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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full), plus two players are 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 4-21-2024
 
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PITCHERS: 14
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Garrett Cooper
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 
* Justin Steele, P   

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Pelicans Know the Way to Beat San Jose

Submitted by Arizona Phil on

Yohendrick Pinango doubled and scored in the 2nd, walked and scored in the 4th, and drilled a two-run single in the 8th, and three pitchers combined to hurl a four hitter, as the Myrtle Beach Pelicans (Cubs Lo-A affiliate) defeated the San Jose Giants (Lo-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants) 5-1 in Cactus League Minor League Camp game action Tuesday night at Sloan Park in Mesa, AZ. 

Casey Schmitt belted a solo HR in the top of the 1st inning to account for the lone Giant run.  

Myrtle Beach DH Matt Mervis left the game after tweaking something in his lower body while running the bases in the bottom of the 6th. 

Here is the abridged box score from the game (Cubs players only):  

MYRTLE BEACH LINEUP: 
1. Darius Hill, CF: 1-3 (F-7, 1B, 5-3, BB, SB)
2. Yeison Santana, 2B: 0-4 (3-1, K, 5-3, 6-U FC)
3. Ed Howard IV, SS: 1-4 (K, K, K, 1B, R)
4a. Matt Mervis, DH #1: 1-2 (3-U, BB, 2B, R)
4b. Flemin Bautista, PR-DH: 1-1 (1B, R)
5. Jordan Nwogu, DH #2: 1-3 (1B, BB, K, 5-3, 2 R)
6. Yohendrick Pinango, LF: 2-3 (2B, BB, K, 1B, 2 RBI)
7. Luis Verdugo, 3B: 0-2 (F-8 SF, BB, K, 5-4-3 DP, 2 RBI)
8. Ryan Reynolds, 1B: 1-3 (E-6, K, 1B, CS)
9. Ethan Hearn, C: 0-3 (6-3, F-7, F-7)
10. Edmond Americaan, RF: 1-3 (3-1, K, 1B)

MYRTLE BEACH PITCHERS: 
1. Manuel Espinoza: 4.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R (1 ER), 1 BB, 2 K, 1 HR, 3/7 GO/AO, 55 pitches (39 strikes)
2. Richard Gallardo: 2.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K, 3/1 GO/AO, 17 pitches (12 strikes)
3. Tanner Jesson-Dalton: 3.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 K, 1 GIDP, 3/0 GO/AO, 40 pitches (25 strikes)

MYRTLE BEACH ERRORS: NONE 

ATTENDANCE: N/A 

WEATHER: Partly cloudy with temperatures in the 70's 

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Tue, 04/27/2021 - 04:23 pm

With that, Minor League Spring Training is done, and players will be heading for Myrtle Beach, South Bend, and Tennessee tomorrrow. Minor League Opening Day is next Tuesday. Extended Spring Training will begin in Arizona sometime next month (TBD). 

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 04/28/2021 - 04:22 am

K-DUB: AZL regular season will start on Monday 6/28 and run through Saturday 9/18. 18 teams. 60 games. Five games each week. No games on Wednesdays or Sundays. Games will be "official." AZL playoffs will begin on 9/20.

I do not know about the DSL yet. 

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 04/28/2021 - 04:49 am

Also, Rockies will be joining the AZL in 2021. They previously were the only Arizona Spring Training team that did not have an affiliate in the AZL.

Only three MLB clubs will field two teams in the AZL in 2021 (down from seven MLB clubs with two AZL teams in 2019 when Cubs, CLE, LAD, MIL, OAK, SD, and SF had two). Don't know which four MLB clubs dropped their second AZL team, but FWIW the A's, Brewers, and Dodgers were the last three to add a second team.  

Submitted by Cubster on Wed, 04/28/2021 - 04:54 am

former Cubs Hector Rondon and Jeremy (Jerry) Blevins have announced their retirements. Lefty BlevIns never played for the major league club but was traded in the Jason Kendall move in 2007. He became a useful bullpen lefty (at times).

I have more affection for Hector, even though he was erratic, he had his good moments too including excellent walk-in from the bullpen music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT6EmMnKRZI  (start at 0:47, Tu Me Quemas Dance Remix).

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Submitted by crunch on Wed, 04/28/2021 - 04:04 pm

he's also one of the hardest ex-cubs to get an autograph.  i don't think he's got something against it, but he quit signing early in his cubs career and only spot-signed some stuff during spring (with cubs and astros).

he's not in the same league as adolfo phillips, though...that's almost impossible.

Submitted by K Dub on Wed, 04/28/2021 - 04:52 am

PHIL: Thank you so much for that info on the AZL season. And for all the updates from Mesa. 

It's been a long year and a half without minor league baseball games, and your posts here have helped keep us all going. Thanks again, and May 4th can't come soon enough!

