Cubs 25 man roster tracker....

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figured id start a roster tracker to keep track of who we have and what open, etc..
for now i just filled in positions from what we have on our roster and the cubs.com depth chart..
ill edit as we add and subtract players over the off season...

C. wellington castillo
1B. anthony rizzo
2B. darwin barney
SS. starlin castro
3B. luis valbuena
LF. brian bogusevic
CF. junior lake
RF. Nate schierholtz

C. open
IF donnie murphy
IF logan watkins
OF ryan sweeney
UT. open
UT. open

SP. jeff samardzija
SP. travis wood
SP. edwin jackson
SP. jake arrieta
SP. chris rusin

REL. carlos villanueva
REL. justin grimm
REL. hector rondon
REL. blake parker
REL. james russell
REL. pedro strop


this isnt my prediction of the 25 man roster, its what we have now until we know for sure if guys like mike olt, josh vitters, matt szczur, etc.
actually makes the 25 man roster out of ST...
 

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Watkins will probably start in Triple A and should start there. Unless he gets value playing time.

I would non-tender Murphy.
 

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Dec. 4th Wesley Wright signed as a FA for 1 yr 1.425 mil deal

11/26/13 Kansas City Royals traded C George Kottaras to Chicago Cubs for cash.

heres an updated roster

C. wellington castillo
1B. anthony rizzo
2B. darwin barney
SS. starlin castro
3B. luis valbuena
LF. brian bogusevic
CF. junior lake
RF. Nate schierholtz

C. George kottaras
IF donnie murphy
IF logan watkins
OF ryan sweeney
UT. open
UT. open

SP. jeff samardzija
SP. travis wood
SP. edwin jackson
SP. jake arrieta
SP. chris rusin

REL. carlos villanueva
REL. justin grimm
REL. hector rondon or blake parker
REL. Wesley wright
REL. james russell
REL. pedro strop
 

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Dec 12 2013 Marlins have traded outfielder Justin Ruggiano to the Cubs for outfielder Brian Bogusevic.

heres an updated roster

C. wellington castillo
1B. anthony rizzo
2B. darwin barney
SS. starlin castro
3B. luis valbuena
LF. Justin Ruggiano
CF. junior lake
RF. Nate schierholtz

C. George kottaras
IF donnie murphy
IF logan watkins
OF ryan sweeney
UT. open
UT. open

SP. jeff samardzija
SP. travis wood
SP. edwin jackson
SP. jake arrieta
SP. chris rusin

REL. carlos villanueva
REL. justin grimm
REL. hector rondon or blake parker
REL. Wesley wright
REL. james russell
REL. pedro strop
 

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Lake will be the starting LF and Sweeney the starting CF. The platoon will be in RF

I see 1 open spot in the roster. They could go with an extra arm until the weather warms then bring in a bat.

Wild card would be Olt but he would have to wreck S/T to get a spot.
 

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heres an updated roster

C. wellington castillo
1B. anthony rizzo
2B. darwin barney
SS. starlin castro
3B. luis valbuena
LF. Junior lake
CF. Ryan sweeney
RF. Nate schierholtz

C. George kottaras
IF donnie murphy
IF logan watkins
OF Justin Ruggiano
UT. open
UT. open

SP. jeff samardzija
SP. travis wood
SP. edwin jackson
SP. jake arrieta
SP. chris rusin

REL. carlos villanueva
REL. justin grimm
REL. hector rondon or blake parker
REL. Wesley wright
REL. james russell
REL. pedro strop
 

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heres an updated roster

C. wellington castillo
1B. anthony rizzo
2B. darwin barney
SS. starlin castro
3B. luis valbuena
LF. Junior lake
CF. Ryan sweeney
RF. Nate schierholtz

C. George kottaras
IF donnie murphy
IF logan watkins
OF Justin Ruggiano
UT. open
UT. open

SP. jeff samardzija
SP. travis wood
SP. edwin jackson
SP. jake arrieta
SP. chris rusin

