Bleed Cubbie Blue · Jan 7, 2020
Here’s how the Cubs’ current 40-man roster was put together
Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesWe’re still about four weeks out from spring training, but I thought this would be a good time to take a look at the Cubs’ current 40-man roster (which now stands at 39) and how they were acquired.
There’s been a bit more turnaround on the 40-man since the beginning of 2019 than there was in the year previous. When I posted on this topic last January, I noted:
... of these 38 players, 28 of them were on the 40-man roster when I made a post on this topic about a year ago.
Of the 38 players on that 40-man roster last January, just 24 remain. They were acquired in the following ways:
Draft: 13
Free agent: 11
Trade: 8