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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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Some Cubs Videos

Submitted by Rob G. on

I don't have any thoughts on a post today, but I was playing around with adding an easier way to embed videos on the site. Here's Starlin Castro during the Arizona Fall League.

 

A clip from Bill Murray in 1984, bummed out that they didn't let him sing the national anthem before one of the playoff games.

Finally, I'll finish up with some of the members of the 1969 Cubs singing "Pennant Fever".  A lot better voices than the '85 Bears, but not quite the same end result.

The cover is a bit tough to make out, but I believe it's (from left to right): Nate Oliver, Willie Smith, Billy Williams, Ron Santo, Don Kessinger, Randy Hundley and Gene Oliver.

There was also a jazzy B-side of an instrumental titled "Slide".

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Comments

Submitted by John Beasley on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 02:48 pm

AZ PHIL: On the chance that you're the gentleman in the Castro video sitting in the front row by himself. I just wanted to say how much I like your straw hat. Anyways, maybe that's not Phil, but I guess if I ever went to an AFL game, that's where I'd expect to see him.

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 02:25 pm

MEX vs. VEN on MLB Network in a few minutes. I missed the 3:30 game (PR vs. DR). Woo!!! Live wood bat baseball!

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Submitted by crunch on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 02:01 pm

elvis andrus playing CF to let gregor petit play SS...end of their 4th in the field, petit with 2 errors and andrus has had 1 fly over his head.

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Submitted by crunch on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 02:02 pm

feb 2nd and there's live wood bat baseball on tv...so...awesome.

Submitted by Cubster on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 02:48 pm

Gregg signing at $2.75 with the Bluejays might be the trigger that makes one of their relievers more available (Jason Frasier)? Not making financial sense to me though...isn't Frasier less expensive?

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Submitted by The Real Neal on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 02:15 pm

If you get a MLB ready player for Frasier who you only have to pay $400K to, then in theory it can make sense. I think half-assed rebuilding is probably a bad idea, but a lot of teams try it.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 02:33 pm

Submitted by Cubster on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 9:48pm. Gregg signing at $2.75 with the Bluejays might be the trigger that makes one of their relievers more available (Jason Frasier)? Not making financial sense to me though...isn't Frasier less expensive? =========================== CUBSTER: Jason Frasor signed for $2.65M (avoiding arbitration), so he's less expensive than Gregg in 2010, but only by $100K. So I would think after signing Gregg that the Jays would now be more-willing to trade Frasor (who will be a FA post-2010). It's only a matter of whether the Cubs will give up what the Jays would want back for Frasor (whatever that is). Like ROB G, I have speculated that it would probably be Angel Guzman, but I suspect the Cubs would prefer to keep Guzman and trade a couple of their less-proven but still MLB-ready (or near-ready) young pitchers (like Berg, Stevens, Parker, et al).

Submitted by navigator on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 02:40 am

Rob HERE: The videos aren't loading onto the latest version of IE8. They work fine with Chrome, Safari, and FireFox on the same platform.

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Submitted by navigator on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 02:04 pm

Same results as above. Works fine in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome. But only boxes with little red X's in IE 8.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 02:15 pm

~shrug~ again, two completely different ways to embed video, so that's just odd and furthers my belief that IE is the devil's work. I suppose you're not running an ad-blocker in IE or something, it could block these videos as they are flash based. if anyone else is running IE8 and is having the same problem, let me know.

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Submitted by navigator on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 02:57 pm

Okay, after checking all the IE 8 optional settings and coming up empty, I manually installed the latest update to IE Flash (version 10.0.42.34) using "getflash" and all is well. Why this was necessary is a Microsoft and Adobe mystery. Somehow every other browser but IE8 updated itself. Apparently the automated Windows 7 updates have gotten out of sync.

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Submitted by Paul Noce on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 02:01 pm

I've been on a Mac for 4-5 months now, and once in a blue moon have to go over to my 1 year old Windows quad core machine. It only takes about 10 seconds back in Windows for me to remember how much I hate Windows and the many reasons why I switched.

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Submitted by Ryno on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 02:02 pm

I can literally open Chrome, check Gmail and Google Calendar before Internet Explorer finishes loading.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 02:05 pm

yeah, I've been using Chrome sparingly over the last few weeks and I'm impressed. May have to switch from Firefox.

Submitted by navigator on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 02:21 pm

The Sporting News says Dusty Baker has decided on his 1,2 hitters out machines. 1. Drew Stubbs .323 OBA last year in limited action 2. Orlando Cabrera .316 OBA last year

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Submitted by JoePepitone on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 02:22 pm

Nope. Effin' baseclogger.

