Almonte and Reed make Opening Day Roster

Erick Almonte and Jeremy Reed have made the Opening Day roster. Cruz cleared waivers and will start the season in Nashville.

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Not totally sure what this means for Corey Hart

It sounds like he won’t be ready for Opening Day, so if he’s on the DL our outfielders will be Braun, Gomez, Morgan, Kotsay, and Reed. I’d assume Reed gets the boot once Hart comes back.

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by tcyoung on Mar 27, 2011 12:41 PM CDT reply actions

Glad to see ALmonte make the team

I think that he offers a bit more to the PH role than Cruz would have (who really was a 2nd version of Counsell).
I am little bit more surprised that they went with Reed over Boggs but since when Hart comes back either of them would probably been dropped I doubt it is going to make much of a difference.

by Saltire on Mar 27, 2011 1:24 PM CDT reply actions

It's strange for a different reason, though:

Boggs was on the 40 man and out of options, so the team had to DFA him to go elsewhere.

Reed wasn’t on the 40 man, so a spot will have to be cleared for him – presumably by DFA’ing Boggs and sacrificing some org depth.

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by Kyle Lobner on Mar 27, 2011 3:53 PM CDT up reply actions

If Reed had been the one to miss out

Would he have gone straight to AAA or would he of been able to become a FA or have to clear waivers 1st?

by Saltire on Mar 27, 2011 6:36 PM CDT up reply actions

Quote from Reed about moving so often

“Like, we have a leased car right now that is up on April 13 in Washington, from when I played with Seattle. What do we do with that?”

by mladwig0 on Mar 27, 2011 1:57 PM CDT reply actions

I predict Almonte gets sent down within the first 40 games of the season.

A la Brad Nelson

by Noah Jarosh on Mar 27, 2011 2:10 PM CDT reply actions

I think I agree with that

He’s pretty limited in terms of positions, and if he doesn’t hit well in PH spots, he probably won’t be around real long.

"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."

~Doug Melvin

by Charlie Marlow on Mar 27, 2011 3:29 PM CDT up reply actions

He seems like he'll be a second Mark Kotsay.

Which ew.

by Noah Jarosh on Mar 27, 2011 3:33 PM CDT up reply actions

How can you even compare the two?

Kotsays got all that veteran leadership.

"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."

~Doug Melvin

by Charlie Marlow on Mar 27, 2011 3:35 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

Maybe Almonte has grit.

Give him an offspeed pitch down and in. He will swing and miss.

by cooper82 on Mar 27, 2011 4:05 PM CDT up reply actions

Doesn't he spell his name 'Erick'?

The extra consonant must count for some grit.

"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."

~Doug Melvin

by Charlie Marlow on Mar 27, 2011 4:07 PM CDT up reply actions

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by molitorfan on Mar 27, 2011 3:58 PM CDT reply actions

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