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39 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (one slot is open), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL and one player has been DESIGNATED FOR ASSIGNMENT (DFA)   

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and eight players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and two players is on the 10-DAY IL

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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
* Matt Mervis
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Pete Crow-Armstrong 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 8 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2
* Cody Bellinger, OF  
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 3
Kyle Hendricks, P 
* Drew Smyly, P 
* Justin Steele, P   

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P

DFA: 1 
Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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Cubs @ Pirates: Series Thread (Games 4 & 5)

Submitted by Charlie on

The Cubs took two out of three from last year's NL Central champs and nearly pulled another from the grip of a Brewer's staff that put a lot of hurt on the 2021 team in the early going. In their first away series of 2022, they'll take on some softer competition from fellow NL Central basement dwellers, the Pittsburgh Pirates. See below for the daily matchups.

Game 4, Tuesday, April 12, 3:12 pm central

CHC: LHP Drew Smyly (0-0, -.--)

PIT: LHP Jose Quintana (0-0, -.--)

Smyly made 23 starts with Atlanta in 2021 and put up numbers slightly above replacement level. In his best years, he's been a bit better than league average, but he's also struggled to stay on the field consistently. He should have been pitching depth for the Cubs, but with Miley, Alzolay, and Mills all out in the early going, the Cubs push him into regular rotation work for the time being.

Quintana will take on a lineup in familiar blue pinstripes, but few current Cubs have had a look at the veteran lefty. Contreras, of course, knows his repertoire as a receiver. Jonathan Villar is 5/14 with a homerun off of Quintana and could find his way into the mix.

Game 5, Wednesday, APril 13, 11:35 am central

CHC: RHP Kyle Hendricks (0-0, 1.69 ERA)

PIT: RHP Zach Thompson (0-0, -.-- ERA)

Hendricks gets his second go-round of 2022 as the Cubs can pass without a 5th starter for now. He struck out 7 Brewers on opening day but also allowed 8 baserunners in 5.1 inning pitched.

Zach Thompson made 26 appearances, 14 of them starts, for the Miami Marlins as a rookie in 2021. The then-27-year-old rookie put up solid numbers and was traded in the off-season as part of a package that send Jacob Stallings to sunnier climes. The Pirates rotation offers less competition for starts and should give Thompson a chance to establish himself as a back-end starter.

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Submitted by crunch on Mon, 04/11/2022 - 04:42 pm

keegan thompson suspended 3 games.  pretty much expected.  he may or may not appeal.

d.ross suspended 1 game and will serve it tuesday.

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 04/12/2022 - 04:08 pm

fraizer(DH) - contreras - wisdom - schwindel - suzuki - madrigal - hermosillo(CF) - happ - hoerner

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 04/12/2022 - 04:12 pm

SUZUKI!  unf.

Submitted by Mike Wellman on Wed, 04/13/2022 - 04:46 pm

From tonight's I-Cub game notes: While Brennen Davis hasn’t gotten off to the hot start he did last season with Iowa, he has still given the I-Cubs several productive plate appearances. Davis is hitting just .158 (3-for-19) this season, but he’s taken seven walks in his first 26 plate appearances this season. That’s good for not only the team lead, but a tie for the most walks taken by any qualified player in Triple-A baseball.

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 04/13/2022 - 04:03 pm

7 walks in 26 PA as a 22 year old in AAA is stellar.  he obviously has an idea of what he wants to swing at and what he doesn't want to swing at.  that's a great core skill for a guy his age in AAA.

hopefully the swing-and-miss at the stuff he does like gets better quickly...like, 2023 quickly or something.

Submitted by crunch on Wed, 04/13/2022 - 04:20 pm

yanks decided to bat rizzo leadoff tonight...single, homer, and walk in 5 PA.

rizzo 1/16m (16m player option for 2023) might end up being one of the best offseason deals in baseball for an established vet.  i wonder how off-reality his offseason demands were to settle for a 1-year deal for a gamble to reestablish his value.  he turns 33 in august.

