Or, we already have Dyson who's healthy and 1/4 the price

Duncan Idaho is there any pics you can replace in the op with Alex in it?

Hate to see him left out resigning and all.

The outfield I say lets see what Dyson and Orlando can do for now. Hell Ebiner or Starling might make a jump in spring training for all we know. Nobody was saying anything about Orlando this time of the year last year.

If we need a bat (which we probably will), then lets go get one at the trade deadline.

Orlando wasn't bad at all for his first time playing. Him and Dyson will both be fine and they will definitely not be reasons we lose games. They are great defensively which we have proven over the last few years is very important. And their bats are not abysmal and are in fact quite acceptable. Combined with the ability to making things happen on the bases and I am excited to see them both play even more.

That's the one aspect we've probably not discussed hardly at all.

Someone is going to "Surprise" at spring training currently in the farm system. Maybe more than one?
Even cooler is the fact that while there's definitely spots the team could upgrade, the quality at at least 90% of the roster is more than sufficient to win another World Series. I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised that at least one arm from the farm club will make opening day. I'm optimistic that Duffy will finally be out of the woods with respect to being injured, and be able to pitch like when he was doing so well in '14.

From all accounts, Bubba's transformation and improvement is just shy of a miracle. It could be very beneficial for him to get some exposure to the clubhouse and day to day life in the majors. Plus, all the pressure is really off him. It's a team that just won the WS and has a buttload of guys the attention and media focus will be more interested in - Salvy, Gordo, Hos, Moose, Cain, Ace, Dyson, whose as big a character as Sal is except he wasn't an everyday guy who you saw all the time... yada yada.

I am most certainly not counting on it, but I would love to see Zimmer finally be able to stay healthy and make it up to the big club. Whether it's him stepping up, Almonte.. whoever, it would really help to have starting pitching depth similar as to what we had last year.

Rockies may try to sign Parra. Also saw they will trade 1 of their starting ofers if this happens.

I'm not sure why people are down on an Orlando/Dyson platoon? Why pay 10-12 mil for a slight upgrade over them? That money could be better spent elsewhere.

Who is down on it? Everyone post I see here is fine with a Dyson/Orlando (or other in house guy).

It does seem like he has had an odd amount of success getting production and value out of scrap-heap veteran pitchers. Why can't we get this from the pitchers from the minor leagues? Blanton, Guthrie, young, Madson, etc etc

I'm fine going into the season with Dyson, Gordo, Cain, Orlando and either Eibner or Martinez as our OF.

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Not me. I have an Orlando jersey!

I don't think anyone's down on Dyson and Orlando platooning.

I'm curious and hopeful Dyson can stay healthy if he's an every day player , which obviously splitting time should help. As for Paulo Homo, the question is if he can at least match his plate production given an increased workload.

I like both guys, and the only trepidation is how they'll fair stepping out of a utility role.

Can't be any worse than Rios was.