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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. 

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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Cubs Week In Quotations

False Modesty
"I'm not the ace. All five (starters) are the ace."
- Carlos Zambrano

"To me? On the first and 15th when the paycheck comes, that tells you the ace."
- Lou Piniella

We're Scared That You're Under Contract Through 2014
''It's more I'm scared because I was running a lot today and it was a little cold out. I think I'm OK. I have to play a little more and feel confident about my leg.''
- Alfonso Soriano

Questions Such As, "How Much Do You Hate Kevin Orie?"
"I've answered more questions about [the 20-K game] in the last three, four days than the week after it happened."
-Kerry Wood


And Then Came the Diamondbacks...
"We're getting people on base, it's just a question of getting them in more consistently.We talk about all these numbers, but the only numbers I enjoy talking about are wins and losses, and lately the losses are greatly outnumbering the wins, and I'm not too pleased with that."
- Lou Piniella earlier in the week

Well, We Started Playing Better
"I maintain we're going to play better. But I also maintain two things, that the division has gotten better, and two, teams enjoy beating the Cubs a lot more than they did last year. I see it. I see how excited St. Louis was when they beat us, I saw how excited Milwaukee was when they beat us."
- Lou Piniella

In Case You Haven't Heard, Zambrano Likes to Hit
"The other day when I took him out after eight innings, he wasn't happy. But he was unhappiest the most because he wasn't getting his at-bat in the bottom of the inning."
- Lou Piniella on Carlos Zambrano

''I've used him to pinch hit and pinch run. The first thing he tells me when a runner is on base, 'You want me to hit or bunt?' I don't think he knows the bunt sign.''
- Lou Piniella on Carlos Zambrano

''He's an athlete. You should see him run with a soccer ball. He's fun to watch.''
- Lou Piniella on Carlos Zambrano

"What I've noticed this year in the National League is that the pitchers in general are swinging the bats better than I've seen in prior years, last year, for sure. A pitcher can really help himself if they can put the ball in play or they can bunt a guy over. It's a big help."
- Lou Piniella

Better to Be Lucky Than Good
"Put it this way: He wouldn't sell many hitting tapes if he were the instructor. It's choppy at best. I think he's trying a little bit of a Fukudome swing, running to first base and then swinging. … Lilly better just keep pitching."
- Lou Piniella

"He had his 'Will Clark' stance going today."
- Derrek Lee on Ted Lilly

"That was fun. I think [Haren] threw it right into my swing."
- Ted Lilly

Not That There's Anything Wrong with That
"I will be wearing pink shoes and pink batting gloves, approved by MLB. This will be for breast cancer. It is a great thing; anything I can do for the people."
- Carlos Zambrano

The Club Needs You to Tank Your Start so Hill is Called Back Up
"Whatever the club needs me to do, I'm willing to do it. It's an unfortunate thing to me, because I think Rich Hill is a Major League pitcher. Right now, it's command issues. He'll be back up here soon. We need him to be where he needs to be to help us win."
- Jon Lieber before his start Wednesday

"It's just terrible pitching and I put my team in a hole right off the bat."
- Jon Lieber after that start

Must Have Watched Rich Hill and Sean Marshalls' games with a Mirror

"I don't think we have too many choices. That's why I like left-handers in our rotation, because it pitches into the strength of our right-handed bullpen."
- Lou Piniella

Who Else Texts Kasper During A Game?
"Ask [Len] Kasper -- I would text him all the time when he's on TV. I think I've only missed [watching] a couple of games. It's been hard just to watch. I sat on my bed, just as if I was here. It was hard. I just missed it."
-Scott Eyre

There Was No Joy in Game 2 Last Year
"I don't think at any point I've gotten a fastball by [Young]. Knowing he has good bat speed, it's a little hard-headed of me to try to beat him. We're competing, and that's the joy of it."
- Ted Lilly

And The Rest...
"Any time I have a man on second, I have a special sign for Ronny or [Mark DeRosa] or [Ryan] Theriot. I'm always paying attention to the runner at second and first. I like to do the best I can to get one, two, three out."
- Carlos Zambrano

"I've got 3 1/2 pitches that I can throw."
- Kerry Wood

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"Terry Forster was athletic enough and a good enough hitter that he was often used as a pinch-hitter. He even found himself in right field in the 14th inning of a 1977 game" Fernando Valenzuela was also considered a good hitting pitcher in his day. His career line isn't that impressive (.200/.205/.262) but he managed 10 HRs so he must have had some power. I recall one game (think it was extra innings) when he had pinch hit and after several switches the Dodgers had only 7 position players left so they stuck Fernando in the outfield for the last inning. They moved him from right to left based on whether or not a righty or lefty was batting. Based on bbref, this must have been in 1982 - he's credited with 2/3 of an inning in right and 1/3 in left.

"I've got 3 1/2 pitches that I can throw." - Kerry Wood He must have saved those 1/2 pitches for the blown saves.

'He's an athlete. You should see him run with a soccer ball. He's fun to watch.'' - Lou Piniella on Carlos Zambrano I did a little research and apparently there is a Carlos Zambrano on the roster of the German football club FC Schalke 04...

carlos (we have five aces) ouch jason marquis an ace far from it. i like that the cubs are lining up pitchers stretching them out for starters between gallagher,hart ,hill,marshall lets see what they can do. if 2 work out then lou can do something with marquis i dont think lou is gonna have a lot of patience with him

These quotations remind me of why I'm a Z-fan. Just seems like a cool, fun guy, and a hell of a competitor and teammate.

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Z rules...break all the bats over your knee that you want and corkscrew yourself into the ground on every swing. I don't mind. Baseball is entertainment and people take some stuff far too seriously. Glad we have one of the true characters in the game to root for..

About the only thing that ever irritated me about Z was taking a swing at Barrett at last year.

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    in other news, it took 3 PA before a.rizzo got his 1st HBP of the season.

  • Eric S (view)

    With two home runs (so far) and 5 rbi today … clearly Nick Martini is the straw that stirs the Reds drink 😳

  • crunch (view)

    madrigal at 3rd...morel at DH.

    making room for madrigal or/and masterboney to get a significant amount of ABs is a misuse of the roster.  if it needed to get taken care of this offseason, they had tons of time to figure that out.

    morel played almost exclusively at 3rd in winter ball and they had him almost exclusively there all spring when he wasn't DH'ing.

    madrigal doing a good job with the glove for a bit over 2 chances per game...is that worth more than what he brings with the bat 4-5 PA a game?  it's 2024 and we got glenn beckert 2.0 manning 3rd base.

    this is a tauchman or cooper DH situation based on bat, alone.  cooper is 3/7 with a double off eovaldi if you want to play the most successful matchup.

    anyway, i hope this is a temporary thing, not business as usual for the rest of the season.  it will be telling if morel is not used at 3rd when an extreme fly ball pitcher like imanaga is on the mound.

  • 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.