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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, twelve players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, one player is on the 15-DAY IL, and one player is on the 10-DAY IL

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PITCHERS: 14
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

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

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 
* Justin Steele, P   

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




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Jim Hendry Signs Four Year Extension

Submitted by Rob G. on

We talked about it the other day, so nothing to really add except that it is offical, Jim Hendry has been extended through the 2012 season.

Donuts for everyone....

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Comments

Submitted by John Beasley on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:23 pm

I said he should lose his job if the Cubs failed to win the pennant. I retract but remain skeptical that he'll be here four more years. Good luck, Jim, and no more heart attacks please.

Submitted by The E-Man on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:07 pm

Hendry made almost all the right moves in this nearly-magical 2008 season. It is unfortunate that the team monumentally choked when it really mattered. This is hard to assess blame on him for the failure.

Submitted by Tito on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:17 pm

Three division titles in six years, with an increased level of talent the last two (going along with a higher payroll). Yet "Teflon Jim survives." We all want a World Series title, but it clearly isn't as easy as wishing for it. Hendry's done his job quite well.

Submitted by HendryIsClueLess on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:28 pm

If we dont have the right assets to land Jake Peavy, then Hendry is a failure as a GM. Haren, Sabathia, Santana have all been dealt and we didnt have the right players in the farm system to barter with. If that isnt an indictment on the GM, i dont know what is? Maybe take 3 of the Felix Pie experiment will work out next year.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:06 pm

was there another starting pitcher or middle infielder traded to the A's besides Gallagher, since you discounted Eric Patterson?

cause the Padres want young, controllable starting pitching and a middle infielder...at least.

Peavy's damn good and all, but there's a lot of worries about his health everyone should be having and what he'll pitch like when he leaves Petco. He has a 3.80 road ERA for his career.

trust me, i'd love to have him, but he's no slam dunk...I don't think there's any pitcher that is except maybe Johan Santana or mid to late 90's Pedro Martinez

Submitted by Cubster on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:02 pm

The Rays made good use of an "asset" last night. =============== It's been done before, as recently as: Adam Wainwright in 2006...and Beckett in 2003 was a variant of that as well.

Submitted by HendryIsClueLess on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:19 pm

I dont understand how you guys can support Jim Hendry so much. This guy has done very little based on the assets he has to work with. Signing Free Agents with a fist full of money does not make a great GM, if you do that to fill out a roster based on the foundation that you have put together, maybe. And yes ARam and DLee were great deals in 03, and 04 for teams that had economic issues and Hendry was able to put deals together for them. I think Ted Lilly, and Derosa were good signings as well. Resigning ARAM and DLEE were also good moves and Signing Lou as well. Does getting Edmonds classify a great move? Or was it a failure that Pie couldnt play? What about Neifi, Glendon Rusch in 06. Keeping Dusty around in 06. Nomar, Juan Pierre, Jacque Jones (Who he had to pay someone to take). These are all lousy lousy moves. I could go on and on and the farm system as well. If hendry's working 14 hour days, he should start working more. Is anyone really surprised that a RH dominated lineup came back to roost? Or Soriano didn't do jack vs a pitching staff that pitched him carefully? Or Dempster choked in a big spot (we know he didnt like pitching the 9th)? I didnt want to think it would happen, but it did and i was concerned about it in April, but the regular season made me think this team would overcome those things. I guess I was wrong about that and right about Hendry. He gets a free pass in this town, because we were so bad before and the media loves him cause he's so accessible and a likeable guy. The guy didnt buy into OBP until Lou got here. Come on!!

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Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Tue, 10/21/2008 - 10:36 am

The Angels-Sox series was a crapshoot. Cubs-Dodgers didn't rise to that level. The Angels won game three on the road and might have won game 4 if a good bunter hadn't missed a squeeze in the ninth. To find a close call that made a difference in the Cubs-Dodgers series, you'd have to rehash Loney's foul tip in the fifth inning of the first game. The Cubs had no pulse after that. So I'm temperamentally allied with HendryIsClueless, but I still go back and forth on Hendry. I like the organization he has built: Wilken and Fleita . . . Sandberg, Davis and Listach . . . Riggins, Llewallyn, Joshua. And of course Lou. All of this could be outweighed by disastrous free-agent signings, but I thought Soriano was better this year than last, and I have a hard time believing that Fukudome is a bum. It really is possible for a 31-year-old veteran to hit a rookie wall. I can live with this GM.

Submitted by HendryIsClueLess on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:36 pm

Its a crapshoot if you win a game. This year's team choked. 2007 was just not that good. Overachieved to win 85 games, thanks to Lou not Hendry.

