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40-Man Roster Info

40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full), plus two players are 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

Last updated 4-18-2024
 
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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 
* Justin Steele, P   

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




Minor League Rosters
Rule 5 Draft 
Minor League Free-Agents

2019 Cubs Extended Spring Training Roster

Submitted by Arizona Phil on

5/28 UPDATE: 

OF Edmond Americaan has been moved-up to Lo-A South Bend and INF Clayton Daniel has been moved back up to AA Tennessee from EXST.

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5/25 UPDATE: 

OF Brennen Davis has been moved-up to Lo-A South Bend and OF D. J. Wilson has been moved-up to Hi-A Myrtle Beach from EXST. 

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5/20 UPDATE: 

RHSP Jose Albertos has been moved-up to Lo-A South Bend from EXST. 

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5/13 UPDATE: 

INF Gioskar Amaya (February 2017 right knee surgery rehab) has been moved-up to AA Tennessee and 3B-1B Wladimir Galindo has been moved back up to Hi-A Myrtle Beach from EXST (Galindo spent three weeks at EXST).

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5/12 UPDATE: 

RHP Adbert Alzolay (lat strain rehab) and RHP Alexander Vargas have been moved-up to Hi-A Myrtle Beach and RHRP Junichi Tazawa has been moved-up to AAA Iowa from EXST, and RHP Riley McCauley has been moved-down to EXST from Lo-A South Bend.  

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5/9 UPDATE: 

RHRP Sean Barry has been moved-up to Lo-A South Bend from EXST and OF D. J. Wilson has been moved-down to EXST from Hi-A Myrtle Beach. 

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5/3 UPDATE: 

RHRP Tommy Nance and RHRP Jake Stinnett have been moved-up to Hi-A Myrtle Beach from EXST, and OF-1B Abraham Rodriguez has been reinstated from the Restricted List and is active at EXST. 

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4/29 UPDATE: 

The Cubs have signed FA RHP John Pomeroy and he has been assigned to EXST. 

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4/27 UPDATE: 

SS Luis Vazquez has been moved-up to AA Tennessee from EXST. 

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4/25 UPDATE: 

LHRP Jack Patterson has been moved-up to Lo-A South Bend from EXST. 

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4/22 UPDATE: 

3B-1B Wladimir Galindo has been moved-down to EXST from Hi-A Myrtle Beach. 

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4/12 UPDATE: 

SS-3B Christopher Morel has been moved-up to Lo-A South Bend from EXST. 

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4/11 UPDATE: 

3B Jesse Hodges and INF Clayton Daniel have been moved-up to AA Tennessee from EXST. 

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ORIGINAL POST 4/10

Here is the 2019 Cubs Extended Spring Training roster. 

There are more than 100 players assigned to EXST, and there may be some additions & changes in the coming days.  


CUBS EXTENDED SPRING TRAINING ROSTER: 105 (81 ACTIVE + 16 LIMITED ACTIVITY REHAB + 8 LONG-TERM REHAB)

last updated 6-2-2019 
 
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PITCHERS (ACTIVE): 47 
Maikel Aguiar 
* Chris Allen 
Willy Cabrera 
Alfredo Colorado 
Enrique de los Rios (ACTIVE REHAB) 
Manuel Espinoza 
Jeremiah Estrada 
* Riger Fernandez 
Emilio Ferrebus 
Kohl Franklin 
Jamie Galazin (ex-OF)
Richard Gallardo 
* Misael Garcia
Jose Miguel Gonzalez
Julio Guante  
Fauris Guerrero
Manuel Heredia 
Elias Herrera  
Chad Hockin (ACTIVE REHAB) 
* Brandon Hughes (ex-OF) 
* Danny Hultzen (ACTIVE REHAB)
Erick Leal (ACTIVE REHAB)
Chi-Feng Lee 
* Brendon Little (ACTIVE REHAB)
* Joel Machado 
Riley McCauley 
Ivan Medina
Eduarniel Nunez 
* Pablo Ochoa
Carlos Ocampo 
Raidel Orta  
Yunior Perez 
John Pomeroy  
Luis Ramos 
Jorge Remon 
* Ruben Reyes (ex-OF) 
Benjamin Rodriguez 
* Luis Rodriguez 
Casey Ryan
* Luis Silva 
Niels Stone 
Jesus Tejada 
Keegan Thompson (ACTIVE REHAB)
* Didier Vargas 
Carlos Vega 
Omar Ventura 
Blake Whitney 

