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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 

 



 

Minor League Rosters
Rule 5 Draft 
Minor League Free-Agents

Cubs should take advantage of that Cash for Clunkers program.

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Think I got the answer here.
That Cash for Clunkers program?
You think they'd take this used Aaron Miles?
Lookin' at it now, I'm not even sure why I got it.
What about an '07 Soriano with a busted clutch?
I know it's leased through 2014 but hell brother, I'll take anything for it.
This '09 Bradley - this thing came like that.
The signals don't even work.
Oh, and you see that heap over there, that Gregg?
I had a nice old Woody, but I gave it away when I saw the Gregg.
How much you give me for it?

Hi.
Just trying to have a little fun down here in my own lowered expectations.


Tim Souers is the illustrator and author of Cubby Blue and appreciates the opportunity to guest blog here at The Cub Reporter.
http://www.cubby-blue.com

 

Comments

thought our luck had just changed... stl with bases loaded, nobody out agaisnt Carillo in the 1st. Didn't score. too bad our offense is up to their usual stink, singles by theriot and fuld neutralized by dlee dp and aram popout. same old, same old.

Bottom of the 8th...a cubbie occurance in dodger blue? dempster walks leadoff hitter (martin) and exits grabow walks his first hitter (abreau) Loretta FC 6-4, Theriot deep in the hole and the throw has Fontenot come off 2B...reverse cubness Hudson pops up to Theriot who drops it in the sun, then throws it past the catcher...whoa..blown lead? Len see's umps sending the runners back and thinks it's infield fly...Bob says it can't be since the runners were at 1st and 3rd. So they finally realize the Third base ump rescues the inning...he called time out before the popup pitch. A doo-over! Grabow gets a DP out of Hudson 5-4-3. We will see Marmol in his first closing appearance as annointed closer. Oh oh.

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In reply to by The Real Neal

I think you could build a new ball park and as long as the Cubs put a legit ball team on the field, people will show up and pack the place. Anyways, this article is all speculation and is just the kind of journalism that annoys the piss out of me: ...refurbishing Wrigley Field. According to sources... Yes, according to sources. The most spectacular addition to the park could be a JumboTron... It also could be a giant dildo-shaped statue right behind the pitcher's mound, too... you're just making stuff up now. Anyways, I don't want to get into it over Bruce Levine and who likes him and who doesn't, I don't really have an opinion either way, I just hate articles written like this.

note this about Reed Johnson at the end of the above sun-times link: Cubs OF Reed Johnson, on the DL with a broken foot, probably won't return until Sept. 1, Piniella said. ---- Think his injury was July 28th...so we're talking more than a month from a fracture of an undisclosed bone in his foot. I kind of thought it was worse than they initially thought.

Smoltz 5IP no BB 9K's for the win...

According to Waddle and Silvy show on ESPN 1000, Z has been playing rec softball while's hes been on DL.

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In reply to by Rob G.

I think it was Zell who hoped the Cubs would fetch a billion $$. Forbes valued the Cubs at $700 million. And if that figure didn't include Wrigley Field or Comcast then they got it just about right. Here's what the Trib itself reported on April 3, 2007 when the Trib began to be sold to Zell (the deal was wrapped up in December with the Cubs retained). The Cubs could fetch "anywhere from $500 million to $600 million" from a buyer even without Wrigley, said Andrew Zimbalist, a Smith College professor who specializes in baseball economics. The Comcast stake is believed to be worth at least $50 million. Wrigley would be expected to add as much as $90 million to the asking price. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0704030231apr03,0,11… Addem up and you get a value somewhere between $640 and $740 million. $845 million with a retained 5% interest looks pretty damn good in comparison.

I don't know if there was an impact player available, but wouldn't the delay in the handoff account for Jim to sit on his hands? Lou was incredibly quiet at the deadline as well. It's such bad timing - in the player's heads, the manager statuesque, and the GM expected players off the DL to be the Peavy, Sabathia or Harden like last year. Zell must hate baseball....it's akin to waiting another year for that antique car to go up in value, but driving it in traffic caused a dent in the fender to ruin the paint job. It just shows that businessmen (first) shouldn't be owners. BASEBALL first...CUBS first, dammit, YOU BUSTED UP THE CAR! The fear here is they might start all over, the Padres model...sigh...I may not live that long.

I think crunch is pounding home the point that everyone is choosing to ignore. $140 million should buy you everything you need and more to compete in major league baseball. Sam Zell didn't hold this organization back, he actually unleashed its power to finally get talent. But on the flip side increasing payroll to increase the value of the franchise was a business decision. Only when the business people knew they would not be on the hook for these contracts did they authorize the Cubs to spend. A shrewd GM might have spent wiser, but when you have been constrained for so long in gettting the best you can see why decisions were made.

