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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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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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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.

Comments

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)

    madrigal at 3rd...morel at DH.

    making room for madrigal or/and masterboney to get a significant amount of ABs is a misuse of the roster.  if it needed to get taken care of this offseason, they had tons of time to figure that out.

    morel played almost exclusively at 3rd in winter ball and they had him almost exclusively there all spring when he wasn't DH'ing.

    madrigal doing a good job with the glove for a bit over 2 chances per game...is that worth more than what he brings with the bat 4-5 PA a game?  it's 2024 and we got glenn beckert 2.0 manning 3rd base.

    this is a tauchman or cooper DH situation based on bat, alone.  cooper is 3/7 with a double off eovaldi if you want to play the most successful matchup.

    anyway, i hope this is a temporary thing, not business as usual for the rest of the season.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    There are two clear "logjams" in the Cubs minor league pipeline at the present time, namely AA outfielders (K. Alcantara, C. Franklin, Roederer, Pagan, Pinango, Beesley, and Nwogu) and Hi-A infielders (J. Rojas, P. Ramirez, Howard, R. Morel, Pertuz, R. Garcia, and Spence, although Morel has been getting a lot of reps in the outfield in addition to infield). So it is possible that you might see a trade involving one of the extra outfielders at AA and/or one of the extra infielders at Hi-A in the next few days. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    18-year old SS Jefferson Rojas almost made the AA Tennessee Opening Day roster, and he is a legit shortstop, so I would expect him to be an MLB Top 100 prospect by mid-season. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Among the relievers in the system, I expect RHRP Hunter Bigge at AAA Iowa and RHRP Ty Johnson at South Bend to have breakout seasons on 2024, and among the starters I see LHP Drew Gray and RHP Will Sanders at South Bend and RHP Naz Mule at ACL Cubs as the guys who will make the biggest splash. Also, Jaxon Wiggins is throwing bullpen sides, so once he is ready for game action he could be making an impact at Myrtle Beach by June.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I expect OF Christian Franklin to have a breakout season at AA Tennessee in 2024. In another organization that doesn't have PCA, Caissie, K. Alcantara, and Canario in their system, C. Franklin would be a Top 10 prospect. 

  • 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. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    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.