitar riffs lifted from Randy Rhodes' back catalog of purely awful dreck.

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In reply to by dB

yeah, a lot more of the "grunge" sound influences were being born in the Mass. area with the mid-80s emergence of acts like Dinosaur Jr, Pixies (influential more than defining as far as sound goes), etc... dinosaur jr's 1987 album "you're living all over me" could have come out 5 years later and not sounded 1 note out of place with what was going on in 92. a heavy influence cited by dinosaur jr. on that album was sonic youth's early/mid 80s work.

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In reply to by crunch

you're spot on Crunch. I should have mentioned Dinosaur Jr because that's how SY often gets roped into the whole "grunge" discussion because SY & Dino Jr both came from SST and toured together a couple times in the late 80's. Bug and You're Living All Over Me were solid albums in their own right but I don't consider Dino Jr grunge maybe their Without a Sound album but to me I put them in the Pavement/Superchunk type category even though they weren't really a low-fi band.

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In reply to by Chad

This isn't directed at any one post/poster, but the whole "If I don't like it it's garbage and has no value and if you don't agree with me you're stupid" attitude kills me. I happen to like GNR (Appetite only) and apparently this means I am stupid and have never listened to anything else. Most of Pearl Jam's stuff is not for me and apparently this also means I'm stupid and don't know what I'm talking about. Whatever.

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In reply to by Chad

Dude, you are so off-base, it's not even worth discussing. But get back to me when Vedder writes "Answering Machine" or "Alex Chilton" or "Left of the Dial." (Fortunately, I doubt you even know those songs.) You're right, my comment was stupid. I don't really like "Dyslexic Heart" that much. I was pissed that someone could make such a dumbass comment about the Replacements and Westerberg, arguably my favorite songwriter of all-time with the possible except of Pete Townshend.

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In reply to by Chad

First of all, why is the size of a venue someone plays tied to whether they are relevant or not? I have news for you, when GNR toured a few years ago, they were playing to half-empty arenas. Does the fact that arenas hold more people make them more relevant if they're half-full? Secondly, you said Iggy Pop was never relevant and isn't relevant today. You are wrong. I wouldn't expect you to know that given what is clearly a lack of a well-rounded musical knowledge. I meant to add earlier that a lot of this is obviously opinion/personal taste. But when the Beach Boys are called a boy band, when Iggy is someone never-been-relevant, Sonic Youth is just noise, there's a lack of understanding there. Personally, I don't like Sonic Youth very much at all, but to discount them as just noise is ignorant.

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In reply to by Chad

But so what? Britney Spears, at her peak, could probably outdraw Pearl Jam. Does that mean she's better? You cannot be serious in using popularity to determine quality. And I'd like to add here that I was in no way denigrating Vedder/Pearl Jam before. He's by all accounts a great guy and had one of my other songwriting idols, Robert Pollard, open a couple of arena shows in 2006. A great gesture of respect on his part.

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In reply to by Tito

"popularity is not the end all measurement of who is better or worse. However, it's a huge component." did you read that right? I will stand by the fact that popularity is a big factor. You can't be the best ever if no one likes your music. Are there examples of very popluar/not that talented acts? Yes. Are there examples of not popular/talented acts? Yes. But the best are the talented and popular ones.

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In reply to by Tito

Dude seriously, some people begin with facts and then form an opinion. Others form an opinion then meld facts to conform to that opinion. You (we) are clearly right, but none of your arguments are going to sink in. He's not listening. The real argument was about GNR being a great band. I don't fault those who like them, that's a subjective opinion, but I do fault those who completely dismiss (seemingly) the rest of American rock history for the sake of building them up. Like suddenly, Elvis Costello, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Yo La Tengo, Dismemberment plan, etc. aren't good because they compete for props with GNR. Iggy Pop not relevant? AOL Biography Page http://music.aol.com/artist/iggy-pop/biography/1004441 "There's a reason why many consider Iggy Pop the godfather of punk -- every single punk band of the past and present has either knowingly or unknowingly borrowed a thing or two from Pop and his late-'60s/early-'70s band, the Stooges." Yeah, irrelevant. The bands that I listed previously, as I said, I don't even like most of them, Aerosmith, for instance, but I do recognize their importance. I'm also tired of hearing people claim that there isn't any good modern rock music out their. There is plenty, but most of it isn't played on commercial radio stations. Beck, Ben Folds, Bright Eyes, Built to Spill, Cloud Cult, Magnetic Fields, the Shins (just to pull a few off my IPod) are still making damn good music. Those are random picks, so don't go bashing them individually.

