Cubs MLB Roster

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40-Man Roster Info

40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full) 

28 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and twelve players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors. 

Last updated 3-26-2024
 
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PITCHERS: 15
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Caleb Kilian
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
Jameson Taillon
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

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

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Ben Brown, P 
Alexander Canario, OF 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Keegan Thompson, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

 



 

Minor League Rosters
Rule 5 Draft 
Minor League Free-Agents

Gameday Open Thread/Cubs @ Giants

Cubs baseball (Cactus League version) is back! Ryan Dempster begins his attempt to win a spot in the '08 rotation; Noah Lowry starts for the Giants. Neither starter is slated to go beyond the second inning.

First pitch is at 2:05 Central Time. Pat and Ron have the radio call on WGN radio in Chicago.

Rob tells me that Parachat is open and your usernames/passwords from last year will still work, though they are different than the names you just created so you could leave comments here at the new site.

Comments

Just came across this at the Giants Web site, and I've never heard it before:

"To simulate a sense of competition and keep fans happy, teams are encouraged to employ lineups with at least four projected everyday players during Spring Training. Managers occasionally have been reprimanded by baseball officials for ignoring this custom."

Giants are planning to go with their regular outfield (Roberts, Rowand, and Winn) and Dan Ortmeier, their projected Opening Day first baseman.

On the new site. Long-time reader, rare poster. Best of luck... Go Cubs Go!

that if your username/password is the same for both, it'll work. It's just that the Parachat keeps their own database and any changes you make to your user profile here, won't affect your parachat account and vice-versa.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baseball/bal-sp.orioles28feb28,0,138…

The Orioles will dispatch a scout to Mesa, Ariz., site of the Cubs' training facility, next week to get a closer look at some of the players the two teams have discussed. It's expected that infielder Ronny Cedeno and pitching prospect Sean Gallagher would be in the deal, but the third and/or fourth player still hasn't been decided. Both sides remain optimistic that a deal could get done.

If we had the MLB.tv package, are they giving us ST free with TV and/or audio? Does anyone know? Thanks!! ______________ Fire Hendry!!!

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In reply to by mannytrillo

Includes audio and spring training, which I think was your question. ____________________ Fire the most successful Cubs GM in the last 100 years!

I love the look and feel of the site. Not sure I like the Cub Reporter logo, though. Have you tried messing with that logo a bit more? How about swapping out the C for a cuddly cub found on the players jerseys? On second thought I don't know if that would be an improvement. Alright, I quit. As you were...

There may be a "suggestion" by MLB that each team start at least four "regulars," but it's not a rule.

I've been to Cactus League games in the last few years where the visiting team's starting lineup is all non-roster and back-up guys, and sometimes that's even when the opposing team isn't playing a Split Squad game that day!

Given what they charge to see these games, there really should be a "Rule of Four," but unfortunately there is not. 

My login from last year is not working at MLB, so I am not getting the telecast. UGH!!! -------------- Fire Hendry!!!

ahh, pat & ron... i almost heard robins chirping as i gazed out the window and saw my cub flag twitching @ the touch of snowflakes like a cow's tail shooing flies...

Dempster just gave up a deep daddy donger to his 3rd batter, Winn.

I missed the top half of the first -- what happened?

scratch hit for theriot, called k for cedeno, k-dome hbp [the first one he saw], lee bb, wp scores theriot...

the over/under of date that Dempster will officially be moved back to the bullpen. I say March 13th. That is of course if he doesn't get traded. -------------- Fire Hendry!!!

Why is everything in bold? -------------- Fire Hendry!!!

know any of this html shit!! :) I did close it, let's see if that helps. I don't know why that would effect everyone though. -------------- Fire Hendry!!!

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In reply to by Ryno

Manny: You forgot the / in the closing half of the tag, so you were in effect opening two strong tags with each sig. Looks like it's fixed now.

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In reply to by Rob G.

Oh, to clarify: I closed the tags Manny left open with my subsequent posts. I just made a new post with a bunch of extra strong close tags. Ah, on edit: I think a lot of the confusion is coming from the threaded versus flat views.

test again -------------- Fire Hendry!!!

working on it...hold off on posting for a sec

how is it me. Either way, how should I have it? When i preview it it looks fine. -------------- Fire Hendry!!!

No idea what happened there, but it's obviously a` bug I need to work on.

If it was really me, I am sorry. I did change it and for a couple posts it was still screwed up. But sorry again... -------------- Fire Hendry!!!

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In reply to by mannytrillo

Don't worry about it, just one of those bugs you can't test until we had some readers. Even if it a tag is left open, it shouldn't affect other comments. Will work on it

Theriot 3-3

slap hit rbi down 3rd base line for his first Cub hit.

These guys are tearing the cover of the ball. This better not just be a big dick tease. -------------- Fire Hendry!!!

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In reply to by mannytrillo

Ummm... Johan's mom?

Well, doesn't seem like Pie's pressing at all.

From the desk of jacos Congrats, its, its.....so many emotions.

I fear change.

