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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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Cubs Trivia

I'm not sure if I'll have time to put up another edition of TCR Friday Notes, but I do have a double dose of Cubs trivia for you. Reader Jacos sent this one:
Who are (hopefully) the only three players ever to play for the Cubs, White Sox, Yankees and Mets?
And today's calendar questions was:
The Cubs first used a designated hitter on June 16, 1997, as Interleague Play was introduced that season. Who was the Cubs DH in that game?
As always, please attempt to answer without a web search.

Comments

lance johnson

nope

oh wait sorry, your answering the first one And that means Jacos gave me the wrong answer

on the second half, I'm torn between the Dave's, Hansen or Clark...I'll guess Dave Clark

there's 2 players then for the first question, I fixed the post (I hope that's it)

I will guess Trachsel for the first one and Zuleta for the second one.

I'm thinking Jose Vizcaino for the second question, but I don't remember if he ever played for the White Sox...

its not hoyt... i didnt even know he played for the cubs til i looked that up. cubs/wsox - ny giants for those like me that didnt know...he played 3 games for 3.7ip (in relief) in 1970 after being snagged off waivers in late sept. (21st) from ATL.

note: hoyt was traded back to ATL just 2 months later (nov. 21) for journeyman lefty 1st hal breeden.

k, just checked out breeden's minor league stats (yes, im that bored)...journeyman is a misnomer...more of a minor league fodder type who was in the braves (MIL and ATL) system for 9 years. he retired at age 31 in montreal after 75 only playing for them and the cubs in the bigs.

I think there are at least 3 players for the first question, but I won't name them since I had to do a little research on it... The first names that came to my mind on the first question were Rey Sanchez and Dave "King Kong" Kingman (my first Cubs hero).

Oops on Lance Johnson. Kingman never played for white sox, right time period though for the second player.

Er, I guess my answer was for the first question, but I checked and see I was wrong.

dick tidrow

Lance Johnson is correct, but no one has named the 2nd player Bogey was right on the 2nd question...Dave Clark

and just as I type that, km chimes in... 1) Lance Johnson and "Dirty" Dick Tidrow (hopefully that's it, I believe only 157 players have played for both the Cubs and White Sox btw) 2) Dave Clark

"There definitely is a third player for the first question" Damn you JACOS!!!! Email me the 3rd player if you don't mind... transplantedcubsfan AT charter DOT net

Well, I'll give you some hints. He is on your list that you posted of Cubs/White Sox players. He also has a common first name, but he doesn't spell it commonly.

Thanks, figured it out...I'll let others guess and I'll fix the post (once again)

Yeah that's my Cubs-Sox list, but it's a couple years old. Hopefully I'll get around to updating it this winter. As K says, there is a third player for the first question. Baseball-Reference.com actually has a tool that allows you to make lists like this: http://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/multifranchise.shtml No fair going there, running the search, and then posting the name.

Cubs/WSox list is up to 161 according to BR anyone want to guess the additions since 2003?

The website is awesome. I also like the "Oracle of Baseball" feature on there which links players through common teammates. Otherwise I would not know that you can get from Chief Sockalexis to Joe Wallis in six players.

Actually it looks like 3 additions since 2003 and Ruz missed Darren Lewis in the list he had.....

Rob G- I apologize to you and all the readers out there. I will make sure to give you a better question, in other words a correct question, in the future. But hey alot of traffic today.

I guess the better question would be who did NOT play for the Cubs, Wsox, yank...bleh.

But hey alot of traffic today. Yeah, a wreck will usually do that :)

awesome, I actually got Dave Clark when I read the question. NEVER would have gotten any of the four-teamer guys.

No one's guessing the 3 new Cubs/White Sox crossovers since 2003? 2 of them are pretty simple...

I thought the DH question was going to be a bit of a trick, ie a regular getting a day off (from the field). I haven't read all the recent posts this week so apologies if this has written, but the Cubs have indeed raised ticket prices again...a shock to no one I'm sure. I don't have the individual $'s handy but I know bleacher tix are going up yet again...supposedly only on "selected dates" which likely means all weekend games and those against Cards, W.Sux, interleague etc...they are now a ridiculous $42 per...I believe they were $35 last season. I guess it could be worse...White Sux are raising ticket prices too despite cutting payroll this year.

Aardsma too

and Howry

Aardsma & Cotts haven't played for the other team quite yet... Howry/Eyre are right though... One more...

Kenny Lofton

The first thing to pop in my head was Glendon Rusch, but I don't think he ever played on the Sox.

Wsox aren't quite that dumb... if it helps, said players Cubs career was pre-2004

Sosa.

