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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 eight players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and two players 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
* Pete Crow-Armstrong 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 8 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2
* Cody Bellinger, OF  
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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Ballesteros and Morfa Launch Cub Comeback at Riverview

Submitted by Arizona Phil on

Moises Ballesteros drilled an RBI single in the bottom of the first, singled and scored in the fourth, and belted a game-tying HR over the RF fence in the seventh, Carlos Morfa slugged a solo HR over the LF fence in the seventh and roped a double and scored in the eighth, Reivaj Garcia singled twice, walked, scored two runs, and drove-in three, and the bullpen retired nine of the last ten batters faced, as the Cubs raliied to score eight runs in the final two innings while holding the opposition scoreless, en route to a hard-fought 13-10 victory over the Diamondbacks Red squad in Cactus League Extended Spring Training game action Friday morning on Field #1 at the Riverview Baseball Complex in Mesa, AZ.

This was the third HR hit by Ballesteros in the last eight days, as he is now second on the EXST Cubs in HR with three (Cristian Hernandez has four, plus two more in intrasquad games). Over his last nine Cactus League EXST games (29 PA), Ballesteros is hitting a robust 480/552/960, with three HR, three doubles, four walks, and seven RBI.  

As outstanding as the bullpen was at the end of the game, two Cubs pitchers -- LHP Marino Santy and RHP Gleiber Morales -- combined to issue twelve walks, hit a batter, uncork five wild pitches, and commit two balks, as the D'backs took an early 9-5 lead. 

The Diamondbacks Red squad manager was thrown out of the game after arguing that an RBI double that drove-in a runner from 1st base was actually a ground-rule double that bounced off the warning track and then off the netting beyond the RF fence (and he was right, by the way). He then sat in the bleachers outside the first base side fence, until he was spotted by the base umpire and told to go sit in the bus. It was 105 degrees, so having to sit in an air-conditioned bus wasn't necessarily the worst punishment imaginable!   

The game was called after eight innings of play. 

In EXST Cubs news, catcher Dilan Granadillo is no longer switch-hitting, He is now batting LH-only.   

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

CUBS LINEUP:
1a. Christian Olivo, CF: 2-2 (1B, 1B, R, SB)
1b. Cristian More, CF: 2-3 (6-3, 1B, 2B, SB, R)
2. Pedro Ramirez, 2B-DH: 1-4 (BB, 4-3, 3-U, 5-3, 1B, R, RBI, SB) 
3a. Cristian Hernandez, SS: 0-2 (4-3, L-4 DP) 
3b. Josue Huma, SS: 1-3 (1B, 6-3, F-8, SB) 
4. Moises Ballesteros, DH #1: 3-4 (1B, 1B, K, HR, 2 R, 2 RBI) 
5. Frank Hernandez, LF: 1-4 (K, 1B, 4-3, 6-3) 
6. Rafael Morel, 3B: 1-4 (1B, K, K, 5-3) 
7a. Casey Opitz, C: 0-2 (F-7, HBP, 3-U, R)
7b. Dilan Granadillo, C: 0-0 (HBP, R) 
8a. Raino Coran, RF: 0-2 (3-U, 5-U FC, R, RBI) 
8b. Carlos Morfa, RF: 2-2 (HR, 2B, 2 R, RBI) 
9. Reivaj Garcia, DH-2B: 2-3 (5-3, 1B, BB, 1B, 2 R, 3 RBI) 
10. Alejandro Rivero, 1B: 1-4 (5-3, 5-3, 2B, F-7, R, RBI, SB) 

CUBS PITCHERS: 
1. Marino Santy: 1.1 IP, 0 H, 4 R (4 ER), 6 BB, 1 K, 1 HBP, 3 WP, 1 BALK, 1 PO, 0/1 GO/AO, 40 pitches (12 strikes) 
2. Yovanny Cabrera: 1.1 IP, 2 H, 1 R (0 ER), 0 BB, 2 K, 1/0 GO/AO, 17 pitches (12 strikes) 
3. Gleiber Morales: 1.1 IP, 2 H, 4 R (4 ER), 6 BB, 2 K, 2 WP, 1 BALK, 1/1 GO/AO, 48 pitches (17 strikes) 
4. Dominic Hambley: 2.0 IP, 1 H, 1 R (1 ER), 0 BB, 1 K, 1 HBP, 1 WP, 3/1 GO/AO, 26 pitches (16 strikes) 
5. Angel Hernandez: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 3 K, 22 pitches (13 strikes)
6. Gregori Montano: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 K, 14 pitches (9 strikes) 

