Clay Harbor

I think that, um,

Maidroth is in a good situation leading off and making contact, being the kind of player he is.

I think Sosa gets some at-bats at second base.

I'm not sure much about third base and what he's going to do there, but you can see him there occasionally.

And maybe at first base, if you shuttle that around between who plays first base and who DHs, you might see some at-bats there also.

Well, he's a very impressive young player, and I think those people who saw him last year, you know, Connor McKnight is one of those guys that initially brought his name up and brought it to the forefront because he was down there taking a solid look at our minor league system.

And I've got to congratulate Connor.

He knows this organization backwards and forwards, and listening to him break down things is really interesting.

So I think he's done a...

A terrific job with the time that he's been given and working as hard as he can.

But he's the guy that talked about both of those guys, but especially Antonacci.

He was talking about how he plays, how aggressive he is, how much contact he makes, the fact that he can't hit the ball out of the ballpark, that he's a 100% hustle guy on every play, every situation.

And I think that's what we saw not only in the World Baseball Classic, but we saw it at times because we didn't see him too much in spring training, but

saw him enough to know that there's a bright future for this guy, and it looks to me like that future probably is going to be second base, but to get his bat in the lineup, they're putting him into the outfield and getting him used to that.

I think he's a good enough athlete to be able to do that, but bear in mind that playing any major league position is not easy, and it takes a while to get used to it, and if he makes a mistake or two out there, the fans shouldn't get down on him, but

Starting those guys in AAA will give them a chance to get the at-bats that they need, and eventually we'll probably see one or both here, I would say probably this year.

Well, as we talked a little bit about it, there's a couple of areas of concern.

One is the starting rotation.

That's an area of concern.

And that's an area of concern because you'd like to see them shorten up the workload for the bullpen.