Umm... probably not. Brainfart.

Josh Paul?

ben grieve?

Man, I remember when Slammin' Sammy hit those 66 HR's for the Yankee. what a year to remembe. I don't know if I could even come up with 3 guys who played for the White Nothings and the Cubs.... OK, I can do that, but all four of them? No cheating? Jay Johnstone?

Ross Gload?

*ding, ding, ding Ross Gload it is.... Cotts/Aardsma shall join them this year....

please detail Gload's Yankee experience... July 31, 2000: Traded by the Florida Marlins with Dave Noyce (minors) to the Chicago Cubs for Henry Rodriguez. January 21, 2002: Traded as part of a 3-team trade by the Colorado Rockies with Craig House to the New York Mets. arch 27, 2003: Traded by the Colorado Rockies to the Chicago White Sox for Wade Parrish (minors).

here are two players on 3 of the 4: Tom (Flash) Gordon Rich (Goose) Gossage ...I'm sure we can come up with many more 3 of 4'ers

another 3 of 4'er: Steve (Rainbow) Trout...I'm getting suspicious that the 3 of 4'ers seem to all have nicknames.

"Man, I remember when Slammin’ Sammy hit those 66 HR’s for the Yankee. what a year to remembe." Haha, I thought we were only naming WSOX/Cubs connections.

oops on gload being the answer to Question #1...still he's a 3 of 4'er....without a nickname

Lost in translation... This is what I asked... No one’s guessing the 3 new Cubs/White Sox crossovers since 2003? 2 of them are pretty simple… this was based off of Ruz's list of 156 Cubs/WSox players as of 2003 (which I believe actually was 157 as it appears he missed Darren Lewis) Eyre, Howry, Gload seem to be the only new ones to have played for both the Wsox and Cubs since the beginning of 2004. Cotts and Aardsma will join them this year

there are 26 players according to BR.com who played for the Yanks, Cubs and Wsox 13 who played for the Mets, Cubs and WSox

Has anyone bought MVP NCAA 07 yet? Is it worth it?

Gload's a 2 of 4'er, Cubs, White Sox and Rockies He never played a major league game for the Mets

I hear David Price kicks ass in it Carlos... or his digital representation with the same number

"I hear David Price kicks ass in it Carlos… or his digital representation with the same number." Heard that, too. I think there's a patch so you can play with real names and statistics.

Bogey: "I haven’t read all the recent posts this week so apologies if this has written, but the Cubs have indeed raised ticket prices again…a shock to no one I’m sure. I don’t have the individual $’s handy but I know bleacher tix are going up yet again…supposedly only on “selected dates” which likely means all weekend games and those against Cards, W.Sux, interleague etc…they are now a ridiculous $42 per…I believe they were $35 last season. I guess it could be worse…White Sux are raising ticket prices too despite cutting payroll this year." Yeah I mentioned this in my Cubs Convention recap. But the Cubs did not raise prices for season ticket holders. So I can't complain...:)

The Transaction Guy: Has anyone bought MVP NCAA 07 yet? Is it worth it? Can't buy it for PC. =(

no one wants to make games for the PC anymore unless its something where you play online for a fee or play one of the 10,000 command and conquer clones. High Heat Baseball 2003 was the last great PC baseball game, imo. 3-level minor leagues and the code wasnt just some CRAP port of the console menus onto PC...no...it was coded *FOR* play on the PC. you could sort through 30-50+ players on a screen when scouting your minors or other teams insted of seeing just 5-10 players on this huge GUI menu screen that's a headache to sort through. too bad the actual game itself is a bit flawed...a fast left handed guy bunting can get on base way too easily and the pitcher stamina is flakey and tends to overextend.

Anyone see Theriot's recent comments? Utility man Ryan Theriot has the potential to become the go-to guy for National League beat writers. During a "Not For Women Only" panel discussion, former Cubs pitcher Mike Bielecki asked several players to invent a baseball catch phrase for Viagra. Theriot's ad campaign: "Viagra -- I always play hard." Theriot, the former high school prom king, didn't hesitate when asked about his first makeout session ("Sixth grade … Jenny … back of the skating rink."), or his imaginary porn name (the radio hosts emceeing the session said to combine your pet's name with your street name; Theriot's was, "Gauge Classique"), or showing his rear when a 73-year-old woman from Lafayette, Ind., requested that the panel (Bielecki, Theriot, Marshall, Cotts and reliever Scott Eyre) show her their "assets." I love that crazy little dude. Hehe.

