The Cubs reassigned five players to Triple-A Iowa Monday afternoon, all non-roster invitees: Right-handed pitchers Jonathan Holder and Robert Gsellman, left-handed pitchers Steven Brault and Stephen Gonsalves and infielder Ildemaro Vargas.
Brault hasn’t pitched this spring and could start the year on Iowa’s injured list.
That leaves 31 players in camp. Thursday for the opener against the Brewers, there will be 28 players on the active roster. That’ll be reduced to 26 on May 2.
Here are the 31 currently active players. So now you can guess which three won’t make it. (I’ll make my picks at the bottom of this article.