Updated Cubs 2014 Minor League Camp Rosters (3/27)
Five players arrived from the Cubs Dominican Academy this week and were assigned to the Kane County squad, although they will be remaining in Mesa for Extended Spring Training once Minor League Camp has concluded:
Varonex Cuevas, INF
Frailyn Figueroa, LHP
Dalfis Ortiz, INF
Jose Paulino, LHP
Alexander Santana, RHP
2014 CUBS MINOR LEAGUE CAMP ROSTERS (last updated 3-27-2014):
NOTE: All four of the Cubs full-season minor league affiliates (Iowa, Tennessee, Daytona, and Kane County) must get down to the 25-man Active Roster limit by Opening Day. There will be some downward roster movement this weekend, but most roster cuts at the very end of Minor League Camp are made by releasing players or placing injured players on the Disabled List. Almost all minor league clubs carry 13 pitchers and 12 position players. The Kane County squad will be split in half this weekend, with 25 players assigned to KC, and the remaining players either released, placed on the DL, or moved down to the Boise/Mesa squad (Extended Spring Training).
* bats or throws left
# bats both
IOWA (39)
AAA
PITCHERS (20):
Frank Batista
Dallas Beeler
Casey Coleman
Paolo Espino
Marcus Hatley
Kyle Hendricks
* Tommy Hottovy
* Eric Jokisch
Marcos Mateo
Yoanner Negrin
Blake Parker
Carlos Pimentel
Neil Ramirez
Armando Rivero
* Zac Rosscup
* Jonathan Sanchez
Brian Schlitter
Nick Struck
Arodys Vizcaino
* Tsuyoshi Wada
CATCHERS (3):
* Charlie Cutler
Luis Flores
* Rafael Lopez
INFIELDERS (7):
# Arismendy Alcantara
* Lars Anderson
Javier Baez
Edgar Gonzalez
Chris Valaika
Christian Villanueva
* Logan Watkins
OUTFIELDERS (9):
* Chris Coghlan
Jae-Hoon Ha (limited activity only)
* Brett Jackson
Darnell McDonald
* Mitch Meier (INACTIVE - may have been released)
* Rubi Silva
Matt Szczur
Josh Vitters
Casper Wells (limited activity only - knee)
TENNESSEE (33):
AA
PITCHERS (17):
Corey Black
Lendy Castillo
Zach Cates
* Hunter Cervenka
* Frank del Valle
C. J. Edwards
P. J. Francescon
Pierce Johnson (limited activity only - hamstring)
* Austin Kirk
Matt Loosen
* Jeff Lorick
Starling Peralta
Ivan Pineyro
Dae-Eun Rhee
Jose Rosario
Ryan Searle
Tony Zych
CATCHERS (4):
Willson Contreras
Taylor Davis
Chadd Krist
Lance Rymel
INFIELDERS (7):
Stephen Bruno
Kris Bryant
Dustin Geiger
* Walter Ibarra
Jonathon Mota
Matt Scioscia
Jeudy Valdez
OUTFIELDERS (5):
John Andreoli
Albert Almora (limited activity only - knee)
# Zeke DeVoss
Anthony Giansanti
Jorge Soler (limited activity only)
DAYTONA (32+1)
Hi-A
PITCHERS (15):
Justin Amlung
* Nathan Dorris
Zack Godley
* Michael Heesch
Michael Jensen
* Andrew McKirahan
Felix Pena
Steve Perakslis
Austin Reed
Tayler Scott
Tyler Skulina
Yao-Lin Wang
Ben Wells
* Al Yevoli
* Rob Zastryzny
CATCHERS (3+1):
Cael Brockmeyer
Ben Carhart (ex-3B)
Nate Maldonado (player-coach)
* Justin Marra
INFIELDERS (7):
Gioskar Amaya
# Jeimer Candelario
* Wes Darvill
* Marco Hernandez
Tim Saunders
* Rock Shoulders
* Dan Vogelbach
OUTFIELDERS (7):
Yasiel Balaguert
* Pin-Chieh Chen
* Jose Dore (INACTIVE - may have been released)
Reggie Golden (INACTIVE - may have been released)
* Jacob Hannemann
Trey Martin
# Oliver Zapata
KANE COUNTY (60):
Lo-A
PITCHERS (34)
Jose Arias
Paul Blackburn
Tyler Bremer
Trevor Clifton
* Gerardo Concepcion
Josh Davis
* Frailyn Figueroa
Scott Frazier
David Garner
Trevor Graham
Zak Hermans
Luis Hernandez
Corbin Hoffner
* Tyler Ihrig
Trey Lang
Erick Leal
Dillon Maples (limited activity only)
Trey Masek
Jeferson Mejia
Juan Carlos Paniagua
* Jose Paulino
Hector Perez
* Anthony Prieto
James Pugliese
Jasvir Rakkar
Brad Renner (limited activity only)
Orbandy Rodriguez
Reinier Roibal
Alexander Santana
Daury Torrez
Jen-Ho Tseng
Duane Underwood
Michael Wagner
* Sam Wilson (limited activity only)
CATCHERS (6):
Tyler Alamo
# Mark Malave
* Alberto Mineo
Will Remillard
Rony Rodriguez (ex-OF)
Antonio Valerio
INFIELDERS (14):
* Zak Blair
David Bote
* Danny Canela (ex-C)
# Varonex Cuevas
* Jordan Hankins
Jesse Hodges
* Danny Lockhart
# Dalfis Ortiz
Giuseppe Papaccio
Carlos Penalver
* Jacob Rogers
# Alex Sanchez (INACTIVE - may have been released)
# Trevor Stevens (limited activity only - right hand injury)
Gleyber Torres
OUTFIELDERS (6):
* Kevin Brown
Charcer Burks
* Rashad Crawford
