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

Last updated 3-26-2024
 
* bats or throws left
# bats both

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 

 



 

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Rockies Rallies Result in a Win and a Tie at Riverview Park

Dillon Thomas blooped a two-out two-run double between three Cub defenders in short right-field in the top of the 5th as the Rockies edged the Cubs 3-2 on Field #5, and Denzel Richardson belted an RBI triple and a single and scored a run to help the Rockies rally from a 4-1 deficit to tie the Cubs 4-4 on Field #6, in Cactus League Extended Spring Training split-squad doubleheader action this morning at the Under Armour Performance Center at Riverview Park in Mesa, AZ.

In EXST Cubs roster news, Elliot Soto has completed his 50-game "Drug of Abuse" suspension and has been assigned to AA Tennessee. In 18 Cactus League Extended Spring Training games (68 PA), Soto hit 333/397/417 with 6/9 BB/K, one double, two triples, 3 SB (0 CS), 12 RUNS, and 5 RBI, while playing outstanding defense at SS. 

Also, INF Giuseppe Papaccio has been sent back to Cubs Extended Spring Training from Daytona, and 1B Danny Canela has been sent to Cubs Extended Spring Training from Kane County. Both players were assigned to Squad "A" in the split squad doubleheader, with INF Varonex Cuevas and OF Shamil Ubiera moving from Squad "A" to Squad "B."    

And LHP Andin Diaz (hasn't pitched in a Cactus League EXST game since April 23rd) has been assigned to the DSL Cubs, who will begin their 2014 season tomorrow morning versus the DSL Marlins. The 21-year old Diaz spent the previous two seasons pitching in the DSL, but had his career sidetracked for a while by a 50-game PED suspension in August 2012 that carried over into 2013.

Here are the abridged box scores from today's games (Cubs players only):



FIELD #5

SQUAD "A" LINEUP:
1. Rashad Crawford, CF: 0-3 (L-3, F-7, P-5)
2. Mark Malave, C: 1-3 (1B, F-9, P-4, R)
3. Jeffrey Baez, RF: 1-3 (1B, 4-3, 6-3) 
4. Danny Canela, 1B: 0-3 (4-3, F-8, F-7, RBI)
5. Rony Rodriguez, DH #1: 1-3 (K, F-7, 2B, R)
6. Justin Marra, DH #2: 1-3 (1B, K, 1-3)
7. Giuseppe Papaccio, SS: 0-3 (6-4-3 DP, K, E-5)
8. Kevin Brown, LF: 1-3 (3B, K, K+WP)
9. Jesse Hodges, 3B: 1-3 (F-9, 1B, K)
10. Zak Blair, 2B: 1-2 (1-U, 1B)

SQUAD "A" PITCHERS:
1. Jose Paulino: 4.0 IP, 3 H, 1 R (0 ER), 1 BB, 5 K, 2/3 GO/FO, 63 pitches (41 strikes)
2. Luis Hernandez: 2.1 IP, 2 H, 2 R (0 ER), 2 BB, 1 K, 1 GIDP, 6/0 GO/FO, 53 pitches (31 strikes)
NOTE: Hernandez's third inning was stopped with one out and runner at 3rd base

SQUAD "A" ERRORS: 2
1. C Mark Malave - E-2 (overthrow at 3rd base on stolen base attempt allowed baserunner to score unearned run)
2. P Luis Hernandez - E-1 (dropped throw on attempted 3-1 putout allowed batter to reach base safely - eventually scored unearned run)

SQUAD "A" CATCHERS DEFENSE:
Mark Malave: 1-2 CS, 1 E (see above)

SQUAD "A" OUTFIELD ASSIST:
LF Kevin Brown - batter thrown out 7-6-5 trying to stretch double into triple

FIELD #6:

SQUAD "B" LINEUP
1. Gleyber Torres, SS: 1-3 (5-3, 4-3, 1B)
2. Varonex Cuevas, 2B: 0-1 (BB, K, BB, R)
3. Charcer Burks, CF: 1-3 (2B, L-7, 1-5 FC, R, RBI)
4. Tyler Alamo, DH: 1-2 (1B, K, BB, RBI)
5. Roney Alcala, 1B: 0-3 (6-4-3 DP, F-7, F-9)
6. Adonis Paula, 3B: 1-3 (2B, 5-3, F-8, R)
7a. Ricardo Marcano, RF: 0-1 (F-7, BB)
7b. Shamil Ubiera, RF: 0-1 (5-3)
8. Eufran Vargas, C: 1-3 (1B, 5-4-3 DP, L-6, R)
9. Arnaldo Calero, LF: 0-1 (BB, F-8)

