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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 nine players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and one player 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
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 9 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 1 
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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A's Walk Past Cubs at Fitch Park

Submitted by Arizona Phil on

Christopher Quintin clubbed a two-run HR in the bottom of the 2nd, Alonzo Medina drilled a two-run double to cap a four-run 6th, and Osvaldo Berrios and Rafael Kelly each hurled three innings of shutout ball, leading the Athletics to a 7-2 victory over the Cubs in Cactus League Extended Spring Training game action on Field #4 at the Lew Wolff Training Coimplex at Fitch Park in Mesa, AZ.  

The game was called after eight innings of play. 

Jonathan Soto belted an RBI triple and scored and also singled twice for the Cubs in a losing cause. The starting batting order featured seven of the Cubs Extended Spring Training "Top 10" position-player prospects hitting 1-7 (Valazquez-L. Diaz-Soto-A. Rodriguez-Morel-Verdugo-Henderson Perez), so the lack of offense (outside of Soto) was both surprising and disappointing.  

Cubs pitchers allowed only four hits, but they also issued eleven walks (including four each by Stephen Ridings and Eduarniel Nunez, and E. Nunez was unable to record an out in his second inning of work).   

The Cubs scored their only two runs off ex-Cub RHP Jeferson Mejia, who was one of the pitchers traded by the Cubs to the Arizona Diamondbacks for catcher Miguel Montero in December 2014 (Zack Godley was the other one). The A's acquired Mejia from the D'backs at the trade deadline last July in exchange for veteran utility INF Adam Rosales. 

Here is the abridged box score from the game (Cubs players only): 
CUBS LINEUP:
1. Nelson Velazquez, CF: 0-4 (K, K, 6-3, 6-3)
2. Luis Diaz, 2B: 0-3 (F-8, L-7, K, BB, R)
3. Jonathan Soto, C: 3-4 (1B, 3-1, 1B, 3B, R, RBI)
4a. Abraham Rodriguez, 1B: 1-2 (1B, E-3)
4b. Orian Nunez, 3B: 0-0 (BB, L-8 SF, RBI)
5. Christopher Morel, SS: 0-2 (K, K, BB, BB)
6a. Luis Verdugo, 3B: 1-2 (1B, F-9, CS)
6b. Rafael Mejia, 1B: 0-2 (K, 5-4 FC) 
7. Henderson Perez, DH #1: 0-3 (5-3, F-7, K)
8. Kwangmin Kwon, RF: 0-1 (K, BB, BB)
9a. Chris Carrier, LF: 0-2 (K, K)
9b. Jose Gutierrez, LF: 0-1 (4-3)
10. Ramsey Romano, DH #2: 0-2 (BB, L-8, 6-3)

CUBS PITCHERS: 
1. Jesus Tejada: 2.0 IP, 1 H, 2 R (1 ER), 2 BB, 1 K, 1 HR, 3/2 GO/AO, 38 pitches (21 strikes) 
2. Stephen Ridings: 2.0 IP, 0 H, 1 R (1 ER), 4 BB, 1 K, 1 WP, 1 GIDP, 2/2 GO/AO, 39 pitches (19 strikes) 
3. Eduarniel Nunez: 1.0 IP, 2 H, 4 R (4 ER), 4 BB, 1 K, 1 BALK, 1/1 GO/AO, 46 pitches (21 strikes) 
4. Emilio Ferrebus: 2.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 WP, 0/5 GO/AO, 32 pitches (18 strikes) 
5. Ivan Medina: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K, 2/1 GO/AO, 11 pitches (8 strikes) 

CUBS ERRORS: 3 
1. 3B Luis Verdugo: E-5 (fielding error allowed batter to reach base safely) 
2. RF Kwangmin Kwon: E-9 (dropped pop fly in foul territory extending batter's AB)
3. 3B Orian Nunez: E-5 (errant throw attempting 5-4 FC allowed runner to reach 2nd base safely)

ATTENDANCE: 3 

WEATHER: Sunny with temperatures in the 90's 

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Comments

Submitted by The_Tom_U on Sat, 05/05/2018 - 05:41 pm

Phil, I am a long time colleague, and I have a question concerning contract rules.

What avenues, if any, do the Cubs have to get out from under Jason Heyward’s contract, aside from trading him?