CUBS ERRORS: 1 
SS Cristian Hernandez: E-6 (booted ground ball allowing batter to reach base safely)  

CUBS CATCHERS DEFENSE: 
Casey Opitz: 1-3 CS 

CUBS OUTFIELD ASSISTS:  
1. RF Raino Coran - runner thrown out 9-2 attempting to score from 2nd base on line-drive single to right 
2. LF Frank Hernandez - batter thrown out 7-4 attempting to stretch bloop single down LF line into double 

WEATHER: Sunny with temperatures 100+ 

ATTENDANCE: 16 

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Comments

Submitted by tim815 on Fri, 05/27/2022 - 05:48 pm

Carlos Morfa gonna grab a spot in Myrtle Beach when the outfield promotions happen, unless one of the 2021 draft pick outfielders get healthy. Healthy hacks sounding kind of guy.

Submitted by crunch on Fri, 05/27/2022 - 05:13 pm

p.crow-armstrong .360/.451/.573

he's started 36 games.  he's had hits in 30 of them...19 of them multiple hit games.

this is getting silly.  find room for him at an upper level.

i mean, dude isn't acuna or franco, but he's not being challenged where he's at and could probably use another level of competition.

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Submitted by crunch on Fri, 05/27/2022 - 05:42 pm

caisse is a great enough talent he needs everyday ABs.  that said, he may be over his head in south bend.  he doesn't even turn 20 for another month+.

the others and where they may fit...hey, there's a DH.  find a way to get crowe-armstrong ABs while playing CF.  with canairio in AA they can make that work.

i'm just ready for the dude to be challenged.  he may or may not even be up for it, but he's not been a streaky guy.  he's been consistently dominating and he's easily one of the top-3 bats in the minors for the cubs development focus, top-4 depending on one feels about middle IF'r james triantos.  he's not blocked by the only OF'r more important than him in the system, AAA b.davis.

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Submitted by Childersb3 on Sat, 05/28/2022 - 05:30 pm

That's why every lefty slugger should play 1B and Cr OF in MiLB. Maximize as much of your defensive versatility as possible. Now the Cubs have some 1B doing well, and a couple of them are lefties! But that should take stop Caissie from learning the position a little. Hard to project the 2025 Cubs lineup. 

Submitted by azbobbop on Fri, 05/27/2022 - 05:55 pm

Some of the Iowa and Tennessee guys who will need 40 man protection this year will be moving up once the trade blender starts. That will open space for promotions.

Submitted by DavidP on Sun, 05/29/2022 - 05:28 am

PCA can easily move to CF in South Bend, with Nwogu moving down to MB or over to DH.  The fact that they have not done so indicates that they feel he should stay where he is to work on things not obvious in the stats.  I believe it is better to have top prospects work on weaknesses while at a level where they can still succeed in the stats, rather than have their overall game suffer.

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Submitted by crunch on Sun, 05/29/2022 - 05:03 am

yeah, all i got is stats, video (limited) and what people are saying.  for all i know 90% of his success is hitting fastballs and he has a 90% whiff-rate on off-speed stuff.  it's just highly unlikely.

pca is 2023-2024 projection at best, and early 2023 would be very advanced prediction.

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Submitted by DavidP on Mon, 05/30/2022 - 05:39 am

Years ago, Craig - on another board, nicknamed one of the more successful prospects, "Bananas" because all his hits came in bunches.  He would go

4 for 5 

0 for 4 

1 for 5

0 for 5

3 for 5

etc. for much of the season, ending up with fairly good stats, but a great number of games where he really stunk.

After he called this to my attention, over the years I came to the conclusion that some prospects turn out very good numbers over the course of the season by, seemingly, fattening their averages against pitchers that did not have the command or talent to exploit the hitter's weaknesses.  With each promotion, the number of good command pitchers increased, and the number of  bad command pitchers decreased, and the "4 for 5" days decreased, and the "1 for 5" days increased, until the career ended.

 

For those of us that have to rely mostly on stats, there is no way to tell how many fat pitches are going for hits, and how many great pitches are killing the batter.  But the on field evaluators have all that information at their disposal, and thus are in a much better position to determine when a prospect is ready to be promoted.  So I rarely grouse about slow promotions.  The organization has little reason to supress promotions for kids below AA, so I generally assume that they are slow for good reasons. 

