25 Men

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Starting 8
1B Duda
2B Murphy
SS Gregoirius
3B Wright
C d'Arnaud
LF Granderson
CF Lagares
RF C Young
*
Bench
RHPH C Recker
LHPH / OF-IF E Young
RHPH / 1B-OF Satin
SWPH / MI Seratelli
RHPH / Inf. Flores

Rotation
Colon
Gee
Wheeler
Matuzaka
Mejia (Niese on DL)

Bullpen
CL Parnell
RHSU Valverde
RHSU Black
LHSU Rice
RHSU Familia
RHLR Torres
LHLR Lannan

Traded: Davis (in big Gregorius deal or to Houston for prospects). Maybe also Mejia, allowing Lannan to be 5 while Niese recovers.

We could use more scary LH bench power. Downtown Brown gets screwed here.

[Edgy MD]

Three backup infielders and the one backup outfielder is a slap-hitter? Who put together this roster? Willie?

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: Three backup infielders and the one backup outfielder is a slap-hitter? Who put together this roster? Willie?

Seratelli played a little outfield this spring. multi-talented.

[Edgy MD]

Well, sure, when you pack your bench with infielders some are going to play the outfield, and some might even have a facility for it. But the offense you lose when you send the likes of Miguel Cairo and Chris Woodward out there is real.

Using middle infielders as all your backups is a bad strategy. It is the folly of a managerial class who were themselves overwhelmingly versatile but punchless middle infielders. You elevate men who fill the role you sorta once filled and so redeem your own career.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Hey look, if you wanna swap out Seratelli for Brown I'm all for it but just figured we'd need a real shortstop on the bench. Him being a switchy is nice too. We're very righthanded.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: Well, sure, when you pack your bench with infielders some are going to play the outfield, and some might even have a facility for it. But the offense you lose when you send the likes of Miguel Cairo and Chris Woodward out there is real. Using middle infielders as all your backups is a bad strategy. It is the folly of a managerial class who were overwhelmingly versatile but punchless middle infielders. You elevate men who fill the role you sorta once filled and so redeem your own career.

We're in agreement here. But compounding things is this pitch-count era that requires about half of the 25 man roster to be made up of relief pitchers.

[ashie62]

Lagares won the CF job?

[Frayed Knot]

Doesn't seem like many of the starters have been going very deep into games so far - like even less so than normal for ST games.
I can see them packing the pen in the early part of the season for that very reason. We could see 13 pitchers to start.



GW hit for Brown today, adding to his good spring stats.

[Edgy MD]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Hey look, if you wanna swap out Seratelli for Brown I'm all for it but just figured we'd need a real shortstop on the bench. Him being a switchy is nice too. We're very righthanded.

I think the more likely odd man out of your roster is Flores. I think he gets farmed out to get some renewed experience at shortstop and around the infield, and remains until injury or inadequacy leads to the first infielder callup which, if the chips fall as such, will be him.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Hackin'
C d'Arnaud
1B Davis
2B Murphy
SS TBA/Tejada
3B Wright
LF Granderson
CF Lagares
RF C Young

Sittin'
C Recker
OF/2B E Young
1B/3B/OF Satin
SS/2B Tejada/Quintanilla
OF Brown

Hurlin'
Niese
Colon
Gee
Wheeler
Matsuzaka

Sunflower Seed Twirlin'
Parnell
Black
Valverde
Rice
Familia
Torres
Lannan

I think they WANTED Seratelli to take that backup MI spot. He's been pretty piss-poor with the bat AND iffy with the glove, though.

Tie goes to Davis at first, until he moves, if he moves.

My crystal ball's cloudy on SS, but Tejada's backing up if he doesn't go (which he probably wouldn't do, in a deal with a team that's, y'know, got a SS surplus). Flores only has a shot of backing up if Tejada stays, methinks... otherwise, he's headed down for more MI playing-time.

[Frayed Knot]

Mejia makes the team as the 5th starter (so that answers any questions about the injury from Friday) -- Matsuzaka to AAA

Also Andrew Brown, Qunintanilla & Germen secure spots. The Brown vs Eric Campbell fight was one of the last to be decided.

Farnsworth will be at Vegas



So I think the 25-man is pretty much set - or are we still waiting on backup catcher?

Ike, DooDoo, Muffy, Tejada, Qball, Wright, Satin
Lagares, Granderson, Young^2, Brown
d'Anaud + Recker/Teaparty

Niese (although DL to start), Mejia, Gee, Wheeler, Colon
Parnell, Germen, Valverde, Lannan, Torres, Rice, Familia


That's 14 players plus 12 pitchers but one DL'd
Something would have to give by the time Niese is needed for Game 4/5. Logical candidates figure to be a reliever [Lannan, Germen?] ... or maybe Satin ... or maybe a trade

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

According to most scuttlebutt, Brown is the guy with a standby ticket to Vegas in his butt pocket.

[ashie62]

Per Rubinoo Andrew Brown made the team. It also appears Duda and Ike are not separated yey... and...wait for it..... Omar Quintanilla is back !!