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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 

 



 

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Cubs vs. Braves: Chatwood vs. Wilson (Game 81)

CHC (43-37): RHP Tyler Chatwood (3-1, 3.69 ERA)
ATL (48-33): RHP Bryse Wilson (0-0, 8.31 ERA)
First pitch 1:20pmCDT

Although Tyler Chatwood's time with the Cubs has been disappointing so far, I find his story to be a point of some interest for 2019. He was relegated to the bullpen and likely candidate to be dumped in some fashion since before the season began. In the bullpen, he's put up a respectable ERA but somehow has still otherwise been valued at below replacement levels (-0.3 fWAR). In four outings of four innings or more (two starts), he's gone 18 innings and allowed four runs (three earned). His walk rate has improved over last year and is still terrible, at over five per nine innings. His high groundball rate has helped him work around walks some of that time. He's all but scrapped his off-speed stuff, throwing a fastball or a cutter 86.0% of the time. Will he find the zone frequently enough to mix in his slider or his curve? That could make the difference between a serviceable swing man and wasted roster space. Most recently, He pitched four innings and allowed three runs (two earned) on one walk and four hits, serving as the opening act for Adbert Alzolay's first career win. Current Atlanta hitters are 20-58 with a .926 OPS off of him. Freeman is dangerous as usual, and he's 8-16 off of Chatwood.A fourth round draft pick in 2016, Bryse Wilson progressed steadily through the system and debuted with Atlanta in 2018. He's made five appearances, two starts, and now has a total of 11.1 innings pitched under his belt. That small sample of MLB stats is not so inspiring, but he has been pitching well in AAA this year: 3.79 ERA, 9.08 K/9, 1.84 BB/9. He mixes a mid-90s fastball with a changeup and slider that can both flash plus. He was just recalled from AAA--his last AAA start was a 6-inning appearance with no runs, five hits, and two walks. No current Cubs have faced him.

Comments

I don’t have the stomach to post today’s starting lineup for the Cubs. Can’t believe Cubs are slight favorites but baseball can happen at times

Let me guess Descalso and CarGo are playing and Willy and KB are sitting. Close?

schwarber / bryant / rizzo / baez / heyward(CF) / caratini / cargo(RF) / descalso(2nd) / chatwood

Valuable insight from last night’s Braves telecast regarding upcoming Yankees/Red Sox series in London:

- The Freeze will make an appearance

- There will be a mascot race involving Churchill, Henry the VIII, Freddie Mercury and Nessie

DFA chatwood.

also, why the hell are the cubs interviewing a NASCAR driver cleveland indians fan in the 3rd inning?

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In reply to by crunch

I'm all for an end to the Chatwood era (which was your favorite loss?), but cannot see Theo eating $13M for next year plus this year's balance. However, where does he fit on a NLDS/NLCS/WS roster?

Assuming health, isn't the Rotation -- Hendricks, Hamels, Lester & Darvish

Bullpen -- Kimbrel, Cishek, Strop, Edwards, Quintana, Kintzler, Alzolay, and the LHRP To be traded for?

Going to go out on a limb here and say, "I don't think Chatwood has it today...."

Also, don't think Alzolay going back to Iowa is an imminent roster move.

There’s a lot of very dead weight on this team. Descalso, Gonzalez, Chatwood for a start. Think we could safely jettison all three.

Needed Descalso to mouth off after his K to get his ass out of the game too. Pretty sure I heard boos on the radio broadcast while Chatwood went to the plate (certainly surprised me that he wasn’t pinch hit for, guess Joe playing the long game with respect to not burning the bullpen early ... but stil)

I'm really struggling to see what Decalso (and for that matter, Gonzalez) brings to this team. Surely there has to be some replacement level bats on the waiver wire or tradeable hitters for prospects in the Top 25-40 range.

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In reply to by George Altman

Right now DD doesn't bring much, but I can't see him as the one being DFA'd.  He's too affordable & is performing way below an established track record. He's this year's Brandon Kintzler... that said, it would be a great time for him to hit the 60-day IL with a fingernail issue or something. 

Chatwood - Cubs Ace/Stopper - with the W!!!(think about that, Yu)

Never a doubt!!! OK Maybe a little 

Got to savor this W today - good stuff

Back to back days for Strop - have some life on the fastball today? Never heard mph reading on the radio broadcast.  Good results regardless 

Alzolay slated to start Monday against the Pirates. Chatwood scheduled for next Friday (Cubs off-day)

Underrated Cub during Braves series: Kintzler. Pitched Monday, Wednesday and Thursday - one inning each day. No runs allowed, 3 hits, no walks and 3 Ks (50 pitches total). Suspect he’s not available tonight, along with Strop.  

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In reply to by Eric S

yeah, i picked up on it...i'm just starting to really question how much longer he can even be a cub.  it truly helps that there's no one in the minors biting for his slot, though it could be argued some of the guys they keep shuttling up/down could easily own his roster slot.

the only thing he's got going for him is he's stretched out enough to throw 80-100+ pitches.

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In reply to by crunch

Maybe a trade to an AL team, with Cubs picking up majority of remaining contract.  Would be good for one of Chatwood or Montgomery to depart to keep that Iowa shuttle rolling along. Brach has been decent recently - hopefully he keeps trending that way but would think he can sense he either performs or gets out of the way (trade/DFA)

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  • 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.