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40-Man Roster Info

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, ten players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and one player is on the 10-DAY IL

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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Daniel Palencia
* Drew Smyly
Keegan Thompson
* 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: 10 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Alexander Canario, OF 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 3
Julian Merryweather, P
* Justin Steele, P  
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 1 
Caleb Kilian, P 

Minor League Rosters
Rule 5 Draft 
Minor League Free-Agents

Spring Training Roster Projection

Submitted by Arizona Phil on
Some of you may wonder how a Spring Training roster is constructed.

The template generally looks like this:

30-36 pitchers
6 catchers
3 1B
3 2B
3 3B
3 SS
3 LF
3 CF
3 RF

PITCHERS: During the first couple of weeks at Fitch Park (prior to the move to HoHoKam Park and the start of the Cactus League season), the pitchers are broken up into three groups of 10-12 pitchers each. There is a status to the three groups, where Group 1 is mostly the big league guys, Group 2 is mostly the guys battling for spots, and Group 3 is everybody else. When a top draft pick guy like Andrew Cashner gets a courtesy-invitation to big league camp to "get a look," he might be assigned to Group 1 just so he can see how the big leaguers prepare for the season. (This happened with Jeff Samardzija).

CATCHERS: Six catchers are needed at big league camp at Fitch Park because the 10-12 pitchers in each of the three groups are further divided into groups of 5-6, and they simultaneously throw in the "Ten Pack" (ten-mound bullpen located north of the clubhouse), so there needs to be one catcher for each pitcher. (In minor league camp where there are five squads, all ten bullpen mounds in the Ten Pack are used simultaneously, so at least ten catchers are needed in minor league camp).

INFIELDERS/OUTFIELDERS: Each position needs to be three-deep at Fitch Park, because the position players also are sometimes broken up into groups of three while taking fielding practice & BP.

Here is how the Cubs 2009 Spring Training roster looks right now (subject to players who might be added prior to the start of ST):

PITCHERS:

GROUP 1:
* Andrew Cashner (TBD)
Neal Cotts
Ryan Dempster
Chad Gaudin
Kevin Gregg
Rich Harden
Ted Lilly
Carlos Marmol
Sean Marshall
Luis Vizcaino
Carlos Zambrano

GROUP 2:
Jose Ascanio
* Chad Fox
Angel Guzman
Kevin Hart
Rich Hill
Jeff Samardzija
Jeff Stevens
Randy Wells
* Bill White
Michael Wuertz

GROUP 3:
Mitch Atkins
Justin Berg
* Edward Campusano (TBD)
* Esmailin Caridad (TBD)
* Casey Lambert (TBD)
Marcos Mateo
* J. R. Mathes (TBD)
David Patton
Rocky Roquet (TBD)
* Jason Waddell (TBD)

CATCHERS:
Geovanty Soto
Koyie Hill
* Mark Johnson
* Welington Castillo (TBD)
* Tony Richie (TBD)
* Robinson Chirinos (TBD)

FIRST-BASE:
Derrek Lee
Micah Hoffpauir
Jake Fox

SECOND-BASE:
Mike Fontenot
Aaron Miles
* Nate Spears (TBD)

THIRD-BASE:
Aramis Ramirez
* Kyle Reynolds (TBD)
* Bobby Scales (TBD - if re-signed)

SHORTSTOP:
Ryan Theriot
Ronny Cedeno
* Andres Blanco
NOTE: Darwin Barney could get NRI if Cedeno is traded

LEFT-FIELD:
Alfonso Soriano
Joey Gathright
So Taguchi
* Tyler Colvin (TBD - DH TJS rehab)

CENTER-FIELD:
Kosuke Fukudome
Reed Johnson
Felix Pie

RIGHT-FIELD:
Milton Bradley
Sam Fuld
Brad Snyder

* Non-Roster Invitee (NRI)

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Comments

Submitted by Jace on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 01:31 am

Thanks, Phil, as always. I can't imagine that Hendry is going to be able to get a whole lot for Cedeno, Pie and Hill at this point, but maybe he could get another decent 5th starter type...

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Submitted by CPH2133 on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 01:12 pm

Scalpers dream if you're on the waitlist (which i think you have to be, but they never had me sign in or anything, so not sure how'd they know). I just tried for about 30 minutes straight, kept getting "Unable to process transaction due to high volume. Please try again".

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Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 01:16 pm

I was just curious about the prices and tried to get 2 tickets at a few of the different price points, I got through on bleachers.

But since I don't live in Chicago, I cancelled. I'm not a big fan of ticket scalping, especially at something already so massively overpriced as Wrigley Field. 

If I did live in Chicago, I couldn't imagine being able to take my family more than once or twice a year, which is sort of sad.

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Submitted by CincyKid on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 01:28 pm

welp... i catch most Cubs game here in Cincy and never have a problem scoring tickets. Although scalping is LEGAL, you can get tickets at the box office for any game, except Opening Day, or the slim chance the Indians are in town for a weekend series... plus the cost of living is great, there's no traffic, and its a great place to raise a family!

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Submitted by CincyKid on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 01:28 pm

actually yes... i grew up in the south Burbs(little old Richton Park) and moved here on a college soccer scholorship and never moved back. The family is still in Chicagoland so i still visit frequently, but its great here that i commute to work in downtown Cincy, from Northern Kentucky, in just 10 minutes... during rush-hour!

