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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full) 

28 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and twelve players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors. 

Last updated 3-26-2024
 
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# bats both

PITCHERS: 15
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Caleb Kilian
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
Jameson Taillon
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

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

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

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Ben Brown, P 
Alexander Canario, OF 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Keegan Thompson, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

 



 

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Brooming Marvellous

SOUTHERN LEAGUE (AA) NORTHERN DIVISION PLAYOFFS GAME 3 THREAD (JAXX LEAD BEST-OF-FIVE SERIES 2-0) [PARACHAT] CAROLINA MUDCATS (77-57) @ WEST TENN DIAMOND JAXX (83-56) PRINGLES PARK, 5:05 pm CDT, RADIO: Dixie 1310 WDXI
After winning last night's game 2-1 in the ninth (recap, boxscore, play-by-play) to take a 2-0 series lead, the residents of West Tennessee have their brooms out tonight as the Jaxx look to go sweeping. Ricky Nolasco was simply outstanding yesterday, pitching eight scoreless frames. Though he had just the two innings in which he kept the bases clean, and a number of runners got themselves into scoring position, Nolasco immediately slammed the door shut every time, dialling his sinking fastball up to a very impressive 94mph in the late innings and inducing huge strikeouts with his excellent "Uncle Charlie" (or curveball, to you and me). 8 innings, 6 hits, 2 walks and a hit by pitch, 11 strikeouts, and, most importantly, 0 runs. Impressive. The Jaxx blew a 1-0 lead in the top of ninth though, with closer Andy Shipman, who was stolen from the Red Sox in the Jimmy Anderson back-and-forth last year, allowing a pair of hits and a run. Worry not though - the Jaxx came back in the bottom of the inning when Ryan Theriot, who was named Jaxx MVP before the game, tripled off the left field wall with one out. Two intentional walks followed and Brandon Sing struck out swinging before Buck Coats got the winning run home with an infield hit. Tonight...
Carlos Marmol, RHP
9-6, 3.34 ERA
141/77 K/BB, 17 HR in 153.2 IP
Luke Lockwood, LHP
2-8, 3.24 ERA
79/23 K/BB, 6 HR in 114.0 IP
2B *Frank Moore SS Ryan Theriot
3B #Drew Niles 2B Aaron Sisk
RF Juan Carlos Muniz 3B Casey McGehee
1B Jason Hill RF Brandon Sing
LF James Shanks 1B #Matt Craig
C #Dennis Anderson CF *Buck Coats
CF Reggie Abercrombie LF Luis Montanez
SS Rex Rundgren C #Jose Reyes
P *Luke Lockwood P Carlos Marmol
Carlos Marmol's a favourite prospect of mine. Signed out of the Dominican Republic in 1999 as a 17-year old catcher, Marmol was converted to the mound in 2003. He put together a very impressive season at Lansing (Low-A) last year, and this year he took a promotion to Daytona so well in his stride that Oneri Fleita gave him another. At first, Marmol struggled, walking 15 in his first 13.1 innings, but he's since settled down to being much more impressive. And there really aren't many better than Marmol when he's on his game. That was very much the case in his last start of the regular season, when he went seven scoreless one-hit innings, allowing just two walks and striking out 11. If Marmol today picks up where he left off, the Jaxx could really be laughing. Marmol, who'll only turn 23 in mid-October, truly has excellent stuff and a very high upside. His fastball and slider are both among the very best in the system, the former clocking in the low- to mid-nineties with excellent downward movement, the latter very hard-breaking. He also mixes in a changeup. Numbers-wise he's been known to have control problems come and go, and he allows a few too many home runs too. But for someone so new to pitching, who therefore could well have plenty of room for further improvement, he's a very promising prospect. Let's hope my eulogy isn't the kiss of death for his start today. Go Jaxx!

Comments

Mayo on MILB.com projected a 3 game sweep in the series before game 1.

Hmm, is anyone else having trouble accessing the radio feed?

While you are waiting, on the baseballprospectus.com open access (free) site, "Prospect Notebook" they discuss Joe Macias and the mystery of why he has a major league job if you want to read some headslapping material. That Hendry and Dusty think Macias is a valuable player does give one pause about what their judgement will bring us in 2006. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=4424

Ienpw, thanks. I'd appreciate it if we could pretend that I never asked and you never answered, stupid, stupid, stupid me...

Your forgiven. I have no idea what time it is anywhere in Europe.

2-0 Jaxx after one, Marmol worked a 1-2-3 top of the first on just 6 pitches, and in the bottom of the inning Aaron Sisk tripled and was driven in on a Casey McGehee sacrifice fly, before Brandon Sing crushed an enormous home run.

Two more runs for the Jaxx in the bottom of the 2nd, 4-0. Buck Coats and Luis Montanez hit back-to-back doubles to lead off the inning, an RBI groundout by Jose Reyes drove in Coats (who didn't score on Montanez's double because he wasn't sure whether it'd be caught), Carlos Marmol beat out an infield hit to put runners on the corners, and Theroit singled in Montanez. Lockwood is out already, 1.1 IP, 6 H, 1 HR, 0 BB, 0 K, 4 R/ER and responsible for the runners on first and second. Go Jaxx!

GRAND SLAM BRANDON SING...8-0!!

I am hoping that BIR wins their series so that maybe CSN will show the finals of a Cubs affilate vs. a Sox affllate. I mean at 1:00 AM, a tape delay of the game, I am sure people with tivo/dvr's would record the games giving CSN some good ratings because I beleve those count in ratings.

