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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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# bats both

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
 




Minor League Rosters
Rule 5 Draft 
Minor League Free-Agents

Your 2011 Boise Hawks and Your 2011 AZL Cubs!

Submitted by Arizona Phil on

Minor League Field Coordinator Dave Bialas and the coaching staff at Fitch Park have completed their final observations and evaluations of the newly-signed draft picks, and so here are the rosters for the Boise Hawks ands AZL Cubs as of 7 AM (MST) this morning:

2011 DRAFT PICKS IN CAPS
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NOTE: Boise has a 30-man ACTIVE LIST (of which 25 players including at least 10 pitchers can be designated as ACTIVE prior to each game) and a 35-man RESERVE LIST, and the AZL CUBS have a 35-man combined ACTIVE LIST/RESERVE LIST, of which 25 players including at least ten pitchers can be designated as ACTIVE for each game.

At present Boise has four roster slots open, and the AZL Cubs have two roster slots open. Draft picks must be placed on a minor league roster no later than 15 days after signing, so once the Cubs sign another six draft picks, the Boise and AZL Cubs rosters will be full.

BOISE HAWKS (26)

PITCHERS (14)
* Kyler Burke (ex-OF)
* Willengton Cruz
Dustin Fitzgerald
Jin-Young Kim
Luis Liria
Hector Mayora
Austin Reed
Santo Rodriguez
Jose Rosario
Yilver Sanchez
Bryce Shafer
Charles Thomas (ex-3B)
Yao-Lin Wang
Ben Wells

CATCHERS (2):
Yaniel Cabezas
Carlos Romero

INFIELDERS (6):
# Vismeldy Bieneme
Wilson Contreras
* Wes Darvill
Dustin Harrington
PAUL HOILMAN
BRAD ZAPENAS

OUTFIELDERS (4):
* Pin-Chieh Chen
D. J. Fitzgerald
Reggie Golden
* BEN KLAFCZYNSKI

DISABLED LIST (5):
Jose Guevara, C (ankle)
Tarlandus Mitchell, P (ankle)
Jesus Morelli, OF (hand)
Eric Rice, P (elbow)
# Jose Valdez, OF (unknown)

MANAGER:
Mark Johnson

COACHES:
David Rosario
Desi Wilson

AZL CUBS (33)

PITCHERS (19)
* Hunter Ackerman
Rafael Diplan
P. J. FRANCESCON
Ramon Garcia
Ryan Hartman
Alvido Jimenez
PETE LEVITT
CASEY LUCCHESE
* SHELDON McDONALD
Jon Nagel
Amaury Paulino
Felix Pena
Starling Peralta
JAMES PUGLIESE
Colin Richardson
Jean Sandoval
* Brian Smith
* Luis Villalba
Joe Zeller

CATCHERS (3):
Johan DeJesus
# Brian Inoa
* Alberto Mineo (MLB EUROPEAN ACADEMY)

INFIELDERS (7):
Gioskar Amaya
TRAVIS GARCIA
Dustin Geiger
Gregori Gonzalez
# Marco Hernandez
Max Kwan
KENNY SOCORRO

OUTFIELDERS (4):
* Eduardo Gonzalez
Dong-Yub Kim
Blair Springfield
# Oliver Zapata

MANAGER:
Juan Cabreja

COACHES:
Frank Castillo
Jason Dubois
Gian Guzman
Rick Tronerud

Tags
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AZL Cubs

Comments

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 06:35 am

As I mentioned in a comment on a previous thread yesterday, Paul Hoilman (2011 19th round draft pick out of East Tennessee State) hit a 450+ ft HR over the CF Green Monster off Jin Young Kim in a "live" BP session at Field Park Field #2 yesterday morning. Hoilman was the Home Run Derby champ at the 2010 College World Series, and finished tied for third in HR in NCAA Div-1 this season. I am going to go WAY out on a limb and predict that Hoilman will lead the Northwest League in HR. He is a beast. And if he flops at baseball he is an Academic All-American majoring in math, and plans to eventually attend either medical school or law school.