PITCHERS (LIMITED ACTIVITY REHAB): 9 
* Andres Bonalde 
* Xavier Cedeno 
Danis Correa 
Yovanny Cruz
* Bryan Hudson 
* Conor Lillis-White
Jake Reindl
* Josh Sawyer 
Allen Webster

PITCHERS (LONG-TERM REHAB): 8  
Corey Black 
Casey Bloomquist
Kendall Graveman  
* Luke Hagerty 
M. T. Minacci 
Brandon Morrow 
Duncan Robinson 
* Jerry Vasto 

CATCHERS: 9 
Alexander Guerra 
Caleb Knight 
Marcus Mastrobuoni (ACTIVE REHAB) 
Orian Nunez (ex-INF)
Richard Nunez 
Raymond Pena 
Henderson Perez 
* Jonathan Soto 
Danny Zardon (ex-INF)  

INFIELDERS: 12+5
# Santiago Blanco (LIMITED ACTIVITY) 
* Rochest Cruz 
Luis Diaz 
# Reivaj Garcia 
Nico Hoerner (LIMITED ACTIVITY)
# Josue Huma  
Widimer Joaquin 
# Pedro Martinez 
# Fidel Mejia (LIMITED ACTIVITY)
Rafael Mejia 
Miguel Pabon (LIMITED ACTIVITY)
Herson Perez
Fabian Pertuz  
Oswaldo Pina
Zack Short (LIMITED ACTIVITY)
Jake Slaughter 
Luis Verdugo 

OUTFIELDERS: 12+2 
Jose Cardona (LIMITED ACTIVITY)  
Yovanny Cuevas 
# Jose Gutierrez (ACTIVE REHAB)  
* Albert Hinirio 
Dalton Hurd 
Fernando Kelli 
* Ervis Marchan
Kevin Moreno 
Carlos Morfa 
Carlos Pacheco 
* Ezequiel Pagan 
* Abraham Rodriguez
* Ricardo Verenzuela (LIMITED ACTIVITY) 
Brandon Vicens 

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FIELD COORDINATOR: 
Carmelo Martinez 

GAME MANAGERS: 
Ricardo Medina 
Lance Rymel 

COACHES:
Claudio Almonte (Hitting Coach) 
Yasiel Balaguert (Assistant Hitting Coach)  
Michael Carter (Hitting Coach) 
Armando Gabino (Pitching Coach) 
Manny Olivera (Pitching Coach) 
Tyler Pearson (Catching Coach)
Chris Pieters (Outfield Coach) 
Jacob Rogers (Assistant Hitting Coach) 
Carlos Rojas (Infield Coach) 
Chase Spivey (Hitting Coach)
Anderson Tavarez (Pitching Coach) 

TRAINERS:
Sean Folan 
Matthew Hussey 
Ike Ojata 

STRENGTH & CONDITIONING COACHES: 
Mike McGrew 
Ryan Nordtvedt
Andres Rondon 

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Comments

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Thu, 04/11/2019 - 04:28 pm

The Cubs have released RHSP Jen-Ho Tseng (Designated for Assignment last Saturday). The Cubs could not place Tseng on Outright Assignment Waivers because he is on the Iowa 7-day DL, so they had to either trade him or release him. And they could re-sign him (to a minor league contract) if he clears Outright Release Waivers on Saturday, presuming both Tseng and the Cubs have a mutual interest in Tseng remaining with the Cubs at the minor league level (at least through the 2019 season). NOTE: If he is released and then re-signs with the Cubs, Tseng must sign a minor league contract, and he cannot be added back to the Cubs MLB 40-man roster (and 25-man roster) for at least 30 days. 

