We will find out who the backup catcher is on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Ron Santo chatted with Lou on the Cubs Pregame show On WGN Radio:
- Lou says "it really has been" a long Spring Training.
- This camp is about 1/3 of a baseball season.
- Piniella is ready to get on the plane to go to New York.
- Lou wasn't feeling too good yesterday, and is glad that he got to miss out on the bus ride to Tuscan.
- The goal is to have a fresh, ready to go team when the season starts.
- Lou says for the most part we are ready to start.
- Piniella is concerned about Soto missing a lot of time in camp.
- Kosuke also needs some ABs.
- Dempster's concentration needs to get better.
- On the positive side, Soriano and Lee are starting to swing the bat and Ramirez is coming along.
- He is proud of the guys for working hard.
- Lou had to give Carlos Marmol the bad news that Gregg is going to start the year as the closer.
- Piniella noted that Gregg has pitched really well this spring.
- The Cubs feel that they have 2 guys that can pitch the 9th inning.
- Lou likes Bradley's edge and the Cubs just need to keep him on the field.
- Milton fits perfectly in the 4 spot in the lineup for the Cubs.
- Piniella would like to get Hoffpauir lots of ABs.
- Miles is really coming on.
- The Cubs have a lot of good things going on.
- Lilly is pitching today, he is a little bit behind because of the WBC.
- There is an 80% chance of rain in New York next Friday and the Cubs are concerned that Lilly will miss his last spring start.
Roster Cuts:
- Kevin Hart
- Randy Wells
- So Taguchi
- Mark Johnson
- Eseban German
- Andres Blanco
All these guys headed to minor league camp. The only surprise is So Taguchi because I've heard a lot lately about So making the team instead of Joey Gathright. Taguchi could be called up if there is an injury to a Cub outfielder this year. There are now 30 guys left in camp.
Here is a list of those 30 guys. Locks to make the team are in bold:
- Neal Cotts
- Ryan Dempster
- Chad Gaudin
- Kevin Gregg
- Angel Guzman
- Rich Harden
- Aaron Heilman
- Ted Lilly
- Carlos Marmol
- Sean Marshall
- David Patton
- Jeff Samardzija
- Luis Vizcaino
- Carlos Zambrano
- Paul Bako
- Koyie Hill
- Geovany Soto
- Mike Fontenot
- Micah Hoffpauir
- Derrek Lee
- Aaron Miles
- Aramis Ramirez
- Ryan Theriot
- Milton Bradley
- Kosuke Fukudome
- Joey Gathright
- Reed Johnson
- Alfonso Soriano
- Chad Fox
- Mike Stanton
So there are 5 more cuts to come, 4 of them will be pitchers and the other one will be either Bako or Hill.
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