The Cubs have added three players to their MLB Reserve List (40-man roster), one day in advance of the November 20th deadline that requires MLB clubs to submit major league and minor league reserve lists to the MLB office. .
RHPs Mitch Atkins and Justin Berg were selected from Iowa, and RHP Marcos Mateo was selected from Daytona, and with the addition of the three, the Cubs now have 36 players on their MLB Reserve List.
Notably absent from the list are LHP Donald Veal (the Cubs 2005 2nd round pick) and 2B Nate Spears (acquired along with two other prospects from the Baltimore Orioles in January 2006 for OF Corey Patterson), meaning both will be eligible for selection in next month's Rule 5 Draft. And I would say that it's very likely that Veal will get selected, and somewhat likely that Spears will be, too.
brendan harris (LAA) breaks an 0-24 slide with a single vs SEA.
in other news...brendan harris is still playing baseball.
h.rodriguez...5 pitches...0 outs...men on 2nd and 3rd.
welcome to the cubs, guy.
hbp, single, soriano fielding error allowing runners to advance, sac fly, ground out to SS, popout at the wall in CF.
1ip 1h 0bb 0k..1r/0er
Jim Callis@jimcallisBA
#Cubs sign 2nd-rder Rob Zastryzny for $1.1 mil. Missouri LHP, adds & subtracts from 86-95 mph FB, flashes plus changeup.
Slot value was $1,361,900.
Reyburn's been terrible all night. What an asshat.
EPIC cubbery in the bottom 7th...holy crap...wow.
swaimy's busy trying to get tossed...
he gets his wish.
just wow.
w.castillo picks up his 8th walk of the season tonight...
it's his 7th walk since May 23rd.
I would be doing the same.....in the stands. St. Louis is swampy.
game on...
10 pitches in and s.miller is POURING sweat...he looks like a glazed doughnut.
tarp off the field...
"Carrie Muskat @CarrieMuskat
#Cubs vs #STLCards hope to start at 8 pm CT"
wow...a desipio article that doesn't turn into frat boy chest bumping or a series of profanities before 3-4 paragraphs end...someone's going to get fired.
This morning I got wind of a new Al Yellon article so poorly thought out, so unreasonably daffy and so incompetent that I cursed the Twitter Gods for suspending my account because I wanted to share some good old Steve Stone motherboy flesh with the world. http://www.desipio.com/?p=4452
rain delay...tarp on field...not heavy, but they're not going to be playing baseball for 30-60 minutes, minimum.
I managed to read it all. I'll summarize: "I want the Cubs to win".
Dude is really going out on a limb.
BA says Cubs are going after OF Eloy Jimenez out of the Dominican
http://www.baseballamerica.com/international/eloy-jimenez-stands-out-amo...
and MLB.com article says Cubs are 1 of 7 teams with serious interest in RHP Miguel Gonzalez out of Cuba
Like base coaches, they'll probably end up with helmets on
Ben Badler@BenBadler
With minor league all-star games this week, expect a slew of prospect promotions very soon.