People are attempting to discredit or question Dave’s intel on every post I read here.

There’s a HUGE difference between discrediting (Dave) and questioning (an opinion). And Dave’s “intel” is his opinion, albeit a very informed opinion.

People are attempting to discredit or question Dave’s intel on every post I read here.

EDIT: You just put it up, you can just delete this now.

Seems to me that these are all cheap signings; if any of them suck, we just drop ‘em and not miss a thing. I mean, $600K or so is less than 1% of payroll, more or less….Three or four of them isn’t going to hurt…

Exactly. People were asking for a “Plan B” — well, Plan B is whichever of these guys turns out not to be Plan A. Throw the rats in a cage and shake it, and see which one emerges the winner. Maybe Byrnes shows up looking lost at the plate and unable to run in the field, and they cut him. Maybe they just stash Langerhans in Tacoma as insurance. Maybe all of them look good, and the team comes out of Spring Training confident enough in their starters and bullpen that they decide to go with an 11 man pitching staff at least for the early part of the season.

At the end of the day ( ) the key word with Zduriencik is “options” — whether it’s the positions guys can play, the side of the plate they stand on, or the flexibility they give Wakamatsu filling out the lineup card or in the late innings, Zduriencik does not want a roster that traps the team into having nothing but bad choices. And clearly that applies to figuring out last couple of guys on the 25 man roster in spring training, too. Signing a few players to relatively cheap contracts and seeing how they look in Arizona is insurance against injuries and suckiness and whatever.

Maybe a pitcher if they are wise and go with a five-man bench.

Have an opinion of what the M’s should do all you want, but you may want to read back through *all* of the posts here at USSM before attempting to discredit something Dave says.

Maybe you should have waited with this comment until someone attempted to discredit Dave.

DH- Griffey
LF- Bradley
1B- Kotchman

Against LHP:

DH- Bradley
LF- Byrnes
1B- Garko

The bench is C, Hannahan, 1B Platoon and DH/LF Platoon.

We REALLY need a five-man bench…

Have an opinion of what the M’s should do all you want, but you may want to read back through *all* of the posts here at USSM before attempting to discredit something Dave says.