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Tuesday, August 31


Here's your 25

Taking the greatly presumptive step of assuming that we have need for a playoff roster:

30 Matt Clement R/R 6-3 210 08/12/74
46 Ryan Dempster R/R 6-3 215 05/03/77
32 LaTroy Hawkins R/R 6-5 215 12/21/72
51 Jon Leicester R/R 6-3 230 02/07/79
31 Greg Maddux R/R 6-0 185 04/14/66
50 Kent Mercker L/L 6-2 205 02/01/68
22 Mark Prior R/R 6-5 230 09/07/80
37 Mike Remlinger L/L 6-1 215 03/23/66
33 Glendon Rusch L/L 6-1 220 11/07/74
40 Todd Wellemeyer R/R 6-3 205 08/30/78
34 Kerry Wood R/R 6-5 225 06/16/77
38 Carlos Zambrano S/R 6-5 255 06/01/81

9 Paul Bako L/R 6-2 215 06/20/72
8 Michael Barrett R/R 6-3 210 10/22/76

5 Nomar Garciaparra R/R 6-0 190 07/23/73
11 Mark Grudzielanek R/R 6-1 190 06/30/70
25 Derrek Lee R/R 6-5 245 09/06/75
1 Jose Macias S/R 5-8 190 01/25/72
6 Ramon Martinez R/R 6-1 190 10/10/72
16 Aramis Ramirez R/R 6-1 215 06/25/78
7 Todd Walker L/R 6-0 185 05/25/73

18 Moises Alou R/R 6-3 220 07/03/66
24 Tom Goodwin L/R 6-0 195 07/27/68
20 Corey Patterson L/R 5-9 180 08/13/79
21 Sammy Sosa R/R 6-0 220 11/12/68

Simply put, we don't need 12 pitchers on a post-season roster, when you consider that ONE of our five starters is going to be relegated to long relief. Assuming Todd Hollandsworth is never coming back, I would DL the Dumpster tonight, and I would recall Jason Dubois today for bench help.

It's surprising that the Dumpster is only a few months older than Kerry Wood, and only a year or so older than Wellmeyer and Leicester. So young, so very young to already have a fork sticking out of your back.

UPDATE: They just traded a PTBNL for Mike DiFelice, which isn't a bad idea...on Maddux days, when Barrett is left rotting on the bench, now he can be used as a pinch hitter. DiFelice can function as a pinch hitter on the other days.

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