Working out our roster

AJSS was never a real option for 5th starter. Even if he lit it up that would only be more reason to give him a few months in the minors to save a year of service time and to manage his workload. He had 90 IP last year. We dont want him doubling that in the course of 1 year.
 
Lee has to be the one to take the final spot. Even if Elder is the fifth starter he wouldn't be needed in Philly. We can carry the extra lefty for Philly and then see how Lopez has been used after the series.
 
Y'know, it's not en vogue to say anything other than Alex is a genius and all his moves turn to gold, but Jarred Kelenic has 300 Ks in 872 career ABs. Last year, his "good" year, he had 132 Ks in 372 ABs (35%). Yes, Seitzer has had him drop his hands, yes, his performance in Tacoma has been tremendous...

But Michael A Taylor is still out there and I'll bet he'd work for $4-5M, maybe with a player option, which would still keep us comfortably under the second luxury tax threshold and serve as a decent backup option, potential platoon partner, and backup CF. Hell, Duvall's available for the same job.

I'd feel better with one of those guys in our four "non-playing" bench slots. I have a feeling there are going to be more ABs available than has been suggested. Pillar got 200 last year, which wasn't what he wanted, but wasn't awful.
 
If they are making mechanical changes you cant expect it to pay off immediately. What we get with Kelenic is upside because of his amount of service time left. If he figures it out we got him for several years on the cheap or could potentially flip him for pitching. We have such a good lineup that it can really wear out pitchers. Kelenic could just have a fluky good year much like Arcia had last year because of the murders row pitchers have to go through before getting to our "easy outs".
 
How would you like to be Stephens and realize that they just signed your 50 year old uncle to get you off the roster?😀
 
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