High Heat Baseball was my favorite game ever, PC or PS version (the pc verson was better though). It took very little tweaking to get it to act and play like something reasonbly close to an actual baseball game. Most games are either too easy to hit or too easy pitch or anything hit to the wall is still a single or crap like that. HH you'd lose control of your pitches as you got more tired, the singles wouldn't all land in the same spot, you couldn't just hit a himer by moving your joystick up.... Best baseball game ever..... The last EA MLB game for PS2 had fireworks at Wrigley, enough said....

I haven't played a good computer baseball game since Micro League baseball on my Commodore 64.

Wood's losing weight was mentioned in one of the Trib articles too, I didn't think he was overweight (I think Zambrano and Rusch are though), I am wondering what he looks like, 31lbs is a lot, he must have lost some muscle mass too.

Rosenthal didn't mention the Cubs as one of A-Rod's possible destinations if he declares free agency. It would be interesting to see if they go after him. The Cubs couldn't trade for him, at this point, though, they don't have what the Yankees would want, a 3rd basemen and a solid starter. I don't think they would take prospects for him.

According to yahoo and espn Wood is 6'5 225. Which would now put him at 195! He's going to look like Randy Johnson.

The Real Neal — February 10, 2007 @ 9:52 am Rosenthal didn’t mention the Cubs as one of A-Rod’s possible destinations if he declares free agency. It would be interesting to see if they go after him. The Cubs couldn’t trade for him, at this point, though, they don’t have what the Yankees would want, a 3rd basemen and a solid starter. I don’t think they would take prospects for him. ======================= REAL NEAL: If Carlos Zambrano loses his arbitration case (and I believe he almost certainly will), and gets pissed off and tells Hendry to go f**k himself, and if Hendry comes to believe he can't sign Z long-term, and if a number of Cubs starting pitcher candidates look good in ST, I don't think it is inconceivable that Hendry would consider trading Zambrano to NYY for A-Rod, should A-Rod choose to waive his "no trade." If the trade can wait until after June 15th, the Cubs could include Mark DeRosa in the deal (as a Type XX FA, he has an automatic "no trade" through June 15th), and he can certainly play 3B. In fact, DeRosa is probably a much better 3B than he is a 2B. If such a trade were to be made but the trigger had to be pulled prior to June 15th, the Cubs could offer Cesar Izturis to the Yanks as a temporary replacement for A-Rod at 3B. Izturis played 3B for the Dodgers last season before he was traded to the Cubs. Then the Yankees could make other arrangements for 3B at their leisure. Among FA 3B still unsigned, David Bell is available (and he would be serviceable, at least for what the Yankees would need him for), should it be just Z for A-Rod straight-up.  

I think it's better to give #21 up to a pitcher than to an outfielder (for instance) or anyone who would be compared to Sosa. It's like when Bobby Hill wore #17 after Mark Grace left. It kind of "washed" the number clean of it's predecessor, because Hill and Grace weren't comparable . What is still unclear is what will happen with Ted Lilly. He was told that #31 isn't available (even though it hasn't been officially retired), so he took #30. Then the Cubs signed Cliff Floyd, and (because of seniority) he will probably be able to wear his long-time #30. Which puts Lilly back into limbo again. I say let Lilly wear #31 as long as he's with the Cubs, then by the time leaves, Mad Dog will (probably) have retired, and the Cubs can retire #31 for good. 

If Z gets bent over his arbitration $, he's a bigger idiot than most peg him to be. The $ that's been tossed around (reportedly $11-12m) will be the largest arbitration awarded to a 5 yr eligible pitcher. I'd have to see the list of past awardees, but I can't imagine he's the best pitcher among that group even considering the salary inflation of this past off-season. What did D.Willis get...something like $6.5. Z's better than Willis but not twice as much. Levine interviewed Hendry on his show today. A lot of it centered around Prior, Hendry said "I'm optimistic on Mark's progress"...although he dodged whether Prior would be ready to go for the start of the season...claims trainer Mark O'Neill was very pleased with Prior's throwing session the other day. Dempster almost a lock to begin the season as closer even if Wood shows he's healthy and able to go in back to back days. Cubs are bringing in some defensive catching specialist named Mark De...something Italian...to work with Barrett. Levine noted that the proposed Direct TV deal will only net the 30 clubs about $3 m per year in revenue. and most interesting (to me anyway) is that apparently Mark Prior is double jointed in both his elbows and shoulders. Consequently it's a plus for getting superior extention on his pitches, but on the flipside, it leaves him more susceptible to injury. For whatever reason this is just now coming out and the Cubs and Prior have tried to hide it. It's certainly the first I've ever heard of it. Levine commented that since Prior's MRIs have showed no structural damage he's going to have to suck it up and cut it loose with discomfort regardless if an actual arm injury occurs as a result.

that whole "double jointed" thing was attributed to him when the "shoulder looseness" thing came about last year. never heard it attributed to his elbow, though...freaky. it was "blamed" for how his shoulder moves around easily in the socket area, though. no idea how this effects his motion, his release, or any pain.

