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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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Jaxx Jacks in Jacksonville

SOUTHERN LEAGUE (AA) CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES GAME 2 THREAD (JAXX LEAD BEST-OF-FIVE SERIES 1-0) [PARACHAT] WEST TENN DIAMOND JAXX (83-56) @ JACKSONVILLE SUNS (79-61) THE BASEBALL GROUNDS, 6:05 pm CDT, RADIO: Dixie 1310 WDXI TV: Internet Video Feed
The Jaxx connected twice yesterday, which is worthy of mention not just because it leads to silly titles such as the above, but also because the Baseball Grounds in Jacksonville is one of the most pitcher-friendly in all of baseball, with most of the outfield between left-centre and right-centre well over 375 feet from the plate. Anyway, the Jaxx won't have to put up with too many enormous cans of corn, because after tonight's game they'll head back home to Jackson, West Tennessee, where the series will be decided once tomorrow's off-day is out of the way. Tonight...
Eric Hull, RHP
8-7, 3.37 ERA
122/44 K/BB, 9 HR in 123.0 IP
Renyel Pinto, LHP
11-3, 2.63 ERA
129/59 K/BB, 3 HR in 136.2 IP
2B *Eric Patterson 2B Tony Abreu
RF *Adam Greenberg CF *Jon Weber
3B Casey McGehee C Russ Martin
1B #Matt Craig 3B Andy LaRoche
LF Brandon Sing 1B *James Loney
CF *Buck Coats SS Joel Guzman
C #Jose Reyes LF Justin Ruggiano
SS Carlos Rojas RF Sergio Garcia
P *Renyel Pinto P Eric Hull
Prior to the promotion of Delwyn Young to Triple-A, the Suns had by far and away the best infield in minor league baseball, with Martin behind the plate, James Loney, Young and Andy LaRoche (the Braves' 1B's younger brother) manning the bases and top prospect Joel Guzman at shortstop. Even now, this is a tough lineup to go through, though Donovan, a true speedster that's stolen 65 bases in 132 games this year, sits tonight with a sore knee. Renyel Pinto will need to be on his game. Joel Guzman in many ways is similar to Felix Pie in that he's young, features worrying plate discipline but otherwise has all the tools to make the scouts drool, so much so that Baseball America ranked him the fifth best prospect in the game heading into 2005. However, a lot of Guzman's value is tied up in him playing a premium defensive position, something that his 6 foot 6 size makes improbable in the long-term, with a move to third base or to the outfield a definite possibility. In the Divisional Playoffs last week, Guzman was the designated hitter. Like BJ Upton, Guzman will be an interesting prospect to watch over the next few years.

Comments

The old college roommate of a friend of mine is a scout for either the Angels or Padres. The scout told my friend that the conventional wisdom is: Angel Guzman will not have a career as a major league pitcher. In other words, he's done. When I pressed my friend for more info he just shrugged and said that's all his old roommate would tell him. I don't know if the guy was yanking his chain or what but everything I've heard through my friend from the scout/roommate has been right in the past. I hope he's just screwing with him. Not that I have great hopes for Angel Guzman's long term or even short term health.

Tbone: "Not that I have great hopes for Angel Guzman's long term or even short term health." Yeah i agree. It is tough to expect anything for a guy who is soooo injury prone this early in his career. I expect NOTHING for him and anything we get will only be a positive. I think if he can stay healthy for an entire year it would be a succesful year no matter his numbers.

He's only our version of Brien Taylor and Ryan Anderson.

There's no such thing as a pitching prospect or TNSTAPP. But who where did this version of Jerome Williams come from these last 3 starts? It almost gives me hope for 2006 despite McPhail and crew.

Quick random thought/question. With all the rumors swirling in New York that Torre may be gone this offseason if the Spankees don't win it. Wouldn't it be nice to see Torre managing the Cubs? I've never heard a bad word about Torre's managing style and I think those rings would have quite a presence in the clubhouse.

Curb: " I've never heard a bad word about Torre's managing style and I think those rings would have quite a presence in the clubhouse." Yeah thos rings look very nice as they were bought and paid for by Big Stein, nothing to do with the overrated managing of Joe torre. Look at torre's record before he got a payrol that doubled basically the entire MLB. In 14 managerial years prior to managaing the NYY, he was 894-1,003 with 3 different teams and only made the playoffs once. Let the NYY keep him, I know this Cubs fan surely doesn't want him unless the Cubs are willing to open up their checkbook to have a $150 million payroll. Then he MIGHT be able to win us a WS. And considering the NYY has had head and shoulders teh biggest payroll and most superstars on their payroll the past 4 years and he hasn't won, I don't even know if he could. There has to be much better candidates for if/when Dusty doesn't manage the Cubs no longer.

Torre's big plus is that he's not paranoid and he's very low-key publically...but when you're that way and the team isn't winning, all the idiots scream for a larry bowa type: "we need some fire! torre doesn't care!"