SQUAD "B" PITCHERS:
1. Jeferson Mejia: 3.0 IP, 4 H, 1 R (1 ER), 0 BB, 1 K, 1 GIDP, 4/4 GO/FO, 34 pitches (25 strikes)
2. David Garner: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K, 2/0 GO/FO, 7 pitches (6 strikes)
3. Adbert Alzolay: 1.0 IP, 4 H, 3 R (3 ER), 0 BB, 0 K, 0/3 GO/FO, 19 pitches (14 strikes)
4. Victor Salazar: 2.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 1/4 GO/FO, 28 pitches (17 strikes)

CUBS SQUAD "B" ERRORS: NONE

CUBS SQUAD"B" CATCHERS DEFENSE:
Eufran Vargas: 0-3 CS

ATTENDANCE: 13

WEATHER: Sunny with temperatures 100+ 
  

Comments

I was looking at the tweet about Rizzo above and I realized that if the Cubs tried to move to Rosemont (or wherever) they'd probably get sued by people in Wrigleyville.

it only took 23 minutes for this game to officially suck. down by 4...1 out in the 1st...man on 1st.

"Hi Ricky, yeah Theo here. I love Valbuena, I do. We re-signed him for a reason. Anyway here's the thing: you play him at 3rd base more than once every two weeks and I'll trade him for a billy goat and a generic Pepsi. Okay, talk to you soon. Bye now."

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In reply to by jacos

no idea...i occasionally see highlight videos, but not full at bats. given the 20-25% of his ABs ending in a K it's hard to know just by looking at that number or the highlight swings where he'll hit a wall in pitching talent vs his hitting talent. it's also a bit early to tell if he's capable of swift corrective measures if he does hit a wall. if he's got any vulnerabilities, so far not many in AA are talented enough to use them against bryant.

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In reply to by Rob G.

Wasn't Bryce Harper in Double A when they brought him up? I'm pretty sure Mark Grace was. Plenty of others, too. He doesn't really need to go to Iowa unless that's a pitchers league (I have no idea). EDIT: As much as I love to say "bring him up" I think they may have been a little hasty with Harper. His stats weren't like this, either.

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In reply to by Old and Blue

I think if there was an injury they might consider it, but this group seems to take it one level at a time. Anyway Bryant still has D and strikeout issues to work on as exciting as he's been.

The pressure on him and Baez when they get called up is going to be pretty immense by the fans and media, doesn't need to be working on major flaws to go along with it and read about it every day in the paper, hopefully just fine tuning at that point and adjusting.

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In reply to by Rob G.

Giancarlo Stanton strikes out a lot and it doesn't hurt him too much. I'd rather see strikeouts when things aren't going right than the Sureouts approach of hitting into a double play every time there are men on base. I haven't seen him bat much and I'm no expert anyway, but strikeouts don't bother me much. This group will need to weigh putting pressure on the kids against putting pressure on themselves. Joel Sherman had a good article on this slow and steady approach today. Hot prospects don't always pan out. The whole Cubs plan is only as good as the kids they bring up, since they don't want to look at other avenues of obtaining players for some reason. I'm not sure waiting 6 months or even a year is going to make a bit of difference when it comes to Bryant, and he doesn't seem fazed by pressure anyway. I'm not saying they should bring him up now but if he keeps tearing it up they need to think about where to put him, and, especially, are they at all interested in Olt. They don't seem to be.

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In reply to by Old and Blue

Depends on the reason for the strikeouts and having not seen Bryant play I can't say one way or another but if he's having problems with something like breaking balls major league pitchers are going to take advantage in a way AA pitchers can't. We're gonna need multiple prospects to come up plus then spending on FA at the same time to compete so why the urgency? If Bryant has nothing left to learn then great but if he can still work on defense and his approach at the plate re: SOs then why not just use this opportunity of guaranteed suckitude at the Major League level to let him iron it out. Castro has taken major strides this season but I think he would have been better served without the unforgiving glare of Chicago media and fanship too.