Submitted by azbobbop on Sun, 05/29/2022 - 05:07 am

James Triantos started the season by going 4-36 and he has .376 since then. Went through the same slow start last year in Arizona. The kid is a stud.

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Submitted by crunch on Mon, 05/30/2022 - 05:09 pm

i dunno where it started, but im glad we've decided to call him "PCA"...crow-armstrong is a stupid amount of letters to type and i already type a lot of stupid things without adding more to the mix.

Recent comments

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Miguel Cruz walked six in 1.2 IP in his last start, so I guess he is improving. Wilme Mora also walked six in one of his appearances a week or two ago, and one or two others have walked five. I don't know what would be the most I have ever seen a pitcher throw in a game out here, because the manager / pitching coach usually gets the pitcher out of the game if it gets too ridiculous. 

    As for the attendance, probably about 20 of the 25 were early arrivals for the Savannah Bananas game who came over to Field # 1 to see what was going on, and once they saw all the bases on balls (12 walks by Cubs pitchers and four by Angels pitchers) they ran away screaming. I'm used to it so it didn't bother me that much. 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Jed has added Teheran, Tyranski, Kissaki, and now Straily and Nico Zeglin today.

    Zeglin is 24 yrs old. Pitched well at Long Beach St in '23 and well in some Indy Ball.

    They also added Reilly and Viets in late ST.

    Have to search for MiLB arm depth anywhere you can and at all times!!!

  • Childersb3 (view)

    25 in Attendance!!!

    Phil, is that a backfield record?

    Also, 6 BBs for Cruz in 2 IP. What's the most walks you've seen in one EXT ST outing that you can recall?

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    He has a pulse. Apparently that’s the only requirement at this point.

  • crunch (view)

    cubs sign dan straily...for some reason.  minor league deal.

    welcome back.

    zac rosscup is down in mexico trying to make it happen...maybe they could throw him a contract, too.  junior lake is his teammate.  shore up a bunch of holes with some washups.

  • fullykräusened (view)

    The great thing about going to live sports events is you don't know if you're going to see something historic. Today I went to the Cub game, after putting the liner back in my coat and fishing my Cubs knit hat out of the closet. I needed all that- my seats are in the upper deck, left, so the east wind was in my face. Both teams failed to capitalize on good situations, but both starters did a good job to accomplish this. So, we go to the bottom of the sixth inning. The Cubs tie it up, and then Pete Crow-Armstrong comes up. We all know he would still be in AAA if not for injuries, and future Hall-of-Famer Justin Verlander absolutely carved up the young fellow up in his first two plate appearances. So this time he hits a fly ball. The wind was blowing in and had suppressed several strong fly balls- including a rocket off Altuve's bat that Canario hauled in (does anybody else remind me of Jorge Soler?) , but the ball kept carrying and carrying. 107mph, legit angle and carry. The crowd went nuts, the dugout went nuts. Maybe, just maybe, I saw the first homer from a long-term Cub.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Which was my original premise. They won the trades but lost their souls. They no longer employ the Cardinal way which had been so successful for so long.

  • crunch (view)

    STL traded away a lot of minor league talent that went on to do nothing in the arenado + goldschmidt trades.  neither guy blocked any of their minor league talent in the pipeline, too.  that's ideal places to add talent.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Natural cycle of baseball. Pitching makes adjustments in approach to counter a hot young rookie. Now it’s time for Busch and his coaches to counter those adjustments. Busch is very good and will figure it out, I think sooner than later.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    In 2020, the pandemic year and the year before they acquired Arenado, the Cardinals finished second and were a playoff team. Of the 12 batters with 100 plate appearances, 8 of them were home grown. Every member of the starting rotation (if you include Wainwright) and all but one of the significant relievers were home grown. While there have been a relative handful of very good trades interspersed which have been mentioned, player development had been their predominant pattern for decades - ever since I became an aware fan in the ‘70’s

    The Arenado deal was not a deal made out of dire need or desperation. It was a splashy, headline making deal for a perennial playoff team intended to be the one piece that brought the Cardinals from a very good team to a World Series contender. They have continued to wheel and deal and have been in a slide ever since. I stand by my supposition that that deal marked a notable turning point within the organization. They broke what had been a very successful formula for a very long time.
     

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