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In reply to by Doug Dascenzo

perhaps Chad is just pumped up because GnR is releasing their first album in 17 years this week. Myself, The Joe, Tito, Crunch etc should probably stop responding to him because having to hear that the Velvet Underground, Stooges and the Replacements aren't relevant made everyone here drop appx 20 IQ points simply by association. I can't comprehend how anyone can think that after listening to the Tim album someone would call Westerberg and the Replacements "pussies". Unreal.

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In reply to by dB

Well actually, Chad is right. If the context of the conversation is 'Who is America's Greatest Rock Band?', none of those bands are relevant. Sure they're good enough bands who had a pretty good swath of influence on other musicians, but sadly Eddie Vedder and Axle Rose have probably influenced more musicians. Not a positive influence, but there are a lot more guys trying to sing like Vedder than right songs like Westerberg, or even Lou Reed.

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In reply to by The Real Neal

completely disagree. Velvets and the Stooges influenced countless artists from 1972-present. All of the 70's-to-present punk/post-punk/indie/college rock/American underground or whatever you want to call it were the result of those two bands whether they even realize it or not. Who has GnR influenced? Nickelback or those neo-metal bands like Saliva or whatever? If you're talking higher album sales then yes of course, but that's it, and that means nothing unless you work for a major record label or Billboard or something.

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In reply to by dB

You totally disagree with what? Velvet and the Stooges should be mentioned as among America's greatest Rock bands? That's not really a defensible position. That they have influenced more musicians? There have been a lot more kids pick up a guitar because of Slash than because of Iggy Pop or John Cale. If you go to a random bar on Thursday night, you're probably 10 times as likely to hear 'Paradise City' by some band as you would be to hear 'White Light/White Heat'. For about five years, if you turned on AOR or top 40 radio, GnR defined how a guitar solo should be played. It's naive to think that didn't have a huge influence on kids where were beginning to start their music careers, intentional or not.

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In reply to by jacos

"McCartney made him audition for Wings when he was going to do "Band on the Run". Which McCartney ended up doing himself." ?!! McCartney made him audition? I've heard McCartney's drumming (Back in the USSR, Dear Prudence, Ballad of John and Yoko, along with said solo album, et. al.). He's acceptable. Not great. Bad chemistry with Paulie? Mitchell was clearly the more skillful and accomplished drummer.

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In reply to by jacos

~sigh~ I think Paul falls in love with his ace multi-instrumentalist persona sometimes (kind of like Z loves the fact that he can also hit). Yes, he was a great bass player. Yes, he was the Beatles' best piano player. He was probably their most skilled guitarist as well. He occasionally would crank out a guitar solo on a Beatles songs in one 5 minute take when George failed to get it right after several hours of trying. Example: Paul did this on Taxman, George's own song. "Sorry George, I know it's your song and all, but I can play this solo on your own instrument better than you." He also had the strongest, most flexible voice of the four. BUT-- Paul should let others drum unless there was no choice. Some awkward moments in his drum performances.

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In reply to by JoePepitone

Ringo said in a book after he quit during White Album sessions Paul did USSR and Dear Prudence, he sent Ringo a post card telling he was the best rock drummer and to come back. Ringo came back of course, but Ringo said every time after that he left the studio for a snack of something and he came back, Paul would be behind the drums.

