Coming off a championship season, the Squirrels and GM Adam Anson were left with a fairly empty cupboard surrounding the 2012 star core of Cano, Freeman, Trout, and Wainwright. The Squirrels were busy in the Winter Meetings, and had a fairly successful draft. With back-to-back championship aspirations in mind, here is your Springfield Flying Squirrels of Republic 2014 Pre-Season Depth Chart.
C- Jarrod Saltalamacchia
1B- Freddie Freeman
2B- Robinson Cano
3B- Todd Frazier
SS- Jed Lowrie
OF- Mike Trout
OF- Coco Crisp
OF- Alfonso Soriano
OF- Nick Markakis
Util- Brandon Belt
Bench- Raul Ibanez OF, Dayan Viciedo OF, Paul Konerko 1B, Ryan Raburn 2B/OF, Rafael Furcal 2B/SS, Miguel Sano 3B
SP- Adam Wainwright
SP- Felix Hernandez
SP- Gio Gonzalez
SP- Matt Moore
SP- Corey Kluber
RP- Jordan Walden
RP- Sergio Santos
RP- Shawn Kelley
RP- Jesse Crain
RP- TBD
Bench- Brandon Beachy SP, Jaime Garcia SP
**Three roster spots remain unfilled, and will be filled via waivers in the coming days.
As this team stands, GM Adam Anson believes he has compiled a playoff team, "We had a plan going into the draft and we followed it to a T...we feel our rotation can compete with any in the league and is deep enough to deal with any injuries that come along. We feel our offense will overwhelm most teams week to week. If we have a weakness, its in the bullpen...but the four guys we drafted are REALLY good at what they do, and there are a couple guys still in free-agency that will fill out a HOLD/K/ERA/WHIP based bullpen."
This is the beginning of a shot at something no other team has accomplished...back-to-back eMLB titles. The odds are against the Squirrels, but they're in the running, and in the eMLB, that's all it takes.
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