Woo!

Rob/John: After our hero's win the next series, will any of them get to sit next to Jose Macias on the big league club's bench? Well, I hope at least one of the Sing, Theriot, Nolasco and company folks might find a spot next to Murton/Cedeno since they too are more likely to be sitting than playing it seems.

Just Adam Greenberg, he's the only one on the 40 man roster that I'd think they'd consider (Pinto and Aardsma are on it as well) I just don't see them messing with the 40 man right now and there's really no point to it anyway. And Greenberg is no certainy, the only reason I think they'll call him up is to give him a chance to overcome his poor-man Moonlight Graham rep that's he's got going for himself right now. Speaking of Sept call-ups: The Cubs have played 13 games since Aug. 26th. Hill - 0 Games played Mitre - 1 Game played Soto - 0 Games Played Koronka - 0 Games Played Cedeno - 8 Games played (since Aug. 26th) Murton - 6 Games Played (since Aug. 30th) McClain - 7 Games Played (since Aug. 27th) Van Buren - 2 Games Played (since Aug 30th) The last few were called up a few days before for various injury reasons. So don't know what getting called up would do for any of them, although Greenberg in center and leading off would be something I'd like to see. Not that it's really a glimpse of the future, but something we could see one day.

Why does Dusty keep playing Patterson...? He just can't seem to get on base. Most of the Cubs's offense tonight was impatient and could not get any traction...Only D. Lee could really connect...Sad. What a young pitcher the Giants have (he's not even 20 and he retired the Cubs like there was no tomorrow). I wish Dusty would start Murton in EVERY game for the rest of the season -- lets see what he can do...We need more players that can actually get on base and hit the ball...Hairston's had a lot of trouble recently and Patterson has been worse...Let the young guys play Dusty...What do the Cubs have to lose...?

Marmol's GB:FB was under 1.00 this season, 167:176 if I remember right (I accidently closed the spreadsheet without saving). His ERA over his last 12 starts was 3.10 and that's including the 3 straight bad ones at the end of August.

Great lineup today 1 Corey Patterson, CF 2 Jerry Hairston Jr., LF 3 Derrek Lee, 1B 4 Jeromy Burnitz, RF 5 Scott McClain, 3B 6 Todd Walker, 2B 7 Ronny Cedeno, SS 8 Henry Blanco, C 9 Mark Prior, P Oh boy....

It's been said that a monkey typing on a keyboard if given enough time would come up with a great novel. Is that dusty's approach to lineup selection? We've already had ONE bad century...

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  • crunch (view)

    madrigal at 3rd...morel at DH.

    making room for madrigal or/and masterboney to get a significant amount of ABs is a misuse of the roster.  if it needed to get taken care of this offseason, they had tons of time to figure that out.

    morel played almost exclusively at 3rd in winter ball and they had him almost exclusively there all spring when he wasn't DH'ing.

    madrigal doing a good job with the glove for a bit over 2 chances per game...is that worth more than what he brings with the bat 4-5 PA a game?  it's 2024 and we got glenn beckert 2.0 manning 3rd base.

    this is a tauchman or cooper DH situation based on bat, alone.  cooper is 3/7 with a double off eovaldi if you want to play the most successful matchup.

    anyway, i hope this is a temporary thing, not business as usual for the rest of the season.  it will be telling if morel is not used at 3rd when an extreme fly ball pitcher like imanaga is on the mound.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    There are two clear "logjams" in the Cubs minor league pipeline at the present time, namely AA outfielders (K. Alcantara, C. Franklin, Roederer, Pagan, Pinango, Beesley, and Nwogu) and Hi-A infielders (J. Rojas, P. Ramirez, Howard, R. Morel, Pertuz, R. Garcia, and Spence, although Morel has been getting a lot of reps in the outfield in addition to infield). So it is possible that you might see a trade involving one of the extra outfielders at AA and/or one of the extra infielders at Hi-A in the next few days. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    18-year old SS Jefferson Rojas almost made the AA Tennessee Opening Day roster, and he is a legit shortstop, so I would expect him to be an MLB Top 100 prospect by mid-season. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Among the relievers in the system, I expect RHRP Hunter Bigge at AAA Iowa and RHRP Ty Johnson at South Bend to have breakout seasons on 2024, and among the starters I see LHP Drew Gray and RHP Will Sanders at South Bend and RHP Naz Mule at ACL Cubs as the guys who will make the biggest splash. Also, Jaxon Wiggins is throwing bullpen sides, so once he is ready for game action he could be making an impact at Myrtle Beach by June.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I expect OF Christian Franklin to have a breakout season at AA Tennessee in 2024. In another organization that doesn't have PCA, Caissie, K. Alcantara, and Canario in their system, C. Franklin would be a Top 10 prospect. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    The Reds trading Joe Boyle for Sam Moll at last year's MLB Trade Deadline was like the Phillies trading Ben Brown to the Cubs for David Robertson at the MLB TD in 2022. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Javier Assad started the Lo-A game (Myrtle Beach versus Stockton) on the Cubs backfields on Wednesday as his final Spring Training tune-up. He was supposed to throw five innings / 75 pitches. However, I was at the minor league road games at Fitch so I didn't see Assad pitch. 

  • crunch (view)

    cards put j.young on waivers.

    they really tried to make it happen this spring, but he put up a crazy bad slash of .081/.244/.108 in 45PA.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Seconded!!!

  • crunch (view)

    another awesome spring of pitching reports.  thanks a lot, appreciated.