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Not lose their best offensive player, their 2nd(?) best starting pitcher, and probably their closer for a good chuck if not all of the season? I haven't followed them too closely, but I think they will feast on the Sox, KC, and Detroit enough to have a better record.

Cleve - 90-72 Minn - 89 - 73 Sox - 78 - 84 KC - bad Det - BAD

This feels about right to me too.

Thank goodness for MLB.tv’s away feeds…

Exactly. They are bench bat depth with an option left, which if used as such gives them some value to the team. AAAA guys like them are a dime a dozen, the type of that get exposed when played too much. Penciling them in as anything more is foolhardy except when injuries occur.

Burger has all of 252 plate appearances in the bigs. The sample size is far too small to call him the best bench anything. He could be their best bench bat, but that’s not exactly a ringing endorsement when Sheets, Leury, Seby, and or Billy Hamilton are your bench mates. Burger and Sheets would be quite redundant on the same bench, and as much as I’m over the Gavin Sheets experience, his lefty stick at least plays vs RHP, which they face far more often. Neither provide adequate defense at their natural positions and neither have any real versatility. It’s one or the other and I’d rather choose neither.

It’s probably just more talking to guys that have worked with Grifol and not indicative of him landing a spot on the roster, but part of me does find it curious.

I wouldn't want to inflict such pain on long suffering Expos fans. Can we send him to Houston, Boston, or the Northside??

Too bad the Jays are a much better run franchise than the Sox.

It was always going to. There is no bandaid to fix the fundamental flaws with the roster.

So about that play-in push…

Least bad option of the three?

8-4 LAD. Let the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments commence.

The last half inning was a little rough

4-0 LA…

Death, taxes, and fans freaking out about spring performance ?

Romy in at RF for Colas. Not sure if injury related or not.