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PITCHERS: 20
Adbert Alzolay 
Michael Arias
Javier Assad
Ben Brown
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
Porter Hodge
* Bailey Horn
Caleb Kilian
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Daniel Palencia
Michael Rucker
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
Jameson Taillon
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 8
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
* Miles Mastrobuoni
* Matt Mervis
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Luis Vazquez
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 7
Kevin Alcantara
Alexander Canario
* Pete Crow-Armstrong
Brennen Davis
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman

 


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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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