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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

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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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Option-Less Players Dead to Cubs

Submitted by Rob G. on

Yet another rumor of the Cubs trying to move a player who is out of options. Some of our readers overheard on the radio that the Athletics and Rangers are having talks with the Cubs over Michael Wuertz. Moving Wuertz who is due to make $1.1M in 2009, would free up some salary and some space in the Cubs bullpen and make Kent Sterling a happy man. Under the assumption the Cubs carry 12 pitchers, their current staff would be:

Starters: Zambrano, Dempster, Lilly, Harden, Heilman

Relievers: Marmol, Gregg, Vizcaino, Wuertz*, Cotts*, Guzman*, Gaudin*

* players out of options

I'm guessing on Heilman being the 5th starter, but that wouldn't leave any room for the loser of the 5th starter battle (assuming Samardzija or Marshall are the other competitors), nor any of the non-roster invitees. And I think it would be wiser to try and move these guys before spring training rather than during. The other teams would probably prefer to have them working with their staff for the duration of camp and you don't risk a player getting hurt or sucking up joint so bad that they have almost no trade value and you have to cut them. There's the flip side where they pitch well and you still have to move them and could possibly get more, but there's not a lot of teams that have room on their 25-man roster by the end of spring training.

If the Cubs are dealing with the A's, can they get Sean Gallagher or Josh Donaldson back?

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Comments

Submitted by Charlie on Sun, 02/01/2009 - 02:16 pm

Wuertz for Donaldson? Done. How many optionless relievers does it take to get back Gallagher? I'd be fine with gettin E-Patt back too. Even if he's out of options--I gladly give him Gathright's roster spot.

Submitted by crunch on Sun, 02/01/2009 - 02:17 pm

wow...is kent sterling a retard or just new to baseball? did he cover cricket in india in 07? i'm yet to see any 50-ish IP reliever that can kill 130+ million dollars of the 24 others on the team.

Submitted by mastrick on Sun, 02/01/2009 - 02:48 pm

I'd like to see the Cubs move Wuertz. His stats are good but every time he comes into a close late inning situation I hold my breath.

Submitted by spongebob on Sun, 02/01/2009 - 02:49 pm

Why trade hill for a PTBNL now! Why not see if he can relinquish the demons during spring training...and if not then trade him for PTBNL. Sad....considering this time last year he and Pie would have gotten us Roberts! Wurtz trade would open a spot for who? Shark can weight let him prove he needs to be in the MLB before dealing everyone...i'm just not getting all of this! I give up...what is Hendry trying to do..there needs to be some final end game here! Can't they just ask Rickets and the others if they would be okay with getting Peavy...and if so just do it!

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Submitted by Rob G. on Sun, 02/01/2009 - 02:53 pm

supposedly the level of the PTBNL is going to be determined by how Rich Hill does with the O's, so it's really a no-loss proposition for the Cubs assuming they were never going to keep him.

if he sucks, they get some crappy prospect which might be more than if they just outright released and if he's any good in spring training, they get someone decent. No one was going to give up a a A prospect for a guy just based off his spring training anyway.

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Submitted by Andrew on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 02:00 am

Hendry's "new found love for all things 'proven vet'" is hardly new. Besides, I'd be really surprised if we do acquire Looper or Wolf at this point. We got Heilman instead. It's all fine and good if Hill finds his 2007 form in Spring Training, but what do we do with him when he loses it in April and May? Ditch him then. And I suppose that's fine for some teams, but this team will probably need every 40-man spot it can get. The Cubs just don't have the time or the interest to see if Rich Hill is able to "get it" again.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 02:07 am

chances of Hill showing enough in spring training to not only win a spot but alleviate all fears that he'd ever revert to sucking again are pretty slim. And it's going to be a virtually impossible to move him once rosters start getting set or the season starts. Why would anyone trade anything for him knowing he'd just get cut?

Trade him now and at least you get some competition for him and get something.

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