Taking a closer look at the Cubs’ 40-man crunch

Over the last week, the Cubs made a slew of moves to shuffle around both their active and 40-man rosters.

Adbert Alzolay (activated from 60-day injured list), Jared Young (selected from Triple-A Iowa) and Esteban Quiroz (selected from Iowa) are now on the big league club, while moves involving Frank Schwindel (DFA’d and granted unconditional release), Sean Newcomb (DFA’d and sent outright to Iowa) and Rafael Ortega (placed on 60-day IL) opened up spots on both rosters.

With so little time left in the year, those moves have added another wrinkle to the decision-making the Cubs’ front office will be doing this offseason — and more specifically, the decisions they’ll make surrounding who to keep on the 40-man roster before the Rule 5 Draft.