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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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# bats both

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 Trivia

I received a 2007 Cubs desk calendar that every once in awhile comes up with a good trivia question. If there's one that stumps me that I need to go search for the answer on google(well actually I just have to look at the bottom of the calendar), I may post them on the slow days. So try and answer without a web search:
"Who was the first member of the Cubs to hit an All-Star Game home run?"
If you're the first to answer correctly, you'll win eternal fame and glory without having to give up your soul.

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Without a web search he says. What fun is that? I'm in for Gabby Hartnett.

p.s... again... Is Christian still a writer here? Especially now that he has his own blog?

well he crossed over with Gabby Hartnett's Cubs career.... I requested a preview button on the comments, hopefully soon. Is Christian still a writer here? Especially now that he has his own blog? http://www.cruzich.com/dd.html not much baseball there and as far as I know he's still a part of TCR.....

You guys really need to either have MVN fix their hosting problems or drop out of the MVN family. Cubs Reporter is down for a day or two every week or other week. It's ridiculous.

this is a tough one, I had never even heard of the guy..... Hint #2: shares a first name with a recent middle infielder known for his glove (Not Neifi)

Hint #1: Career crossed over with Gabby Hartnett Hint #2: shares a first name with a recent middle infielder known for his glove (Not Neifi).

I know he hit one and I think it was in Shea Stadium. There was a news interuption and we nver got to see it. I may be confusing it with one Billy Williams hit, but I know George's was before Billy.

One of my partners knew and he swears he didn’t look it up. My wife would be pretty upset if I had more than one partner... :)

I think there have been a grand total of six Cub All-Star HRs: Galan 1936, Sauer 1952, Banks 1960, Altman 1961, Williams 1964 and Dawson 1991. Next time this comes up, everyone can be prepared.

it was a "fun fact" during a scoreboard trivia game at the AS game at Comerica Park season before last. Never heard of him up till that point. I've seen it in the SB Tribune as a Cubs history note before too.

Hey everyone...yes I'm still officially a writer here, but I look at it as more "writer emeritus" which means don't expect anything from me, but I might pop in with something to say if the feeling strikes me. I got really burned out (on a lot of things) last year and my participation in TCR was one of the things which fell by the wayside. Fortunately Rob, Phil and Trans were more than capable of picking up the slack and that made it a lot easier to walk away from day-to-day writing duties, something I had been doing for five years. I've still been reading every day, though, so even though I'm not posting I'm still here to see what's going on. I'm still around and since I started my personal blog last month I've realized that I miss writing. By the way, thanks for the hits -- I tripled my traffic yesterday from all the visits from the comments here (which gives you an idea of how small my reading audience is), and if you're interested in reading about where I travel to, what I eat, and how I raise my daughter, I hope you'll come back and visit more. Tell your friends! I do feel bad about just sort of walking away from the site the way I did, but understand that that was how it had to be. I was ready to give it up completely but the guys here convinced me that wasn't the best decision and they were right. Like I said, the site is in very capable hands with Rob, Trans and Phil, and you guys. Hopefully MVN can get its act together soon and figure out a way to keep the site up 24 hours a day, and then we can all get back to doing what we like to do, which is root for the Cubs. Thanks!

Christian, it's really good to hear from ya; I've wondered a lot about how you're doing.

"Re: MLB and DirecTV… F*CK SELIG!!!!!!!!!" It's a wonderful deal for baseball and for MLBAM. They would be nuts to pass it up.

Carlos: "It’s a wonderful deal for baseball and for MLBAM. They would be nuts to pass it up." Except it SUCKS for a very large percentage of fans. But hey, who needs fans, right? They could also start putting ads on the players jerseys, hey that could be a great deal for MLB too. Turning a blind eye to the steroid problem was a wonderful deal for MLB too, look how much money they have made the past 10 years. Just because it was a good deal financially doesn't mean it is a good idea overall. This deal just eliminates the chance of millions of eyes seeing more baseball and that is a shame. But I can't say i expect anything different from Selig.

No, Manny, I'm as pissed off as you are. But from a business perspective, 30 extra million dollars for alienating a couple hundred of fans that aren't going to stop watching games (and will switch to MLB.tv) is a win/win situation for MLBAM. Can't blame them, but we can indeed hate them.

BTW, 750,000 EI Packages were sold last year. MLBAM expects to lose 100-200K subscriptions that will likely be offset by the boost in MLBAM-MLBtv subscriptions. Genious move, Selig is a man of money.

Carlos: "30 extra million dollars for alienating a couple hundred of fans that aren’t going to stop watching games (and will switch to MLB.tv) is a win/win situation for MLBAM." Couple hundred??? HA HA I even think the MLB numbers of 100-200K is low. But hey, I won't be switching to DirecTV and I will not be doing the crappy internet thing. I have only heard horror stories about that. I guess everything is about the all mighty dollar in sports and screw the fan. Sad but true, but again, just because you make more money doing something does not mean it is a smart business move. "Genious move, Selig is a man of money." Hopefully he will be a man out of a job soon...

