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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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Cubs Big Bats Torpedo S. S. Mariner

Cliff Floyd hit a three-run homer and doubled, Aramis Ramirez hit a two-run home run, Alfonso Soriano went 3-3 with two singles, a triple, a stolen base, and a run scored, and Jacque Jones (a single and a double and two runs scored) and Matt Murton (a single and a walk) reached base twice, as the Cubs defeated the S. S. Mariner (that's "S. S.," as in "Split Squad") before a capacity crowd of 12,771 at Dwight Patterson Field at HoHoKam Park in Mesa today. box score The Cubs agreed to play with the DH, so Cliff Floyd was the Cubs DH, with Matt Murton playing LF. I think Piniella has probably found what will be his preferred lineup versus RHPs: Soriano leads off, Jones hits 2nd, then D-Lee and A-Ram, Floyd hits 5th, Barrett 6th, DeRosa 7th, and Izturis bats 8th. (Versus RHPs, Piniella will hit either Izturis or Murton 2nd - still TBD, while dropping Jones to 6th). The Cubs got off to quick start against Seattle starter RHP Cha-Seung Baek, as Alfonso Soriano grounded a single to right and Jacque Jones followed with a hit+run bloop double fisted over the third-baseman's head, sending Soriano to 3rd. However, both Derrek Lee and Aramis Ramirez fanned swinging (and D-Lee looked overmatched against Baek's heater, folks), before Cliff Floyd clubbed a first-pitch no-doubt-about-it home run into the upper bullpen beyond the RF fence, to give the Cubs a 3-0 lead. Facing a Seattle split squad lineup that featured only one every-day player (catcher Kenji Johjima), Ted Lilly went two outs into the 4th inning, throwing 74 pitches, including 37 (half of his total number of pitches thrown) in one interminable second inning. In that 2nd inning, Lilly gave up a walk and two singles that resulted in one run scoring, before Willie Bloomquist hit a two-out chopper up the middle that was fielded nicely by Cesar Izturis (showing outstanding range), before Izzy undid the good by uncorking a throw that Derrek Lee had to leap high to catch, allowing the runner to reach base safely, while Michael Garciaparra (who was running on a 3-2 pitch with two outs) kept on a-comin' around third to score the inning's second run, in a daring base-running play that would have made older brother Nomar proud. The Cubs scored three more times in the 3rd against Baek, as Soriano led-off with a triple into the left-field corner, followed by an RBI line single to center by Jacque Jones. After D-Lee flied out to CF, Aramis Ramirez hit a home run over the left-centerfield fence, scoring Jones ahead of him, and giving the Cubs a 6-2 lead. Behind on most of the hitters through the first two innings, Lilly still managed to allow only two runs (one earned) on four hits, with one walk, and one strikeout over his 3.2 IP of work. Despite laboring in the second, Lilly came back to pitch more efficiently in the 3rd (12 pitches) and two outs worth of the 4th (10 pitches), before being relieved by Bob Howry, as Lilly apparently had reached his pitch count (must have been 75). Howry worked 1.1 IP in relief and allowed one run (earned) on one hit and a walk, throwing mainly sinkers and getting mostly ground balls. He gave up a triple to Rey Ordonez and a walk to Willie Bloomquist to lead off the 6th, but then got two ground balls (including a nifty 3-6-3 GIDP turned by Lee and Izturis) to end the inning. Scott Eyre pitched an easy 1-2-3 6th (GO-K-GO), and it's the best he's looked all Spring, but Carlos Marmol again struggled with his command (two walks and twenty pitches) in his one inning of work. On the other hand, Les Walrond continues to throw the ball VERY well (one hit and three softly-hit outs in today's 13 pitch one-inning outing). Two fine looking young Mariner RHPs--2006 #1 draft pick Brandon Morrow (Cal) and Rule 5 pick Sean White (ex-ATL)--completely shut down the Cubs in innings 4-5-6-7 (and why didn't PIT just keep White after they selected him in the Rule 5 Draft, instead of trading him to SEA???), but the Cubs scored twice more in the bottom of the 8th against SEA NRI RHP Justin Lehr, as Daryle Ward led-off with an opposite field line-single to left, followed by one-out back-to-back doubles by Cliff Floyd and Geovany Soto (both hit into the left-field corner), and a two-out RBI single by Tomas Perez. Floyd hit a homer and a double in today's game, but he also hit a moonshot to the warning track in right-center in the 6th that just missed going out. While he seems to be running OK, he is walking with a slight limp. On the negative side, Cesar Izturis grounded into two inning-ending DPs today (a 1-6-3 and a 6-4-3), and honesty compels me to report that D-Lee looked completely, utterly overmatched against the fastballs of both Baek and Morrow (two Ks). Will Ohman threw an easy-does-it 1-2-3 9th (three pop ups) to finish up. BTW, Ryan Theriot played RF the final three innings, but no balls were hit his direction. Also, Felix Pie lined an opposite-field double into the LF corner (there must have been a baseball magnet down there today) in the 7th, for those of you who are worried that Pie can only hit singles. The Cubs travel to Tucson Electric Park tomorrow (and Tucson is the south side--the Back of the Yards, if you will--of Arizona, for those of you unfamilar with the state's geography) to face the Chicago White Sox of Bridgeport, and Angel Guzman is scheduled to start for the Cubs in what should be his most important outing of the Spring (so far). Meanwhile, Mark Prior will pitch in a minor league intrasquad game at Fitch Park.

Comments

Of note: FELIX hit a double today, his first XBH of ST. RYAN THERIOT played some RF in relief of JJ.

the good...pie got his double and 1st xbase hit the bad...it was off sean white, who is about to turn 26 and never played above AA.

tommorow, saturday...and next fri/sat, too...i believe. 4pm est. starts for all days. checked schedule a week+ ago...hope those times are still legit.

Phil, I'm a Back of the Yards guy! Grew up there in the early 60's. An old Polish / Slovak neighborhood. Had to deal with Sox fans, then moved to So. Ill. & had to deal with Cards fans. Are you saying alot of eastern Europeans live in Tucson? Or is it the way the "Yards" are today, all Hispanic? (just kidding).

Recent comments

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    I think if you had ranked players by how much the team could ill afford to have them miss significant time, Steele would be right at the top of the list.

  • 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