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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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Cubs vs. Pirates: Series Thread (Games 34-36)

Submitted by Charlie on

The Cubs took two games in Arizona to seal their second Series win in a row. They return to Wrigley for a seven-game homestand, kicking things off with three against the Pirates. See below for daily matchups.

Game 34, Monday, May 16, 6:40 pm central

CHC: LHP Wade Miley (0-0, 9.00 ERA)

PIT: TBD

CHC: TBD

PIT: RHP JT Brubaker (0-0, 5.34 ERA)

CHC: LHP Drew Smyly (1-3, 3.64 ERA)

PIT: RHP Mitch Keller (0-5, 6.61 ERA)

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2022 Series Thread

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Submitted by crunch on Mon, 05/16/2022 - 05:15 pm

contreras grand slam.  career HR #100

they sell the entire f'n team and this dude doesn't have an extension...

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 05/17/2022 - 05:30 pm

christopher morel is up!

heyward to covid IL.  no idea if he got vax'd pre-season, but him and rizzo were the team's anti-vax'rs last year.  rizzo got vax'd a few weeks after signing with the yanks.

also brandon hughes (LH relief) is up and conner menez is down.

one guy is a high end prospect, the other is a failed OF'r turned pitcher (he pitched in college) and he has been amazing this season.

both could figure into the cubs plans for years.

Submitted by tim815 on Tue, 05/17/2022 - 05:44 pm

I'm still trying to figure out the COVID rules. Since Hughes comes up as a COVID replacement, when he gets sent back down to Iowa, I'm rather sure he can be deleted from the 40 man roster without any consequence. I'm not sure if that's also happening with Menez, though, who has been in MLB before.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 05/18/2022 - 05:24 am

TIM: The way a CoViD-19 IL works with respect to a replacement player is this: 

A replacement player can be recalled from an optional assignment without any restriction as far as the ten day minimum number of days on optional assignment before he can be recalled is concerned, and when he is optioned back to the minors, the option does not count toward the five option maximum per season. 

If the replacement player was not already on the 40 and is added to the 40 as a replacement player, he can be returned to the minor league team from which he came without waivers being required, and the player cannot elect free-agency if he had Article XX-D rights.  

All that said, the actual replacement player is the only player who has this status. So when Marcus Stroman was placed on the CoViD-19 related IL, Adrian Sampson was added to the 40-man roster (and 26-man roster) as the replacement for Marcus Stroman, and only he could be removed from the 26-man roster and 40-man roster without restriction, and that would be only when Stroman was reinstated. As it turned out, the Cubs needed Sampson's slot on the 40 before Stroman was ready to be reinstated, so Sampson was Designated for Assignment and then subsequently claimed off waivers by the Seattle Mariners.  

A couple of days before he was Designated for Assignment, the Cubs optioned Sampson to Iowa to make room on the 26-man roster for Conner Menez, so Sampson remained Stroman's replacement player on the 40, Menez was not called up as a replacement player for Stroman. That's why he was optioned to the minors yesterday (he has as 4th minor league option in 2022).  

When David Robertsin was placed on the CoVoD-19-related IL, the replacement player was Frank Schwindel. That's because Schwindel otherwise could not have been recalled until he had spent at least ten days on Optional Assignmment. 

As far as Brandon Hughes is concerned, he can be removed ffom the 40 and returned to the minors when Jason Heyward is reinstafed, but if the Cubs want to send Hughes back to the minors before Heyward is reinstated, he would have to be optioned like any other player (as happened with Sampson when the Cubs selected Conner Menez). 

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 05/17/2022 - 05:34 pm

vogelbomb just hit a stand-up triple vs thompson/happ.  1st triple in his career.

dismantle this whole f'n team and start over.

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 05/19/2022 - 05:37 pm

thompson, kilian, steele...it's weird to have...what are they called...we haven't had multiple ones in a long time...oh yeah, pitching prospects that are actually MLB-ready.

hopefully brailyn marquez will become something other than an oft-injured prospect.  it's not official, but i would be surprised if alzolay returned as a starter...he could be a dangerous pen option, though.

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Submitted by Eric S on Thu, 05/19/2022 - 05:50 pm

In 2006, the five Cub starters with the most starts were Zambrano (age 25), Maddux (age 40), Sean Marshall (age 23), Rich Hill (age 26) and converted catcher Carlos Marmol (age 23). IIRC, all 5 were drafted or an international signee (Marmol) by the Cubs front office. Haven't checked the years after that but I'd be surprised if there was another season like that (i.e., the most starts all made by Cubs home grown talent). 

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 05/19/2022 - 05:56 pm

rick reushel, dennis lamp, mike krukow, and ray burris had a good amount of starts together in the late 70s.  it's arguable whether ray burris should have been pitching at all some of those years, but that was a decent crop by modern cubs standards.

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 05/19/2022 - 05:08 pm

i was born in late 76.  if I actually saw any of those late-70s starts I was probably drooling all over myself or trying to run without falling over too much.

kinda funny, but a chunk of my knowledge about Cubs history is rooted in my Cubs baseball card colletion that goes back to the early 1900s.  trying to find historical representatives to add to the set involves hunting around in team/player history.

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