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In reply to by johann

I have no idea if Bryant is missing breaking stuff. I guess I could get myself an MILB tv account and watch a few games. If he is, that's a problem but I haven't read anyone saying he is. I follow that Arguello fellow quite a bit on the Trib's attempt to be trendy blog thing - Chicago Now I believe it's called. He's actually pretty informed and I haven't seen him say anything about it. Doesn't mean it isn't so of course. The real question for me is where does he fit in because if his defense is really that questionable and they like Olt anyway (another big question based on the way Renteria uses him) then he should be in the outfield right now.

We should hire some Blackhawks as team consultants / psychiatrists. Those guys just never quit.

Bonafacio @ third Coughlin baker Barney in line up also /no hitter alert at level Ryan

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In reply to by crunch

Yeah, I mean what are we learning about this team when we win with a lineup like that? That we win when the pitcher is perfect and Rizzo hits 2 homeruns? Fine we know that. I cannot stand this manager. God, he's infuriating. The only legitimate questions regarding position players are whether Olt is part of the future core and possibly if a couple of these young outfielders are comeback / reclamation projects. Anything else is irrelevant. So what do we get? A painstakingly complete, spare no cost, detailed exploration of our low ceiling, middle aged, light hitting 1.5 tool journeymen. Thanks captain fucky, you're a force to be reckoned with...

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In reply to by Carlito

I actually understand the showing off Bonifacio thing in the hopes that some team would be stupid enough to give the Cubs more than he's worth, but I don't understand it at the expense of not playing Olt. The window to find out if he can play is getting smaller all the time because Bryant looks like he isn't interested in waiting, MLB clock time or no. For a management team that prides itself on foresight I find it amazing they are not dealing with 1) Getting Olt in the line up every day to see if he's going to be any good (he may not, I'll be the first to admit) and 2) If Olt pans out, they need to get Bryant into the outfield ASAP and time's a wastin'.

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In reply to by Old and Blue

My guess is that the plan is to continue as is with intermittent playing while all the other crap builds up trade value. After the deadline or whenever everything of 'value' can be traded, Olt can play every day. He'll have had the first half of partial play and the second half of regular play. Hopefully, after the deadline, they'll start playing the guys who might actually have a future with the Cubs.

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In reply to by The Joe

It's hard to picture a guy that tall--Bryant is listed at 6'5--playing third. And Olt looks pretty good there. So I would guess that Olt is better. But the only thing I'm really sure of is that Bryant hit another ball out of play today between the foul lines (#18).

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  • 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.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Here are the Cubs pitchers reports from Tuesday afternoon's Cardinals - Cubs game art Sloan Park in Mesa:

    SHOTA IMANAGA
    FB: 90-92 
    CUT: 87-89 
    SL: 82-83 
    SPLIT: 81-84
    CV: 73-74 
    COMMENT: Worked three innings plus two batters in the fourth... allowed four runs (three earned) on eight hits (six singles and two doubles) walked one, and struck out six (four swinging), with a 1/2 GO/AO... he threw 73 pitches (52 strikes - 10 swing & miss - 19 foul balls)... surrendered one run in the top of the 1st on a one-out double off Cody Bellinger's glove in deep straight-away CF followed one out later by two consecutive two-out bloop singles, allowed two runs (one earned) in the 2nd after retiring the first two hitters (first batter had a nine-pitch AB with four consecutive two-strike foul balls before being retired 3 -U) on a two-out infield single (weak throw on the run by Nico Hoerner), a hard-contact line drive RBI double down the RF line, and an E-1 (missed catch) by Imanaga on what should been an inning-ending 3-1 GO, gave up another run in the 3rd on a two-out walk on a 3-2 pitch and an RBI double to LF, and two consecutive singles leading off the top of the 4th before being relieved (runners were ultimately left stranded)... threw 18 pitches in the 1st inning (14 strikes - two swing & miss, one on FB and the other on a SL - four foul balls), 24 pitches in the 2nd inning (17 strikes - three swing & miss, one on FB, two SPLIT - six foul balls), 19 pitches in the 3rd inning (13 strikes - seven swing & miss, three on SL, two on SPLIT, one on FB - three foul balls), and 12 pitches without retiring a batter in the top of the 4th (8 strikes - no swing & miss - four foul balls)... Imanaga throws a lot of pitches per inning, but it's not because he doesn't throw strikes...  if anything, he throws too many strikes (he threw 70% strikes on Tuesday)... while he gets a ton of swing & miss (and strikeouts), he also induces a lot of foul balls because he doesn't try to make hitters chase his pitches by throwing them out of the strike zone... rather, he uses his very diverse pitch mix to get swing & miss (and lots of foul balls as well)... he also is a fly ball pitcher who will give up more than his share of HR during the course of the season...   
     
