The leaks that came the day before pitchers and catchers reported to camp were a little frustrating to be sure. Stop sticking microphones in front of the braintrust before the Roster Challenge deadline, please! The news about Santander and Bieber really did change up some ballots that were submitted well before midnight—we can look at setting an earlier deadline moving forward to preserve the integrity of the challenge. (We will preserve the integrity of the challenge at all costs.)
Some fast facts:
The X factor of this year’s roster challenge appears to be the final bench spot, a pretty much even split between Loperfido and Jimenez. Whoever wins that job will have a huge impact on which ballot takes home the glory.
***Update*** Joey for Jesus happened and now everybody loses the chance at a perfect ballot! Aw, shucks
No two ballots are the same. Not really that impressive considering we only had seven ballots total, but still noteworthy.
Rule V darling, the Angel of death Bastardo with his 327 total career minor league innings – 45 of which were at the AA level – managed to find his way on to not one but two ballots this time around. Fascinating stuff.
Fisher and Fluharty were named on six of the seven ballots.
All ballots submitted contained the following 21 players:
Barger, Berrios, Cease, Clement, Gausman, Gimenez, Guerrero, Heineman, Hoffman, Kirk, Lauer, Lukes, Okamoto, Ponce, Rogers, Schneider, Springer, Straw, Varland, Varsho, Yesavage
Below you will find the remaining 5 names to round out the ballots, and the all-important tiebreaker. With that, we are off. Good luck to all!
Jimmy Triggs
14-14
Fisher
Fluharty
Garcia
Little
Loperfido
The returning champion is looking to lay the smackdown and skip taking home the prize once again. He holds the belt until someone takes it.
Last Row 500's
18-11
Fisher
Garcia
Jimenez
Little
Nance
No Fluharty = no bueno
Blue Jay Hunter
16-12
Bastardo
Fluharty
Little
Loperfido
Nance
The Blue Jays Hunter graces us with his presence once again, and we are all better off for it.
Hall Of Fame
16-11
Fisher
Fluharty
Little
Loperfido
Nance
The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame steps into the gauntlet looking for their first win of the roster challenge.
I Like Nuts
17-9
Fisher
Fluharty
Garcia
Jimenez
Nance
Mrs. @1BJW thought about skipping this year’s event and then quickly changed course.
@1BJW
12-15
Fisher
Fluharty
Jimenez
Little
Nance
We present to you the winning ballot. Book it.
The Ant Farm
20-6
Bastardo
Fisher
Fluharty
Garcia
Loperfido
Ant is looking at the Jays to capture another coveted Golden Grapefruit with a mind melting 20-6 spring training record. All aboard the hype train!
No comments:
Post a Comment