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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

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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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Gameday Open Thread / Cubs @ Rockies

Cubs travel to Tuscon and throw Ted Lilly on the mound to start, Ryan Dempster is set to make an appearance as well. Brian Lawrence goes for the Rockies.

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here's the lineup from Mlb.com Soriano, Izturis, Pagan, Ramirez, Ward, Barrett, Derosa, Coats, Lilly Pagan in RF, Coats in LF... Rockies have their "A" lineup... Taveras, Carroll, Atkins, Helton, Holliday, Hawpe, Tulowitzki, Torrealba, Lawrence

Soriano, CF Izturis, SS Pagan, RF Ramirez, 3B Ward, 1B Barrett, C DeRosa, 2B Coats, LF lineup for COL is as-expected starters (with the possible exception of tulowitzki at SS and carroll at 2nd...which is also highly possible they'll be starters, too).

I guess matsui is their starter at 2b, isn't tulowitzki their SS? or is still being decided between him and Barmes?

ROB G: How'd you make out w/Cubs/Dodgers tix this year? I'm going to be @ the Saturday game. I hope they get some better food stuff going besides "Garlic Fries 'n Grease" Man - I tasted thise for 2 weeks!

haven't even looked yet, never had a problem getting day of game or a few weeks before once I figure out what I can go to... I'm still trying to figure out a way though to not pay McCourt for parking there. If he's going to keep raising prices, he could at least try and improve the horrid configuration.

on another note, shouldn't MLB.com give free access to MLB.tv during the pre-season? Wouldn't that be a good way to promote their product and get people interested?

Definitely a 'make the squad' day with Murton, Floyd, and Jones sitting. Coats, Pagan, and Ward are playing for a spot today. SORIANO DEEEEEEEEEP.. I can get used to that!

carrol is supposed to be their starter at 2nd, but he's having a horrid spring. numbers aside, he's just not making good contact and they already might displace mr. dear meat at SS and move him to 2nd. they got 3 similarly tallented, but no-slam-dunk options for 2nd right now.

Ward's not playing for a spot, he's got a million dollar guaranteed contract...

"I’m still trying to figure out a way though to not pay McCourt for parking there." I've been to quite a few parks. Parking there is absolutely atrocious.

Rob, for clarification, Tulo's the guy at short for Colorado. It'll probably be Matsui at second, but he'll split some time with Jamey Carroll. I don't think Barmes is going to play that much at all unless Tulo totally sucks. If this group gets something out of their young guys, they might be dramatically improved this year. Tulowitzsky and Ianetta both need to hit well. Still gotta find a way to get guys out at the back end of the rotation and in middle relief. LaTroy Hawkins looks like he's firmly the setup man to get to Fuentes.

Are any of the Cubs among the ST leaders in RBI, extra base hits, or total bases or ERA?

"I’m still trying to figure out a way though to not pay McCourt for parking there. If he’s going to keep raising prices, he could at least try and improve the horrid configuration." Email me and I'll will tell you the greatest parking tip for all of Chavez Ravine!

There was a post a while back about Cubs runs scored and runs allowed for last season. The Cubs scored a lot of runs in the early innings last year.

If this is tryout day, Izturis with his 3 outs in 2 PA's batting 2nd must be locking down the 8th slot.

Jacque has 12 RBI's, tied for 4th with a bunch of guys... if that was Soriano's fourth, he's tied for 3rd right now..

Ward with a single and RBI in his AB, seems to have picked it up. Pagan scored that run after his double. Is Pagan hitting from the left-side?

Yeah, they scored a lot of runs early last year, then often would go completely comatose for the rest of the game. I just would like to see this continue.

Pretty sure Pagan batted left handed in the first. Lily just pitched out of a bases loaded no-outs jam, pretty impressively though it was 8,9,1 due up.

Yeah, along with the Home Runs against division rivals. Didn't Arroyo hit like 3 or 4 off the Cubs last year?

Who was the Cubs career minor league 3b who hit like 8 ST homers a couple of years back? I believe he went to Japan.

Does anyone know why mlb.com will show a game on mlb.tv (audio + video), but not carry the audio feed for Gameday subscribers?

McClain is either with the A's or Giants right now, tore up the PCL last year. probably no radio broadcast.....

I’m still trying to figure out a way though to not pay McCourt for parking there. Here is your tip. Don't drive. Take a bus.

Rob G.: "on another note, shouldn’t MLB.com give free access to MLB.tv during the pre-season? Wouldn’t that be a good way to promote their product and get people interested?" HA HA HA Are you serious? This is MLB and Selig we are talking about. Remember they are trying to do things that limit the people who can buy their product.

But in all seriousness. I agree, it would make sense to "tease" MLBtv to try and attract more subscribers.

I feel like I was able to do that at one point, either last year or the year before for 1 game in ST...

Last year they gave free video feed for the world baseball classic dealy...

Radio broadcast or not. How about just the audio feed from mlb.tv when there are no other sources?

oops...my bad...the inning turned over...gagne only gave up 1 homer...sorry, semi-distracted.

Thus far, it's another good outing for Lilly. He's got a 4 hitter going into the 4th. I just realized his spring ERA is under 2.

barry bonds is still good at hitting homers, btw...just took whatshisface asian dude closer-guy-type from texas out.

Oh the Rockies announcers declared Barrett is one of the best two-way catchers in the game...I didn't know men could be two-way catchers, but it does go to show the 'he hits good, he must field good' mindset that baseball people seem to fall into.

Lawrence owned us for the last 4 inning he pitched too... Offense has gone to sleep....

GUZMAN!!!! 1 IP, 1 K, 0 BB, 0 H at least we busted a few singles off Lawrence. We did draw 3 walks against Jimenez, one measly hit.

The U-Ball! Kid has some really electric stuff. Saw him pitch a couple of times on a trip out west. He'll be a good one in the next year or two for the Rockies. They'll be on to something with U-Ball on Fuentes at the end. He's also doing this against what is certainly our B group of Pie, Cedeno, Pagan, Perez, Hill, DeRosa, Coats, and Hoffpauir.

NOTEWORTHY: Piniella utilized GUZMAN in relief in the 8th PIE was brought in late (why he was brought in at all, I dunno) and struck out both plate appearances. Maybe he was told to unflatten his swing.

Guzman a K on a high curveball, a flyout to the warning track in center and a groundout to second.

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  • 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...