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While I am pleased with the offseason moves we have made, and think our starting lineup is the match of any others, we have regressed a fair bit in the depth department and once again find ourselves left extremely vulnerable should any of our main position players go down—even more so with my having used both of our trades. So this will be the real crux of how we go this season: if we are fortunate enough to keep everyone healthy for the most part, then all good; if not, we’ll struggle. I’ll be keeping a very close eye on the Waiver Wire and also looking to make some minor league FA deals to see if we can bolster this situation a bit.
We enter the season with the 3rd-highest payroll ($265k) and smallest budget ($500k).
Our Opening Day squad will look like this:
Catchers- C Josh Gibson (R)
- C Ken O’Dea (L)
As mentioned earlier, Don Padgett will also see a bit of time here, more so if O’Dea doesn’t get it together.
Infielders- 1B Jimmie Foxx (R)
- 2B Ray Dandridge (R)
- 3B Martin Dihigo (R)
- SS Arky Vaughan (R)
- Don Padgett (L)
- Pep Young (R)
- Frenchy Bordagaray (R)
- Billy Jurges (R)
Bordagary was a really nice WW get last year and he also covers all three OF slots.
Outfielders- LF Hank Leiber (R)
- CF Wild Bill Wright (S)
- RF Paul Waner (L)
- Lloyd Waner (L)
- Doc Cramer (L)
We lost Myril Hoag on waivers, although he hadn’t come back at all well from his injury last year. The larder is fairly bare at AAA.
Rotation- RHP Paul Derringer
- RHP Ray Brown
- RHP Red Ruffing
- RHP Bill Lee
Bullpen- LHP Leroy Matlock (ST)
- LHP Clyde Shoun (MR)
- RHP Bud Tinning (MR)
- RHP Hugh Casey (LR)
- RHP Jim Tobin (LR)
- LHP Neck Stanley (LR) will most likely replace Casey when he returns from the IL.
Key that we get this department back on track. Tobin will be the first called up to the rotation if needed. A few decent prospects in the wings to be deployed as well.