The team is on the verge of clinching a playoff spot, which means we can start looking forward to some of the more microscopic level questions that have to do with putting their best roster together.<\/p>\n
Rules for playoff rosters dictate that teams have to operate the same way in October as they do in the regular season. Thirteen pitchers to a side, thirteen position players. How those pitchers are used doesn\u2019t really matter and since five starters are never really needed, we can probably look at the team carrying four starters and nine relievers. On the position player side, things are kind of the status quo. We that, with good health, the starting nine will be the same that we have seen with regularity. Rafael Marchan and Nick Castellanos have spots, as does Edmundo Sosa. That last spot is probably one that requires a bit consideration.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s our question for the day: does the team carry Weston Wilson or Otto Kemp on the roster for the postseason? It\u2019s highly doubtful that both will be the choice outside of Sosa\u2019s or Trea Turner\u2019s injuries being worse that we thought, but that doesn\u2019t really give them a left handed option to choose from. Kody Clemens would have been a great choice here, but he\u2019s in Minnesota hitting three home runs in a game. Presuming these two are the ones that the choice is between, who ya got?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team is on the verge of clinching a playoff spot, which means we can start looking forward…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[24069,87863,363,5530,99,5531,20493],"class_list":["post-156241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-edmundo-sosa","tag-kody-clemens","tag-mlb","tag-nick-castellanos","tag-sports","tag-trea-turner","tag-weston-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}