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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full), plus one player is 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

Last updated 3-28-2024
 
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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
* 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: 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 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 1 
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 1 
Caleb Kilian, P 

 



 

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New Cubs Bench Coach, New Rumors

A couple of quick hits for everyone...

- The Cubs have indeed hired former Cub and rumored backstabber Dave Martinez as their bench coach (not Davey Lopes if you're following Bruce Levine on twitter). That'll move Brandon Hyde to first base coach and newly hired Doug Dascenzo to outfield/baserunning coordinator.

- The Cubs signed INF Jonathan Herrera to a minor league deal...he last played for the Red Sox.

- Some talk that the Cubs are looking at David Ross as a backup catcher, he just happened to have caught 18 of Jon Lester's games last year with the Red Sox.

- Speaking of Lester, the rumors are aplenty, with talk of Dodgers, Yankees and even the Angels possibly trying to swoop in with some substantial offers. Alll of it makes sense to be honest, as Lester is good, relatively young for a free agent, won't cost a draft pick and every team wants pitching. Hopefully we'll have our answer before the Winter Meetings next week. I do think the Cubs take runs at Shields or Scherzer if they miss out, but they won't stretch beyond the measures of insanity for either of them.

- Some twitter rumor that Cubs offered Chase Headley a 4/65M deal...probably doesn't make sense unless they're convinced Kris Bryant can't play 3B or convinced Chase Headley will move to left field without much friction.

Comments

per Ken Rosenthal tweet: Sources-Lester decision unlikely before winter meetings.

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In reply to by Rob G.

Bears will be out of the playoffs for the 7th time in the past 8 years (for reference, Cubs are 2 of the past 8)-- and Phil Emery and Ted Phillips are still employed. The Bears have nothing to build on -- they are not good at anything. Can't/won't run the ball, passing offense is lousy unless the other team is in prevent, and the defense is lousy at every position. No hope of being better next year. Very hard to like this franchise right now.

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In reply to by Rob G.

Again, I gotta emphasize that the offense sucks, too. They have one of the best backs in the NFL (okay, I'm biased because I have a man crush on Matt Forte) and they don't use him. Now V Phil will say "oh you bears fans all want to go back to that silly running game." No, I want a team that knows how to run a 21st century offense with a balanced attack. There are some QBs that can throw all day. Cutler ain't one of them. But the worst thing to watch is how inept they all seem out there. I don't know if Trestman's offense is too complex, or what, but they look lost out there. The defense just sort of goes without saying. The worst i've ever seen from a Bears team.

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In reply to by Old and Blue

I'm not gonna call it great, but I don't think it sucks. Cutler was an efficient 10/13 in first half I think with no turnovers and Forte gets a ton of touches, a screen isn't much different than a run frankly (he's on pace to tie or break the season record for catches by a running back and I think on pace for 300 touches total). Their best WR got hurt early too and their 2nd best was injured going in. Dallas has a pretty weak defense, but the offensive numbers between the two teams were close, other than Cowboys did a more damage on the ground. Those weren't short drives the Cowboys were scoring on in the 3rd quarter (other than the Forte fumble).

In the end, if the Bears were down a score late in the game, I feel the offense COULD come back and make a game of it. I know for sure the defense would cough up the lead in a second. I guess that's the best way i can describe the difference between the two.

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In reply to by Rob G.

Heard an interesting analysis from Tom Thayer this morning -- it's very hard to run-block out of a two-point (pass block) stance. Your center of gravity too high and your weight is on your heels. To run block, you should be in a 3-point stance, which allows you lean forward, start low and explode into the defender. Trestman's offense relies on the threat of the pass to create running lanes -- this clearly is not working. Let Kyle Long start low and explode, and have Forte follow him -- this will work.

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In reply to by billybucks

worth a shot!!!

They were 7th in Yards per attempt last year (Down to #23 this year), my guess is Trestman saw it work last year and is gonna be reluctant to change. And I imagine it would be hard to change mid-season if that's what you've been practicing for 2 years now.

And Forte is getting older, the burst might not be quite there (can't say I've watched enough to know), but he's certainly still at the highest level at everything else.

I somehow missed the Chris Conte play where he got a nice cheer. Something involving the PA announcer?

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In reply to by Rob G.

@BNightengale The #Dbacks had rejected a Gregorius-Greene trade until the #Yankees got the #Tigers involved in deal.

"No way Brian, I'm not trading an everyday SS for a backend rotation pitcher."

"Okay, what if I can get you a low-end reliever who had a terrible season last year?"

"Haha, funny Brian!"

"He's left-handed"

"Sold!"

Recent comments

  • hellfrozeover (view)

    I would say also in the bright side column is Busch looked pretty good overall at the plate. Alzolay…man, that hurts but most of the time he’s not giving up a homer to that guy. To me the worst was almonte hanging that pitch to Garcia. He hung another one to the next hitter too and got away with it on an 0-1. 

  • crunch (view)

    amaya blocked like 6-8 of smyly's pitches in the dirt very cleanly...not even an exaggeration, smyly threw a ton of pitches bouncing in tonight.

    neris looking like his old self was a relief (no pun), too.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    In looking for bright spots the defense was outstanding tonight. The “stars” are going to need to shine quite a bit brighter than they did tonight offensively though for this to be a successful season.

  • Eric S (view)

    Good baseball game. Hopefully Steele is pitching again in April (but I’m not counting on it). 

  • crunch (view)

    boo.

  • crunch (view)

    smyly to face the 2/3/4 hitters with a man on 2nd in extras.

    this doesn't seem like a 8 million dollar managerial decision.

  • crunch (view)

    i 100% agree with you, but i dunno how jed wants to run things.  the default is delay.  i would choose brown.

    like hellfrozeover says, could be smyly since he's technically fresh and stretched.

    anyway, on a pure talent basis....brown is the best option.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Use pitchers when you believe they're good. Don't plan their clock.

    I'm sorry. I'm simply anti-clock/contract management. Play guys when they show real MLB potential talent.

    If Brown hadn't been hurt with the Lat Strain he would've gotten the call, and not Wick.

    Give him a chance. 

    But Wesneski probably gets it

  • crunch (view)

    alzolay...bro...

  • crunch (view)

    wow.  what a blown call.  go cubs, i guess.