Manny, Those teams that Torre won titles with weren't that much of spenders 2000: 92.9 Mil 1st by 2.6 MIL 1999: 88.1 MIL 1st by 6.8 MIL 1998: 63.2 MIl 2nd by 6.8 MIL 1st team was BAL 1996: 52.2 MIL 1st by 3.7 MIL The Yankee teams that won WS had a few SS's and a bunch of good role players that he KNEW HOW TO USE. The reason the Yankee teams of 04 and 05 aren't that good has nothing to do him it has to do with Cashman getting him no pitching help. And his Whacko boss wanting guys like Sheffeld over Gurrerro or A-rod over Soriano and the xtra $$$ that could have been spent on good pitchers.

I'm going to the game tonight vs the Cards. My friend has two tickets. $50 face value. (They're the two remaining from a block of 6 we bought at the beginning of the season.) Section 108, row 2. Y'innerested? Make an offer! Meet Brick! First come, etc. We can arrange a meeting time/place in Chicago. brickbrickhouse -at- hot mail.

J. Hairston Jr. cf T. Walker 2b D. Lee 1b N. Garciaparra 3b J. Burnitz rf M. Murton lf N. Perez ss H. Blanco c

Hey, there's a former Pirate manager (and former Cub!) looking for managerial position. You guys want Lloyd Mac? Already perfected his losing ways here. Honestly, I think Dusty would be good for Pittsburgh: he'd never have to strain himself trying to live up to any expectations for the team (or trying to engineer a win) and so could spend all his effort making friends with the players, deal with the youngsters and second tier players, since that's all he'd have here anyway. And he'd always have a ready made excuse that management isn't trying to build a winner. It'd kind of be like the Bad News Bears, except with Bill Murray as an avuncular coach, not Billy Bob as the borderline sociopath.

whooboy! Murton batting 6th, now that's what I call moving up in life...

Wow! Murton 6th, Neifi not second? I guess flipflopping Walker and Murton would be to demanding. I'll take it. And, it's after a night he went 0 for 5.

Prior has a 3,642 ERA against the Cards in the first inning this year. Ok, that's a slight exaggeration.

this game...has turned the suck up all the up to 11.

I know this sounds bad, but I want them to lose as much as possible. Win 1 this weekend to win the season series with STL and then win enough vs. Houston to keep them out. Other wise get swept aganist PIT and MIL. Here's to a 4-12 finish and may be a top 15 pick so we could get Hocever (or however you sp. his name) in the draft next June.

Why in the world is that your plan? We had a chance to get Hochevar this year and passed on it. What chance in hell do we have taking him after he sits out a season? It's insane.

IENPW, One of Hendry's draft stratagies has been to draft College pitchers who because of $$ demands have fell through the crack (Brownlie, Johnson). He has probably thinking that when he was on the clock this year that he could readily sign Pawelek and the odds were good that Hochevar would not sign so he could pick him up next year. Plus, what is better for the organization's chance to win a WS to go 82-80 or finish with a losing record so we could protect are 1st round pick? Hochevar is the BEST college pitcher since Prior.

>Hochevar is the BEST college pitcher since Prior. Uh, I think there's a gentleman named Jered Weaver who might want to disagree with that.

Recent comments

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    There are two clear "logjams" in the Cubs minor league pipeline at the present time, namely AA outfielders (K. Alcantara, C. Franklin, Roederer, Pagan, Pinango, Beesley, and Nwogu) and Hi-A infielders (J. Rojas, P. Ramirez, Howard, R. Morel, Pertuz, R. Garcia, and Spence, although Morel has been getting a lot of reps in the outfield in addition to infield). So it is possible that you might see a trade involving one of the extra outfielders at AA and/or one of the extra infielders at Hi-A in the next few days. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    18-year old SS Jefferson Rojas almost made the AA Tennessee Opening Day roster, and he is a legit shortstop, so I would expect him to be an MLB Top 100 prospect by mid-season. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Among the relievers in the system, I expect RHRP Hunter Bigge at AAA Iowa and RHRP Ty Johnson at South Bend to have breakout seasons on 2024, and among the starters I see LHP Drew Gray and RHP Will Sanders at South Bend and RHP Naz Mule at ACL Cubs as the guys who will make the biggest splash. Also, Jaxon Wiggins is throwing bullpen sides, so once he is ready for game action he could be making an impact at Myrtle Beach by June.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I expect OF Christian Franklin to have a breakout season at AA Tennessee in 2024. In another organization that doesn't have PCA, Caissie, K. Alcantara, and Canario in their system, C. Franklin would be a Top 10 prospect. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    The Reds trading Joe Boyle for Sam Moll at last year's MLB Trade Deadline was like the Phillies trading Ben Brown to the Cubs for David Robertson at the MLB TD in 2022. 

  • 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...