Originally posted by BigRon:
We know the following
1B
Huff
Ishikawa
2B
Sanchez( IR to start season)
Uribe
SS
Renteria
3B
Panda
LF
DeRosa
CF
Rowand
RF
Schierholtz
C
Bengie
Whiteside
SP
Lincecum
Cain
Zito
Sanchez
RF
Affeldt
Wilson
Medders
Romo
Wellemeyer(either 5th starter or long reliever)
Pucetes (either 5th starter or long reliever)
So we have 2 or 3 spots open on the position players
4th and 5th Outfielder
Utility Infielder (Goes down when Sanchez is ready to play) Uribe then takes that spot
2 or 3 spots open on the Staff
Relievers
Who are your thoughts for those 5 players that will make up the rest of the team?
I think we keep 12 pitchers and 13 position players.
I put them in order of security
Pitchers
1 lincecum
2 cain
3 sanchez
4 zito
5 wilson
6 affeldt
7 medders
8 wellmeyer
9 romo
10 runzler
11 mota (will be added to 40 man)
12 pucetes? bautista? my guess is bautista, Kevin has options
Positions
1 panda 3b
2 rowand cf
3 renteria ss
4 sanchez DL oops I mean 2b
5 derosa lf
6 huff 1b
7 molina c
8 uribe util inf
9 whiteside/posey
10 ishikawa/bowker
11 shierholtz/bowker
12 velez/torres
13 bowker/velez/lewis/torres
If you assume shierholtz has a solid lock then lewis has to be cut.
I don't think they'll just cut lewis outright and may send velez down to keep him until sanchez comes off the DL.
I think bowker has to come up due to his hot hitting. It may keep ishi in aaa until he cools off.
I don't like our starters defense at all especiallly in the infield.