* Shawon Dunston Jr
Eloy Jimenez
* Bijan Rademacher
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STILL NOT PRESENT ON FIELD: (going back to beginning of Minor League Camp)
* Jeffry Antigua, P
# Kevin Encarnacion, OF (INACTIVE - rehabbing from injuries sustained in off-season car crash)
Mike Hamann, P
Loiger Padron, P
* Brian Smith, P
Elliot Soto, INF (RESTRICTED LIST - 50-game Drug of Abuse suspension)
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BOISE/MESA (EXTENDED SPRING TRAINING)
NOTE: The Boise/Mesa (Extended Spring Training) squad will form during Minor League Camp, and will consist of players who will be left behind in Arizona to provide a replacement cadre in case of an injury to a player at Kane County, Daytona, Tennessee, and/or Iowa during the first two months of the season, inexperienced players who are competing for jobs with one of the "Short Season" teams that begin league play in June, and players (both MLB and minor league) getting into playing shape and/or rehabbing from an injury.
PITCHERS:
TBD
CATCHERS:
TBD
INFIELDERS
TBD
OUTFIELDERS
TBD
PITCHERS REHAB GROUP (7):
Marcelo Carreno (2013 shoulder surgery)
Jesus Castillo (2013 unknown-type injury)
Josh Conway (2013 elbow stress fracture)
Eduardo Figueroa (arrived late)
Barret Loux (shoulder)
Ryan McNeil (2013 TJS)
Trey McNutt (shoulder)
Recent comments
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Hagsag 11 hours 57 min ago (view)
Chase Strumpf and Andy Weber invited to the ML camp.
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Dolorous Jon Lester 17 hours 21 min ago (view)
Ryan Tepera returns. Major League deal
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crunch 1 day 15 hours ago (view)
spring training TV is usually fluid...adding and subtracting broadcast games...
first cubs TV (as of now) is March 3 (wednesday) on ESPN at 3pm EST.
radio broadcasts available for almost every game that's not televised. the cubs get going on monday and some other teams will start the day before.
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crunch 2 days 11 hours ago (view)
dj snelton's left elbow is screwed up...6 weeks rest then re-evaluate.
looks like he's going to try to avoid having surgery.
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Arizona Phil 3 days 3 hours ago (view)
AAA leagues really need to play through the month of September, because with September rosters being limited to 28 instead of 40, players will need to be moved back & forth between MLB and AAA throughout the month of September instead of just through the month of August.
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Mike Wellman 4 days 11 hours ago (view)
I get you, SW. Here in Des Moines, Cardinal fans flocked to I-Cub games when Memphis Redbirds were in town. That won't happen in '21 and even if it does in '22 & beyond it won't be as frequent as when they were in the same division. Not that I'll miss seeing Cardinal gear @ our ballpark...
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Dolorous Jon Lester 4 days 12 hours ago (view)
Ervin claimed by Braves. So we lose a potential future (and also current) asset in exchange for one year of a very mediocre Jake Marisnick.
This team has no direction at the moment.
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Sonicwind75 4 days 12 hours ago (view)
As a midwest kid now living in Texas, new scheduling is a bummer. Only get a chance to drive and see Cubs once every 3 years with interleague. Really looked forward to those games in Round Rock and the one season in San Antonio. I understand it makes more sense in the big picture, just selfishly disappointed.
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Cubster 5 days 14 hours ago (view)
Barry Foote bobble day! Cool!
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Mornington Crescent 5 days 16 hours ago (view)
They also gave away Larry Craig bobblefoot dolls as a promotion.
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crunch 6 days 8 hours ago (view)
alcantara passes through waivers and is assigned to AAA.
marisnick contract final, phllip ervin (OF) DFA'd
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Hagsag 6 days 10 hours ago (view)
Yes they did.