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Submitted by Bleeding Blue on Tue, 10/21/2008 - 10:09 pm

I'm still trying to figure out how the GM doesn't deserve credit for building a team that won the most games in the league during the regular season, but gets the blame for players that "choked" by losing a 3 game series. And I guess the opposite is also true, as to why Lou would get the credit for the regular season but not the blame for choking in a short series. I just don't get that. A GM builds the team for the long haul, and clearly he did that. Other than making sure that the team has solid starting pitching (and yes, Z, Harden, Dempster, and Lilly is a solid rotation), how exactly is a GM supposed to build a team for a 5 game series?

Submitted by Timmer on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:47 pm

Won 28 - 1 today over the Surprise Rafters. (No doubt they were surprised.) Spears, Clevenger and Barney were a combined 8 for 16 with 3 RBI and 11 runs scored.

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Submitted by The Real Neal on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:58 pm

That's going to make a long day at the ballpark, especially for the Rafters. It would be cool if Barney became a useful hitter. Our guys pitched 8 innings of one run ball too (Estrada, Cardidad, Veal, Roquet).

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Submitted by Timmer on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:10 pm

Spears has started quickly in the AFL -- .455 / .556 / .682 -- and has played a few innings at short. Maybe AZ Phil can let us know how he's looked there and how he matches up with Fontenot.

Submitted by 10man on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:53 pm

Hendry has made his fair share of mistakes (Just like any other GM now or in history), but the true test of how good a GM is whether the team wins or not. 3 division titles in the last 6 seasons. You can't argue with that. Hendry did have a big part to play in that, along with Lou, the players, the trainers, the coaches, the grounds crew, etc. It's a team, and it took a total team effort to win. Hendry is the leader so it is only natural to see him get most of the attention for what happens. The thing about leaders is this: They get too much of the credit for good things happening and too much of the criticism for bad things happening. Human nature.

Submitted by HendryIsClueLess on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:45 pm

More of the same from Hendry: "We feel Felix is going to be a good player," Hendry said. "You're talking about a 23-year-old kid. He'll be an out-of-options player. Without any kind of injury or significant change, he'll have a very good chance to make the ballclub out of Spring Training."

Submitted by HendryIsClueLess on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:51 pm

How many OFs can we carry? Fukudome, Pie, and Reed Johnson are already penciled in as non-starters...things that make you go hmmmm... This team next year will either suck it up and repeat and get past the 1st round or completely suck from day 1. I dont see any middle ground. Hopefully Soriano is batting 5th or 6th, Fukudome is the leadoff hitter or 2nd, Pie learns to hit ML pitching and Dempster stays on the same workout program he was on during his contract year. Lets hope they feel they have lots to prove.

Recent comments

  • fullykräusened (view)

    My first thought was that Hendricks was IL'd with a broken ERA, but after some quick research, you're right about MLB making at least some effort to discourage the "phantom IL."

  • crunch (view)

    luke little rejoins the MLB party...

  • crunch (view)

    hendricks IL...lower back...

    given recent backlash by MLB, i doubt this is a phanton IL.

    wtf...also drew smyly to IL...right hip...

  • crunch (view)

    boston, houston, miami...lots of potential suitors for a backup 1st/DH who won't be pain if they need regular ABs

  • Childersb3 (view)

    BOS 1B Casas just hit the IL. Maybe Cooper goes there.

    Cooper leaving does open a 40man spot. Probably for an arm at some point.

    Horton?

    Maybe Caissie

  • crunch (view)

    now that cooper is gone, who's going to the IL?  seems like it will probably be a pitcher at this point.

  • crunch (view)

    can't wait to see what A-ball fringe corner OF/1st he'll be traded for...

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Cooper DFA'd

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Players on the 40 can be recalled and be placed on the MLB Taxi Squad for one day, like for example if a club is unsure if a player might or might not be placed on the IL ("game time decision"). Like maybe Happ, for example. 

    Also, a player on the MLB Taxi Squad must be returned to his optional assignment the next day if he is not officially recalled to the 26-man roster. 

    The player is NOT paid at the MLB split rate and does NOT accrue MLB Service Time while he is on the Taxi Squad. Also, it is not considered to be an official recall / option back if he is not added to the 26-man roster. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Wesneski has not spent 15 days on optional assignment since he was optioned so he cannot be recalled unless he is replacing a player being placed on the IL or other MLB inactive list (Paternity, Bereavement / Family Medical, et al), a player who is traded, or a player who is claimed off waivers.

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