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40-Man Roster Info

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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Cubs @ Cardinals: Montgomery vs Weaver (Game 103)

CHC (60-42): LHP Mike Montgomery (3-3, 3.73)
STL (51-51): RHP Luke Weaver (5-9, 4.79)
First pitch: 7:15pmCST
 
Montgomery, who gave up 1 ER against the Cardinals at Wrigley on Saturday, is on notice after the acquisition of Cole Hamels. (If it means another championship, we can forgive that one start in 2015.) This is a big start for Monty, although being flexible, a lefty, and relatively inexpensive have probably already doomed him to the pen.
 
Overall, the Cardinals are 13-61 (.213) against him. Molina is 2-3.
 
Weaver, who gave up 3 ER in 4 innings against Montgomery for the loss, has had a couple of decent outings, but has been decidedly mediocre, even after I dropped him from my fantasy team. (Usually, that turns things around.). In his last 5 starts, he’s 2-3 with a 5.08 ERA. Against Weaver, Baez is 6-11 with a HR.
 
Quintana and Mikolas on Fox tomorrow at 3:05pmCST.
 
Go Cubs!

Comments

So Eddie Butler is the other player in the Hamels deal... Made me look up James Farris to see how he was doing with CO, and he seems to have vanished... no recent news items on the Google, last transaction on MiLB was an invite to spring training & re-assignment to minor league camp, and no 2018 stats.  Odd...

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In reply to by First.Pitch.120

Eddie Butler is out of minor league options and he will almost certainly be eligible for Salary Arbitration as a "Super Two" post-2018, so he would have been a likely "non-tender" candidate on 12/2 (if not a DFA sometime prior to the conclusion of the MLB regular season) if he hadn't been traded. 

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In reply to by First.Pitch.120

A player acquired in a trade must be placed on the club's MLB Reserve List (40-man roster) immediately, but the club has 72 hours to place the player on its MLB Active List (25-man roster). So depending on when the Cubs plan to start Hamels (Tuesday in Pittsburgh?), the Cubs could call-up an extra bullpen arm for the weekend series in St. Louis and then activate Hamels on Monday.  

If a "Player to Be Named Later" (PTBNL) is part of a trade, the PTBNL cannot be on an MLB 25-man roster (MLB Active List) at any time beginning when the trade is executed (filed with the MLB office) up until when the trade is completed.

A PTBNL can be a specific player or the PTBNL can be selected from a list of players or a class of players as determined by the clubs when the trade is executed.

Beginning in 2015, a player signed after being selected in the MLB Rule 4 Draft (First-Year Player Draft) cannot be a PTBNL in any trade made prior to the conclusion of the World Series.

Clubs have six months to agree on a PTBNL, but the clubs can agree (when the trade is executed) on a deadline that is less than six months.

A cash payment (typically $50,000 for trades involving players on the 40-man roster) can be substituted for a PTBNL if no agreement can be reached within six months, but the alternative cash payment must be agreeable to both clubs and stated in writing when the trade is executed. 

7:15 (CST) start time, not 1:20...fwiw.

also, it's kinda neat the cubs got to say g'bye to e.butler by giving him a win in the stat column...also, kinda weird he even pitched.  i wonder how late into the day/evening negociations went.

I've gotten to like Paul Sullivan lately. He seems smart, funny--like here: "It would be difficult to rationalize keeping Chatwood in the rotation and putting Montgomery back with the dancing relievers . . ."

He used to seem sour, but I guess he just hated the old Cubs, like we all should have.

alec mills called up...

*shrug*  whatever.  enjoy your 1 day up before ham shows up, dude.

Rizzo 1B, Almora CF, Heyward RF, Baez SS, Zobrist 2B, Schwarber LF, Happ 3B, Montgomery P, Caratini C

Cards have been busy today: DFA both Holand and Lyons, and trade Tuivailala.

They are in disarray -- time to take advantage!

Holland turns out to be possibly Scott Boras best offseason work...well maybe best spring training...

"A second MRI on Kris Bryant's left shoulder confirmed that he's not dealing with any structural damage."

he got another cortizone shot.

Perhaps CUBSTER can weigh in on anything he has seen/heard? What is the best hope for the rest of the year? How much rest is he looking at? 

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In reply to by The E-Man

a little more medical info from a non-medical source...rotoworld blurb...

"Bryant was given another cortisone shot in hopes of ridding himself of the inflammation in the shoulder that's forced him to the disabled list twice over the last month. He had a shot the first time around, too, but the discomfort eventually returned. Bryant doesn't think he'll be sidelined long, but he admitted there's no timetable for his return. He also noted that he's been told to "tone it down" some when it comes to daily swings in the cage and in batting practice."

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In reply to by The E-Man

Probably injected the subacrmial space where the rotator cuff gets inflamed from repetitive activity. No structural damage means the MRI rules out rotator cuff tears or labral tears. Not sure about labradoodles (I love my spellcheck)! Should be good to go in 2 weeks.

montgomery had a nice start last time out, but he's not doing much lately to force chatwood and his 3/38m right handedness going to the pen rather than him.  they're both due for the pen once darvish gets back (pending another injury in the rotation).

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In reply to by billybucks

hopefully we'll have a rotation of lester/darvish/q/hendricks/ham soon enough.

it'll be extra nice if ham shows enough good to make paying him $20m to stick around worth more than $6m to leave and not contribute in 2019.  ultimately it comes down to "is he worth $14m a season?" cuz that $6m is ham's no matter what.

this chatwood thing just isn't working and giving him 150+ innings to do it probably isn't a great idea.

This approach of getting thrown out on the bases while trailing by multiple runs doesn't seem to be working.

This is what I think is gonna happen:

Monty goes back to the pen.

ChatWalk goes on the DL. Or, FL (fucked list).

The starting 5 is what CRUNCH says.

cubs lose a boring one...bah.

MIL currently losing by 1 run in the 4th...

also, MIL's brett phillips (mid/high end MIL prospect (but not an epic talent)) was a late scratch from his AAA game even though he's healthy.

Schwarber OPS pre-HR Derby: .873.  SLG = .498.

Schwarber OPS post-HR Derby: .683.  SLG = .360, which includes yesterday's gift pop-up "double".

"Hey, let the kid have fun!  What could go wrong?"

Yeah, I know it's a ridiculously small sample size, even though Schwarber did say he was still sore his first game back.  I'm just ticked they laid an egg -- yet again -- in STL.  Argh.

 

Brewers acquire 3B Mike Moustakas from @Royals for OF Brett Phillips, RHP Jorge Lopez

moosetacos is a brewer...

also, MIL won...cubs lead by 1.5 games.

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.