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crunch 6 days 11 hours ago (view)
welcome to the "big time" st paul saints...they built a nice park, the fans showed up, and they go from indies to AAA (with a bit of $ help from the twins for part ownership).
billy murray is a part owner of the group that owns the saints, btw.
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Mike Wellman 6 days 11 hours ago (view)
Hagsag, the River Bandits made the cut tho, right?
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Craig A. 6 days 13 hours ago (view)
Could have an option year remaining. Bleacher Nation walked it back, per the link above.
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Hagsag 6 days 13 hours ago (view)
Living in the Quad Cities area, I look forward to hopefully coming to Des Moines to see the I Cubs a few times this summer.
Comments
"Gordon Wittenmyer @GDubCub
Good for him. He definitely
exhibition baseball @montreal
Watched 2 innings. Awesome to
The ball park (at least on TV
it's always looked horrible..
It wasn't exactly like Jack
It wasn't exactly like Jack Nicholson sitting front row court-side at Lakers games, but my one stand-out memory of Olympic Stadium was seeing actor Donald Sutherland (who was an Expos season ticket holder for several seasons) sitting alone in a front row box seat next to the Expos dugout in mostly-empty stands. It seemed like every time the camera showed him he was taking a nip out of his pocket-flask.
Sutherland really seems like
The Kane Ciounty roster will
The Kane Ciounty roster will get most of the movement this weekend, but if I had to guess and based on what I have seen so far, I would say (just spit-ballin' here) that the Cougars Opening Day roster will look something like this:
STARTING PITCHERS:
Jose Arias
Trey Masek
Juan Carlos Paniagua
Daury Torrez
Jen-Ho Tseng
BULLPEN:
Tyler Bremer (closer)
Corbin Hoffner
Orbandy Rodriguez
* Gerardo Concepcion
NOTE: Plus four more pitchers who I think will probably get moved down from Daytona to KC:
Justin Amlung
* Nathan Dorris
Zack Godley
Steve Perakslis
CATCHERS:
Cael Brockmeyer (also 1B)
* Justin Marra or Lance Rymel
Will Remillard
NOTE: Rony Rodriguez could make the KC roster instead of Marra or Rymel as the 3rd catcher and 1B-LF-DH
INFIELDERS:
David Bote (2B-3B-SS-LF-CF)
* Danny Canela (1B)
* Jordan Hankins (3B)
* Danny Lockhart (2B)
Giuseppe Papaccio (2B-3B-SS-LF-RF)
NOTE: I think SS Carlos Penalver making the KC Opening Day roster is only 50/50. He might, but he hasn't had a good Minor League Camp.
OUTFIELDERS:
Yasiel Balaguert (RF-LF)
Shawon Dunston Jr (LF-CF)
Trey Martin (CF-LF)
* Bijan Rademacher (LF-RF)
NOTE: Balaguert and Martin are both presently asSigned to the Daytona squad, and two of three among Balaguert, Martin, and Jacob Hannemann (maybe even all three) will probably get moved down to KC
I see you bumped Duane
I have tickets for the season
"STARTING PITCHERS: Jose
Blackburn will be Kane, he
Q-MAN: Duane Underwood is OK
Q-MAN: Duane Underwood is OK and back participating fully, but I think he will begin the season atr EXST.
Thanks Phil.
Olt, rizzo, Castro , Bryant
Sure, but we also have plenty
yow...a.cabrerra's last
hammels goes 4ip 2h 0bb 5k.
Dunno, think they were saying
kershaw, who's velocity has
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10622213/th...
It's a big change from the previous regime, whose old-school methods prompted the overhaul. When one of Epstein's hires told scouts they'd be using Microsoft Excel for scheduling, one asked, "Sorry, but what is Excel?" When McLeod took over player development, just eight of 24 area scouts had email linked to their smartphones. "Hendry is a great guy, but this was the Stone Age," says a player-development source no longer with the team. "A report would be, 'Plus-plus makeup -- I love this kid.' What does that even mean?" Scouts did not take video of players -- a basic and invaluable task with today's technology. The job of one executive under the computer-shy Hendry consisted of scanning the Internet for relevant stories and distributing printouts twice a day. "Theo finally told him to stop," the source says. "They let the guy go, which is sad, but nobody needs stuff that's three hours old when they have MLB Trade Rumors up on their computers and the app on their phone."
C'mon. Really?
This is equivalent to
scouts are amazingly
It's actually 2019.
Wow that's a really well
Why did Fred Phelps have to
Too much?
Not enough.
Wow, there's more analogy in
Cubs finish spring training
I worry about them peaking
losing is the new winning..
So are you pro rebuild, or
don't read into it...just
OMG.........how long are you
No, you don't understand:
omg...you can rebuilt a
Aha! I think I've figured out
i rarely find the
Fun fact- Joe Ricketts has
I was only joking.
everything is awesome