CHICAGO -- The Chicago Cubs designated former All-Star Carlos Marmol for assignment on Tuesday, parting ways with the struggling reliever. Chicago has 10 days to trade or release him or send him outright to the minors if he clears waivers. The 30-year-old Marmol was 2-4 with two saves and a 5.86 ERA in 31 appearances this season, striking out 32 while walking 21 batters. An All-Star as a setup man in 2008, Marmol became the teams closer in late 2009 and compiled 117 saves, third on the Cubs all-time list. He was 23-32 with a 3.50 ERA in 483 appearances in parts of eight seasons with Chicago and is just the fifth player in franchise history with 20 or more saves in three straight seasons, along with Ryan Dempster, Randy Myers, Lee Smith and Bruce Sutter. His best year as closer was 2010, when he finished with 38 saves in 43 chances. He posted a 2.55 ERA with 138 strikeouts and 52 walks that season and followed that up with 34 saves in 2011. But he blew 10 chances that year and posted a 4.01 ERA. Fans patience with him started to wear out, and he was booed at Wrigley Field in recent years. It was clear management was ready to part ways, too. The Cubs had a deal in place that would have sent Marmol to the Los Angeles Angels for Dan Haren last winter, but that fell through. They also signed Kyuji Fujikawa, a longtime closer in Japan, but like Marmol, he struggled. He also suffered a season-ending elbow injury that required Tommy John surgery. The Cubs closer now is Kevin Gregg, the man Marmol replaced in 2009. He has converted all 11 save opportunities after signing a minor league deal with Chicago in April. Besides designating Marmol, the Cubs released third baseman Ian Stewart, who had been at Triple-A Iowa. He was suspended two weeks earlier for ripping the organization on Twitter. The Cubs also selected the contract of outfielder Brian Bogusevic from Iowa on Tuesday. He was batting .319 (83-for-260) with 10 home runs and 32 RBIs in 78 games with Iowa.Duane Underwood Jr. Jersey .S District Court against Major League Baseball, the Office of the Commissioner and his own union, the MLBPA. Ron Cey Jersey .Y. -- Syracuse has turned up the defence at the right time all season, and when High Point threatened to pull off a monumental upset the second-ranked Orange did what they do best with their quick hands and savvy play. https://www.cheapcubs.com/1250t-danny-hultzen-jersey-cubs.html . -- The Missouri Tigers might not have a roster full of superstars. Mark Prior Cubs Jersey . Galatasaray said in a statement on its website Monday that Mancini signed a three-year contract and will be paid 3.5 million euros for the upcoming season, with his salary upped to 4. Cole Hamels Cubs Jersey . They were putting most of their energy into a record-setting offensive display.DEL MAR, Calif. -- The least experienced runner in Saturdays $302,415 Hollywood Derby at Del Mar turned out to be best.Annals of Time, making his fourth career start, overcame a wide post to rally between horses in the final furlong and win his first stakes in the Grade 1 race for 3-year-olds on turf.Ridden for the first time by Javier Castellano, Annals of Time ($13.80) finished 1-1/2 lengths in front of 7-2 Beach Patrol, giving New York-based trainer Chad Brown a sweep of the exacta.Annals of Times late kick left Castellano impressed. After breaking from post 11 in the field of 12, Annals of Time was 10th on the turn and was fifth with a furlong to go. Annals of Time closed through a narrow gap between the Southern California graded stakes winners Frank Conversation and Free Rose to reach the front in the final sixteenth.It was remarkable the way he did it Castellano said. I liked the way he split horses.I had a bad post and tried to save all the ground possible. I tried to save some ground on the last turn.Annals of Time was clocked in 1:47.73. Frank Conversation, a 19-1 outsider, ffinished third, followed by Hayabusa One, Free Rose, Blackjackcat, Camelot Kitten, Revved Up, Isotherm, Diplodocus, Path of David, and Defiantly.ddddddddddddamelot Kitten, the winner of four graded stakes for 3-year-olds on turf this year, was the 7-2 favorite for Brown.Annals of Time, a colt by Temple City, races for William Lawrence and Klaravich Stable. Annals of Time beat maidens at Aqueduct in November 2015, and did not start again until September, when he finished second in an optional claimer at Saratoga.Annals of Time was third behind Camelot Kitten and Beach Patrol in the Grade 3 Hill Prince Stakes at Belmont Park on Oct. 8. Annals of Time has won 2 of 4 starts and earned $289,000. He was purchased for $80,000 as a yearling at the 2014 Fasig-Tipton October yearling sale in Kentucky.The win in the Hollywood Derby left Castellano eager to see what Annals of Time can do as a 4-year-old in 2017.Hes a good horse, he said. I think he wants to go farther. ' ' '