REL. carlos villanueva
REL. justin grimm
REL. hector rondon or blake parker
REL. Wesley wright
REL. james russell
REL. pedro strop

Need to take down the extra position player and add another REL:

Rondon and Parker be on team with basically only 1 open spot being 5th OF which i believe comes from McDonald, Vitters, Jackson, Cubs said to have offer out on RP and SP. I can see Rusin and Grimm starting yr out in AAA for depth
 

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heres an updated roster

C. wellington castillo
1B. anthony rizzo
2B. darwin barney
SS. starlin castro
3B. luis valbuena
LF. Junior lake
CF. Ryan sweeney
RF. Nate schierholtz

C. George kottaras
IF donnie murphy
IF logan watkins
OF Justin Ruggiano
UT. open
UT. open

SP. jeff samardzija
SP. travis wood
SP. edwin jackson
SP. jake arrieta
SP. chris rusin

REL. carlos villanueva
REL. justin grimm
REL. hector rondon or blake parker
REL. Wesley wright
REL. james russell
REL. pedro strop

This team can challenge the 2003 Detroit tigers' 119 loses. I'm sorry. No punch in the line up. Okay starting pitching that overachieved last year, and a sketchy, 'meh' bullpen.
 

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heres an updated roster

C. wellington castillo
1B. anthony rizzo
2B. darwin barney
SS. starlin castro
3B. luis valbuena
LF. Junior lake
CF. Ryan sweeney
RF. Nate schierholtz

C. George kottaras
IF donnie murphy
IF logan watkins
OF Justin Ruggiano
UT. open
UT. open

SP. jeff samardzija
SP. travis wood
SP. edwin jackson
SP. jake arrieta
SP. chris rusin

REL. carlos villanueva
REL. justin grimm
REL. hector rondon or blake parker
REL. Wesley wright
REL. james russell
REL. pedro strop

Where's fujikawa?
 

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This team can challenge the 2003 Detroit tigers' 119 loses. I'm sorry. No punch in the line up. Okay starting pitching that overachieved last year, and a sketchy, 'meh' bullpen.

It isn't THAT bad.

And besides, they are not the worst team in MLB history anyway.

2003 Detroit Tigers - 43-119 (.265)
1898 St. Louis Browns - 39-111 (.260)
1919 Philadelphia Athletics - 36-104 (.257)
1904 Washington Senators - 38-113 (.252)
1962 New York Mets - 40-120 (.250)
1935 Boston Braves - 38-115 (.248)
1916 Philadelphia Athletics - 36-117 (.235)
1890 Pittsburg Alleghenys - 23-113 (.169) - not a type-o, there was a period of time where the city of Pittsburgh had its "h" removed
1899 Cleveland Spiders - 20-134 (.130)

Anything 21-141 would be good for the worst record in MLB history, if we're gonna be bad, let's just say "Go Big or Go Home," eh?
 

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Need to take down the extra position player and add another REL:
heres an updated roster

C. wellington castillo
1B. anthony rizzo
2B. darwin barney
SS. starlin castro
3B. luis valbuena
LF. Junior lake
CF. Ryan sweeney
RF. Nate schierholtz

C. George kottaras
IF donnie murphy
IF logan watkins
OF Justin Ruggiano
UT. open

SP. jeff samardzija
SP. travis wood
SP. edwin jackson
SP. jake arrieta
SP. chris rusin

REL. carlos villanueva
REL. justin grimm
REL. hector rondon
REL. blake parker
REL. Wesley wright
REL. james russell
REL. pedro strop
 

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It isn't THAT bad.

And besides, they are not the worst team in MLB history anyway.

2003 Detroit Tigers - 43-119 (.265)
1898 St. Louis Browns - 39-111 (.260)
1919 Philadelphia Athletics - 36-104 (.257)
1904 Washington Senators - 38-113 (.252)
1962 New York Mets - 40-120 (.250)
1935 Boston Braves - 38-115 (.248)
1916 Philadelphia Athletics - 36-117 (.235)
1890 Pittsburg Alleghenys - 23-113 (.169) - not a type-o, there was a period of time where the city of Pittsburgh had its "h" removed
1899 Cleveland Spiders - 20-134 (.130)

Anything 21-141 would be good for the worst record in MLB history, if we're gonna be bad, let's just say "Go Big or Go Home," eh?