If Tseng is not claimed off Release Waivers and does not re-sign with the Cubs, he gets his 2019 minor league split salary (about $90,000) as terminatton pay. That's because the termination pay for a player signed to a "split contract" (one salary if the player is on an MLB Active List or MLB injured list, and a different and much lower salary if the player is on Optional Assignment to the minors) is the minor league salary, as long as he is released while on Optional Assignment to the minors (as was the case with Tseng). The one caveat is that a club cannot option a player to the minors and then release him just to avoid termination pay paid at the Major League rate. 

Also remember that while - AN INJURED PLAYER CAN BE RELEASED AT ANY TIME - (and an injured player can also be non-tendered on 12/2), most injured players can be placed on Outright Assignment Waivers (and be outrighted to the minors) only during a limited period of time extending from the day after the conclusion of the MLB regular season until the off-season roster filing deadline on 11/20. The one exception is an injured player on an MLB 40-man roster who did not accrue any MLB Service Time during the previous season. As long as the player is not a Rule 6 Selected Player or Draft-Excluded Player or MLB Rule 55 player and as long as the player has accrued less than three years of MLB Service Time in his career, a player who accrued no MLB Service Time the previous season can be outrighted to the minors (even if he is injured) beginning on the day after the conclusion of the MLB regular season up until 15 days prior to MLB Opening Day. 

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 04:19 pm

The Cubs have added RHP Manuel Heredia and LHP Joel Machado to the EXST roster, so that makes a total of three 2018-19 IFA making their pro debut at EXST (RHP Richard Gallardo is the other one). 

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Tue, 04/30/2019 - 04:54 am

The Cubs have signed FA RHP John Pomeroy (PIT 2016 13th round draft pick - Oregon State) and he has been assigned to Extended Spring Training.

The 6'5 210 24-year old righty was released by the Pirates at the end of Minor League Camp earlier this month after spending three seasons in the Pirates organization.  

He underwent TJS in April 2017 and missed the 2017 season, but he returned to the mound in 2018.  

Recent comments

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I have had the pleasure of watching some of the young A's pitchers lately (first Joe Boyle the last day of Minor League Spring Training in March, and more recently Luis Morales last week and Steven Echavarria yesterday at Extended Spring Training), and it reminds me of the Miami Marlins a couple of years ago. A really nice collection of young pitchers. It will be interesting to see what the A's will get for two years of ex-Cub Paul Blackburn at the Trade Deadline (there should be a robust market for Blackburn). 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Good deal

    MB needs some talent infusion!

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Very possible. Suriel, too. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    DJL: if a pitcher is recalled to be the 27th man for a doubleheader and then is optioned back to the minors the next day, the 15-day "clock" does NOT reset. The one day call-up for the doubleheader is treated like it never happened with respect to a pitcher having to spend at least 15 days on optional assignment before he can be recalled. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Probably the only reason David Peralta is still in the organization (he is at AAA Iowa) is to be available in case anything bad were to happen to Ian Happ (which it just did). So if Happ needs to go on the IL, the Cubs can select Peralta to play LF, DFA Wisdom (and hope he and what remains of his $2.725M salary gets claimed off waivers), and recall Mervis to platoon at DH with Cooper (with Canario / Tauchman sharing RF), at least until Suzuki and Happ are back...

     

  • crunch (view)

    i'd just like to take a moment to express to the world i'm still pissed willson contreras is not a cub when the pricetag was 5/87m (17.5m/yr).

    it would be nice to have a legacy-type player to stick around, especially one with his leadership and the respect he gets from his peers.  cubs fans deserved more than 1 season of contreras + morel...that was gold.

  • crunch (view)

    happ, right hamstring tightness, day-to-day (hopefully 0 days).

    he will be reevaluated tomorrow.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    I guess I'm not looking for that type of AB 

    Just a difference of opinion

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    I don’t see Tauchman as a weak link in any position. He simply adds his value in a different way.

    I don’t know that we gain much by putting him in the outfield - Happ, Bellinger and Suzuki and Tauchman all field their positions well. If you’re looking for Taucnman’s kind of AB in a particular game I don’t see why it can’t come from DH.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Tauchman gets a pinch hit RBI single with a liner to RF. This is his spot. He's a solid 4th OF. But he isn't a DH. 

    He takes pitches. Useful. I still believe in having good hitters.

    You don't want your DH to be your weak link (other than your C maybe)

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