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Depends on who we add or subtract via trade/FA, but at the moment it'd look something like...
OF: Saunders/Guti/Thames, bench Wells
IF: Seager/Franklin/Ackley/Smoak, bench Ryan
C/DH: Montero/Jaso/Zunino (they'll all play a lot, no benchie)
Starters: Felix/Vargas/Erasmo/Hultzen/Paxton
Bullpen: Wilhelmsen/Pryor/Furbush/Kelley/Luetge/Beavan, Moran as 7th man in April
That leaves one slot for that extra bench bat, like you said. Most likely to be an OF, as Montero will be taking some reps at first and Franklin/Zunino have the other IF positions covered. Guti's always one play away from the DL, so I could see us carrying Robinson, but more likely we'll carry the 4 OFers I listed plus our FA/Trade acquisition in the OF.
Carp could beat out Smoak for the 1B job, but losing last year really hurt him. And the reason Carp isn't gonna be an OF option going forward is specifically because he played one game out there and injured himself out of basically the entire season, just on one dive. Why go through that again?
If he's making the team because of his bat, we're not going to jeopardize that for months because he doesn't know how to field dying line drives in the OF. I guess we could tell him to never dive again. If he keeps his feet he can't be injured, right?
~G