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

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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Dodgers @ Cubs: Kershaw vs Quintana (NLCS Game 5)

LAD (3-1): LHP Clayton Kershaw
CHC (1-3): LHP José Quintana
First pitch: 7:08pmCST (TBS)

The Cubs avoid the sweep and survive to fight another day. To take the series back to LA, they have to face one of the best pitchers on the planet and win a game without their only effective bullpen arm. 

Game Five is a rematch of Game One, where both starters went five innings and gave up 2 ER—the difference being the Dodgers pen, which was able to keep it at that. LA ended up winning the game 5-2.

Davis faced 9 batters and threw 48 pitches last night and will almost certainly be unavailable. Hopefully, Lester will be able to pitch an inning or two out of the pen. Hendricks, too. Alternatively, our offense gets medieval on Dodger pitching and makes the whole point moot.

In any event, the prospect of a Yanks-Dodgers World Series makes me start thinking about what I could binge watch on Netflix, so let’s not have that.

There are 15,776 tickets available for Game Six, starting at $113. Gets yours now.

Go Cubs!

Comments

Dodgers will want to take the series back to LA where they can celebrate in style and not in the dingy, ratty visitors' clubhouse in Wrigley. Advantage: Cubs

CUBS Fans come early and leave late DODGERS fans come in the 3rd and leave in the 7th. Advantage: Cubs

Cubs have been married to Chicago since forever. Dodgers divorced Brooklyn for a blonde on the beach. Advantage Cubs...

game starting an hour earlier tonight (8pm EST rather than 9pm EST). sweet. oh, umm...advantage cubs.

AZ PHIL: How is Dillon Maples looking out there so far? Lord knows this team needs bullpen help in 2018. Any starters on the 40-man you think would be candidates? One thing about this Dodgers team is that Friedman and Co. have been very adept at targeting recent starters and throwing them in the pen, with tremendous success. Maeta, for example, the Cubs hammered in the NLCS last year. This year, they can't touch a thing. I happen to think they will be making a play for Darvish, Cobb, or possibly Jake on a shorter deal (unlikely). Maybe Cueto... But this bullpen - eesh.

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In reply to by The E-Man

E-MAN: Depending on how he fares in Spring Training, Dillon Maples has a good shot at being in the Cubs Opening Day bullpen in 2018. What his exact role would be would depend on how much confidence Maddon has in him, and that is based on performance in games.   

Eddie Butler is out of minor league options in 2018 and so he'll probably be on the Cubs Opening Day 25-man roster no matter how he looks in Spring Training, either as a starter or reliever (TBD). Butler has a similar profile as a young Wade Davis before Davis was moved from the starting rotation to the pen, and I would not be surprised if Butler is moved to the bullpen in 2018. His stuff might actually play up better as a reliever than it has so far as a starter, and most MLB relievers (even some of the best ones) were starting pitchers in the minors and/or underperformed as a SP in the big leagues before being moved to the bullpen. 

*frantically searching couch cushions* hey, did anyone keep that receipt for Q? we need to return Q and get eloy back. *continues searching*

What a shit show! At the least the Dodgers spared any Cubs fans from getting their hopes up early on...

Well that escalated quickly. Yow. Putting in Rondon with the bases loaded, yeah, I'd delete that one from the iPad, Joe.

ummm...think this goes far beyond Maddon. Putting Lackey in for game 2 was beyond stupid...but can't blame him for the entire bullpen being horrid, and offense being inept.

And, sometimes you just lose to a better team. Better starting pitching, better bullpen, better closer, better hitters. We had to deal with Zobrist and Heyward in the lineup and they didn't. Our 2 best hitters were completely shut down by every one of their pitchers. They were the best team all year and will be 7-1 in the playoffs. And they didn't even have Corey Seager this series. Congrats and enjoy. I'm still pulling for the Astros, though. A very fun and exciting year, and the young core will return, hopefully a little better rested. To the off-season! Pitching is the order of the day, Theo -- lots and lots of pitching.

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In reply to by billybucks

And sometimes you beat a better team due to flukes and idiosyncratic readings of technicalities: see NLDS 2017. Agreed with you on the pitching. Their ability to acquire effective starters might be the difference maker in terms of what they make out of the peak years for these young position players.

Recent comments

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    LHP Blake Weiman appears to have been the last cut from the AAA Iowa roster. He is with the Tennessee group at Minor League Camp.

     

  • crunch (view)

    bruce bochy is hobbling rather badly for a guy who's had 2 hip replacements.  his gait is extremely wonky taking the lineup card to the ump.

  • crunch (view)

    yeah, for me this isn't about who's better at 3rd.  it's madrigal, period.  for me it's about who's not hitting in the lineup because madrigal is in the lineup.

    occasional play at 3rd for madrigal, okay.  going with the steele/ground-ball matchup...meh, but okay, whatever.

    seeing madrigal get significant starting time...no thanks.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Yeah I am very disappointed Madrigal is starting. He has no business as a starter. He is AAA insurance, a back up at best. Sure his defense looks fine because he plays far enough in that his noodle arm isn’t totally exposed. It comes at the cost of 3B range.

    He’s garbage, and a team serious about winning would NOT have him starting opening day.

  • crunch (view)

    in other news, it took 3 PA before a.rizzo got his 1st HBP of the season.

  • Eric S (view)

    With two home runs (so far) and 5 rbi today … clearly Nick Martini is the straw that stirs the Reds drink 😳

  • 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.  it will be telling if morel is not used at 3rd when an extreme fly ball pitcher like imanaga is on the mound.

  • 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.