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Clay Rapada added to 40-man roster?

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Hard to figure how that could be a screw up, but it sure looks like it. With him, the 40-man roster stands at 41 and the active roster stands at 26 (once Theriot is sent down).
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It has to somehow be a screw up. I don't see anything on the transactions page of either cubs.com or espn.com that says we've added him to the 40-man roster.
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Hard to figure how that could be a screw up, but it sure looks like it. With him, the 40-man roster stands at 41 and the active roster stands at 26 (once Theriot is sent down).

 

Cubs.com historically has not been very good about keeping up the 40 and 25 man rosters accurately. I've checked them every year since '02, and they've always had mistakes coming out of ST on there.

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There are a bunch of guys that were released over the winter still listed on the various minor lge teams. It must be tough to keep up with that stuff. YA right !!
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I don't think its a mistake. Rapada has loogy written all over him. He showed as much the other day in Las Vegas. He made major league left-handed hitters look pretty foolish. The Cubs don't have any other lefty relievers on the 40-man besides Eyre and Ohman. Rusch is currently in the rotation, and Marshall and Hill will not be coming out of the pen anytime soon. So it is possible that Hendry intended to place Rapada on the 40-man.

 

As far as there being a spot open for him, do guys count if they are on the DL? The Cubs currently have three pitchers on the disabled list.

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Only 60 Day DL doesn't count towards the 40 man roster. Rapada being added is horrible mismanagement of the 40 man roster.

 

This move also makes me worry that one of the 3 pitchers is going to the 60 day DL.

 

Beyond all that though, this means 3 guys are going to need to be removed from the 40 man when those 3 come back, it's like Hendry can't actually look 2 months in advance to realize the problems move like this cause. All for the sake of having a 6th lefty pitcher on the 40 man?? Mind numbing.

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Only 60 Day DL doesn't count towards the 40 man roster. Rapada being added is horrible mismanagement of the 40 man roster.

 

This move also makes me worry that one of the 3 pitchers is going to the 60 day DL.

 

Beyond all that though, this means 3 guys are going to need to be removed from the 40 man when those 3 come back, it's like Hendry can't actually look 2 months in advance to realize the problems move like this cause. All for the sake of having a 6th lefty pitcher on the 40 man?? Mind numbing.

I don't follow. If those 3 guys (Prior, Wood and Miller) are on the 15-day DL, which they currently are, and the Cubs, according to their website, are only 1 guy over the 40-man limit, why would 3 guys need to be removed from the 40-man when Prior, Wood and Miller return? As it stands now, only one guy is going to have to be removed. Where are you getting three?

 

And how can you say with such confidence that adding Rapada "is horrible mismanagement of the 40-man roster" when he is the only lefty reliever behind Eyre and Ohman. If one of those guys went down, wouldn't it be nice to have someone who can be an effective loogy without interrupting the development of Marshall or Hill to do it?

 

He sure looked tough against lefties a couple of days ago in Las Vegas. He struck out 61 and walked only 16 in 42 2/3 innings in Daytona last season. He put up a 1.94 ERA with 88 Ks and 28 walks in 83 1/3 innings the year before in Lansing. How is this "horrible mismanagement"? Is this move worthy of questioning? Yes, but you seem to know the answer already.

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I realized as I went to bed that I totally had things screwed up. I knew they wouldn't have to remove guys to reinstate 15 Day DL guys, jstu kinda brainfarted at the time.

 

Rapada hasn't been above A ball and is a relief prospect. Hill has already dominated AAA, I just don't see much more development necessary for him. He's not a young guy anymore.

 

This move is all part of standard baseball paranoia. Oh my God what if one of our 2 lefties in the pen go down??? We'd only have one guy to waste out of the pen by pitching to only one batter!!

 

Rusch should be throwing out of the pen once those 3(Only 1 in my opinion, but I'm sure Dusty will stick with him till all 3 are back) are back. Being pessimistic and saying they won't be back til Mid-June, you're rostering a guy based on Class A stats in relief and a very small sample size in ST. All for 2 months of paranoia because you can't survive with only 1 lefty in the pen. It's absurd.

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My question is, did this guy have to be rostered? Did they risk losing him to some rule if he wasn't on the 40-man today? It looks like there are 41 on the list, so obviously there is a mistake somewhere.
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How the hell do you screw up and accidentally have a guy on the roster that isn't? Cubs.com is awful.

 

I think MLB is responsible for the screwup. A couple of months ago someone mistakenly had Thome being acquired by the Cubs...

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A couple of months ago someone mistakenly had Thome being acquired by the Cubs...
Who did we mistakenly trade for him? :lol:
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This move is all part of standard baseball paranoia. Oh my God what if one of our 2 lefties in the pen go down??? We'd only have one guy to waste out of the pen by pitching to only one batter!!

 

Rusch should be throwing out of the pen once those 3(Only 1 in my opinion, but I'm sure Dusty will stick with him till all 3 are back) are back. Being pessimistic and saying they won't be back til Mid-June, you're rostering a guy based on Class A stats in relief and a very small sample size in ST. All for 2 months of paranoia because you can't survive with only 1 lefty in the pen. It's absurd.

So Hendry didn't have enough of a back-up plan last season when unforeseen injuries/failures happened to his bullpen and he got criticized for it. Now he goes out of his way to have what looks like a guy who can be effective against lefties at the major league level placed on the 40-man roster just in case one of the lefties in the pen goes down or fails to perform well and he is paranoid.

 

Interesting...

 

But it's all probably an internet mistake anyway.

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