But first, a brief update. The farm affiliates went 2-2.
Thursday boxscores and highlights
Syracuse 2 @ Toledo 5 MacDonald 5IP, 9H, 4ER, 2W, 1K, Griffin 2-4, HR, Olmedo 0-2, 2W, Zaun 0-4
New Hampshire 11 @ Akron 3 Yates 5IP, 6H, 2ER, 1W, 1K, League 1IP, 0H, 0W, 1K, Cosby 2-5, 1W, 5RBI, Santos 2W
Jupiter 4 @ Dunedin 6, 10 inn Magee 6IP, 4H, 2ER, 4W 6K, Butler WO HR, Nielsen 3-5, Garibaldi 3-5, Jeroloman 1-3, W
South Bend 14 @ Lansing 10 Shoffit HR, TD, Lane HR, FG
The depth chart
The idea here is to look to 2010 or 2011, and see who might be here or close to being ready. Some of the choices might seem arbitrary. Brandon Magee probably belongs on the starting pitcher list (and has now been added), and a couple of the relievers might end up as starters and vice versa. And don't even ask about the decision to put Towers on the list of pitchers, and not Zaun on the list of catchers. Feel free to write Zaun's name in, if you feel the need . Check out Pistol's summary of the early round picks.
SP | RP | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | RF | CF | LF |
Halladay | Ryan | Thigpen | Overbay | Hill | Jackson | Glaus | Rios | Wells | Lind |
Burnett | League | Arencibia | Adams | Santos | Ahrens | Snider | Rodriguez | Eiland | |
Marcum | Accardo | Jeroloman | Tolisano | Olmedo | Fuenmayor | Chavez | Patterson | ||
McGowan | Janssen | Liuzza | Mathews | ||||||
Towers | Frasor | ||||||||
R. Romero | D. Romero | ||||||||
Cecil | Magnuson | ||||||||
Litsch | Farina | ||||||||
Purcey | Rzepczynski | ||||||||
Yates | Mills | ||||||||
Magee | MacDonald |
What I see is an organization deep in pitching, and still with noticeable weakness at catcher, shortstop and centerfield.