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39 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (one slot is open), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL and one player has been DESIGNATED FOR ASSIGNMENT (DFA)   

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and nine 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
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
* Matt Mervis
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 9 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 3
Kyle Hendricks, P 
* Drew Smyly, P 
* Justin Steele, P   

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P

DFA: 1 
Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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Last Night's Cubs Game with Visual Aids

Submitted by Rob G. on

By now, most of your are familiar with Fangraphs fantastic Win Probability Added charts that chart the chances for a team to win a game in real-time. Here's last night's exciting, albeit ultimately disappointing loss:

Cubs-Cardinals WPA graph

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That though misses the big story of Alfonso Soriano's escapades and his effect on us fans watching the game. So we're introducing TCR's CFPA (Cubs Fan Popularity Added):

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Cubs fans were displeased enough with Soriano to start the game after his 0-4 return from the DL and questionable defense in the 9th. He didn't do much to help by swinging at the first pitch against Wainwright last night. Things started turning around with an RBI fielder's choice in the third, but then it fell apart in the 7th. He misplayed a pop-fly by Pujols and then missed another that lead to the Cardinals third run, putting him into the "Neifi Rage" range, which by TCR calculations has only happened about twenty times in Cubs history. The most prominent being Neifi's entire career with the Cubs and the last season of Dusty Baker. But things can change quickly in baseball, and when he obliterated an Isringhausen fastball to tie it into the ninth, most was forgiven.

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Comments

Submitted by Cubnut on Sat, 05/03/2008 - 05:56 am

Love it. I'm going to guess that if you created a long-term graph of Cubs fans' feelings about Soriano, it would never settle on the "Content" line. A function of his being so hot and cold and alternately doing marvelous, game-changing things and doing ridiculous, hard-to-believe-you're-seeing-it things. Also the big paycheck is certainly a factor in how he's judged. Well done, Rob.

Submitted by Rob G. on Sat, 05/03/2008 - 05:59 am

from Rotoworld... James Russell made his Double-A debut on Friday and allowed one run in six innings for Tennessee. Russell nearly matched Clayton Kershaw, who allowed an unearned run in 6 2/3 innings for Jacksonville. The son of former closer Jeff, Russell was a 14th-round pick last year, though he got third-round money to sign. He was 1-1 with a 2.30 ERA, 25 H and 14/7 K/BB ratio in 27 1/3 IP for Single-A Daytona before moving up. His excellent changeup gives him something he can use to combat right-handers, so he's a solid prospect even if he doesn't get many strikeouts.

Submitted by Charlie on Sat, 05/03/2008 - 05:08 am

I think we'd all be more willing to accept his very, very inconsistent offensive contributions if he were more consistent at what players are supposed to be consistent at, defense for one. He's been in left field for over two years now, why does he sometimes look so awful out there? I love his arm, but other than that his defense leaves a lot to be desired and it may have cost the Cubs the game last night. When you get paid like a superstar fans expect you to perform like a superstar whenever it is within your control. Now, it's completely unreasonable to ask him to go out and hit a homerun every game, but work on his defense and get someone to help him learn to read fly balls?

Submitted by Rob G. on Sat, 05/03/2008 - 05:14 pm

http://deadspin.com/385574/friday-night-blights For those caught up in the Bissinger vs Leitch fiasco...thought this was a good take. One more thing: Hopefully, last night's train wreck will finally put an end to this whole sports media/mainstream media battle against the sports blogging community. This has always been, in my opinion, a completely rudderless debate from both sides: These are two entirely seperate media. Bloggers are not putting newspaper columnists (or print media) out of business — bad newspapering is. These two worlds don't have to co-exist and were never intended to be that way. To me, blogging and internet writing, by and large, is rooted in comedy and opinion. That's it. One doesn't invalidate the other. Personally, never got too caught up in the whole debate. Newspapers and beat writers are just upset because they're losing money and there's more than 2-3 opinions out there now. Mostly I feel that they expect what they write to be accepted as canon on the subject and aren't use to criticism, especially the instant criticism that happens on the Internet. And I don't ever care to do what Sullivan or Miles do and I'm sure they don't care to do what I do.