    JOE NAHAS
    FB: 90-92 
    SL: 83-85 
    CV: 80-81 
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day... relieved Imanaga with runners at first and second and no outs in the top of the 4th, and after an E-2 catcher's interference committed by Miguel Amaya loaded he bases, Nahas struck out the side (one swinging & two looking)... threw 16 pitches (11 strikes - two swinging)...   

    YENCY ALMONTE
    FB: 89-92 
    CH: 86 
    SL: 79 
    COMMENT: Threw an eight-pitch 5th (five strikes - no swing & miss), with a 5-3 GO for the first out and an inning-ending 4-6-3 DP after a one-out single... command was a bit off but he worked through it...   

    FRANKIE SCALZO JR
    FB: 94-95
    CH: 88 
    SL: 83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 6th inning... got the first outs easily (a P-5 and a 4-3 GO) on just three pitches, before allowing three consecutive two-out hard-contact hits (a double and two singles), with the third hit on pitch # 9 resulting in a runner being thrown out at the plate by RF Christian Franklin for the third out of the inning... 

    MICHAEL ARIAS
    FB: 94-96
    CH: 87-89
    SL: 82-83
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and allowed a hard-contact double on the third pitch of the 7th inning (a 96 MPH FB), and the runner came around to score on a 4-3 GO and a WP... gave up two other loud contact outs (an L-7 and an F-9)... threw 18 pitches (only 10 strikes - only one swing & miss)... stuff is electric but still very raw and he continues to have difficulty commanding it, and while he has the repertoire of a SP, he throws too many pitches-per-inning to be a SP and not enough strikes to be a closer... he is most definitely still a work-in-progress...   

    ZAC LEIGH: 
    FB: 93-94 
    CH: 89 
    SL: 81-83 
    CV: 78
    COMMENT: Was called up from the AA Tennessee group at Minor League Camp for the day and tossed a 1-2-3 8th (4-3 GO, K-swinging on a sweeper, K-looking on another sweeper)... threw 14 pitches (11 strikes - one swing & miss - eight foul balls)... kept pumping pitches into the strike zone but had difficulty putting hitters away (ergo a ton of foul balls)... FB velo is nowhere near the 96-98 MPH it was a couple of years ago when he was a Top 30 prospect, but his secondaries are better...   

    JOSE ROMERO:  
    FB: 93-95
    SL: 82-84
    COMMENT: Was called up from the Hi-A South Bend group at Minor League Camp for the day and worked the 9th (14 pitches - only six strikes- no swing & miss) and allowed a solo HR after two near-HR fly outs to the warning track, before getting a 3-1 GO to end the inning... it was like batting practice when he wasn't throwing pitches out of the strike zone...

  • crunch (view)

    pablo sandoval played 3rd and got a couple ABs (strikeout, single!) in the OAK@SF "exhibition"

    mlb officially authenticated the ball of the single he hit.  nice.

    he's in surprisingly good shape considering his poor body condition in his last playing seasons.  he's not lean, but he looks healthier.  good for him.

  • crunch (view)

    dbacks are signing j.montgomery to a 1/25m with a vesting 20m player option.

    i dunno when the ink officially dries, but i believe if he signs once the season begins he can't be offered a QO...and i'm not sure if that thing with SD/LAD in korea was the season beginning, either.

  • crunch (view)

    sut says imanaga getting the home opener at wrigley (game 4 of the season).

  • crunch (view)

    cubs rolling out the who's who of "who the hell is this guy?" in the last spring game.

  • videographer (view)

    AZ Phil, speaking of Jordan Wicks having better command when he tires a bit, I remember reading about Dennis Lamp 40 years ago and his sinker that was better after 3 or 4 innings when he would tire a bit and get more sink with a little less speed on the pitch.  The key for Lamp was getting to the 4th inning.