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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: 13
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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Submitted by Mike Wellman on

I’ve been up pretty close at the KB circus here in Des Moines this week. After watching Tuesday night and yesterday afternoon from the camera well adjacent to the I-Cub dugout while our hero played 3B, I am hoping to perch in the LF corner this afternoon since he is penciled in at that spot and hitting leadoff today. Impressions so far: He is so damn disciplined at the plate! Not much glove-work at the hot corner; yesterday he swallowed an MLB popup off the bat of the game’s first hitter, fielded throws flawlessly to start a few rounds of the horn on Ks w/ no one on base, and recorded another PO on a PO of a baserunner adrift between 2nd and 3rd. As prodigious as his baseball talents may be his people skills. The kid knows how to handle himself. He’s as patient signing autos as he is at the plate. I think he’ll clout one today to remember him by and then be gone, leaving the I-Cubs to finish a season in which they are, so far, undefeated w/ him on the roster and 47-85 without him. Duensing, by the way, pitched well yesterday, if anybody cares. I’ve been up pretty close at the KB circus here in Des Moines this week. After watching Tuesday night and yesterday afternoon from the camera well adjacent to the I-Cub dugout while our hero played 3B, I am hoping to perch in the LF corner this afternoon since he is penciled in at that spot and hitting leadoff today. Impressions so far: He is so damn disciplined at the plate! Not much glove-work at the hot corner; yesterday he swallowed an MLB popup off the bat of the game’s first hitter, fielded throws flawlessly to start a few rounds of the horn on Ks w/ no one on base, and recorded another PO on a PO of a baserunner adrift between 2nd and 3rd. As prodigious as his baseball talents may be his people skills. The kid knows how to handle himself. He’s as patient signing autos as he is at the plate. I think he’ll clout one today to remember him by and then be gone, leaving the I-Cubs to finish a season in which they are, so far, undefeated (at home) w/ him on the roster and 47-84 without him. Duensing, by the way, pitched well yesterday, if anybody cares.

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Submitted by Mike Wellman on Thu, 08/30/2018 - 08:01 am

Bizarre - missing words in the post magically reappear when I try to edit them back in. I give up. Something is always amiss. Not much glove-work at the hot corner, is what I tried to say.

Submitted by Hagsag on Thu, 08/30/2018 - 08:56 pm

Cubs trade Gimenez to the Twins for C Bobby Wilson. Wilson is currently on the DL. Mazzoni DFA.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 08:35 am

Bobby Wilson (sprained ankle) was placed on the Twins 10-day DL on 8/24, so he will be eligible to be reinstated on Monday 8/3. (Days spent on the previous club's DL counts toward the minimum number of days a traded player must spend on the DL).

Since the MLB Active List ("25-man roster") expands to a maximum of 40 players on September 1st, no corresponding roster move on the Cubs MLB Active List will be required when B. Wilson is reinstated from the DL. 

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 08/30/2018 - 08:38 pm

ohtani cleared to start for LAA on sunday.

so stoked he's getting to play as a true 2-way player.  he may not be at his best freshly cleared to pitch this sunday, but a guy who can do what he can do on the mound and with a bat...at age 23...wow.

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 08/30/2018 - 08:43 pm

given that they gave him up with club control left for a slightly better D catcher with slightly less bat upside compared to gimenez, the cubs probably didn't see a future for him on the 40-man going forward.  *shrug* dunno...  going by the numbers he wasn't exceptionally awful, but he was underperforming for a 28 year old in AAA.

Submitted by tim815 on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 08:59 am

The Cubs added Wilson as an emergency catcher, which is protocol.

 

Someone had to get thwacked. Iowa's season isn't completed. I wish there was another way, but who else was going to "get it"?

 

Line up Mazzoni's numbers against most guys getting DFAd, he's rather good. Baseball myopia tends to ignore who other teams thwack.

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  • Raisin101 (view)

    Hi Arizona Phil!

    Exciting to see Naz Mule in box scores a few times. What's his stuff like now after the TJS?

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Mastrobuoni can't come back, yet

    Wisdom does have an option left. He can hide in Iowa if Jed DFA's someone else

    Does Brennan Davis get shown the door? I know it's too early for that, but these injuries are crunching the roster of a 12-7 team playoff demands and BDavis isn't going to help anytime soon.

    Someone has to go to add Peralta. And Canario isn't going to get to play everyday regardless of RHers or LHers. Neither is Tauchman. Also don't see PCA getting a chance over Peralta.

    If Jed does those moves:

    4 OF: Belli, Peralta, Canny, Tauch

    2 C: Gomes and Amaya

    2 DH: Cooper and Mervis

    5 INF: Busch, Nico, Dansby, Morel, Madrigal

    Little short on OF depth but two injuries will do that  

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I have had the pleasure of watching some of the young A's pitchers lately (first Joe Boyle the last day of Minor League Spring Training in March, and more recently Luis Morales last week and Steven Echavarria yesterday at Extended Spring Training), and it reminds me of the Miami Marlins a couple of years ago. A really nice collection of young pitchers. It will be interesting to see what the A's will get for two years of ex-Cub Paul Blackburn at the Trade Deadline (there should be a robust market for Blackburn). 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Good deal

    MB needs some talent infusion!

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Very possible. Suriel, too. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    DJL: if a pitcher is recalled to be the 27th man for a doubleheader and then is optioned back to the minors the next day, the 15-day "clock" does NOT reset. The one day call-up for the doubleheader is treated like it never happened with respect to a pitcher having to spend at least 15 days on optional assignment before he can be recalled. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Probably the only reason David Peralta is still in the organization (he is at AAA Iowa) is to be available in case anything bad were to happen to Ian Happ (which it just did). So if Happ needs to go on the IL, the Cubs can select Peralta to play LF, DFA Wisdom (and hope he and what remains of his $2.725M salary gets claimed off waivers), and recall Mervis to platoon at DH with Cooper (with Canario / Tauchman sharing RF), at least until Suzuki and Happ are back...

     

  • crunch (view)

    i'd just like to take a moment to express to the world i'm still pissed willson contreras is not a cub when the pricetag was 5/87m (17.5m/yr).

    it would be nice to have a legacy-type player to stick around, especially one with his leadership and the respect he gets from his peers.  cubs fans deserved more than 1 season of contreras + morel...that was gold.

  • crunch (view)

    happ, right hamstring tightness, day-to-day (hopefully 0 days).

    he will be reevaluated tomorrow.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    I guess I'm not looking for that type of AB 

    Just a difference of opinion

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