Talking Baseball

Now that baseball is coming back we can

start talking about it too on a regular basis.

I have already mentioned rosters for major

league teams will be set at 30 players to begin

with.

Each team will have additional 30 players 

who make up what they are calling the taxi

squad.

The taxi squad for many teams especially

the Seattle Mariners will be their top prospects.

These will be players who just were drafted

along with those who have been at single-A

or double-A for the post part.

The Mariners have 39  players on the 40-man

roster so they will have 21 additional players

in camp who are not on the 40-man roster.

The 30 players making the final roster might

be either 15 pitchers and 15 position players 

or they may add a pitcher reducing position

players to 14.

Going with 16 pitchers mean they will have

10 pitchers in the bullpen while having six

starters. Position players you have nine starters

including the designated hitter. You add one 

as the backup catcher making it ten. So the

Mariners will have four or five backup players.

Four position players we could say for sure.

Right now the Mariners don't know what shape

Mitch Haniger is in, however, if he is on the

roster opening day the Mariners will go with

additional outfielder and three utility players.

If he isn't ready to go most likely four utility

players though they could still have additional

outfielder instead. 

We should know when spring training begins 

or a few days into how they plan to have the

roster setup.