Like my Vogs, always have.
I think the 4-man bench in the early going is exactly the right move. A 3-man bench is really a 2-man bench, becuse your catcher is usually locked into a single role and you are sort of stuck not using him at all, except for the very odd start. My bet is that Healy is ready, which is basically a really good thing as his 3B abilities make us much more flexible for the daily tweaks and boo boos that arise.
Will also bet that as the 8-man pen becomes more widely used, then BU catchers with positional flexibility (1B-COF-3B) will become more usefull and valuable. Chris Gimenez comes to mind. Joe Madden, of course, has grabbed onto him this season. A good call. Mike Marjama has some 1B time, including 53 games there in 'A+ ball in '15. But if we keep Healy and Ford/Vogs, then 1B flexibility isn't that huge of a thing. BTW, Frietas played 33 games at 1B in '16. It looks like Dipoto has figured out the flexy BU catcher thing.
I would bet that Ford gets the opening day nod over Vogelbach (at least temporarily), just because he has no place other to go. Do the rules allow a team to TRADE for the Rule 5 guy they already have and then send him off to the farm?
Ichiro 5 days a week? I love that, too. He should get that level of use if we are to determine just how much Ichiro we are getting.
So Ford, Heredia, Romine and Marjama.
I am still waiting to see Ford in RF, btw.