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Submitted by gobuckeyes on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 01:26 am

You're lucky, its way worse coming from the north. I've had to travel down from Middletown a few times when I lived down there and ...not really fun. So keep that in mind if you ever have to roll in from the north, on 75. Oh, and heaven forbid anyone try and get around the 71/75/275 interchange areas around 530. On average though I'd definitely rate it about a B+ in terms of traffic on average. That said there's plenty of nice places in Cincy. FWIW I prefer Columbus, though.

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 01:06 pm

I'm 71,367 on the Cubs season ticket waiting list...

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Submitted by CPH2133 on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 01:16 pm

31,000 and change... I also signed up when i was like 15 with the hopes by my 30th brthday i'll be able to afford them and be in a place to buy them...i doubt either will happen.

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Submitted by jacos on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 01:27 pm

I don't know if you guys caught Inning 2 of Ken Burns' Baseball the other night on MLB. For the one game playoff between Cubs and Giants in 1908 they had 10,000's of thousands of people turned away. Some tried to "burn" their way into the stadium by setting outfield wall on fire. Crazy.

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Submitted by jacos on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 01:42 pm

It's a must read for a baseball fan. Well written and it's about the whole baseball season just not Cubs only. WSox signed BartOlO COlOn to one year contract. ~snickers~

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Submitted by Tony S. on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 01:06 pm

Got that one for xmas, Rob. And it was easy to open. And you're really pushing that amazon thing, relax, man, I promise, the next thing I buy will be 'TCR Approved'!!

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Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 01:09 pm

I just want our $10 from them...they don't payout until then. Right now we've sold about 4 things over the last year for like $4 in referral fees.

Someone bought a Soriano jersey though...

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Submitted by Doug Dascenzo on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 01:53 am

17,073 for me, which I think is exactly where I was last year. I was kind of hoping one of the side effects of this bum economy would be a big move up the list, but I guess not. Also, that Leadoff Pack or whatever it's called looked like a shitty deal. In order to do it, you basically had to take 6-8 games in April/early May. I really don't think anyone would make much money trying to scalp those tickets. As much as I love the Cubs, it's fucking depressing to be at a game when it's snowing.

Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 01:58 pm

I don't know if you guys caught Inning 2 of Ken Burns' Baseball... --------------- I hadn't seen it before but I love the old photo's from the era. I believe they are going thru the entire series every tuesday night from 8-10:30 pm Chicago time. I think I saw Old and Blue in one of those photo's, of course he was in sepia tones West Side Ballpark, home of your World Champion 1908 Cubs

Submitted by The E-Man on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 01:06 pm

Anyone score decent seats for all 13 of those games? They really make you buy some clunkers, with four or five decent ones attached.

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Submitted by The Real Neal on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 01:54 pm

Sounds sort of like the Fisher King, but with all the entertaining bits edited out.

Submitted by Cubnut on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 01:42 pm

Padres sign Jae Kuk Ryu.

From Paul DePodesta's blog:

Originally signed for $1.6 million by the Cubs in 2001, Ryu has spent parts of the past three seasons in the Majors with Chicago and Tampa Bay. His 2008 season ended prematurely, however, as he was shut down in May and had relatively minor elbow surgery in June. Ryu's fastball sits around 90 mph while reaching as high as 92, and he complements it with both a curveball and a changeup. According to our scouts, all of his pitches grade out as at least Major League average, and he can throw all three for strikes. Given his repertoire and success as a starter in the minor leagues, we believe Ryu can compete for a spot in our rotation or our pen. He has one minor league option remaining.

Submitted by jacos on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 01:50 pm

Selma Hayek is on 30 Rock now.

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 01:12 am

Submitted by Hook on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 11:10am. Is that the same Bill White that pitched in the Rangers system last year?

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HOOK: Yes.

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 01:17 am

Submitted by Dr. aaron b on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 10:36am.

AZ Phil, In your opinion, would Marquez Smith be the 3rd Third Basemen if Scales isn't re-signed

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DR AARON B: Marquez Smith won't get an NRI to big league camp, but Josh Vitters might. The Cubs like to give their best prospects a taste of the big leagues, and the only way Vitters can get that is to get an NRI to big league camp, at least for a couple of weeks.

Or Darwin Barney could get an NRI even if Ronny Cedeno isn't traded, and then both Cedeno and Aaron Miles could move back & forth between 2B and 3B.

Or Matt Camp could get an NRI and (with Tyler Colvin rehabbing from 11/08 TJS and being limited to DH duties until mid-season) move back & forth between LF and 2B, with Miles moving between 2B and 3B. Camp has a good chance to make the Iowa Opening Day roster, and generally speaking, the guys who are expected to play at AAA get an NRI to big league camp, because the manager needs to know who is down there and what they bring to the table in case they get brought up later in the year.

Submitted by Cubster on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 01:54 pm

17,073 for me, which I think is exactly where I was last year --------- I wonder how many of those on the list ahead of you are dead. As long as they can vote in the Chicago election they keep them active on both the voter registration and season ticket lists. That way they can be considered valid in any election.

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