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Submitted by Paul Noce on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 02:08 pm

lol

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 02:27 pm

Every now & then, it's probably good for a GM to actually go all the way to an arbitration hearing, just so arbitration-eligible players don't think the GM will automatically always ultimately compromise at the mid-point between the club's offer and the player's figure. If a GM is afraid to take the salary dispute to a hearing and is always willing to compromise at the mid-point, it could motivate an arb-eligible player to request a higher salary than he may be reasonably worth, just to make the mid-point higher, even if the player would be unlikely to win in arbitration and receive his requested salary from the panel. So Hendry might not back down this time and compromise at the mid-point, even if going to a hearing would mean the relationship between Theriot & the Cubs will become a bit strained. After all, it's probably fairly likely that Theriot will not be a Cub by this time next year. Marmol's case might be a bit different, though, because he is more likely to remain with the Cubs beyond the 2010 season, but Hendry might decide to challenge Marmol anyway. Since the arbitration panels seem to side about 50/50 with the player and the club (sometimes it almost seems like they just flip a coin), the Cubs might figure they'll most-likely win one and lose one, and essentially break even.

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Submitted by jacos on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 02:50 pm

"GM to actually go all the way to an arbitration hearing, just so arbitration-eligible players don't think the GM will automatically always ultimately compromise at the mid-point between the club's offer and the player's figure." 17 straight years is pretty much automatic.

Submitted by Cubster on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 02:26 pm

Baseball Prospectus' C. Karhl's take on the Nady acquisition...
n short, I'd suggest that Nady's beaten his platoon rap, and before last season's early injury, he'd begun to establish himself as a decent starter in an outfield corner....
For the money, he's not a bad risk; indeed, unlike guys like Micah Hoffpauir or Reed Johnson, he's an actual everyday-quality player if healthy, not a bad thing to have around when you don't know when or how long Alfonso Soriano might need to head to the DL. The problem is whether or not he'll be healthy, to which I'll defer to Will Carroll and the Cubs' training staff. The intent, however, seems sensible, so that if the Cubs do lose a starting outfielder for any length of time, they're not short on offense.
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=10007

Submitted by crunch on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 02:59 pm

Caribbean WS has been full of some bad/lazy D so far...some nice games, though. jason simontacci pitching for VEN...ha. been a while since i heard that name.

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Submitted by jacos on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 02:08 am

Cubs @ WSox - June 26th (Sat night game) That can't be right, I believe the city banned cubs vs Sox night games for Friday and Saturday nights due to fights. Joking about the ban, but I believe there is an understanding.

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Submitted by Stevens on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 02:26 pm

"Cubs @ Rangers - May 22nd (Sat night game)" 1st nationally televised game because of the huge grudge match potential of facing Byrd and Jaramillo's former squad!

Submitted by Paul Noce on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 02:14 pm

Interesting line buried in Jon Heyman's article, which condemns the Mets and Cubs for not spending enough money this offseason: "...and Alfonso Soriano proved to be even more untradeable than (Luis) Castillo." http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/jon_heyman/02/03/winter.l… So is he actually implying the Cubs at some point shopped Fonzi on the down low? Or just stating the obvious, that Fonzi's contract is unmovable? I've personally always dismissed Heyman as SI's version of Phil Rogers, but once in a blue moon he does get something right. I don't believe it's this time, however.

Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 02:12 am

Bruce Miles, Herald paints a vision of the Hendry-Theriot arbitration hearing:
So here we go. The Cubs and maybe GM Jim Hendry are likely to say: “Obviously, Ryan, we love you. Obviously, you scrap and scrape and do all those little, gritty things this organization loves. But since we do pay attention to stats, contrary to what some may believe, we’ll present these to the arbitrator: “From 2008 to 2009, Mr. Theriot’s offensive line went from .307/.387/.359 to .284/.343/.369. His wOBA (yeah we know what that is, too), went from .338 to .318. More alarmingly, his flyball percentage jumped from 20.2 percent to 30 percent, and we don’t pay Mr. Theriot to hit flyballs, no matter what our manager (and we love him, too) thinks. On top of it, Mr. Theriot’s walks total dropped from 73 to 51 while his strikeouts spiked from 58 to 93. Or, put another way, Mr. Theriot’s BB/K ratio went from 1.26 to 0.55 in a year’s time. We rest our case.”
and some of the Theriot side:
“I hear a lot of talk about my defense and range being lacking. You forgot something, there, across the table, when you cited all your fancy stats. How about my UZR going from 0.4 to 7.7 and my UZR/150 going from 0.7 to 8.3 in a year's time?
http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/3380

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Submitted by Ryno on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 02:10 am

Why let stats inform your opinion when you can just find a stat to back up what you already believe? This is the biggest problem with the mess of stats in baseball and why I trust my eyes more than I do some douchebag on the internet telling me about zone ratings. Anyways, if you've been paying attention you'll know intuitively that Theriot isn't a wizard in the field, that he didn't work the count in '09 like he had in previous years, and that he didn't hit those outside pitches to the right fielder in '09 as much as he did in previous years. You don't need stats to tell you this stuff.

