There’s not much room;
CATCHERS: You add 4 more above to the current list of Napoli, Mathis, Budde, and Wilson. Answer? NONE. In fact, at least one of the guys I named above will likely be DFA’d or traded at close of ST.
PITCHERS: Starters are set (Kazmir, Weaver, Saunders, Santana, Pineiro). Bullpen seems set (Rodney, Fuentes, Shields, Palmer, Bulger, Jepsen). Answer? NONE. Thompson probably has the best chance to make the 25 man roster.
INFIELD: With Kowbell, HK, Akbar, Mice Tits, and Woodie, there’s an opening for a back-up. That’s is probably andoval’s to lose. Answer? Probably NONE.
OUTFIELD/DH: Rivera, Hunter, Abreu, and Matsui leave room for possibly 2 openings. My guess is Willits owns one of these spots. The other spot will likely be won by Evans or Pettit. The answer again is probably NONE.

Short of a rash of injuries, trades, or “light out” spring training, I don’t see any of these guys making the 25 man roster coming out of spring training. In fact, I can’t even imagine any of them getting a serious chance.

Pitchers:
1. Weaver
2. Kaz
3. Saundo
4. Erv
5. Pinata

Infield
6. Morales
7. HK 47
8. Izzy
9. Aybar
10.Woodsy

Outfield
11. Abreu
12. Hunter
13. Johnny Rivers
14. Matsui

Catchers
15. Naps
16. Mathis

Bullpen
17. Fuentes
18. Shields-y
19. Rodney
20. Jepsen
21. Stokes
22. Bulger
23. Palmer – ??

It seems like we got two spots open on the bench. Soth usually goes 7 in the bullpen if I remember correctly, so I imagine Palmer, unless he has a horrible pre-season will claim that spot. Although, I guess some prospect could swipe it from him (Mosenbach? Thompson?)

So, I feel like the question is, who makes those last two spots. I think many will think it will be some sort of combination of Willits/Evans or Willits/Wilson

Looking at the above roster, though; we have only one backup infielder in Woodsy and/or Izzy. Is that enough?

I predict Willits will make it. As for roster spot # 25. I have no idea.

You don’t really need to carry three catchers or more than one back up infielder at a time. It’s not that hard to pick up the phone and call someone up from SLC who is on the 40-man roster if you need to.

Willits will be the primary pinch runner and he and Evans will probably be late-inning replacements and maybe get some starts. That’s my guess anyway.

Who will start the year on the DL?

Those 4, anyone’s guess. Names I’m throwing out there are Reckling, Conger, Kohn and Mendoza. Apparently Trumbo and Bourjo are already on the 40 man roster. As for the 25, it should be interesting, but I don’t expect any changes next year outside of Rich Thompson and Hank Conger being added to it.

But I’m a non-roster non-invitee

Thank you for answering MY QUESTION from 8:45AM today!

I’m all excited for. Hope to see them play.

http://losangeles.angels.mlb.com/team/roster_nri.jsp?c_id=ana

And why does he have stats as convoluted as a seven layer Super Bowl party chip dip?

I say the last two spots have to go to Willits and Evans. Willits has the trust of Soth and will be the pinch runner. Evans is out of options and has solid numbers to back him up. He should get a shot at the 5th OF job. Of course, all the young OF’s will be fighting hard for it in Spring Training, so things can change. And then there’s that rumor of GA coming back to finish off as a halo….

Thompson is also out of options I think, along with Wilson and Budde. We could lose all three because I don’t see any way they all make the roster. Only reason to keep Wilson would be to get Napoli at bats at DH, but with Godzilla in the fold, that isn’t going to happen much.

Is it just me, or does a trade seem imminent? We’ve got a few guys here of decent quality that are out of options with no place to play. We need to trade them to get something back, or else we’ll lose them and get nothing in return!