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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

Last updated 4-23-2024
 
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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 @ Athletics: Series Thread (Games 15-17)

Submitted by Charlie on

The Cubs and their trio of former Dodgers took two out of three from the Dodgers in L.A. They next travel north to take on the 3-13 Oakland Athletics. Cody Bellinger and Patrick Wisdom have each begun to heat up a bit, and along with Seiya Suzuki reinforce the middle of the Cubs' lineup, which was carried by the table setters in the early going. See below for the daily matchups.

Game 15, Monday, April 17, 8:40 pm central

CHC: RHP Hayden Wesneski (0-0, 7.50 ERA)

OAK: LHP  Kyle Muller (0-0, 5.23 ERA)

Wesneski followed a disappointing first start with a terrible second start. A Wrigley wind roaring out to center field didn't help matters, but his four walks in only 1.1 innings were at the root of the problem. He should be well rested for this one.

The 6'7" Muller made his MLB debut in 2021 but spent most of 2022 in AAA. He carries a career 3-5 record and 5.23 ERA in 14 starts and one relief appearance. Command has been his main challenge. He has a plus slider that he throws over 30% of the time.

Game 16, Tuesday, April 18, 8:40 pm central

CHC: RHP Marcus Stroman (2-1, 1.00 ERA)

OAK: LHP Ken Waldichuk (0-2, 10.20 ERA)

Stroman ended a scoreless streak by giving up two earned runs in his third start and got a bit of an undeserved loss in the process. He continued his 2023 trend of increases in slider usage and strikeout rate.

A former fifth round draft pick, Waldichuk got his first exposure to the majors in 2022. In 2023 he's already given up five homeruns, good for a rate of more then four per nine innings. An elevated walk rate is not helping matters.

Game 17, Wednesday, APril 19, 2:37 pm central

CHC: LHP Justin Steele (2-0, 1.42 ERA)

OAK: RHP James Kaprielian (0-2, 12.15 ERA)

Steele allowed two earned runs in his third start, but he generally looked more in command than his second time around. He struck out eight in seven innings and continued to direct the bulk of the contact into the dirt. After throwing his slider a majority of the time in his first outing, he's actually gone to the fastball at around a 70% rates in his second and third starts.

Kaprielian is in his third season as an Oakland starter. He survived 2022 despite a hard dip in his strikeout rate and a slight increase in his walk rate. 2023 has not been so kind to him, however. His strikeout rate has improved, but he's walking nearly as many batters as he's striking out and he's surrendered five homeruns already.

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Comments

Submitted by Cubster on Mon, 04/17/2023 - 04:22 am

Charlie, thanks for the pitching matchup recap, especially since I've never heard of any of the A's pitchers.

Submitted by JoePepitone on Mon, 04/17/2023 - 04:25 pm

It seemed to me that Wesneski was also rattled by the umpire's bad strike zone in addition to the wind blowing out.  It cost him at least one clear strike three that I recall (and it wasn't a marginal "could go either way" pitch, either -- the entire ball was inside the strike zone).  I imagine that struggling with your command with the wind blowing out and not having clear strike threes called on you could be a situation that a young pitcher just has to experience to know how to handle.  No other way to figure it out than going through it.

Parenthetically, I feel like I have seen more missed strikes than usual in the early going this year.  More pitches completely inside the strike zone being called balls.  The umps are really not pushing back against the Robo umps movement very effectively by their performance.

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Submitted by Charlie on Mon, 04/17/2023 - 04:16 pm

I wasn't able to watch closely enough to catch that. But his Mariners counterpart gave up 8 earned in 2.1.

My wish for Wesneski's next step is to be able to challenge batters in the zone when he's not getting calls. He seemed frustrated with not getting some called strikes in his first outing as well.

Submitted by crunch on Mon, 04/17/2023 - 04:53 pm

the amount of contact (not all for hits) being made off wiz's sinking breaker is a bit high considering the break on it.  kinda odd to watch in the 1st.  he threw 3 straight fastballs to the last batter for 2 strikes watching and then a popout.