Do those comments seem disengenous coming from an self acknowledge and proud ticket scalper? Last time I checked it was Selig actually worked for MLB. What's your excuse?

Couple hundred thousand, I tried to say. Like Joe Sheehan said, who knows far more than I do: "MLB is going to tick off a subset of that group: EI subscribers who either have Dish Network or cable. However, they’re not going to lose that group of people as fans of MLB as a whole. Some of those people will switch to DirecTV, others will make do with MLB.tv, still others will not purchase a package and live without the extra games. The number of fans that MLB will lose because of this decision, however, could fit in my living room. You simply don’t go from being such a big fan of baseball that you would purchase 1200 games a year on satellite to a non-fan based on one decision." I don't recall anyone making a fuss when NFL decided to sell its exclusive Big Ticket rights to DirecTV.

The Real Neal: "Last time I checked it was Selig actually worked for MLB." Hopefully not for long... And I am actually giving people the opportunity to go to Cubs games. Selig is actually limiting the chances for many to see MLB games. How is that the same? Nice try though...

Carlos, You and Joe Sheehan are probably right, but it still SUCKS and it just adds another reason to HATE Selig. Man that list is getting long...:)

Manny, Oh sorry, I didn't realize you were 'giving' the tickets. I thought you were selling them, my bad. And since, you already bought the season tickets, their value is a sunk cost. Quite noble of you. So we have one person, scalping free tickets, deriving profit from an entity which he does not belong to. A lamprey, would be the most apt way I can describe that. And we have a second person, working for an organization and trying to make it as profitable as he can. And the lamprey is deriding the other guy. Amazing.

Apparantly Macias doesn't like suchi or fighting hams because he's back in the bigs...well kind of. Washington Post reporting he's signed a minor league deal with the Nats. If there was any doubt the Nationals would contend for worst club in the bigs this season, this move should put them over the top.

Hm, I just noticed John was removed from the author list... he'll make a hell of a ! after Neifi if he ever comes back. Oh well, his insight will be missed.

yeah, British college babes and invading the States seems to have kept John away from his true calling. He shall be missed.

From Sullivan today, regarding Barrett's contract: "In stark contrast to the Zambrano talks, the Cubs and catcher Michael Barrett aren't even whispering yet. Barrett also becomes a free agent after 2007 and will likely seek a four-year deal. Barrett knows Hendry is working on completing the long-rumored deal for free-agent outfielder Cliff Floyd, and isn't worried about his own fate."

The Real Neal: "Oh sorry, I didn’t realize you were ‘giving’ the tickets. I thought you were selling them, my bad." I never said I was giving them away. I said I was giving people the opportunity to go to Cubs games. "Quite noble of you." Thanks, do you want to buy them? :) No friend discount for you though... "So we have one person, scalping free tickets, " HA HA what a fucking idiot...free tickets?? HA HA

Switch hitter, healthy, kills lefty pitching. Platoon him with JJones againtst leftys; can give Murton a day off against real tough righties. Played for a winner all his career. I know his glove has some holes, but you don't need him every day. Floyd looks like he could turn into Kal Daniels in a hurry.

Instead of being upset at MLB for selling only via DirectTV, why don't you direct your anger at TribCo? After all, it was TribCo suits who in their ultimate wisdom decided not to give their crappy product away for free 130-140 times a year. Or, you could direct some negative karma to my cable operator, who has WGN on the lineup a mere 10 miles from my town but not actually in my town. Nice.

hell, im upset about the MLB-EI thing, but what manny or anyone else does with tickets or what anyone's local cable provider does with WGN i could care less about. that's just me being my selfish self, though... seriously, this EI-exclusive crap sucks. we can hold it 'business being business' but it doesnt serve the fans. someone brought up the topic of public service vs. business earlier...nice piece, really...tieing into govt/public services. if we ran govt. like a business we wouldnt have well maintained roads, public transportation, and other things we take for granted that are pretty much run at a loss for the sake of the community at large. this may be good for MLB the business, but the long/short of it is the deal was made at the expense of the most hardcore of supporters of the product based on the speculation (that's mostly true) that people who care enough to pay 140 a year to watch baseball wont abandon the game. to quote bill hicks..."its kinda a cock suck...isnt it?"

I was thinking about switching to Direct TV, but Dish Network gives me WGN, and Comcast Sports Net on the mid level package for much cheaper. I get 95% of the Cubs games and I am happy. It is almost like being back in the old days when WGN used to carry most of the Cubs games. Though I would like that MLB channel. Baseball is far behind the other leagues in establishing that.

I still live in the Chicago area? The closest I ever lived to Chicago was a little town called Paris, Illinois and that was when I was like 5 years old. Did Arizona for over 20 years, and Georgia for 3, and now on the far western side of Iowa.

