Wednesday, February 18, 2009

An Updated Look at the 25 Man Roster.

With some minor moves made like Weurtz and Hill traded, I have decided to update the 25 man roster.

Rotation-

Zambrano
Dempster
Lilly
Harden
Marshall

Pen-

Marmol
Gregg
Cotts
Gaudin
Vizcaino
Heilman
Guzman

Field-

Soto
Lee
Fontenot
Theriot
Aram
Soriano
Fukudome
Bradley

Bench-
Hill
Miles
Hoffpauir
Gathright
Johnson

The Cubs main concern on this team is the pen. They have several solid guys to pitch out there. You have Guzman who is out of options, Samardzija who deserves to be there but won't be unless he wins the starting job, Waddell or Stranton who should be in the pen as the 2nd lefty with Marshall starting, and you really can't switch Marshall out with another righty in the rotation because Lou wants balance in the rotation as well. The only way you could work this is have Heilman in the rotation and Marshall in the pen. That way you have two leftys in the pen and keep Guzman in there as well. But the problem with that is Marshall deserves the 5th spot in the pen and Lou wants two leftys in the rotation.

I will keep updating this as other moves are made through out spring training.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

need another good lefty. Stanton is not the option.

Anonymous said...

we will not have 1 guy on the bench to back up the whole infield... either Hoffpauir goes down or gathright leaves..