Kevin Gorman

Ryan Reynolds in left field batting third.

Ryan O'Hearn playing right field batting fourth.

Marcel Ozuna designated hitter batting fifth.

Spencer Horwitz playing first base batting sixth.

And then you get into the tricky part of the lineup there where

I don't know who bats seventh, eighth, ninth in what particular order, but I'll just take a guess and say that seventh would be Nick Gonzalez playing shortstop.

Eighth would be Henry Davis playing catcher.

Ninth would be Jared Triolo playing third base.

Because of his speed, I would want him at the bottom of the order so he can turn it over.

And then Paul Skeens is on the mound.

I'm not sure if the Pirates are convinced that they can win with that

bottom of the order for one, and with Nick Gonzalez playing shortstop.

But Nick Gonzalez and Jared Triolo could be interchangeable.

I don't know that they have another third baseman.

So there's a concern there that if Jared Triolo is playing shortstop, who's playing third base and how much you're downgrading there.

But that's what the lineup would look like based on what I've seen here in the first two weeks of spring training.

I don't think so, but I do think it's important that they kept Alika at shortstop in the minors as a guy who could play short third and second base that has some major league experience so that if they're making a call up, if somebody's either injured or not performing, that they don't have to call up a guy who has no major league experience.

I think that's key.

to have guys like that at AAA that have major league experience, and you're not calling up some rookie who's wide-eyed, making his debut, and is completely overmatched, which has been kind of what the Pirates have been doing the last three or four years.

His numbers are far better at the leadoff spot last year than they were anywhere else in the lineup.