Thank you for your knowledge and assistance.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Sat, 05/05/2018 - 05:35 pm

TOM: Aside from trading him (and good luck with that), there is nothing the Cubs can do (legally) to get out from under Jason Heyward's contract, other than hope he opts out after the season, which he is not going to do (and if he were to consider it, his agent and his family and friends would probably do an intervention to prevent it).

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Submitted by The_Tom_U on Sun, 05/06/2018 - 05:23 am

So then, the only legal thing the Cubs can do is tell Heyward and his agent that he is being benched for the remainder of his contract, in the hope that looking at becoming the most expensive fifth outfielder in baseball and essentially ending his playing career will be enough for him to opt out.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Sun, 05/06/2018 - 05:40 am

TOM: The problem with not playing Heyward and hoping he will opt-out is that agents and their clients would probably view the Cubs in a bad light for doing it and it could affect the ability of the Cubs to sign free-agents and re-sign their own players to contract extensions going forward, and then what if Heyward still doesn't opt-out? Since Heyward is almost certainly not going to opt-out no matter what the Cubs do, the best bet for the Cubs is either keep him and live with the bad contract through 2023, or else trade him sometime during the window they can trade him (post-2018 through end of the the 2020 season) for another bad contract (probably somebody making even more than Heyward) and hope whoever they get back in the deal will benefit from a change-of-scenery, or "eat" a large chunk of his salary (probably at least 75% of it) and trade him for pennies on the dollar (while also probably including at least one high-value prospect in the deal to get the other club to bite). None of the options are particularly attractive, not to mention likely to happen. I think the most-likely scenario is that Heyward will be kept around as a VERY high-priced LH platoon RF-CF and/or late-inning defensive replacement in RF, and the Cubs will just accept that Heyward's salary will preclude them from doing other things they would prefer to do with the money. Heyward won't like that role, but I doubt very much it would be sufficient to motivate him to opt-out.

Recent comments

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Walker was a complimentary piece who was well past his prime. Edmonds, Holliday, Ozzie Smith and a few others were good trades. Notably, they have almost always been quiet in the free agent market. But the fundamental workings of the organization were always based primarily upon the constant output of a well oiled minor league organization. That organization has ground to a halt. And when did that hard stop start to happen? Right at the beginning of the Goldschmidt/Arenado era, perpetuated by the Contreras signing, followed by the rotation purchases during the last offseason. The timing is undeniable and, in my mind, not coincidental.

    Again, we are all saying that player development became deemphasized. I’m just linking it directly to the recent trades and involvement in the free agent market. I don’t see how the two concepts can be decoupled.

  • Charlie (view)

    The Cards also traded for both Jim Edmonds and Larry Walker. It's the developing part that has fallen off. Of course, it could also be the case that there are no more Matt Carpenters left to pull out of the hat. 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Cubs sign 28 yr old RHRP Daniel Missaki. He was in MiLB from his 17yr old to 19yr old years and did pretty well.
    He's been in Mexico and Japan the last four years and has done well also.
    He's supposedly Japanese and Brazilian.
    Interesting sign. We obviously need to RP in the system
    Injuries are mounting everywhere!!

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Sure, they made generally short term trades for established players to enhance what they already had or traded for players early enough in their careers that they were essentially Cardinals from the start. What they never did was to try to use the more established players as foundational cornerstones.

    Essentially we’re saying the same thing. They have given up on player development to the point that even their prospects that make it to the bigs flop so that they have to do things like buy most of their rotation and hope for the best.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    I don’t buy that. They had been doing that for years.

    They did it with Matt Holliday. They did it with John Lackey. They did it with Mark Mulder. They did it with Jason Heyward, who had a great year for them. I’m sure there’s more but those come to mind immediately.

    I attribute it more to a breakdown in what they’re doing in terms of development than a culture thing.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    They won those trades and sacrificed their culture. That’s exactly their problem.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    The other part that’s kind of crazy is they made two very high profile trades, one for Goldschmidt and one for Arenado, and they very clearly won those trades. They just haven’t been able to develop players the last handful of years the way they usually do.

    I guess the moral there is it’s hard to stay on top of your game and be good at what you do in perpetuity.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Marmol was extended at the beginning of the year. Two years I believe.

  • crunch (view)

    Jesse Rogers @JesseRogersESPN
    Craig Counsell doesn’t have a timetable for Cody Bellinger who technically has two cracked ribs on his right side. CT scan showed it today.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Thought it might have been David Peralta given the open 40 man spot and how PCA has played so far. 

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