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John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 18 2014 03:10 PM

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 Mar 18 2014 03:12 PM Re: 25 Men

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

Ceetar Mar 18 2014 03:16 PM Re: 25 Men

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 Mar 18 2014 03:38 PM Re: 25 Men

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.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 18 2014 03:42 PM Re: 25 Men

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 Mar 18 2014 04:08 PM Re: 25 Men

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 Mar 18 2014 04:19 PM Re: 25 Men

Lagares won the CF job?

Frayed Knot Mar 18 2014 06:00 PM Re: 25 Men

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 Mar 18 2014 08:15 PM Re: 25 Men

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.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 19 2014 06:30 PM Re: 25 Men

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 Mar 29 2014 03:37 PM Re: 25 Men

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

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 29 2014 05:39 PM Re: 25 Men

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

Ashie62 Mar 29 2014 07:33 PM Re: 25 Men

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 !!