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Submitted by Stevens on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 02:42 pm

"...and why I trust my eyes more than I do some douchebag on the internet telling me about zone ratings." Ironically, my problem is the douchebags on the Internet who tell me to trust their eyes. Not that you were doing so.

Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 02:58 am

CarrieMuskat: #cubs sign Carlos Marmol to one-year $2.125 mill contract, thus avoiding arbitration. Also, Kevin Millar Minor deal is finally official

Submitted by Osiris on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 02:50 am

"The Cubs will also air eight games on WCIU-Ch. 26, including the season opener in Atlanta on April 5." So the first game of the year will not be available to anyone outside Chicago. Unless we're able to pick up the Atlanta broadcast on TBS.

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Submitted by The Real Neal on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 02:54 am

Yes, the Cubs still haven't figured out that getting an extra $50K on local contracts hurts their long term profitability by removing national telecasts. This type of short-term decision making is what will eventually turn the Cubs market value into the same as the White Sox.

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    cubs getting crazy good at not having player moves leak.

    taillon we 100% know is pitching tonight.  who he's replacing and any additional moves are unknown as far as i can tell.

    p.wisdom was not in today's lineup in iowa (rained out) and he was removed from the game last night mid-game, but not for injury.  good bet he's with the team in the bigs, too.

  • Bill (view)

    A good rule of thumb is that if you trade a near-ready high ceiling prospect, you should get at least two far-away high ceiling prospects in return.  Like all rules-of-thumb, it depends upon the specific circumstances, but certainly, we weren't going to get Busch for either prospect alone.

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Right on schedule, just read an article in Baseball America entitled "10 MLB Prospects Outside The Top 100 Who Have Our Attention".  Zyhir Hope was one of the prospects featured. It stated that he's "one of the biggest arrow-up sleeper prospects in the lower levels right now."

     

    Not sharing to be negative about the trade, getting a top 100 prospect who is MLB ready should carry a heavy prospect cost.  But man, Dodger sure are good at identifying and developing young talent. Andrew Friedman seems to have successfully merged Ray's development with Yankees financial might to create a juggernaut of an organization.  

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    I suspect Brown will spend some time in the bullpen due to inning restrictions.  Pitched only 93 innings last year and career high is 104 innings in 2022.  I would expect them to be cautious with a young player with his injury history.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    I wanted Almonte gone last week, but that was before Merryweather went down and Little got demoted. Almonte in his last 5 appearances has gone 4.1 IP with no ER or Runs. NO hits, 3 BBs and 8 SO. He did hit 96 with his 2S FB in AZ on Tues.
    I don't see Jed waiving him when we have injuries all over and guys with options that can be sent down.
    I probably won't like the move Jed makes, but he can't play the "let's hope no one wants his 1.7mil remaining deal and we can hide him in Iowa" card.
    That's why I think the current Bullpen stays as is and Wicks goes to Iowa.
    I don't like that, but that's the fix I see.
    We'll find out soon enough!!!

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Teheran minor league deal is done, per MLB.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Based on Phil’s sound analysis it sounds like a no brainer for Almonte to be placed on waivers as today’s roster move. We shall see.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I suspect Counsell/Hottovy will use the piggy-back extensively, with Taillon and Hendricks pitching as the "pig" (and with a very short leash) and some combo of Wicks, Brown, and Wesneski (whichever two do not start) as the "backers."  

    Keep in mind that Keegan Thompson has a minor league option available, and if Yency Almonte is not outrighted by 4/26 he cannot be sent to the minors without his consent after that date. Almonte is out of minor league options, so I am talking about him getting outrighted to the minors if he is not claimed off waivers, and if he is claimed off waivers, the Cubs save the pro-rated portion of his $1.9M salary, which helps lower the Cubs 2024 AAV.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Totally agree. The 26 man roster very rarely consists of the 13 best position players and 13 best pitchers.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Based on what Jed has done in the past, I’d say the plan is to

    -give Hendricks another few starts
    -give Taillon some runway ot get his season underway

    -Mix and match in the bullpen and see what sticks

    Jed usually doesn’t do a whole lot of waiver wire plays in-season, at least early in the season. He only reallly did that after he blew up the rosters in 21 and 22 because they needed bodies (guys like Schwindel, Fargas, etc).

    I think he’s a little handcuffed by a full 40 man in that he can’t really maneuver much with giving anyone showing ability at AAA (R Thompson/ Sanders/ Edwards etc). Brewer has the most tenuous grip there, and we will see what kind of chance he gets. Other than his spot, there isn’t a ton of 40 man wiggle room.

    I’m very curious to see what happens with Brown now that Taillon returns. Bullpen? Wicks to Iowa? 

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