Submitted by JoePepitone on Mon, 04/17/2023 - 04:08 pm

Wisdom with two dingers tonight ties him for the ML lead with Pete Alonso with 8. Homers in four straight games (5 altogether in that stretch). 

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 04/18/2023 - 04:57 pm

nick ahmed (ARZ) just hit an ichiro/vlad style single off a 1-hopper in the dirt.  STL's woes continue...they've down by 5 in the 4th.

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 04/18/2023 - 04:05 pm

i love how much work sutcliffe puts into announcing and research and getting to know the players (had his own spring training locker, fwiw)...but wow, i could do with 50% less hyped up as hell sutcliffe.  he gets into cringy-weird bud harrelson "loudly complaining" territory sometimes.

Submitted by crunch on Wed, 04/19/2023 - 04:56 pm

i know ross wanted to get work for madrigal, so they stuck madrigal at 3rd...but can we f'n not have wisdom in RF anymore?  he's got the arm, but that's about it.

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 04/20/2023 - 04:52 am

OAK ownership has purchased a large tract of land in Vegas with the intentions of building a ballpark.  it's the beginning of the end for that terrible ballpark in Oakland.

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Submitted by Sonicwind75 on Thu, 04/20/2023 - 04:21 pm

Read their contract with Coliseum ends after 2024 season. Would they play at minor league stadium for a season or two as the new stadium is built?  Recall the minor league stadium was recently built. 

As someone who lives about as close to Vegas as Chicago; I could definitely see planning a trip there based around seeing a Cubs game. 

Recent comments

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Walker was a complimentary piece who was well past his prime. Edmonds, Holliday, Ozzie Smith and a few others were good trades. Notably, they have almost always been quiet in the free agent market. But the fundamental workings of the organization were always based primarily upon the constant output of a well oiled minor league organization. That organization has ground to a halt. And when did that hard stop start to happen? Right at the beginning of the Goldschmidt/Arenado era, perpetuated by the Contreras signing, followed by the rotation purchases during the last offseason. The timing is undeniable and, in my mind, not coincidental.

    Again, we are all saying that player development became deemphasized. I’m just linking it directly to the recent trades and involvement in the free agent market. I don’t see how the two concepts can be decoupled.

  • Charlie (view)

    The Cards also traded for both Jim Edmonds and Larry Walker. It's the developing part that has fallen off. Of course, it could also be the case that there are no more Matt Carpenters left to pull out of the hat. 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Cubs sign 28 yr old RHRP Daniel Missaki. He was in MiLB from his 17yr old to 19yr old years and did pretty well.
    He's been in Mexico and Japan the last four years and has done well also.
    He's supposedly Japanese and Brazilian.
    Interesting sign. We obviously need to RP in the system
    Injuries are mounting everywhere!!

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Sure, they made generally short term trades for established players to enhance what they already had or traded for players early enough in their careers that they were essentially Cardinals from the start. What they never did was to try to use the more established players as foundational cornerstones.

    Essentially we’re saying the same thing. They have given up on player development to the point that even their prospects that make it to the bigs flop so that they have to do things like buy most of their rotation and hope for the best.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    I don’t buy that. They had been doing that for years.

    They did it with Matt Holliday. They did it with John Lackey. They did it with Mark Mulder. They did it with Jason Heyward, who had a great year for them. I’m sure there’s more but those come to mind immediately.

    I attribute it more to a breakdown in what they’re doing in terms of development than a culture thing.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    They won those trades and sacrificed their culture. That’s exactly their problem.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    The other part that’s kind of crazy is they made two very high profile trades, one for Goldschmidt and one for Arenado, and they very clearly won those trades. They just haven’t been able to develop players the last handful of years the way they usually do.

    I guess the moral there is it’s hard to stay on top of your game and be good at what you do in perpetuity.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Marmol was extended at the beginning of the year. Two years I believe.

  • crunch (view)

    Jesse Rogers @JesseRogersESPN
    Craig Counsell doesn’t have a timetable for Cody Bellinger who technically has two cracked ribs on his right side. CT scan showed it today.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Thought it might have been David Peralta given the open 40 man spot and how PCA has played so far. 

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