Posted by Jason Wojciechowski on April 17, 2017 at 9:03 PM
I'm not even going to get into Marcus Semien's wrist issue turning out to be a fracture that will keep him out until June, and we can only hope he returns to being himself; wrist injuries can be problematic that way.
One wonders whether the Bruce Maxwell call-up is a temporary situation. On the one hand, the team could call up Paul Blackburn to take Graveman's start and demote either a reliever or Maxwell. On the other hand, there's Raul Alcantara right there, already on the roster.
In any event, in the meantime, hopefully we won't see too much of Stephen Vogt catching. Things could basically look like this:
C:
Maxwell
/
Phegley
1B:
Healy
/
Alonso
2B:
Lowrie
/
Pinder
SS:
Rosales
/
Pinder
3B:
Plouffe
/
Healy
LF:
Davis
/
Decker
CF:
Davis
/
Decker
RF:
Joyce
/
Decker
DH:
Vogt
/
Davis
/
Healy
/
Plouffe
I wouldn't be against a more-or-less-strict platoon at catcher; as to the rest, I mainly want to see Healy and Pinder in the lineup every day, moving around defensively, with most of their time coming at the expense of Alonso and Rosales.