† CHI 12R 15H 1E SF 6R, 10H 2E Dempster W, Lowry L The Joe - 2007 TCR Keeper Champion

† Rob if you're still around. One thing I miss is the list of threads at the side of the screen so that I know when a new thread is put up. Otherwise I wait until it shows up on my RSS which tends to take a long time. The Joe - 2007 TCR Keeper Champion

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In reply to by The Joe

The plan is for the box labeled Featured Post on the left to gave 2 tabs, one for featured post and one for the 5 most recent, It's just going to take some coding, but you'll get somethimg similar eventually.

The Cubs win big and the new starting OF's are the offensive stars today. The new site looks great as well! Any way we can get a full box score.

† Don't know about a box score...the line score i posted came from the mouth of Pat Hughes. The Joe - 2007 TCR Keeper Champion

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In reply to by The Joe

don't forget the link underneath the "W" (top right corner)...it takes you to a yahoo boxscore

I really like the "new posts" feature. "Latest Results" feature is pretty nice also. My one suggestion: make the author names bigger, if possible. Other than that, I'm loving this site.

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In reply to by Little Nate Lewis

i second that. i love the edit feature...especially considering this would be 2 posts instead of 1. i wouldn't mind seeing the "edit/reply" font size shrink a little. they're kinda "in your face."

Bringing in the new site with an ever meaningful 1st game of Spring W. Who can ask for anything more?

Changing the text size in CSS should be fairly easy... something like: .comment .submitted a {   font-size: 1.3em; }

MVN sucks donkey testicles. Hey all ;) ___________________________ The Mexican homeboy.

In off-topic stuff, the lineup today sucked. 3/44 already? ___________________________ The Mexican homeboy.

Has anyone ever taken one of the Wrigley Field tours?

looks like little lord fontenot got up on the right side of the futon. 聖なる牛!カブスが勝った!

i figured it out i saw the box score on mlb.com looked leke ceda had the roughest go of it among pitchers and saw a headline whih stated fukadome reaches base three different ways, first pitch he saw he got hit what a nice welcome.

Isn't it funny how when we bitch of a bad lineup, we score a ton of runs? -------------- Fire Hendry!!!

hahahaa ___________________________ The Mexican homeboy.

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    madrigal at 3rd...morel at DH.

    making room for madrigal or/and masterboney to get a significant amount of ABs is a misuse of the roster.  if it needed to get taken care of this offseason, they had tons of time to figure that out.

    morel played almost exclusively at 3rd in winter ball and they had him almost exclusively there all spring when he wasn't DH'ing.

    madrigal doing a good job with the glove for a bit over 2 chances per game...is that worth more than what he brings with the bat 4-5 PA a game?  it's 2024 and we got glenn beckert 2.0 manning 3rd base.

    this is a tauchman or cooper DH situation based on bat, alone.  cooper is 3/7 with a double off eovaldi if you want to play the most successful matchup.

    anyway, i hope this is a temporary thing, not business as usual for the rest of the season.  it will be telling if morel is not used at 3rd when an extreme fly ball pitcher like imanaga is on the mound.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    There are two clear "logjams" in the Cubs minor league pipeline at the present time, namely AA outfielders (K. Alcantara, C. Franklin, Roederer, Pagan, Pinango, Beesley, and Nwogu) and Hi-A infielders (J. Rojas, P. Ramirez, Howard, R. Morel, Pertuz, R. Garcia, and Spence, although Morel has been getting a lot of reps in the outfield in addition to infield). So it is possible that you might see a trade involving one of the extra outfielders at AA and/or one of the extra infielders at Hi-A in the next few days. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    18-year old SS Jefferson Rojas almost made the AA Tennessee Opening Day roster, and he is a legit shortstop, so I would expect him to be an MLB Top 100 prospect by mid-season. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Among the relievers in the system, I expect RHRP Hunter Bigge at AAA Iowa and RHRP Ty Johnson at South Bend to have breakout seasons on 2024, and among the starters I see LHP Drew Gray and RHP Will Sanders at South Bend and RHP Naz Mule at ACL Cubs as the guys who will make the biggest splash. Also, Jaxon Wiggins is throwing bullpen sides, so once he is ready for game action he could be making an impact at Myrtle Beach by June.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I expect OF Christian Franklin to have a breakout season at AA Tennessee in 2024. In another organization that doesn't have PCA, Caissie, K. Alcantara, and Canario in their system, C. Franklin would be a Top 10 prospect. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    The Reds trading Joe Boyle for Sam Moll at last year's MLB Trade Deadline was like the Phillies trading Ben Brown to the Cubs for David Robertson at the MLB TD in 2022. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Javier Assad started the Lo-A game (Myrtle Beach versus Stockton) on the Cubs backfields on Wednesday as his final Spring Training tune-up. He was supposed to throw five innings / 75 pitches. However, I was at the minor league road games at Fitch so I didn't see Assad pitch. 

  • crunch (view)

    cards put j.young on waivers.

    they really tried to make it happen this spring, but he put up a crazy bad slash of .081/.244/.108 in 45PA.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Seconded!!!

  • crunch (view)

    another awesome spring of pitching reports.  thanks a lot, appreciated.