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39 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (one slot is open), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL and one player has been DESIGNATED FOR ASSIGNMENT (DFA)   

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and nine players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and one player is on the 10-DAY IL

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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

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

OPTIONED: 9 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 3
Kyle Hendricks, P 
* Drew Smyly, P 
* Justin Steele, P   

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

DFA: 1 
Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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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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  • crunch (view)

    PCA called up.

  • crunch (view)

    welp...

    bellinger...fractured rib.

    a not-very-ready PCA will probably be called up when it would be much better for him to be in AAA getting regular ABs.

  • crunch (view)

    i have no hard data, but i'm seeing the same thing.

    there used to be some parks where that was rampant (colorado during the todd helton days comes to mind), but i'm seeing it all over the place the past couple seasons.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    I’ll spare the details which I’ve stated before but, in short, the Cardinals have lost their sight of their successful identity and strategy over last several dominant decades. From the beginning of the season I saw the Cardinals being in last place or near it again this year, and my prediction is that Mozeliak will be gone after the end of the season.

  • Bill (view)

    I would have kept Cooper rather than Wisdom, but at least I can understand why they did it.  In a team that lacks dominant power hitters, Wisdom can be a dominant power hitter, at least in streaks.  I suppose that there is always the possibility that the streaks longer in both duration and frequency.  I will be content if they essentially make a 100 % DH commitment to Mervis against righties and Wisdom against lefties.  When a regular needs rest, give them total rest, rather than a DH rest.  Do this for at least 2 months, and then re-evaluate at that point.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    This is Cubs adjacent but…


    Jordan Walker just was optioned by the deadbirds. For all the talk of the Cardinals development machine, they’ve really missed on a lot of can’t miss superstars lately. Walker has struggled. Gorman has been okay. They’re already trying to push Carlson out the door. Their pitching system has been so bad they had to go out and sign basically a full rotation over the last two offseasons.

    They’ve still developed a few of those pesky solid players, like Donovan, Edman, and Nootbaar. Their two best prospect to MLB players have been Adolis and Arozarena, neither of which is a cardinal.

    I hope they never figure it out again. Cardinal failure brings me such joy.
     

  • Raisin101 (view)

    Thank you so much! I really appreciate not only all your posts but how eager you are to respond to our questions.

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Is it just me or does it seem that official scorers are becoming less likely to call a misplay an error? 

     

    Guess I've hit my cranky old-man phase in life.  "I remember back in the day when an error was an error.  Official scorers have gone soft.  Now where did I put my readers?!!??"

     

    Sidenote, maybe Bellinger should be a little more careful against the Astros.  That was the series last year that a play at wall put him on the IL.   

  • crunch (view)

    i hated the almonte pickup, but he's 9-10 out of 12 for good outings, following a great spring.  hope he can keep it up.

    i already miss cooper, but yeah...the thin OF roster backup the team seems to want to carry probably got wisdom preference over cooper.  i could live without seeing wisdom at 3rd unless it's a blowout, though.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Things I've been wrong about:

    -Tauchman is fine as a 4th OF. I knew that. I just want a better LH DH option and he was really the DH for us until Seiya got hurt. I'm glad Mervis is getting a chance at it. Caissie is coming for that job for sure. But Tauchman continues to be highly useful as a 4th OF with Seiya being hurt

    -I wanted Yency to go to get guys at Iowa a chance. Guys like Palencia and Sanders or RileyT. Maybe even Hodge! But Yency has been better the last two plus weeks. He did hit 96 the other day. He was 93 in Texas to open the season.

    -Leiter has his split working enough. It just needs to stay there

    -I was surprised Jed picked Wisdom over Cooper. I wonder if this happens if Seiya wasn't hurt. Wisdom has more power. Cooper is the better hitter. Jed picked Wisdom and Wisdom had an option left as well.

    -Palencia just doesn't miss enough bats. Similar to ManRod, just two yrs younger. ManRod is killing AAA for TB right now!

    Things I got right so far:

    -Hendricks. Sorry Kyle. You got paid though!

    Jed, you missed there.

    -Smyly. If Jed could've traded him before or during ST, then he should have and saved some cash.

    -Mastro.  Not a LH DH. Pinch runner. Defensive utility. Maybe he's better than Madrigal but didn't get a legit chance to prove it.

    -Luke Little is good. He's had one bad outing. That's it. Needs to get better entering with guys on base. But he needs to stay in MLB.

    -Oh yeah....Morel is doing fine at 3B! He'll get better as well!!

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