The Cubs have clinched the #2 spot in the 2013 draft. Congrats?
2013 Draft Pick Order
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Last updated 5-10-2013
Cubs Depth Chart
Cubs 40-Man Roster Info
MLB Rules Info
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39 players are on 40-MAN ROSTER (roster is full)
Three players are on 60-DAY DL (do not count against 40-man roster)
One player is on 15-day DL
13 players have been optioned to the minors
* bats or throws left
# bats both
PITCHERS (12)
Michael Bowden
Shawn Camp
Scott Feldman
Kyuji Fujikawa
Kevin Gregg
Edwin Jackson
Carlos Marmol
Hector Rondon
* James Russell
Jeff Samardzija
Carlos Villanueva
* Travis Wood
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CATCHERS (2):
Welington Castillo
# Dioner Navarro
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INFIELDERS (5):
Darwin Barney
Starlin Castro
Cody Ransom
* Anthony Rizzo
* Luis Valbuena
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OUTFIELDERS (6):
* Julio Borbon
* David DeJesus
Scott Hairston
* Nate Schierholtz
Alfonso Soriano
* Ryan Sweeney
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15-DAY DL (1):
Matt Garza, P
60-DAY DL (3):
Scott Baker, P
* Steve Clevenger, C-IF
Arodys Vizcaino, P
OPTIONED (13):
Alberto Cabrera, P
Rafael Dolis, P
* Brett Jackson, OF
Junior Lake, IF-OF
Trey McNutt, P
* Brooks Raley, P
* Chris Rusin, P
Dave Sappelt, OF
Jorge Soler, OF
Matt Szczur, OF
Christian Villanueva, 3B
Josh Vitters, 3B-1B
* Logan Watkins, INF

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r.vogelsong (SF) broke the hell out of his pitching hand getting HBP on a swing tonight. the trainer threw a towel over his hand as soon as he saw it...already scheduled for surgery tomorrow...expected to miss 6 weeks.
True.
just when you think the Cubs are starting to look like a major league team, they go and lose 2 of 3 at home to the Mets.
Scott Feldman though looking good as trade bait.
RIP St Rita alum and great musician
grant balfour + live TV...what the hell was the MLB Network thinking?
he only let 1 swear fly (not bleeped)...that's about 3-4 times less than i expected.
as an aside...the worst SS i've ever seen in my life is/was bj upton.
words cannot describe how awful he was...it blows my mind he actually made it to AAA playing the position...and that he wasn't moved earlier in his minor league or AAA career. even when he wasn't making plays that would count as errors he was playing really bad SS.
they gave him an enormous amount of leeway trying to get him to stick at the position.
True, but if he's at least decent defensively, and could put up a .270/.350/.390
he'd be worth at least a utility spot.
Come on Soler, Almora and Baez!!!
That is kind of damming with faint praise. :)
That may be true. But is he any less of a prospect than Darwin Barney was?
Barney: .288/.337/.378 in the minors, 35/45 steals 1724 PA's
Watkins:.281/.372/.389, 88/124 steals, 2205 PA's
http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/cubs/post/_/id/170...
It seems unlikely to me that Watkins will be able to keep up his walk totals in the majors, which kind of makes him a non-prospect.
Per the Baseball Cube (http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/profile.asp...), Derek played the part of two seasons in A ball. He had 56 erros in 128 games in 1993, and 9 errors in 11 games in 1992.
I remember a conversation at TCR years ago with reference to Starlin's propensity for errors, and it was brought up that Jeter once committed 59 in A ball. It was a mini-point of discussion because different sources were reporting the number as either 59 or 159, but it was determined to be 59. Edit: I guess it was 56, funny we both thought of the same thing.
Not sure if it is a record, but in 1993 at Greenboro Derek Jeter had 56 errors.
Anybody know the record for errors at Single-A? Javy Baez with 2 more yesterday - now with 19 for the season.....
I was listening to the "live" audio on mlb.com when the Cubs drafted Dustin Geiger back in 2010, and they announced him as an "outfielder" when they drafted him. So although he had played 3rd base in HS, the Cubs Area Scout projected Geiger as a corner outfielder. But to get him to sign (he had signed an NLI with Central Florida), the Cubs had to give him an overslot bonus and agree to let him play 3B (at least for a while).
