Rob Bradford

I'm not saying that he has to be on the opening day roster, but we might be sitting here in May like, hey, when they aren't hitting home runs and Tristan Casas is down in Worcester starting to hit home runs, that starts a conversation.

Yeah, it almost kind of feels like the Masa situation from last year when it's like he's in spring training, he's hitting the ball well, and they're like, oh, well, he's not going to be on this team if he's not DHing.

And obviously they had Rafi DHing, so he was banished to wherever he went.

This year, it'll be Costas, and yeah, they'll say he's not ready, even if he is, and he'll be in AAA, he'll be in Worcester and have to earn his way back, as you said, but you're right, Rob.

Right now, opening day, okay, right now, who's your starters?

Like in the outfield in DH?

Yeah, yeah, tell me.

It would be Roman in left, Sedan in center, Abreu in right, and Duran the DH, which is a weird alignment, but that's probably your best lineup.

And then you have a guy sitting on the bench who can pinch hit.

It's literally insurance.

That's what it is.

He's a bench insurance piece, which I guess you can have because you've got a lot of versatility on the bench, but it's a weird roster.

To me, if you had the ability to sell high on one of these outfielders this offseason, going from Durant at DH, specifically DH...

the skillset that he has as a DH to Yoshida is not the drop off that, that it would be if you were going like Duran, the left fielder to Yoshida, the left fielder.

Right?

No, I totally agree.

And we can agree that Duran was seemed a lot better in center field than left field.

Yeah.

Uh, before we go to a break, let's go to Joe in Boston.

Hey Joe, how are you?