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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 4-18-2024
 
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PITCHERS: 13
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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Susnara, C. Hernandez, Morfa, and Granadillo Lay Out the Lumber at Riverview

Submitted by Arizona Phil on

Tim Susnara belted a line-drive grand slam HR over the RF fence, picked a runner off 1st base, and threw-out another runner trying to steal 3rd, Cristian Hernandez singled and scored and smashed a towering two-run HR over the right-centerfield fence just to the right of the CF Batter's Eye and onto Clark Street, Carlos Morfa walked and scored and clobbered a two-run HR over the LF fence that landed on Field #2, and Dilan Granadillo drilled a two-run triple and scored, as the Cubs Blue squad demolished the Cubs Red squad 10-1 in a two-inning Extended Spring Training intrasquad game played Monday morning on Field #1 at the Riverview Baseball Complex in Mesa, AZ.   

In 18 games so far at Extended Spring Training (including 14 Cactus League EXST games and four intrasquad EXST games), Cristian Hernandez is hitting 217/349/478, with four HR & 10 RBI, a 14% BB-rate and a 34% K-rate. In the 14 Cactus League EXST games (only), Hernandez is hitting 146/280/341, with two HR & 5 RBI, a 14% BB-rate, and a 38% K-rate. Obviously, he - LOVES - hitting against Cub pitching! 

Here is the box score from the game: 
CUBS RED SQUAD LINEUP:
1. Christian Olivo, SS: 0-1 (K, BB) 
2. Matt Warkentin, DH: 0-0: (BB, R)
3. Frank Hernandez, LF: 0-1 (F-9)
4. Bryan Serra, 2B: 1-1 (1B) 
5. Raino Coran, RF: 0-0 (BB) 
6. Miguel Pabon, 1B: 0-1 (K) 
7. Brayan Altuve, CF: 0-0 (BB, PO) 
8. Ronnier Quintero, C: 0-0 (BB, CS) 
9. Joanfran Rojas, 3B: 0-1 (K) 

CUBS BLUE SQUAD LINEUP:
1. Cristian Hernandez, SS: 2-2 (1B, HR, 2 R, 2 RBI)
2. Rafael Morel, 3B: 1-1 (HBP, 1B, 2 R) 
3. Carlos Morfa, RF: 1-1 (BB, HR, 2 R, 2 RBI)  
4. Tim Susnara, C: 1-1 (HR, BB, R, 4 RBI)
5. Cristian More, CF: 0-2 (3-U, K) 
6. Reivaj Garcia, 2B: 0-1 (3-U)
7. Alejandro Rivero, 1B: 1-1 (2B, R) 
8. Flemin Bautista, LF: 1-1 (1B, R) 
9. Dilan Granadillo, DH: 1-1 (3B, R, 2 RBI)

CUBS RED SQUAD PITCHERS: 
1. Rony Baez: 0.2 IP, 2 H, 4 R (4 ER), 2 BB, 0 K, 1 HR, 1 WP, 2/0 GO/AO, 19 pitches (10 strikes)
2. Yohan Crispin: 0.1 IP, 6 H, 6 R (6 ER), 1 BB, 1 K, 2 HR, 25 pitches (17 strikes) 

CUBS BLUE SQUAD PITCHER:  
Starlyn Pichardo: 2.0 IP, 1 H, 1 R (1 ER), 5 BB, 3 K, 4 WP, 0/1 GO/AO, 50 pitches (22 strikes) 

CUBS BLUE SQUAD CATCHERS DEFENSE: 
Tim Susnara: 1-1 CS, 1 PO

WEATHER: Sunny with temperatures 100+ 

ATTENDANCE: 2  

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2022 Cubs Extended Spring Training
Tim Susnara
Cristian Hernandez
Carlos Morfa
Dilan Granadillo

Comments

Submitted by Childersb3 on Tue, 05/17/2022 - 05:06 am

Phil, do you think Gsellman would accept a demotion back to Iowa if he was optioned this year? I know he can refuse the option due to his five yrs of service time. If he's pitched well he might decline it and try to sign elsewhere.

Just curious on your thoughts. ERoberts, Rucker, Leiter, & Menez all have options left and are essentially rookies still. They'll be the first to go (once Roberts comes off IL). Robertson, Stroman, Newcomb and Mills are probably coming back within the next month or so. Four spots have to open up. And now BHughes is up so that's another spot needed clearly if he does well and sticks around.

So, ERob, Ruck, Leit, Menez & maybe Gsellman have to be optioned/demoted. I'm assuming Gsellman would be kept and Hughes optioned once/if everything clears up.

Lots of stuff to theorize on!!

