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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. Brewers: Chatwood vs. Peralta (Game 3)

CHC(1-1): RHP Tyler Chatwood (0-0, -.-- ERA)
MIL (1-1): RHP Freddy Peralta (0-0, -.-- ERA)
First pitch 1:20pmCDT

Tyler Chatwood leads the way Sunday afternoon. The Cubs will be aiming to walk away victors in their first series, and Chatwood will attempt to build on a mildly successful 2019 campaign. Chatwood recovered from an absolutely dreadful first season with the Cubs (in which he walked over 8 batters per nine innings) to do respectable work out of the bullpen and as a spot starter. He found the zone with his fastball a little more and cut his walk rate in half. In five 2019 starts, he compiled a 3.97 ERA over 22.2 innings pitched. He's held current Brewers to a .535 OPS and is yet to surrender a homerun. Yelich is 4-12 with three walks off of him.
Freddy Peralta starts for the Brewers. He made eight starts for them in 2019 and appeared out of the pen 31 times. In those 85 innings he posted a K/9 over 12 but also allowed 1.59 HR per 9. Across 163.1 MLB innings he's allowed a career 4.79 ERA. In his eight starts last year 28 earned runs. This will be his first start against the Cubs.

The Cubs and Brewers enter the rubber game of the first series in a three-way tie with the Reds for second place, while the Cards are off to a hot 2-win start.

Comments

Former Cub minor leaguer Thomas Hatch is starting for Blue Jays today.  2016 3rd pick, believe that was Cubs first pick of that draft.  Will interesting to follow some of TheoJeds draft picks that end up in other organizations and see if the Cubs have had a drafting pitchers issue or if it more an issue with minor league development. 

On July 30, 2019, the Cubs traded Hatch to the Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for David Phelps.

Phelps signed as a free agent this offseason with the Brewers.

I agree, pitchers sometimes take time to develop and the Cubs track record hasn't been strong (if ever).

Watching Jays/Rays game in Tampa.  Weird hearing crowd noise for a game being played at the Trop. 

Robel Garcia claimed by Cincinnati today (after we took Derek Dietrich off of their hands this past week).

Vimael Machin makes the Oakland 30-man roster and starts today as the DH. Considered a strong bet to remain on their roster past each cutdown (from 30 to 28 to 26) as a UTIL/PH.

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In reply to by Wrigley Rat

So who is taking Garcia's spot.  Also is Weick really hurt or is Ross going to keep the tradition of the slumping/bad outting that Maddon always sent people to the DL for.  Not upset about the Descalso "sprained ankle" though

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In reply to by cubbies.4ever

I think Wieck is actually hurt. He didn't seem right and who knows if his recent heart surgery is still affecting him.

Garcia lost his spot so we could carry either Rex Brothers or Josh Phegley. I choose to think it's Brothers because losing a player to needlessly add Josh Phegley is stupid.

chatwood

6.1ip 3h 2bb 8k, 1r/er, 84 pitches

neat.

I've gotten to game 3 and now have my first Ross gripe. Phegley entering a game before actual worthwhile players like Bote and Souza.

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In reply to by Eric S

they're calling it a "forearm strain" now.  either way, they expect him to miss 3+ months and it sounds like a serious thing.  i dunno how you go from elbow to forearm considering he didn't injure anything today (start was on friday).  long story short, it's probably TJ time.

*shakes fist at dusty baker*

Would be pretty cool if Caratini, Nico/Kipnis and Happ keep that bottom of the order pesky and annoying to deal with

I'll miss Lester at bats. Well, maybe a little Less than missing Zambrano at bats.

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    yeah, for me this isn't about who's better at 3rd.  it's madrigal, period.  for me it's about who's not hitting in the lineup because madrigal is in the lineup.

    occasional play at 3rd for madrigal, okay.  going with the steele/ground-ball matchup...meh, but okay, whatever.

    seeing madrigal get significant starting time...no thanks.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Yeah I am very disappointed Madrigal is starting. He has no business as a starter. He is AAA insurance, a back up at best. Sure his defense looks fine because he plays far enough in that his noodle arm isn’t totally exposed. It comes at the cost of 3B range.

    He’s garbage, and a team serious about winning would NOT have him starting opening day.

  • crunch (view)

    in other news, it took 3 PA before a.rizzo got his 1st HBP of the season.

  • Eric S (view)

    With two home runs (so far) and 5 rbi today … clearly Nick Martini is the straw that stirs the Reds drink 😳

  • 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.