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39 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (one slot is open), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL and one player has been DESIGNATED FOR ASSIGNMENT (DFA)   

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and eight players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and two players is on the 10-DAY IL

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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
* Matt Mervis
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Pete Crow-Armstrong 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 8 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2
* Cody Bellinger, OF  
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 3
Kyle Hendricks, P 
* Drew Smyly, P 
* Justin Steele, P   

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

DFA: 1 
Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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Cubs Bunting Tourney Update and Other Notes

Submitted by Rob G. on

- Let's see if I kept track here correctly in the bunting tourney. First round winners to date include:

Position Player's Bracket

  • (16) Szczur over (1) Lake
  • (9) Cardenas over (8) Vitters
  • (12) J. Mota over (5) Brenly
  • (4) Lalli over (13) Adduci
  • (11) B. Jackson over (6) Ha
  • (3) W. Castillo over (14) Sappelt
  • (7) Clevenger over (10) Campana
  • (2) LaHair over (15) Rizzo
  • (1) Mather over (16) E. Gonzalez
  • (9) Barney over (8) Scales
  • (5) Castro over (12) J. Jaramillo
  • (4) Stewart over (13) Tolbert
  • (11) Soto over  (6) DeWitt
  • (3) Baker over (14) Amezaga
  • (7) Byrd over (10) Johnson
  • (2) DeJesus over (15) Soriano

Pitcher's Bracket

  • (1) J. Beliveau over (16) A. Cabrera
  • (8) L. Castillo over (9) C. Weathers
  • (12) McNutt over (5) Carrilo
  • (13) Dolis over (4) Jay Jackson
  • (6) Rhee over (11) Gaub
  • (14) Rusin over (3) Bussy
  • (10) Maine over (7) Parker
  • (2) Coleman over (15) Mateo
  • (1) T. Wood over (16) Caridad
  • (9) Samardzija over (8) Russell
  • (12) Wells over (5) Volstad
  • (4) Sonnastine over (13) Corpas
  • (11) Marmol over (6) Garza
  • (3) Maholm over (14) Lopez (originally postponed due to Maholm being sick)
  • (10 Dempster over (7) T. Miller
  • (15) Sveum over (2) Kerry Wood

2nd Round Matchups are:

Position Players' Bracket

  • (9) Cardenas vs. (16) Szczur
  • (4) Lalli vs. (12) Mota
  • (3) W. Castillo vs. (11) B. Jackson
  • (2) LaHair vs. (7) Clevenger
  • (1) Mather vs. (9) Barney
  • (4) Stewart vs. (5) Castro
  • (3) Baker vs. (11) Soto
  • (2) DeJesus vs. (7) Byrd

Pitcher's Bracket:

  • (1) Beliveau vs. (8) L. Castillo
  • (12) McNutt vs. (13) Dolis
  • (6) Rhee vs. (14) Rusin
  • (2) Coleman vs. (10) Maine
  • (1) T. Wood vs. (9) Samardzija
  • (4) Sonnastine vs. (12) Wells
  • (11) Marmol vs. Maholm/Lopez winner (Update: Maholm beat Lopez)
  • (10) Dempster vs. (15) Sveum

- Paul Maholm is back in camp after missing two days with the flu.

- It appears Jeff Samardzija is a bit of a Kenny Powers fan.

- The Cubs will play some intrasquad games Friday and Saturday, with Cactus League play beginning on Sunday. Rodrigo Lopez gets the starting nod on Sunday. He'll be followed by Ryan Dempster on Monday and Matt Garza on Tuesday.

- Carlos Marmol spent the offseason riding horses and starring in romantic novels or something like that.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 02:29 pm

collector speaks out http://eye-on-baseball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22297882/350… Given the lateness of the hour that I completed my collections, there was no FedEx office located within 50 miles of Miller Park that would ship packages that day or Sunday. Therefore, the earliest that the specimens could be shipped was Monday, October 3. In that circumstance, CDT has instructed collectors since I began in 2005 that they should safeguard the samples in their homes until FedEx is able to immediately ship the sample to the laboratory, rather than having the samples sit for one day or more at a local FedEx office. The protocol has been in place since 2005 when I started with CDT and there have been other occasions when I have had to store samples in my home for at least one day, all without incident. Immediately upon arriving home, I placed the FedEx Clinic Pack in a Rubbermaid container in my office which is located in my basement. My basement office is sufficiently cool to store urine samples. No one other than my wife was in my home during the period in which the samples were stored.

Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 02:40 pm

Interesting example (I thought) of a manager's words seeming to change according to their context. In this case the different contexts are provided by Patrick Mooney and Carrie Muskat. Apparently Sveum said something recently about Soriano's tendency to stand at the plate after hitting a warning-track fly. Here is an account in CSNChicago.com:
The diehards at the Cubs Convention loved it when Sveum answered one fan question by saying that you might have to bench guys who embarrass the organization. Sveum seems to have a more realistic view of Soriano. Sveum remembers Bill Hall watching a few balls that didn’t go out with the Milwaukee Brewers. “It wasn’t that (Hall) didn’t play hard,” Sveum said. “They feel bad (afterward). That’s a natural major-league habit. It’s very hard to hit fly balls that are almost home runs, or you think might be a home run, and sprint to first base. “Sure, you want that to happen, but some of those things (are) actually hard to break in the heat of a battle. It’s the other things: We want to be able to run balls out to the left side of the field. We want to be able to stretch singles into doubles, take hard turns (and) run the bases really hard. “I know the fans don’t like that, but sometimes they have to understand that’s a habit.”
Today, Muskat gives the same answer (with modifications) as a response to a different question, why Soriano sometimes doesn't chase down fly balls.
Another criticism is Soriano's defensive play. He has a tendency to watch balls as they go past him in the outfield. "I've seen people do it before," Sveum said. "Billy Hall had a habit of doing it, too, in Milwaukee. It wasn't that he didn't play hard, but it was almost a habit. Then they feel bad after they do it, but unfortunately it's a weird habit some people have. Deep fly balls, as hitters, you're like, 'Oh, man, I think I got it, I think I got it,' so you didn't run as hard as you should have." Bad habits are hard to break. "You talk about it, and hopefully in that spur of the moment, he thinks about something I said," Sveum said. "A lot of things are tougher than just talking about."

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 02:53 pm

Maholm takes his first round match over R. Lopez and we're down to 32

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 02:13 pm

and we're down to 28 Cardenas, Lalli, Beliveau, McNutt advance to Sweet 16. Sweet 16 (1) Beliveau vs. (12) McNutt (4) Lalli vs. (9) Cardenas

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 02:08 pm

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/02/service-time-considerations-for-t… per our talk about Brett Jackson in an earlier thread late April call-up keeps Jackson away from free agency until after '18 (presuming he stays in the majors from that point on). A mid-to-late June call-up likely keeps him away from Super 2 status after 2014. Rizzo is late June (free agency) and late August(super two). I doubt they'd wait until late August unless LaHair is killing it or Rizzo is not.

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Submitted by John Beasley on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 02:14 pm

If LaHair is killing it, Theo Corp had better be selling higher than Tim Allen at the deadline. I know I just argued that Jackson shouldn't open the season in Chicago, but on the flip side, if Rizzo is still in AAA in August, Theo's grade for Year 1 couldn't possibly be good and will in fact probably be quite bad. "The plan" is clearly Rizzo at 1B, and frankly, they'd better be right.

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 02:20 pm

if anyone wants a major buzzkill check out the videos of this "bunting contest." they're lobbing balls barely strong enough to get proper BP out of it with many seconds for the batter to find the ball. in a way, that may be harder for some since a lot of the balls are arching in from lack of velocity. it seems more like a "fun" team building exercise rather than a skills exercise.

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Miguel Cruz walked six in 1.2 IP in his last start, so I guess he is improving. Wilme Mora also walked six in one of his appearances a week or two ago, and one or two others have walked five. I don't know what would be the most I have ever seen a pitcher throw in a game out here, because the manager / pitching coach usually gets the pitcher out of the game if it gets too ridiculous. 

    As for the attendance, probably about 20 of the 25 were early arrivals for the Savannah Bananas game who came over to Field # 1 to see what was going on, and once they saw all the bases on balls (12 walks by Cubs pitchers and four by Angels pitchers) they ran away screaming. I'm used to it so it didn't bother me that much. 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Jed has added Teheran, Tyranski, Kissaki, and now Straily and Nico Zeglin today.

    Zeglin is 24 yrs old. Pitched well at Long Beach St in '23 and well in some Indy Ball.

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  • Childersb3 (view)

    25 in Attendance!!!

    Phil, is that a backfield record?

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  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    He has a pulse. Apparently that’s the only requirement at this point.

  • crunch (view)

    cubs sign dan straily...for some reason.  minor league deal.

    welcome back.

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  • fullykräusened (view)

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  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

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  • crunch (view)

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    The Arenado deal was not a deal made out of dire need or desperation. It was a splashy, headline making deal for a perennial playoff team intended to be the one piece that brought the Cardinals from a very good team to a World Series contender. They have continued to wheel and deal and have been in a slide ever since. I stand by my supposition that that deal marked a notable turning point within the organization. They broke what had been a very successful formula for a very long time.
     

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