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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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Cubs and Marmol Agree on Deal & Other Cubs News

Submitted by Rob G. on

The Cubs will avoid an arbitration hearing with Carlos Marmol, as the two sides agreed on a deal for $2.125M...exactly the midpoint of their two submitted figures of $1.75M and $2.5M.

- Kevin Millar was on XM Radio this morning excited about signing with the Cubs. Apparently he lives in the Mesa area and wanted to go to camp with a team nearby so he could spend time with his 2 kids and a third on the way in June. He says he knows that if he as any chance to make the team, he'll have to re-learn third base and try to play some outfield. That should be fun to watch.

In the same radio interview, the hosts referenced an interview with Reed Johnson yesterday where Reed talked about the confines of the clubhouse at Wrigley. Reed seemed to suggest that the lack of space made it difficult on the team last year to escape some of the drama with Milton Bradley and so forth.

- The TV schedules are coming out and the Cubs will be on WGN for a record low 58 games this year and the home opener will be on WCIU. They also have 8 Fox Saturday games (two scheduled for Saturday nights) and another two ESPN Sunday night games in July. A few more games could be dropped or picked up by ESPN as well.

- Vine Line's latest issue features 50 Cubs prospects you should know and they feature two in this blog post - Hak-Ju Lee and D.J. LeMahieu.

- Speaking of Lee, Muskat runs down some of the signings from Korea over the last few years. This was posted in the comments a few weeks back, but here's Lee singing that's referenced in the article.

- Yahoo does their season preview on the Cubs.

On the field, everything must fall in place for manager Lou Piniella’s team to make the playoffs.

Insightful. That pretty much goes for the other 29 teams as well.

- Holding out hope for Orlando Hudson to join the Cubs? It looks like he's headed to the Minnesota Twins.

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Submitted by artskoe on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 02:56 pm

That's what you freakin' get when you elect a south sider as Prez. Da city probably gots them some 100 new trucks to collect gum off 35th and Shields savin' 2 jobs, but not ONE thin DIME to stimulis the Nort Side. Wit the billions Ozzie got he coulda built a freakin' dome, but what do we got? Korean Korkiokee. Next time, let's do some Yankee action, eh? Wit all dem pals up dere, dey probably GIVEN, I say GIVEN dem hot dogs away wit da stimilus money Kostanza got 'em. AND we seen it, didn't we? Damn Yanks took all dat money and blew it on a World Series. Yeah, I don't blame Bradley DIS time for hackin' a loogy up wit dis sweat joint. Jeez..hardly enuff room to take a spit or light up a reefer witout everybody knowin' yer bizznass. Ah, who cares? Damn Blackhawks didn't care. Dey jes put new grass down over what was already new!?!?! Somebody's starvin' somewhere and deez hockey pucks grows some more grass over grass. NOW DAT's tinkin' like da Prez, and some Yankees, baby. "Hey youse guys!! Yah, you over dere!! Pass me the Prior drill towel! Yea, I knows we only gots one, stoopit. What didja tink dis was, Citi Field?"

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 02:38 pm

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 2:07pm. what's the cost of a minor league deal? less than 100K and not guaranteed if he's cut I believe. AZ Phil would know... I assume he has some incentives like Tracy if he makes the team. =============================== ROB G: Miner league contracts are not guaranteed, and termination pay for minor leaguers is two weeks salary (1/12 of the player's salary). For minor league players released during the off-season (before they are signed for the next season), there is no termination pay. In the case of a Chad Tracy or a Kevin Millar, the typical minor league deal would be a $120K-$300K minor league salary (or $10,000-$25,000 every two weeks), meaning if Tracy or Millar gets released prior to Opening Day, it costs the Cubs (at most) maybe $25,000 in termination pay for each player (plus about another $1,100 per week in Spring Training pay, per diem, and housing allowance that all players receive while in big league camp). For MLB vets like Tracy and Millar, there is always a pre-arranged MLB salary (in writing) in case the player is added to the MLB 40-man roster, usually somewhere between $600K-$1.2M, depending on the player. Tracy's has already been announced ($900K MLB salary plus another $500K+ in performance incentives). Millar probably got a similar deal. Also, MLB veterans like Tracy and Millar often will have a player option allowing them to request and receive their release if they don't make the MLB 25-man roster out of Spring Training. Sometimes players with this option will defer it and report to the AAA club for a month or two, and then request (and receive) their release. Rod Beck did this a few years ago (accepted an assignment to AAA Iowa, before asking for his release a couple of months into the season so he could sign a major league deal with the Padres).