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 06:57 am

As a general rule of thumb (and there are exceptions), HS and JC draft picks are usually assigned to the AZL Cubs, and college draft picks get assigned to Boise (if there is room). College players who don't sign immediately after the conclusion of the draft usually have to spend some time with the AZL Cubs before moving up to Boise, and then if and when they do move up, guys who were initially assigned to Boise could get released or could get demoted to AZL Cubs or could get promoted to Peoria to make room for the new guys (if the Boise roster is full). Four college pitchers (P. J. Francescon, Pete Levitt, Casey Lucchese, and Sheldon McDonald) are presently at Fitch Park, and any or all could move up to Boise in short order. Also, Florida State just got eliminated at a Super Regional, so FSU senior catcher Rafael Lopez (Cubs 16th round draft pick) will probably be assigned to Boise soon after he signs. He is obviously in playing shape. Other college picks who would likely get to Boise pretty fast if and when they sign would include U. of Miami 2B-CF Zeke DeVoss, U. of Louisville RHRP Tony Zych, U. of Alabama OF Taylor Dugas, U. of Texas LHRP Andrew McKirahan (presently with the Longhorns at the College World Series), Florida State OF Taiwan Easterling, TCU RHSP Steven Maxwell, and Clemson RHRP Scott Weismann. In fact, Zych, Dugas, and Maxwell (who is a 5th year senior) could get jumped to Peoria. But again, that's only if they sign. Taiwan Easterling is an interesting case. Because he also plays college football, the Cubs can spread his bonus out over five years, but with strings attached (as was the case with Matt Szczur this time last year), with Easterling returning to Florida State for the Fall Semester to play football, before deciding whether to puruse a career in pro baseball or in pro football.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 06:44 am

Submitted by chuck on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 10:28am. With the Cubs performing as they are it's nice to look forward to next year, or the one after, etc. etc. Thanks for all of the interesting info. ================================================ CHUCK: Boise should have a pretty good team. A starting rotation/piggyback group consisting of Liria-Wang-Wells-Reed-Kim-Cruz-Rosario are all quality arms, ex-OF Kyler Burke and ex-3B Charles Thomas have made tremendous strides in their conversions to pitcher, Pin-Chieh Chen really started to play well at Extended Spring Training once he was moved from 2B to CF and he could be a dynamite lead-off hitter, Yaniel Cabezas was unofficial EXST Cubs MVP (he led the team in RBI and handled himself very well behind the plate), and the quintet of Klafczynski-Hoilman-Fitzgerald-Golden-Contreras should be a powerful force in the middle of the Hawks order (DJ Fitz struggled big time at Peoria, but he should feast on the lesser pitching he'll see at Boise).

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 06:06 pm

Submitted by Paul Noce on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 12:19pm. AZ Phil, how has Reggie Golden looked lately? Has he continued to lose weight and get into shape? ==================================== PAUL N: Reggie Golden really struggled the last four weeks of Extended Spring Training. After hitting a HR in his 1st AB at Talking Stick on May 10th, Golden hit 123/206/123 in his next 63 PA, going 7-57 with 21 K, four BB, and two HBP, and all seven of the hits were singles. And you could really see the frustration, too. Obviously he had never struggled like that before. While he could turn out to be a RH version of Michael Burgess, I think he'll probably be OK long-term. He has as much power as anybody in the Cubs organization. He just needs to get himself into better condition next off-season and keep his eyes on the prize.

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 06:17 pm

RT @CarrieMuskat #cubs lineup for tue rf fuke, ss castro, 3b ramy, 1b pena, lf dewitt, c soto, 2b baker, cf TBD, p wells I hear TBD has trouble with the breaking ball. allegedly Reed might show up in time for the game.

Submitted by tharr on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 06:56 pm

Why Carpenter? He was recently demoted to AA from Iowa because his velocity is down and his BB rate is terrible. Dolis, who is on the 40 man is a much better choice. I just don't get it.

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 06:57 pm

okay, so cubs pitchers still can't bunt. i'm willing to give garza a little time to catch up, but c'mon... wtf? it's wells first game back, but going 0-2 on 2 attempts is plain old cubbery. bunting the 3rd foul for a K is solid gold cubbery.

Submitted by springs on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 06:15 pm

Wow...yet another error. What is wrong with these players?!? It's like it is infectious. It could be an issue with moving people around from position to position. But it isn't all Quade...the players have to take some blame. Speaking of that, Soraino 0-2 with 2 K so far tonight. 1-9 in Iowa so far.

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 06:57 pm

and quade gets ejected again...arguing something he's wrong about. fans are 100% behind him, though...that's something. he's not enjoying a lot of public support lately. at least it's not public hate.

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