Bob Sacamano

With a cold start, I thought he played himself off the roster. But he’s been hitting better lately.

Waiting for the: Guardians sign Bryan Shaw to MLB deal Tweet.

So Sheets and Burger on the roster is what we are thinking?

Hanser is a lock I think.

Yeah he’ll end up as a league minimum bench player for like, Cincy or Pittsburgh.

Hanser Alberto

Think its’s going to be Romy over someone not on the 40-man (Haseley, Hamilton).

He's not making this team. He will stick around in AAA I'm sure though.

Bye Leury.

And now another homer.

Also wondered the same. Sheets has actually looked terrible there in limited time.

Right. Billy would be opting out for a minor league deal anyway. Might as well stay. Alberto probably gets added to the 40-man or he waits until the next date (unless it’s farther than I expected). Edit: unless there is different wording in his contract, the next opt out date would be May 1.

They have Darick Hall who is raking this spring for 1B.

Yeah I wanted him too.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/03/veterans-with-upcoming-opt-outs-on-minor-league-deals.html Posted for relevance. It's a list of veterans with upcoming opt outs. Not sure it's a great list as I'm sure we/they don't know the language of every MiLB deal. But these are the guys who at least have an automatic one. It has Hanser Alberto and Billy Hamilton listed for the Sox. Again, that doesn't mean that other guys don't have one, depending on their agreement.

We don’t want Eloy in the OF but what we want doesn’t matter and irrelevant.

Still seems weird putting Benny 3.

Only way I can get behind that is if they decide to bring both Burger and Sheets for a couple of weeks, meaning they want the extra year of Colas. Doesn’t seem likely though. Not enough at bats for Sheets or Burger here and if you actually need them, it means someone is hurt anyway.

I feel like they can do anything with that spot and it feels like a waste honestly. None of the 4th OF NRIs played well enough to earn the spot (besides Haseley). A "real" 4th OF is something I thought would be a slam dunk for this roster. Now it's kind of Leury/Eloy getting time in the OF instead and then having an extra bench spot. Edit: we'll see how it shakes out by OD but I still think they add a real OF (no info, just a feeling as guys get cut or opt out of minor league deals towards the end of camp).

Need a backup C. Romy and Sheets have options though.

It’s not really having admiration for Alberto, but more of Grifol seems to really like him. I agree that Spring Training stats are meaningless and not a predictor of how a guy will play that season. But when you’ve got guys competing for the final spots of the roster, there’s not a whole lot else to look at but stats.

If he comes over as an amateur like Ohtani, it won’t.

They don’t need 3 of those guys. Alberto and an OF.

Damn it, do I know it ?

Can we sign Murakami when he comes over? Please?