So look for Geiger to be moved to a corner OF slot (probably LF, what with Soler holding down RF) sometime soon.
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Re: Caption This!
on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 2:35am Permalink
"Big league math! 9 times 2 is... Err..."
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 2:55am Permalink
holy scrap!
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 6:24am Permalink
"I'm taller than you..."
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 6:42am Permalink
"Anyone see Kerry's wife?"
Viciedo
on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 6:43am Permalink
Dayan Viciedo, a 19-year-old third baseman said to be the best player to come out of Cuba in the eight years since Angels prospect Kendry Morales, has defected to South Florida. In Sunday's edition of the Miami Herald, the 6-2 slugger is pictured wearing a Cubs cap.
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cubs/99537...
Re: Viciedo
on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 7:00am Permalink
defecting to the US a few days after the draft?
he should have defected to another country first...maybe it was a moment of opportunity to defect. it'll cost him money, but he'll make more than he would have any way you cut it.
-edit-
oh, he got here end of may...he's just caught up in "the system" of getting paperwork shuffled and lawyers doing lawyering things.
wonder how he'll project in next year's draft.
Re: Viciedo
on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 8:08am Permalink
that kinda looks like a Cubs cap but it's actually a Cuba cap (pretty sure on this one)
Re: Viciedo
on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 10:10am Permalink
He heard that the Cubs were being purchased by a Cuban.
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 8:02am Permalink
The Cubs trio of little white guys scour the horizon for scrappiness.
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 9:20am Permalink
Fontenot-" I heard there are alot of fruity guys that like to take pictures of ball players' asses at Dodger Stadium."
Johnson-"Where!?!?! Do you see one!?!?!"
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 8:38am Permalink
Hey! How'd they get my locker combination?
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 8:43am Permalink
f'n offdays...at least the next 2 games are night games at "normal" hours (at home, too).
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 9:11am Permalink
"I hate when they let only tall guys play."
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 9:32am Permalink
What happened to the Cubs on September 2, 1917?
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 9:34am Permalink
an early leader...
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 10:12am Permalink
"Reed Johnsot scans the field for the equipment manager who misspelled his name."
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 10:49am Permalink
lol
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 10:30am Permalink
in light of skyrocketing sleevemaking expenses, Sam Zell orders Theriot and Johnson to share an arm
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 11:37am Permalink
433:
in light of skyrocketing sleevemaking expenses, Sam Zell orders Theriot and Johnson to share an arm
^ LOL Winner!
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 10:38am Permalink
Johnson: Hey, is that Alyssa Milanno?
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 11:01am Permalink
No really, the grass out is here actually painted green (not like at Wrigley). Wow, and if you look out past the outfield stands, they have a circus tent!
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 11:28am Permalink
"So I have about 25% of my portfolio in T - Bills and fixed annuities, my financial guy says that's a good shelter to be in at this time."
"That's interesting, I've got $3MM invested in a real estate trust, but I don't know if that's more of a defensive move or not in this environment. Hey, did you guy's see the market close on Friday?"
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 11:36am Permalink
Caption:
With Dusty Baker gone, the ban on scrappy white players is lifted.
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 12:12pm Permalink
In the most sarcastic Friends' Chandler voice possible:
"Can they MAKE this railing any higher..?"
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 12:18pm Permalink
"Anybody hear how Pie and Eric did at Iowa today?"
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 12:27pm Permalink
Scrappy, Scrappier, Scrappiest
The evolution of Scrappy
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 12:35pm Permalink
*golf clap*
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 12:55pm Permalink
"Los Angeles, CA 90217"
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 1:34pm Permalink
"9 game win streak, 2 losses in LA, 17 game win streak..."
/so mote it be
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 2:18pm Permalink
"So Ryan, ever heard of this thing called Parachat?"
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 4:42pm Permalink
No caption, but the photo does remind me of these stupid pictures...
http://preview.tinyurl.com/46w2ua
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 6:05pm Permalink
You must be 6' to ride this ride
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 7:10pm Permalink
My favorite!
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on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 7:12pm Permalink
"Don't look back fellas, once Z gets done eating the water jug and fucking the bat rack we will walk slowly to the bench."