If you all are going to insist on bitching about how the team is playing, the thing you should really be bitching about is that there won't be much money to fix it during FA for 2010, because of all the high $ and no trade contracts. I disagree about the $140 million payroll thing. If any dipshit GM can turn that into a playoff team every year, explain the NY teams.

I really feel the issue isn't the amount of the payroll. The Cubs have needed a 'real, experienced' baseball man to have watched over Hendry since he became GM and not Crane "International Man of Mystery" Kenney who what he knows about baseball would fit on the end of a pencil eraser with room to erase. Someone who would have said, "Whoa, whoa, Jim-boy. That's a lot of guaranteed years for Soriano, don't you think?" WSCR has been reporting all day that Ricketts is in touch with Sandy Alderson who reportedly would become President and then hire one of Theo Epstein's GM staff to become GM who would then, no doubt, want to hire his own manager. LouPa tells the Sun-Times on Saturday that he wants to manage next year and is coming back for 2010, and then on Sunday says, 'Well, that's what I want to do, but of course, new ownership may have their own ideas'. That all but says Lou doesn't want to manage next year, but wants a buy-out for his 4th year. Who can blame him for not wanting to supervise this traveling circus side-show next year (Z doesn't want to exercise, drink fluids, or rest when he's on the DL; Soriano won't use a lighter bat because....well, because he doesn't want to; and Bradley is the LH hitter that Hendry gives him who never has been able to hit RH pitching as well as Ibanez). I hope to God they do hire a real 'baseball man' as President. I don't know if Alderson is that man or not but I hope they hire someone with a real plan that (1) drafts players who can hit, run, and field and pitchers who aren't 45 innings away from TJ surgery; (2) hires a player development staff that really can teach and develop these players to play baseball like...oh, the Braves, Phillies, Red Sox, or Cardinals; and (3) a manager in the mold of Bobby Cox/Mike Scosia who isn't afraid to remind a player making $400,000 to $20M that he's the frickin' manager and the player works for him, not the other way around. It's a really tall order because I am of the belief that you're going to have to tear this organization down to the concrete floor and rebuild it from the ground up. And nothing is sacred or sacrosanct including keeping Wrigley Field, keeping any player regardless of contract, and/or doing anything the way it's always been done. This is a 'loser' franchise that needs a complete makeover in virtually every facet of baseball operations. I'm disillusioned and lack any confidence that those people currently in charge of any baseball operations functions with the Cubs will ever contribute to achieving a World Championship.

Nice post Alt-Man. Dallas Green was the last GM who really knew WTF he was doing. And he wanted too much power. I completely admire Theo Epstein - and he has made good with his "MBA/JD Guy" image. After this season, I really want to see an improvement in the GM for our team which SHOULD be a perennial contender - like the Red Sox. FUCK the Cardinals! OK - they have Pujols - but it seems like every year they are at least "in the hunt". Tonight I listened to Kap on his sports show for a few minutes. He was more "dark" about the team's future than I have heard him in a very long time. Usually VERY upbeat, he surprisingly wnt on and on about the bad contracts, how Soriano, due to the debt servicing for the Rickets and his horrible contract - will not be going anywhere - as the owners will NOT want to eat $90MM. He thinks Bradley is another matter and believes he'll be gone and was a crap signing in the first place (surprised?). This is stuff we all know - but DLEE with his NTC will be around - Kap believes Lilly will be offered an extension (and he whined that we have no heir apparent in the minors - with his skills), Harden is gone, and our minors are not in good shape. Again - pretty dismal from "Mr. Happy Cub Broadcast Guy" Crane Kenny can go fuck himself. I was mad when the season started that he raised ticked prices in a Depression, and as Altman states, condoned the Idiot Savant Hendry with his "management" of the payroll.

Recent comments

  • 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.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I expect OF Christian Franklin to have a breakout season at AA Tennessee in 2024. In another organization that doesn't have PCA, Caissie, K. Alcantara, and Canario in their system, C. Franklin would be a Top 10 prospect. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    The Reds trading Joe Boyle for Sam Moll at last year's MLB Trade Deadline was like the Phillies trading Ben Brown to the Cubs for David Robertson at the MLB TD in 2022. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Javier Assad started the Lo-A game (Myrtle Beach versus Stockton) on the Cubs backfields on Wednesday as his final Spring Training tune-up. He was supposed to throw five innings / 75 pitches. However, I was at the minor league road games at Fitch so I didn't see Assad pitch. 

  • crunch (view)

    cards put j.young on waivers.

    they really tried to make it happen this spring, but he put up a crazy bad slash of .081/.244/.108 in 45PA.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Seconded!!!