Then how do you get cubs games on comcast? Are you still the 'local' chicago area?

Call me a throwback but I've got no cable, and instead I'm using the savings to attend all the Cubs visits to PNC. Otherwise I stick to the audiofeed from MLB online- easier to work in the lab listening to just radio anyway. Are the MLB suits going to screw me too? Like exclusivity for Sirius or something?

it's exclusive to XM radio actually, but the Internet TV and radio feeds I think are going to remain the same. I may invest in the EI package this year and get a slingbox since I'm rarely home when the games are on...

Rob, I'll do you one better. Just buy the sling box and hook it up in a family member's house in the chicago area. This way you will get all the games for free and no blackouts. I'm think of doing this as my mom has a spare bedroom back in chicagoland that has a cable hook up but no tv!

not a bad idea, my folks don't have cable but my brother does. Unfortunately I imagine him being a douche about it if I asked... Of course I'd like to watch the games in my house on my big screen on the days I am home as well... We'll see or you can just give me the access info to see your feed. :)

Manny, Ask someone who has taken an accounting class to explain the concept of 'sunk cost' to you. It has a lot of relevance to baseball, so it would behoove you to understand it, outside of your ticket scalping operation.

The Real Neal, What Mickey Mouse school did you go to? Here is the definition of "sunk cost": "A past outlay or loss that cannot be altered by current or future actions." I can very well alter that outlay currently or in the future by selling those tickets for a big profit. Nice try........

Oh really you can? Explain to me how you can change the amount you pay for season tickets 'by current or future actions'. Are you going to call up the Cubs box office and say 'you know what, these tickets aren't scalping to well this year, I am going to go ahead and sell them back to you'. The money is spent, you're not getting it back. Sure you can scalp the tickets, like but you're not getting the money back from the Cubs, are you? You're also not 'giving' anyone anything, you're selling. Do you not understand the difference between giving and selling? I think you're future employers may want to check that PSU degree, maybe even your HS diploma.

The Real Neal: "you’re not getting the money back from the Cubs, are you?" I bet you I could...And someone on that wait list of thousands would be very happy. :)

Here is another definition from a university Econ 310 class website... http://www.humboldt.edu/~microeco/cost.htm#sunk "Sunk costs are those parts of the purchase cost that cannot later be salvaged or modified through resale or other changes in operations." Will you be paying for these classes up front or should I bill you monthly?

Manny, I didn't say that the tickets were a sunk cost. I only said they were a sunk cost for you, because you were altruisticly giving them away. If you're giving them away, you're not going to recover them by a possible sale, are you? Here's the pertinent quotes: "And I am actually giving people the opportunity to go to Cubs games." "Oh sorry, I didn’t realize you were ‘giving’ the tickets. I thought you were selling them, my bad. And since, you already bought the season tickets, their value is a sunk cost." Refering them to them as a sunk cost, was only in the context that you give them away, which I know you don't do, being a lamprey. So in additon to being a lamprey, you're also a hypocrite for getting upset at someone who is doing his job to the best of his abilities (and to the benefit of his employers), when you willing and happily use that same enterprise to improve your own wealth at the expense of the very same people you're so worked up about defending. I am not sure if scalping tickets via ebay or whatever is against the law in IL and whichever state you now reside in, but the associated income tax evasion certainly is. If you were giving the tickets away, however, you would have a moral leg to stand on. Have you seen the movie Fever Pitch? That's what real fans do with their season tickets.

Sounds like someone is jealous...maybe I will give you a pair of tickets for free just to make you feel better...Nah!!! :) Oh yeah, if you can ever afford to own a home and sell it for more, I guess that makes you and every person in the world who has sold their house for more a lamprey. Or should we home owners just give our houses away? is that what real Americans do? HA HA Woo internet!!!

Oh yeah, in post #42 you say: "And since, you already bought the season tickets, their value is a sunk cost." But in post #74 you say: "I didn’t say that the tickets were a sunk cost." So which is it? You are contradicting yourself...

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  • 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. 

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    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...

  • crunch (view)

    pablo sandoval played 3rd and got a couple ABs (strikeout, single!) in the OAK@SF "exhibition"

    mlb officially authenticated the ball of the single he hit.  nice.

    he's in surprisingly good shape considering his poor body condition in his last playing seasons.  he's not lean, but he looks healthier.  good for him.

  • crunch (view)

    dbacks are signing j.montgomery to a 1/25m with a vesting 20m player option.

    i dunno when the ink officially dries, but i believe if he signs once the season begins he can't be offered a QO...and i'm not sure if that thing with SD/LAD in korea was the season beginning, either.

  • crunch (view)

    sut says imanaga getting the home opener at wrigley (game 4 of the season).

  • crunch (view)

    cubs rolling out the who's who of "who the hell is this guy?" in the last spring game.