"Cubs are bringing in some defensive catching specialist named Mark De…something Italian…to work with Barrett." It's probably Mark DiFelice.

Or Mike DiFelice, they're brothers.

no it's not DiFelice..he's still playing with the Mets at AAA I believe. It's someone I've never heard of and long removed from his playing days.

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  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    This is Cubs adjacent but…


    Jordan Walker just was optioned by the deadbirds. For all the talk of the Cardinals development machine, they’ve really missed on a lot of can’t miss superstars lately. Walker has struggled. Gorman has been okay. They’re already trying to push Carlson out the door. Their pitching system has been so bad they had to go out and sign basically a full rotation over the last two offseasons.

    They’ve still developed a few of those pesky solid players, like Donovan, Edman, and Nootbaar. Their two best prospect to MLB players have been Adolis and Arozarena, neither of which is a cardinal.

    I hope they never figure it out again. Cardinal failure brings me such joy.
     

  • Raisin101 (view)

    Thank you so much! I really appreciate not only all your posts but how eager you are to respond to our questions.

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Is it just me or does it seem that official scorers are becoming less likely to call a misplay an error? 

     

    Guess I've hit my cranky old-man phase in life.  "I remember back in the day when an error was an error.  Official scorers have gone soft.  Now where did I put my readers?!!??"

     

    Sidenote, maybe Bellinger should be a little more careful against the Astros.  That was the series last year that a play at wall put him on the IL.   

  • crunch (view)

    i hated the almonte pickup, but he's 9-10 out of 12 for good outings, following a great spring.  hope he can keep it up.

    i already miss cooper, but yeah...the thin OF roster backup the team seems to want to carry probably got wisdom preference over cooper.  i could live without seeing wisdom at 3rd unless it's a blowout, though.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Things I've been wrong about:

    -Tauchman is fine as a 4th OF. I knew that. I just want a better LH DH option and he was really the DH for us until Seiya got hurt. I'm glad Mervis is getting a chance at it. Caissie is coming for that job for sure. But Tauchman continues to be highly useful as a 4th OF with Seiya being hurt

    -I wanted Yency to go to get guys at Iowa a chance. Guys like Palencia and Sanders or RileyT. Maybe even Hodge! But Yency has been better the last two plus weeks. He did hit 96 the other day. He was 93 in Texas to open the season.

    -Leiter has his split working enough. It just needs to stay there

    -I was surprised Jed picked Wisdom over Cooper. I wonder if this happens if Seiya wasn't hurt. Wisdom has more power. Cooper is the better hitter. Jed picked Wisdom and Wisdom had an option left as well.

    -Palencia just doesn't miss enough bats. Similar to ManRod, just two yrs younger. ManRod is killing AAA for TB right now!

    Things I got right so far:

    -Hendricks. Sorry Kyle. You got paid though!

    Jed, you missed there.

    -Smyly. If Jed could've traded him before or during ST, then he should have and saved some cash.

    -Mastro.  Not a LH DH. Pinch runner. Defensive utility. Maybe he's better than Madrigal but didn't get a legit chance to prove it.

    -Luke Little is good. He's had one bad outing. That's it. Needs to get better entering with guys on base. But he needs to stay in MLB.

    -Oh yeah....Morel is doing fine at 3B! He'll get better as well!!

  • crunch (view)

    bellinger "right rib contusion"

  • Childersb3 (view)

    South Bend just lost the lead in the bottom of the 9th on the weirdest scenario, ever.

    It's absolutely pouring rain....men on 1st and 2nd, 1out....JPatterson asks for a new ball, but no time out was called....he throws the old ball toward the dugout (not sure if it rolled out of play).....the ump declares the runners get two bases each so one run scores. Then a single up the middle ties the game.

    The rain was coming down in buckets at this point.

    Just weird

  • crunch (view)

    ...and bellinger is gone in the 7th because of that 2nd blown chance and the wall he bounced off of...

    hopefully his rib cage/shoulder feels better tomorrow, we just got happ back.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Phil,

    Any thoughts on Y. Rojas' stuff and Y. Melendez's game (I believe I've asked about him before, sorry)?

  • crunch (view)

    wow, things are moving fast.  hopefully it continues.