Submitted by Mike Vail on Sat, 05/03/2008 - 05:30 pm

I know this is a little premature but wow,do you think Dusty is wanting maybe a little revenge on us? The Reds flew in Mario Soto (nice vote of confindence for Dick Pole), to help Johnny Cueto who has been moved to start against us on Monday. The Harangutang pitches Tuesday vs. Z, and I think The Rock Star is pitching Wednesday's day game. Much is being made of this series in Cincinnati. All this attention is kinda making the Cubs seem gosh, important to Marty, Dusty and the boys. I will be at the games. No, I won't boo Dusty or C-Pat because I don't care. But I might just blow kisses to Marty. Here's hoping Cubs fans fill their stadium despite it being a weekday series. Afterall, we're just a bunch of unemployed drunks.

Submitted by Dmac on Sat, 05/03/2008 - 05:29 pm

I got into it awhile back with Rick Telander, who usually comes off as just another Medill doofus with illusions of grandeur. The responses he gave back concerning the many inaccuracies he regularly posts in the Sun - Times are truly hilarious; the guy's a walking dinousaur, and doesn't seem to be aware of it. Leave them to their own devices, no need to help them seal their own demise.

Recent comments

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Walker was a complimentary piece who was well past his prime. Edmonds, Holliday, Ozzie Smith and a few others were good trades. Notably, they have almost always been quiet in the free agent market. But the fundamental workings of the organization were always based primarily upon the constant output of a well oiled minor league organization. That organization has ground to a halt. And when did that hard stop start to happen? Right at the beginning of the Goldschmidt/Arenado era, perpetuated by the Contreras signing, followed by the rotation purchases during the last offseason. The timing is undeniable and, in my mind, not coincidental.

    Again, we are all saying that player development became deemphasized. I’m just linking it directly to the recent trades and involvement in the free agent market. I don’t see how the two concepts can be decoupled.

  • Charlie (view)

    The Cards also traded for both Jim Edmonds and Larry Walker. It's the developing part that has fallen off. Of course, it could also be the case that there are no more Matt Carpenters left to pull out of the hat. 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Cubs sign 28 yr old RHRP Daniel Missaki. He was in MiLB from his 17yr old to 19yr old years and did pretty well.
    He's been in Mexico and Japan the last four years and has done well also.
    He's supposedly Japanese and Brazilian.
    Interesting sign. We obviously need to RP in the system
    Injuries are mounting everywhere!!

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Sure, they made generally short term trades for established players to enhance what they already had or traded for players early enough in their careers that they were essentially Cardinals from the start. What they never did was to try to use the more established players as foundational cornerstones.

    Essentially we’re saying the same thing. They have given up on player development to the point that even their prospects that make it to the bigs flop so that they have to do things like buy most of their rotation and hope for the best.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    I don’t buy that. They had been doing that for years.

    They did it with Matt Holliday. They did it with John Lackey. They did it with Mark Mulder. They did it with Jason Heyward, who had a great year for them. I’m sure there’s more but those come to mind immediately.

    I attribute it more to a breakdown in what they’re doing in terms of development than a culture thing.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    They won those trades and sacrificed their culture. That’s exactly their problem.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    The other part that’s kind of crazy is they made two very high profile trades, one for Goldschmidt and one for Arenado, and they very clearly won those trades. They just haven’t been able to develop players the last handful of years the way they usually do.

    I guess the moral there is it’s hard to stay on top of your game and be good at what you do in perpetuity.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Marmol was extended at the beginning of the year. Two years I believe.

  • crunch (view)

    Jesse Rogers @JesseRogersESPN
    Craig Counsell doesn’t have a timetable for Cody Bellinger who technically has two cracked ribs on his right side. CT scan showed it today.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Thought it might have been David Peralta given the open 40 man spot and how PCA has played so far. 

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