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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, ten players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, two players are on the 15-DAY IL, and two players are on the 10-DAY IL

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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
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

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

OPTIONED: 10 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2 
Seiya Suzuki, OF
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 2
* Justin Steele, P  
Jameson Taillon, P 

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




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Minor League Free-Agents

Cubs should take advantage of that Cash for Clunkers program.

Submitted by CubbyBlue on

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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

Submitted by Cubster on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 08:18 pm

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.

Submitted by Cubster on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 08:50 pm

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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Submitted by Ryno on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 08:26 am

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.

Submitted by Cubster on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 08:12 pm

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.

Submitted by Tom_C on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 08:35 pm

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

Submitted by jacos on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 08:58 am

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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Submitted by navigator on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 08:46 pm

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.

Submitted by artskoe on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 08:17 pm

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.

Submitted by MikeC on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 08:20 pm

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.

Submitted by The Real Neal on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 08:35 pm

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.

Submitted by George Altman on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 08:09 pm

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.

Submitted by The E-Man on Tue, 08/25/2009 - 08:01 am

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.

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  • crunch (view)

    he's a low-level cubs star in the modern history of the cubs (c.zambrano, k.wood, r.dempster, etc), but that star has dimmed...and has been dimming since 2021.

    2024 has been ugly the whole way and we're only in mid-april.  homers aside (even though there's been 7 in 17ip) he gave up 29 hits in 20 spring innings and 31 in 17 regular season innings.

    he's pretty much only got 2 pitches at this point in his career and the mix isn't fooling anyone.  he threw a noticable amount more curves in his last start to add to the mix and it didn't help his issues.  he don't have many moves left to break out.

  • Eric S (view)

    Definitely needs a 10 day stint for the hangnail - have to nip those things in the bud or suffer the consequences (ie, more opponent home run derby, etc)

  • Eric S (view)

    Thanks for checking and yeah, that’s a double ouch

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Believe you are correct, checked and appears Cubs have a $2.51 million obligation to Barnhart this season per Cot's Contracts.  Also paying Trey Mancini $7mil this season.  Ouch.  

  • crunch (view)

    m.busch had 0hr and 2 doubles when he was last at wrigley.

    we'll probably see a few more of his jerseys in the seats when they return tomorrow.

    wonder who will go down for taillon.  hey hendricks, you got a hangnail or something?

  • Eric S (view)

    Nice work by Wesneski with some solid defense behind him and the late tack on runs were welcome. Gladly take a 5-4 West Coast swing, particularly down two key starting pitchers … Now just don’t get swept by the Marlins for Pete’s sake. 

  • crunch (view)

    dansby takes the team lead in SB today after a SB with 2 SB total.  the team has 3.  madrigal has the other one.

    cubs also have 7 triples, 7 players each.

  • crunch (view)

    sure am ready for p.wisdom and m.masterboney to swap roster spots.

  • Eric S (view)

    The fifth inning has not been kind to Wicks this season. Giving up leadoff doubles to Tucker Barnhart is also not good for business. IIRC, the Cubs are on the hook for the majority of Barnhart’s salary this season to add insult to injury (could definitely be wrong here). 

  • Cubster (view)

    Kris Bryant to IL with low back strain. He’s keeping the Rockies docs busy.

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