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In reply to by The Real Neal

"Why do I think Jimi Hendrix is English?" Probably because he got famous after he was signed up by the Animals' Chas Chandler, who moved him to London and produced his first two albums from there. However, Jimi was from Seattle and played guitar as a sideman in the US for Little Richard, the Isley Brothers, and King Curtis, among others.

Shorty Rosenthal says Giants and A's are leading in the Furcal derby. Cubs are interested but won't bid until well after the Dec 1st deadline for new ownership leads to more free agent money; that is if Furcal lasts that long on the open market. http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/8828842/Giants,-A " The Cubs, too, are interested in Furcal, but after re-signing free-agent right-hander Ryan Dempster to a four-year, $52 million contract, they probably could not invest heavily in another player until after the team is sold. Bidders have until Dec. 1 to submit offers, Major League Baseball officials said this week. "

Chicago Cubs manager Lou Piniella and general manager Jim Hendry will be the featured speakers at the Iowa Cubs' FanFest Jan. 13 at Hy-Vee Hall in downtown Des Moines. Tickets cost $30, and can be purchased from the Iowa Cubs at (515) 243-6111.

and it's not mark teabag. Our New Right Fielder? http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2008/11/21/2008-11-2… BYE-BYE, BOBBY? Bobby Abreu has said all along he'd like to return to the Yankees, but that seems doubtful unless he accepts arbitration. There have been no talks between the outfielder and the club and Abreu has made it clear he wants a three-year deal, something the Yankees likely won't give him. A source close to Abreu said he might be willing to accept a two-year contract with an option from the Yankees, though he might get a three-year offer elsewhere. The Mets and Cubs have expressed interest in him, the source said.

"Beach Boys (not rock but the first boy band)" I stopped reading after this. Brian Wilson, an all-time musical genius songwriter, part of a "boy band"? It doesn't get any more ridiculous than that.

Oh, I read it properly. I just disagree with you. The fact that you say, "You can't be the best if no one likes your music" is silly. If you think GNR is better than, say, Creedence, based even in part on who is/was more popular, or who could sell out Allstate Arena and who couldn't, in my opinion you're wrong. If you think their music is better, while I do think you're wrong there, too, I wouldn't argue it because that's personal taste.

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    steele MRI on friday.  counsell expects an IL stint.

    no current plans for his rotation replacement.

  • hellfrozeover (view)

    I would say also in the bright side column is Busch looked pretty good overall at the plate. Alzolay…man, that hurts but most of the time he’s not giving up a homer to that guy. To me the worst was almonte hanging that pitch to Garcia. He hung another one to the next hitter too and got away with it on an 0-1. 

  • crunch (view)

    amaya blocked like 6-8 of smyly's pitches in the dirt very cleanly...not even an exaggeration, smyly threw a ton of pitches bouncing in tonight.

    neris looking like his old self was a relief (no pun), too.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    In looking for bright spots the defense was outstanding tonight. The “stars” are going to need to shine quite a bit brighter than they did tonight offensively though for this to be a successful season.

  • Eric S (view)

    Good baseball game. Hopefully Steele is pitching again in April (but I’m not counting on it). 

  • crunch (view)

    boo.

  • crunch (view)

    smyly to face the 2/3/4 hitters with a man on 2nd in extras.

    this doesn't seem like a 8 million dollar managerial decision.

  • crunch (view)

    i 100% agree with you, but i dunno how jed wants to run things.  the default is delay.  i would choose brown.

    like hellfrozeover says, could be smyly since he's technically fresh and stretched.

    anyway, on a pure talent basis....brown is the best option.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Use pitchers when you believe they're good. Don't plan their clock.

    I'm sorry. I'm simply anti-clock/contract management. Play guys when they show real MLB potential talent.

    If Brown hadn't been hurt with the Lat Strain he would've gotten the call, and not Wick.

    Give him a chance. 

    But Wesneski probably gets it

  • crunch (view)

    alzolay...bro...