The Current 25 Man Roster

Bart41 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:52:52 -0000

Just a little depressing exercise I usually do with my fantasy baseball teams - Identify the dead wood.

Ok, just for fun today I decided to go through the Royals' roster and get rid of all the guys we could really do without and not particularly miss if they were replaced with some guy from AAA. Here's what I came up with:

John Bale

~~Bruce Chen~~

~~Jamey Wright~~

~~John Buck~~

~~Miguel Olivo~~

~~Brayan Pena~~

~~Willie Bloomquist~~

Billy Butler

Alberto Callaspo

~~Ryan Freel~~

~~Tony Pena~~

Mark Teahen

David DeJesus

~~Jose Guillen~~

~~Mitch Maier~~

~~Mike Jacobs~~

Just a quick note or two: I got rid of all 3 catchers because, really, would I miss any of them? Brayan Pena would be fun to have around, but I wouldn't get up in arms if I found out tomorrow he was out for the season. Half the guys that I marked off, I'd actually be glad if they couldn't be in the lineup anymore this season. Frankly, our hitters are such a joke that we might as well be playing AAA guys. If you told me that starting tomorrow Butler/Kila would be our everyday 1B/DH, I doubt I'd even ask what will happen to the Jacobs/JoGui/Olivo DH trio from Hell. If you said that once Gordon came back, Teahen would start everyday in RF, I'd be happy. If you told me Freel and Pena were cut, I'd be estatic. If Chen, Wright, and Maier are all in AAA tomorrow, I wouldn't miss them.

So that's my "analysis." 11 guys off the 25 man roster are basically meaningless. Blackholes of suck bringing almost nothing to the table and, on the rare occasion they do bring something, they end up spilling it all over themselves.

Going to a AAA game tonight...

Bart41 — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:06:24 -0000

Gwinnett Braves vs Norfolk Tides. The Tides are the O's AAA affiliate, so I was pretty excited about seeing Wieters, but he's D2D because he tweaked his hamstring last night, so we're a little short on star power. Pitching matchup is Chris Tillman vs. Todd Redmond. The Random Royal Sighting is Donnie Murphy who somehow ended up with the O's in AAA. Anything I should be watching for between these two?

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The Current 25 Man Roster

Going to a AAA game tonight...