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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, 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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TCR Friday Notes

- A final thanks to "Dying Cub Fan" for his advocacy pieces on Ron Santo's Hall of Fame candidacy. If you do have a moment, at the very least, please go visit santoforhall.com and sign their online petition which will be forwarded to the Veterans Committee. - And if you needed a bit more sabermetric convincing, Jay Jaffe, a writer for Baseball Prospectus and the operator of the website Futility Infielder and all-around Hall of Fame know-it-all, wrote back in 2005 about the injustice of Ron Santo not being in the Hall. He's even gone so far as to develop a Hall of Fame metric utlizing BP's Warp3 scores(his system is known as JAWS) and well here's the conclusion:
Santo ought to be a slam dunk, especially at such an underrepresented position. His JAWS score is higher than about three-quarters of the enshrined hitters, and among third basemen, only Boggs (103.0), Mike Schmidt (102.8), Eddie Mathews (90.9), George Brett (90.2), and Paul Molitor (85.3) score higher. His peak score is astronomical; in fact only seven hitters reached more lofty heights: Babe Ruth (70.6), Ted Williams (69.0), Willie Mays (64.7), Rogers Hornsby (63.2), Mickey Mantle (62.6), Joe Morgan (61.9) and Boggs (61.6). You may have heard of them.
- Jim Leyland is my hero. This is a transcription of a radio interview he did in Detroit when asked about Neifi Perez. I believe the question was, "what does Jim Leyland see in Neifi Perez that we as fans and media members don’t?"
Well that’s a good question because he played terrible. And what had happened was we got reports from our scouts, and I had known him from the past. We were kind of in a panic situation. We had lost Polly and we needed someone who could come in and play second, and play shortstop as well because Carlos needed some time off. And up to this point it looks like we made a mistake. So Neifi’s going to have to prove us wrong this spring because has not been a good acquisition up to this point. But that was my fault, and the scouts. And I like said we had to have somebody. And I hope Neifi’ll prove us wrong. I think he’ll be much better than what he showed last year because he showed absolutely nothing when he came over.
- It's Cubs Convention time!!! If you're going, drop a note in the comments if something interesting happens. Readers MannyTrillo and Zeke offered to do write-ups on the weekend which will hopefully be up Sunday and/or Monday (if they're still up for it). - Here's a Winter League update. It looks like Angel Guzman and Ronny Cedeno have found their groove in the playoffs. - What's the fun in the top 100 Cubs, when you can have a look at the Bottom 126 Cubs? Why won't I be surprised if there are a couple of crossovers? Go Bears!!!

Comments

Oh and I also hate him because he has a "y" in the middle of his name. Like Jayson Stark. And Jayson Werth.

dan perry's just f'n insane now. he's written articles lately about how bonds wont break aaron's record in 07, why the wsox need to shore up their weak spots (their bats), and how brilliant mets gm omar m. has been this offseason. ...oh, and his jim rice belongs in the HOF piece...

For all you TCR commenters who love the worthless Cesar Izturis because of his "magic" glove, here's a interesting note for Friday. Using the metric FRAA (Fielding Runs Above Average), here are some totals for the first seven professional seasons of a few prominent glove men. Ozzie Smith 139 Bill Mazeroski 123 Jackie Robinson 75 Ron Santo 64 Wow, just an incredible total for Ozzie. And now here's the useless Cesar Izturis's career FRAA after his 7 years in the bigs. 6 That's right. 6. This guy is also making $2.5 mil this year. Thanks Jim!!!

Cesar's only been in the league since 2001, that's six seasons. Second, he's only played 150+ games in 2 of those seasons (and one season of 135). But yeah, BP's metrics sure don't think he's a great glove man.

Yo, Rob. I LOVE the new SNAP! preview feature on your links! It really makes it unnecessary to preview the tinyurls any longer.

A tip of the hat Thanks for the heads-up about WGN Radio's coverage of the Cubs Convention, Little Nate Lewis.

yeah, that was fun stuff. evidently the dumpster not being a fatass anymore really is true...lets see how long he keeps it up.

oh did they install that SNAP feature? I wasn't going to ask for it but if you guys like it, I'll leave it. I don't think it works in the comments in the popup box though. if you didn't the read the comments of the other thread though, check out comment #37 in the previous thread. Long URL's are automatically shortened now and I believe a preview button will eventually be added.

Perry is right in that $10 million is too much for a low first round draft pick. And as I pointed out at the time of his being drafted, he hasn't been very....what's that word?... good in college. If Notre Dame is a hitter's park though, 6 HR's over his last 176.1 innings is pretty sick, though. I wonder how Perry knows that Smardjza is incapable of developing a change-up. crunch, told you Nixon wouldn't get a big deal. I remember BA did an article on him, I think it was the year after he was drafted, and in it he said 'I am going to do what it takes to be a legend in the game', I was always impressed by that mentality. Too bad he couldn't stay healthy or hit left handers, he may have put up a few all-star calibre seasons.

not a fan of snap, myself...especially watching snap trying to churn over every link on the page for a preview.

Smardjizia ""I went into this decision with an open mind, not thinking about injuries or longevity," he said. Boy, did you sign with the right organization!

I think it's a horrible deal from someone who is far from polished and will be likely wasting a 40-man spot for the next 2 seasons at least, if not longer.

From BP: 'Second Base Eric Patterson, Chicago Cubs (34.9) Among position players with no big league experience, Patterson has the highest projected VORP heading into 2007. That and $4.50 will not get him a cup of coffee at a Wrigleyville Starbucks.' VORP, unfortunately in this case, doesn't include fielding. Lets hope that he gets his head straight and can play at least an EYesque 2nd, and force DeRosa to the super-sup spot by July. A VORP of 34.9 would have been 2nd on the Cubs last year, behind AramRam. Hopefully this year it would be 6th or maybe even 7th if a platoon mate can be found for Mr. Jones. Measuring by VORP TheRiot was a more valuable player offensively than Pierre last year, in 565 fewer at bats! (too lazy to go to a site with PA's sorry) How sad is that? And one for Manny and Rob G, Pierre had the worst walk rate of his career last year. Big suprise, eh?

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...