Updating while watching the game. Bob and Len sound okay, but they’re still far away from sounding like My Guys. It may take a while to get there. I keep waiting for Brenley to make a dumb managing move and it working out anyway.
I noticed Hollandsworth has incentives, but can’t out the specifics. I’ve got it on my spread sheet but I’ll wait to post it till there’s an update
Cut downs were made Saturday (reported everywhere so I’ll go with bcb). Mostly, it was all the minor NRIs being reassigned to minor league camp. The only exception was Jermaine Van Buren, (aka Joe v2.0).
Also sent down were the two pitchers they picked up in the trades, Roberto Novoa and Dave Crouthers. You kinda worry they might have not gotten much if those guys are the first guys out of the major league camp, but then again they might just want longer looks at them then some of the guys they’ve had around for a while. They still do have about a billion pitchers with the big club, so the innings have to be running a bit thin.
Chad Fox is the most talked about NRI at the moment. If he made it, they’d need a 40 man spot (Kelton?) and he’d take Leicester’s spot with the Cubs (because he’s got options.)
They don’t seem happy with any of the second left handed options out of the pen.
tCR prays they’re readying Hairston to take Macias’ spot. I’m guessing that’s the only way Kelton sticks; the bench hits a little better for it. (You lose Jose’s switch hitting, but does it really matter if you switch hit if you don’t actually hit?) Life would be so much better for Dave is he only got the hang of 3B himself.
Hendry just put over Ronny Cedeno and Angle Guzman. And another Chad Fox mention.
Holy smokes, they’ve got a Blog. Blogs are now offically over.
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25 Man Roster POS Number First Last Roster 05 06 07 08 09 10 C 8 Michael Barrett 25 Man 4.00 4.00 4.00 C 9 Henry Blanco 25 Man 1.20 1.50 P 48 Joe Borowski 25 Man 2.30 OF 3 Jeromy Burnitz 25 Man 4.50 P 46 Ryan Dempster 25 Man 2.00 LF 4 Jason Dubois 25 Man 0.32 SS 5 Nomar Garciaparra 25 Man 8.25 UT 15 Jerry Hairston Jr 25 Man 1.80 P 32 LaTroy Hawkins 25 Man 3.50 3.50 OF 28 Todd Hollandswor 25 Man 0.90 1B 25 Derrek Lee 25 Man 7.33 8.50 P 51 Jon Leicester 25 Man 0.32 UT 1 Jose Macias 25 Man 0.83 P 31 Greg Maddux 25 Man 9.00 t+v option P 50 Will Ohman 25 Man 0.05 arb CF 20 Corey Patterson 25 Man 2.80 arb arb arb SS 13 Neifi Perez 25 Man 1.00 P 22 Mark Prior 25 Man 2.75 p escape arb arb 3B 16 Aramis Ramirez 25 Man 8.95 P 37 Mike Remlinger 25 Man 3.80 P 33 Glendon Rusch 25 Man 2.00 p option 2B 7 Todd Walker 25 Man 2.50 t+v option P 40 Todd Wellemeyer 25 Man 0.32 0.32 0.32 arb arb arb P 34 Kerry Wood 25 Man 9.50 12.00 t+v option P 38 Carlos Zambrano 25 Man 3.76 arb arb Count 25 Total 83.68 29.82 4.32 Pitchers 12 Hitters 13 15 Extras on the 40 Man Roster POS Number First Last Roster 05 06 07 08 09 10 IF 68 Ronny Cedeno 40 Man 0.32 P 58 Dave Crouthers West Tenn 0.05 2B 63 Mike Fontenot 40 Man 0.32 P 67 Angel Guzman 40 Man 0.05 LF 27 David Kelton 40 Man 0.32 P 64 John Koronka 40 Man 0.05 2B 62 Richard Lewis 40 Man 0.05 P 52 Sergio Mitre 40 Man 0.32 P 44 Roberto Novoa Iowa 0.32 0.32 0.32 arb arb arb P 54 Renyel Pinto 40 Man 0.05 P 45 Stephen Randolph 40 Man 0.32 P 71 Russ Rohlicek 40 Man 0.05 C 53 Geovany Soto 40 Man 0.05 P 60 Carlos Vasquez 40 Man 0.05 P 43 Michael Wuertz 40 Man 0.32 Count 15 Total 86.32 OF SFG Moises Alou Buy Out 2.50 2B STL Mark Grudzielane Buy Out 0.25 RF BAL Sammy Sosa Buy Out 16.15 P FLA Luke Haggerty Rule 5 fee -0.05 P KCR Andy Sisco Rule 5 fee -0.05 105.12 P 49 Jimmy Anderson NRI 0.05 OF 61 Peter Bergeron NRI 0.05 OF 19 Angel Echevarria NRI 0.05 P 47 Chad Fox NRI 0.05 1B ?? Dave Hansen NRI 0.05 IF 29 Danny Klassen NRI 0.05 OF 17 Calvin Murray NRI 0.05 P 57 Eddie Oropesa NRI 0.05 UT 11 Cody Random NRI 0.05 P 27 Scott Williamson NRI 0.32 t option P 76 Jermaine Van Buren NRI-M 0.05 105.94