How is this team going to score runs?
 

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heres an updated roster

C. wellington castillo
1B. anthony rizzo
2B. darwin barney
SS. starlin castro
3B. luis valbuena
LF. Junior lake
CF. Ryan sweeney
RF. Nate schierholtz

C. George kottaras
IF donnie murphy
IF logan watkins
OF Justin Ruggiano
UT. open

SP. jeff samardzija
SP. travis wood
SP. edwin jackson
SP. jake arrieta
SP. chris rusin

REL. carlos villanueva
REL. justin grimm
REL. hector rondon
REL. blake parker
REL. Wesley wright
REL. james russell
REL. pedro strop

"Every season is precious". Yeah, right!

Doesn't look like it.

It should read, "every top 5 draft pick is precious". That's more accurate.
 

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C. wellington castillo
1B. anthony rizzo
2B. darwin barney
SS. starlin castro
3B. luis valbuena
LF. Junior lake
CF. Ryan sweeney
RF. Nate schierholtz

C. George kottaras
IF donnie murphy
IF logan watkins
OF Justin Ruggiano
UT. McDonald/Roberts/Vitters/Jackson etc

SP. jeff samardzija
SP. travis wood
SP. edwin jackson
SP. jake arrieta
SP. chris rusin

REL. carlos villanueva
REL. jose veras
REL. hector rondon
REL. blake parker
REL. Wesley wright
REL. james russell
REL. pedro strop
 

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Dec 7 2013 Cubs sign jose veras 1 yr 4 mil club option 2015 5.5 mil, along with some undisclosed performance-based incentives

updated roster

C. wellington castillo
1B. anthony rizzo
2B. darwin barney
SS. starlin castro
3B. luis valbuena
LF. Junior lake
CF. Ryan sweeney
RF. Nate schierholtz

C. George kottaras
IF donnie murphy
IF logan watkins
OF Justin Ruggiano
UT. open

SP. jeff samardzija
SP. travis wood
SP. edwin jackson
SP. jake arrieta
SP. chris rusin

REL. carlos villanueva
REL. jose veras
REL. hector rondon
REL. blake parker
REL. Wesley wright
REL. james russell
REL. pedro strop
 
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Dec 7 2013 Cubs sign jose veras 1 yr 4 mil club option 2015 5.5 mil, along with some undisclosed performance-based incentives

updated roster

C. wellington castillo
1B. anthony rizzo
2B. darwin barney
SS. starlin castro
3B. luis valbuena
LF. Junior lake
CF. Ryan sweeney
RF. Nate schierholtz

C. George kottaras
IF donnie murphy
IF logan watkins
OF Justin Ruggiano
UT. open

SP. jeff samardzija
SP. travis wood
SP. edwin jackson
SP. jake arrieta
SP. chris rusin

REL. carlos villanueva
REL. jose veras
REL. hector rondon
REL. blake parker
REL. Wesley wright
REL. james russell
REL. pedro strop

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For those of you that are taking a pessimistic approach towards our top prospects: Understand that if it ever comes to a point where our prospects aren't panning out, the current Cubs and Astros have the marketability and the funds to attract free agent to fill in at positions of need, something the bad teams from the previous decade (the Pirates, Royals, and Orioles) didn't have.

That's why I wanted us to sign Infante for a year or two. Unfortunately, he wanted four years and I can't say I particularly blame him seeing what some of these other guys are getting.
 
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With Veras, Parker, Strop, Villanueva, as well as another lefty in Wesley Wright to go with Russell, this will be the best our bullpen has looked since our 97 win campaign of 2008. Contrast that to last year when we had Marmol, an unproven Fujikawa, and Camp at the back end of our bullpen.

While our offense may still suck, we won't be blowing as many leads in 2014.
 

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