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SpringTraining
Team following teams had the most prolific offseason:
Washington Birds (+9.3) - added 1B - Israel Colon (5.4) and SP Donald Patrick (4.6)
Los Angeles (+6.5) - SP Ricky Cooper (4.2) and C Tien-kai Chin (3.4)
Austin (+6.0) - 1B Claude Boucard (5.2) and C Jon Davis (2.7)
Fresno (+4.2) - SP Wayne Park (1.8) and SP Bob Farmer (1.7)
Kansas City (+4.0) - LF Xu-gang Liu (4.3) and C Freddy Hawkins (3.4)
Mallards (-1.4) -
Biggest Additions
MR Dave Booker (0.7)
SS Greg Wilson (0.4)
Biggest Losses
CL Sixto Rojas (2.0)
3B Calvin Taylor (0.2)
C Carlos Garza (0.2)
Roster
The Mallards head into Spring Training with roster looking as such.
Starting Pitching - The starting rotation will be the same as last year with Aquino, Higgins, Juarez, Wilder and Campbell. The order will be determined by the spring training performances.
Bullpen - We have the following players battling for positions - Barrios, Booker, Bowden, Edmonds, Hinton, Jennings, Snow, Zhao, Davila and Howell. The only position that will likely be set in stone is Howell as the closer.
Offense
C - Scotty Hubbard
1B - Katai Nishikawa
2B - Wing Liu
SS - Miguel Ruiz
3B - Juan Cruz
LF - Gerardo Martinez (Christian Ryan may take over the position during the year, he will be given a shot during Spring Training)
CF - David Chamings
RF - Dave Hansen
DH - Mike Funk / Steve Shaffer
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