  • crunch (view)

    another awesome spring of pitching reports.  thanks a lot, appreciated.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Here are the Cubs pitchers reports from Tuesday afternoon's Cardinals - Cubs game art Sloan Park in Mesa:

    SHOTA IMANAGA
    FB: 90-92 
    CUT: 87-89 
    SL: 82-83 
    SPLIT: 81-84
    CV: 73-74 
    COMMENT: Worked three innings plus two batters in the fourth... allowed four runs (three earned) on eight hits (six singles and two doubles) walked one, and struck out six (four swinging), with a 1/2 GO/AO... he threw 73 pitches (52 strikes - 10 swing & miss - 19 foul balls)... surrendered one run in the top of the 1st on a one-out double off Cody Bellinger's glove in deep straight-away CF followed one out later by two consecutive two-out bloop singles, allowed two runs (one earned) in the 2nd after retiring the first two hitters (first batter had a nine-pitch AB with four consecutive two-strike foul balls before being retired 3 -U) on a two-out infield single (weak throw on the run by Nico Hoerner), a hard-contact line drive RBI double down the RF line, and an E-1 (missed catch) by Imanaga on what should been an inning-ending 3-1 GO, gave up another run in the 3rd on a two-out walk on a 3-2 pitch and an RBI double to LF, and two consecutive singles leading off the top of the 4th before being relieved (runners were ultimately left stranded)... threw 18 pitches in the 1st inning (14 strikes - two swing & miss, one on FB and the other on a SL - four foul balls), 24 pitches in the 2nd inning (17 strikes - three swing & miss, one on FB, two SPLIT - six foul balls), 19 pitches in the 3rd inning (13 strikes - seven swing & miss, three on SL, two on SPLIT, one on FB - three foul balls), and 12 pitches without retiring a batter in the top of the 4th (8 strikes - no swing & miss - four foul balls)... Imanaga throws a lot of pitches per inning, but it's not because he doesn't throw strikes...  if anything, he throws too many strikes (he threw 70% strikes on Tuesday)... while he gets a ton of swing & miss (and strikeouts), he also induces a lot of foul balls because he doesn't try to make hitters chase his pitches by throwing them out of the strike zone... rather, he uses his very diverse pitch mix to get swing & miss (and lots of foul balls as well)... he also is a fly ball pitcher who will give up more than his share of HR during the course of the season...   
     
    JOE NAHAS
    FB: 90-92 
    SL: 83-85 
    CV: 80-81 
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day... relieved Imanaga with runners at first and second and no outs in the top of the 4th, and after an E-2 catcher's interference committed by Miguel Amaya loaded he bases, Nahas struck out the side (one swinging & two looking)... threw 16 pitches (11 strikes - two swinging)...   

    YENCY ALMONTE
    FB: 89-92 
    CH: 86 
    SL: 79 
    COMMENT: Threw an eight-pitch 5th (five strikes - no swing & miss), with a 5-3 GO for the first out and an inning-ending 4-6-3 DP after a one-out single... command was a bit off but he worked through it...   

    FRANKIE SCALZO JR
    FB: 94-95
    CH: 88 
    SL: 83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 6th inning... got the first outs easily (a P-5 and a 4-3 GO) on just three pitches, before allowing three consecutive two-out hard-contact hits (a double and two singles), with the third hit on pitch # 9 resulting in a runner being thrown out at the plate by RF Christian Franklin for the third out of the inning... 

    MICHAEL ARIAS
    FB: 94-96
    CH: 87-89
    SL: 82-83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and allowed a hard-contact double on the third pitch of the 7th inning (a 96 MPH FB), and the runner came around to score on a 4-3 GO and a WP... gave up two other loud contact outs (an L-7 and an F-9)... threw 18 pitches (only 10 strikes - only one swing & miss)... stuff is electric but still very raw and he continues to have difficulty commanding it, and while he has the repertoire of a SP, he throws too many pitches-per-inning to be a SP and not enough strikes to be a closer... he is most definitely still a work-in-progress...   

    ZAC LEIGH: 
    FB: 93-94 
    CH: 89 
    SL: 81-83 
    CV: 78
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and tossed a 1-2-3 8th (4-3 GO, K-swinging on a sweeper, K-looking on another sweeper)... threw 14 pitches (11 strikes - one swing & miss - eight foul balls)... kept pumping pitches into the strike zone but had difficulty putting hitters away (ergo a ton of foul balls)... FB velo is nowhere near the 96-98 MPH it was a couple of years ago when he was a Top 30 prospect, but his secondaries are better...   

    JOSE ROMERO:  
    FB: 93-95
    SL: 82-84
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 9th (14 pitches - only six strikes- no swing & miss) and allowed a solo HR after two near-HR fly outs to the warning track, before getting a 3-1 GO to end the inning... it was like batting practice when he wasn't throwing pitches out of the strike zone...

  • crunch (view)

    pablo sandoval played 3rd and got a couple ABs (strikeout, single!) in the OAK@SF "exhibition"

    mlb officially authenticated the ball of the single he hit.  nice.

    he's in surprisingly good shape considering his poor body condition in his last playing seasons.  he's not lean, but he looks healthier.  good for him.