Submitted by John Beasley on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 02:32 pm

I took the Wrigley tour last year and was surprised by the size of the clubhouses, especially the visitors. It's amazing the building used to host football games. Anyways, there was a part of the east wall of the home clubhouse that had obviously been smashed by either a bat or a really angry fist. It had Johnson's autograph next to it. I have a picture somewhere.

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 02:45 pm

mets sign travis blackley to a minor league deal and he promptly goes out in the Carb. WS and throws one of the worst/flattest sliders ever to go with his ordinary fastball. good luck making it past ST, dude. -edit- and the worst blown call at 1st since the 85 WS just happened in this MEX/PR game

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Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 02:27 pm

as I said, think Sullivan's a little too giddy about Bradley leaving and put far too much weight into his attitude and performance as being the problems with the 2009 team. On the other hand, I don't think calling Bradley an idiot is a big deal at all, nor banning someone for calling him an idiot is either. Blogger, fan, etc. doesn't really give anyone the moral high ground to then resort to the same petty namecalling. I did nominate you for best Cubs blog at Cubscast...figured you needed a pick-me up after the last few days. :)

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Submitted by Aisle 424 on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 02:07 pm

Yeah, it seemed over the top, but whatever. I thought it was entertaining that Sullivan has no problem calling other people names but then can't take one comment from somebody that no one cares about in the slightest. Like I mentioned in HJE's comments, if I had known it would have blown up like this, I probably would have stood on some more solid ground than the stupid idiot tweet incident in making my case that Sullivan needs to get over Bradley being mean to him. I wonder how many work hours have been lost as people kept running with this. Thanks for the nomination, Rob! (tear)

Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 02:51 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/sports/baseball/05cncsports.html
Her digestive system has been affected. Unable to swallow, Riley spends mealtime tethered to a feeding tube, while another tube in her tiny throat allows for the draining of built-up secretions that could seep into her lungs and impair breathing. It’s her only manifestation of the illness.
poor kid....

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Submitted by The Real Neal on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 02:07 pm

It makes the quality of Dempster's season last year even more surprising. No doubt about who's that girl's daddy, is there?

Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 02:56 pm

http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2010/02/08/story1.html
Cactus League President Robert Brinton said ticket surcharges previously have been used by specific cities to fund baseball stadiums within their jurisdictions, but this is the first time a leaguewide fee could be imposed for one project. In a nutshell, the D-backs, Sox and spring training fans Valleywide would help foot the bill for Mesa to build a 15,000-seat stadium for the Cubs. “We’re opposed,” said White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf.
wonder how many spring training sellouts they get when the Cubs aren't the opponent?

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Submitted by Seamhead on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 02:32 pm

Rob: When I log in and a thread indicates that there are "23 new comments", I can identify those comments on page one of the thread with the helpful red "new" label on each comment. However, if I scroll to page 2 or any subsequent page, the red "new" label no longer appears on the new comments, making it difficult to identify new comments on any page other than page 1. Am I missing something or can something be done to identify new comments on later pages? Thanks!

Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 02:44 pm

says Indians offered 2/$10M with 3rd year option for Hudson but backloaded, with most of $$ coming in buyout for third year.

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  • Bill (view)

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  • Sonicwind75 (view)

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  • Childersb3 (view)

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    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)

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

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  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

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    -Mix and match in the bullpen and see what sticks

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  • Childersb3 (view)

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    And the bullpen moves were "money" based as well. Smyly has actually been okay. But he hasn't been clearly better than Little. Little had one bad outing. But Smyly makes 9mil. If they needed another RHRP and one of Little and Smyly had to go, it was going to Little. But that doesn't mean Smyly is one of the best 13 arms for the team. 

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