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The Cubs got their major league roster down to today by cutting 12 players and reassigning them all to other places in the organization.
The players send down to the minor league camp were all non-roster invitees. They are:
OF Albert Almora
RHP Daniel Bard
OF Mike Baxter
LHP Francisley Bueno
RHP Anthony Carter
OF Adron Chambers
RHP Jorge De Leon
RHP Gonzalez Germen
C Kyle Schwarber
INF Chris Valaika
Additionally, two members of the 40-man roster were re-assigned to Triple-A Iowa.
LHP Joseph Ortiz
RHP Blake Parker
All of these players were long shots to make the Opening Day roster and in the case of the top prospects like Almora and Schwarber, were guaranteed to start the season in the minor leagues.
These were the easy cuts. The harder ones will take place in the coming week.