Saturday, January 30, 2010

Updated Early Roster Prediction

If Opening Day was tomorrow, and the Cubs had the team that they have today, what would the 25-man roster look like? Let's take a look:

The Cubs have made a few moves, so I've updates my roster predictions once again. Changes and in italics. Updated after Nady signing.

Rotation
Carlos Zambrano
Ryan Dempster
Randy Wells
Tom Gorzelanny
Jeff Samardzija
Ted Lilly (DL)

Bullpen
Carlos Marmol
John Grabow
Sean Marshall
Angel Guzman
Jeff Gray
Esmalin Caridad
Carlos Silva

Starting Lineup (In batting order)
SS- Ryan Theriot
RF- Kosuke
1B- Derrek Lee
3B- Aramis Ramirez
CF- Marlon Byrd
LF- Alfonso Soriano
C- Geovany Soto
2B- Jeff Baker

Bench
Koyie Hill
Mike Fontenot
Andres Blanco
Chad Tracy
Xavier Nady

Left Off
Justin Berg
David Patton
John Gaub
Welington Castillo
Mike Parisi
Armismendy Mota
Sam Fuld
Micah Hoffpauir

I will update my projected Opening Day roster throughout the offseason as the Cubs make moves.

3 comments:

  1. JEFF GRAY will be in the bullpen. He looks nasty, with a 97MPH fastball and some solid off-speed pitches.

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  2. I did forget Gray. As of right now, I'd throw him in there instead of Stevens. Maybe next time I update the roster I'll include him in the pen.

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  3. yea, he looks NASTY!

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