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 05/18/2022 - 05:04 am

Childersb3: A player who has accrued at least five years of MLB Service Time has Article XIX-A status, meaning he cannot be sent to the minors (outrighted or optioned) without his consent.

This is different from an Article XX-D player (has accrued at least three but less than five years of MLB Service Time or qualified as a "Super Two" after the previous season and/or has been outrighted previously in his career).  Unlike an Article XIX-A player, an Article XX-D player can be optioned without restriction (presuming he has minor league options left) and can be outrighted without restrictioon, but if he is outrighted he can elect free-agency immediately and forfeit the balance of his contract with no termination pay, or accept the outright assignment and defer free-agency until after the conclusion of the MLB regular season. Most Article XX-D players who are outrighted will accept an outright assignment and defer free-agency until after the season, but some players don't.   

So, being an Article XIX-A player, Robert Gsellman cannot be sent to the minors without his consent. If he refuses an optinal assignment, he must be kept on the MLB 40-man roster and 26-man roster, or be traded or released. The only time you might see an Article XIX-A player accept an optional assignment is if he is playing for a contending team and there is a roster crunch and he understands that and wants to be part of the club later in the season, and/or if the club offers the player a contract extension or other some other financial perk. Even then, the player almost certainly will want a verbal promise that he will be recalled by a certain date. 

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Submitted by Childersb3 on Wed, 05/18/2022 - 05:42 am

Gotcha

He might get traded as well. I think he'd be better out of the pen than Mills would be. If Keegan, Stro, Wade, Smyly, Steele & Kyle are healthy and doing okay, than I don't think Mills has a spot. You still have Kilian in Iowa along with Cam Sanders and maybe Swarmer in an emergency. But if you keep Gsellman over Mills he could start as well and be an "opener" at least. Mills is probably waived/traded in a couple of weeks. He threw a no hitter!

As always, thanks Phil. Makes a lot of sense

Recent comments

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Mastrobuoni can't come back, yet

    Wisdom does have an option left. He can hide in Iowa if Jed DFA's someone else

    Does Brennan Davis get shown the door? I know it's too early for that, but these injuries are crunching the roster of a 12-7 team playoff demands and BDavis isn't going to help anytime soon.

    Someone has to go to add Peralta. And Canario isn't going to get to play everyday regardless of RHers or LHers. Neither is Tauchman. Also don't see PCA getting a chance over Peralta.

    If Jed does those moves:

    4 OF: Belli, Peralta, Canny, Tauch

    2 C: Gomes and Amaya

    2 DH: Cooper and Mervis

    5 INF: Busch, Nico, Dansby, Morel, Madrigal

    Little short on OF depth but two injuries will do that  

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I have had the pleasure of watching some of the young A's pitchers lately (first Joe Boyle the last day of Minor League Spring Training in March, and more recently Luis Morales last week and Steven Echavarria yesterday at Extended Spring Training), and it reminds me of the Miami Marlins a couple of years ago. A really nice collection of young pitchers. It will be interesting to see what the A's will get for two years of ex-Cub Paul Blackburn at the Trade Deadline (there should be a robust market for Blackburn). 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Good deal

    MB needs some talent infusion!

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Very possible. Suriel, too. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    DJL: if a pitcher is recalled to be the 27th man for a doubleheader and then is optioned back to the minors the next day, the 15-day "clock" does NOT reset. The one day call-up for the doubleheader is treated like it never happened with respect to a pitcher having to spend at least 15 days on optional assignment before he can be recalled. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Probably the only reason David Peralta is still in the organization (he is at AAA Iowa) is to be available in case anything bad were to happen to Ian Happ (which it just did). So if Happ needs to go on the IL, the Cubs can select Peralta to play LF, DFA Wisdom (and hope he and what remains of his $2.725M salary gets claimed off waivers), and recall Mervis to platoon at DH with Cooper (with Canario / Tauchman sharing RF), at least until Suzuki and Happ are back...

     

  • crunch (view)

    i'd just like to take a moment to express to the world i'm still pissed willson contreras is not a cub when the pricetag was 5/87m (17.5m/yr).

    it would be nice to have a legacy-type player to stick around, especially one with his leadership and the respect he gets from his peers.  cubs fans deserved more than 1 season of contreras + morel...that was gold.

  • crunch (view)

    happ, right hamstring tightness, day-to-day (hopefully 0 days).

    he will be reevaluated tomorrow.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    I guess I'm not looking for that type of AB 

    Just a difference of opinion

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    I don’t see Tauchman as a weak link in any position. He simply adds his value in a different way.

    I don’t know that we gain much by putting him in the outfield - Happ, Bellinger and Suzuki and Tauchman all field their positions well. If you’re looking for Taucnman’s kind of AB in a particular game I don’t see why it can’t come from DH.

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