28-man roster post #1

 OK, so this is probably not the ACTUAL post #1 but let's just draw a line in the sand and say it is. 

Here are the realities of our 28 man roster in light of our 40-man roster.  

• Both Zimmer and Mercado have to be traded or DFA'd.  Neither should be on our 28-man roster.   They are simply not good enough and have not improved at all from recent years.  We need their roster spots to add relief pitchers who can go more than one inning if need be.
• We cannot afford to have guys on the 10-day DL  
• Maile has to be DFA'd if he can't go or we have to brng up Lavastida.  We simply have no room to add Leon if Maile is taking up a 40 man roster spot.
• Having Karnchak and/or Sandlin on the 10 day DL means we have two relievers on our 40- man who are clogging up roster space but are not being part of the team.   We simply can't afford that so we need to look at putting these guys on the 60-day DL if they aren't ready by opening day.
• The above applies for injury situations that arse between now and opening day.  We simply cannot afford to clog a 40-man roster spot who can't go on opening day.
• Amed Rosario has to move to left field now.  We have too many infielders on the 40 man and not enough outfielders.  Kwan and Palacios have to make the opening day roster because they are on the 40-man.  This would give us 4 outfielders: Straw, Kwan, Rosario and Palacios

Plus, none of this touches on how poorly this organization did this winter getting us minor league free agent pitchers or signing more ML free agent relief pitchers or even ML free agent relief pitchers.  

Folks, the problem is not that we had 11 prospects added to our 40-man roster this off-season.  It is that we did not plan well enough to leave roster space for more pitchers and we did not give ourselves enough options in the minors for relief pitching.