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 04/28/2021 - 04:17 pm

I get that FB velo isn't everything, and and keeping in mind that I did not see every Cubs pitcher throw in a game, but for anyone who might be interested here are the max FB velos for the 30 Cubs pitchers I did see throw in Cactus League Spring Training games at Minor League Camp:

Robert Stock: 101 
Max Bain: 99 
Eury Ramos: 99 
Ryan Jensen: 98 
Bailey Clark: 96 
Richard Gallardo: 96 
Brandon Hughes: 96 
C. D. Pelham: 96 
Aneuris Rosario: 96 
Cam Sanders: 96 
Tanner Jesson-Dalton: 95 
Garrett Kelly: 95
Ethan Roberts: 95
Jose Albertos: 94 
Derek Casey: 94 
Graham Lawson: 94 
Jerrick Suiter: 94   
Riley Thompson: 94 
Blake Whitney: 94 
Manuel Espinoza: 93
Ryan Lawlor: 93 
Dakota Mekkes: 93
Adam Morgan: 93 
Peyton Remy: 93  
Erich Uelmen: 93 
Scott Effross: 92 
Matteo Bocchi: 91 
Trevor Kelley: 91 
Wyatt Short: 91 
Matt Swarmer: 91 

Submitted by Cubster on Wed, 04/28/2021 - 04:31 pm

Tonight's Cub game needs to be ended by the 9-0 slaughter rule. If this week is foreshadowing the 2021 season, yikes!

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 04/29/2021 - 04:29 pm

nothing really, just trying to pile on the misery to excuse the poor record.

alzolay has a poor ERA, but he's pitching somewhat decently.

t.williams is doing what's expected...giving up a bunch of hits and hoping most don't score.  at least he's not giving up the homers like he was last season.

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Submitted by Charlie on Thu, 04/29/2021 - 04:11 pm

I think Alzolay, Williams, and Arrieta have been moderately pleasant surprises so far. But some moderately pleasant surprises from back of the rotation gambles can't even kind of dig you out of a -1.0 fWAR hole that your supposedly best two starters are continuing to dig.

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Submitted by bradsbeard on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 04:55 am

The good thing is it wouldn't be surprising at all if Hendricks tightens things up and rights the ship (he's had these sorts of slumps before). Davies I have a little less hope for just because he doesn't have the elite track record, but he's been a solid pitcher for years. I'd expect some sort of rebound from him. The bullpen might also be a case of addition by subtraction with Workman gone and Adam down (though I like Adam a lot). Tepera might be next to go (maybe for Strop?). Would help to have Wick back but that will be a while. 

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Submitted by Dolorous Jon Lester on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 04:13 am

I think Winkler or Tepera go next.

I too am less worried about Kyle. He is typically a slow starter (as I recall from the years I've drafted him in fantasy baseball). Davies, though, tends to start strong and fade. Without looking at underlying causes, that in and of itself is something to find troubling about Davies.

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  • crunch (view)

    “I respect his track record of what he’s accomplished,” Counsell said on Sunday morning. “And you go through these. He’s gone through -- maybe not this particular stretch -- but stretches where you’re not pitching the way you want to and struggling. And you figure it out.” -- Counsell on Hendricks

    fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...

    i respect his track record of no longer being in the rotation.  in 2016 he threw 2 innings out of the pen, his only work out of the pen.  the cubs won the world series that year.  let's repeat that magic.  the formula is obvious.  stats don't lie.  etc etc whatever...

    small sample size and all, but how about this craziness...

    "Entering Sunday, Hendricks had allowed an .843 OPS against hitters in their initial plate appearance, followed by a 1.056 OPS in a second meeting and a 2.449 OPS when seeing batters for a third time."

  • Finwe Noldaran (view)

    Phil: Great to see what Rosario is doing!

    Do you think having Rosario may have influenced/impacted the front office's decision on including Hope in the trade for Busch at all?

  • crunch (view)

    it's so crazy we got a new "barnstorming" harlem globetrotters-type baseball product that was introduced less than 5 years ago and is wildly popular all over the nation.

    a notion left long in the past, unearthed, polished for modern audiences and popular as ever.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    No question right now Alfonsin Rosario is one of the Cubs Top 20 prospects (probably Top 15). Rosario is to the Cubs what Zyhir Hope is to the Dodgers.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    The Savannah Bananas will be playing the Party Animals at Sloan Park in Mesa this coming Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. The games are sold out (15,000+ each night), and berm tickets are going for well over $100. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    RAISIN: In the game versus the A's at Fitch Park last Friday, Mule threw half FB and half SL (16/16), and one CH (which coincidentally was the only hard-hit ball off him -- a near HR line-drive double off the LF fence). FB was 91-94 and the SL (really more of a "slurve") was 80-82, and he got three swing & miss on each pitch (six swing & miss total out of his 20 strikes). So I think it is safe to say that right now, Mule is strictly a two-pitch pitcher (FB/SL), 

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Recalled it was sampled in a Nas song.  Did a little sleuthing.  It was a Nas song called "Hate Me Now" that featured Puff Daddy.  Imploring the crowd to hate somebody seems a bit overly dramatic for a keyboardist but perhaps there is some other connection to the song. 

     

    In general there has been a weird overuse of Carmina Burana's O Fortuna in sports and commercials in past decade or so.  Maybe it is a fallback choice if there isn't anything else.   

     

    Sidenote, while the O Fortuna part has become a bit pop-culture cliched; the overall piece is very interesting and rather expansive in scope. I played percussion in a production of it while in college.  There is a rather jovial movement set in a tavern.  In the score it calls for the clinking of beer steins.  Let's just say we did a lot of research to determine the best sounding beer steins. 

  • crunch (view)

    ooof...this is just as likely as anything.  professional organists are weird humans.

  • SheffieldCornelia (view)

    Maybe it is only played when the hitter thus far in the game is "oh for two"-na at the plate?

  • crunch (view)

    who was AB when it was being played?  it could be something as corny as playing it for nick fortes because fortes/fortuna...fortes...marlins...fish...tuna...sigh.

    while the cubs organ player isn't a frequent groaner weaponizing the organ song selection, they all dabble in it.

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