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Miguel Cruz walked six in 1.2 IP in his last start, so I guess he is improving. Wilme Mora also walked six in one of his appearances a week or two ago, and one or two others have walked five. I don't know what would be the most I have ever seen a pitcher throw in a game out here, because the manager / pitching coach usually gets the pitcher out of the game if it gets too ridiculous. 

    As for the attendance, probably about 20 of the 25 were early arrivals for the Savannah Bananas game who came over to Field # 1 to see what was going on, and once they saw all the bases on balls (12 walks by Cubs pitchers and four by Angels pitchers) they ran away screaming. I'm used to it so it didn't bother me that much. 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Jed has added Teheran, Tyranski, Kissaki, and now Straily and Nico Zeglin today.

    Zeglin is 24 yrs old. Pitched well at Long Beach St in '23 and well in some Indy Ball.

    They also added Reilly and Viets in late ST.

    Have to search for MiLB arm depth anywhere you can and at all times!!!

  • Childersb3 (view)

    25 in Attendance!!!

    Phil, is that a backfield record?

    Also, 6 BBs for Cruz in 2 IP. What's the most walks you've seen in one EXT ST outing that you can recall?

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    He has a pulse. Apparently that’s the only requirement at this point.

  • crunch (view)

    cubs sign dan straily...for some reason.  minor league deal.

    welcome back.

    zac rosscup is down in mexico trying to make it happen...maybe they could throw him a contract, too.  junior lake is his teammate.  shore up a bunch of holes with some washups.

  • fullykräusened (view)

    The great thing about going to live sports events is you don't know if you're going to see something historic. Today I went to the Cub game, after putting the liner back in my coat and fishing my Cubs knit hat out of the closet. I needed all that- my seats are in the upper deck, left, so the east wind was in my face. Both teams failed to capitalize on good situations, but both starters did a good job to accomplish this. So, we go to the bottom of the sixth inning. The Cubs tie it up, and then Pete Crow-Armstrong comes up. We all know he would still be in AAA if not for injuries, and future Hall-of-Famer Justin Verlander absolutely carved up the young fellow up in his first two plate appearances. So this time he hits a fly ball. The wind was blowing in and had suppressed several strong fly balls- including a rocket off Altuve's bat that Canario hauled in (does anybody else remind me of Jorge Soler?) , but the ball kept carrying and carrying. 107mph, legit angle and carry. The crowd went nuts, the dugout went nuts. Maybe, just maybe, I saw the first homer from a long-term Cub.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Which was my original premise. They won the trades but lost their souls. They no longer employ the Cardinal way which had been so successful for so long.

  • crunch (view)

    STL traded away a lot of minor league talent that went on to do nothing in the arenado + goldschmidt trades.  neither guy blocked any of their minor league talent in the pipeline, too.  that's ideal places to add talent.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Natural cycle of baseball. Pitching makes adjustments in approach to counter a hot young rookie. Now it’s time for Busch and his coaches to counter those adjustments. Busch is very good and will figure it out, I think sooner than later.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    In 2020, the pandemic year and the year before they acquired Arenado, the Cardinals finished second and were a playoff team. Of the 12 batters with 100 plate appearances, 8 of them were home grown. Every member of the starting rotation (if you include Wainwright) and all but one of the significant relievers were home grown. While there have been a relative handful of very good trades interspersed which have been mentioned, player development had been their predominant pattern for decades - ever since I became an aware fan in the ‘70’s

    The Arenado deal was not a deal made out of dire need or desperation. It was a splashy, headline making deal for a perennial playoff team intended to be the one piece that brought the Cardinals from a very good team to a World Series contender. They have continued to wheel and deal and have been in a slide ever since. I stand by my supposition that that deal marked a notable turning point within the organization. They broke what had been a very successful formula for a very long time.
     

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