Rays-Blue Jays Lineups

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Carl Crawford (groin) returns to the lineup, but Rocco Baldelli (hamstring) still isn?t back. In fact, he?ll take a pass on today?s scheduled minor league game and try it again Wednesday. He?s still not worried about missing Opening Day, though.



Here are today?s lineups in Dunedin:

Devil Rays:
Carl Crawford, LF
Ben Zobrist, SS
Ty Wigginton, 2B
Jorge Cantu, DH
Delmon Young, RF
Akinori Iwamura, 3B
Elijah Dukes, CF
Carlos Pena, 1B
Shawn Riggans, C

Casey Fossum, P

Blue Jays:
Reed Johnson, LF
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Vernon Wells, CF
Frank Thomas, DH
Troy Glaus, 3B
Alex Rios, RF
Aaron Hill, 2B
Royce Clayton, SS
Sal Fasano, C

Geremi Gonzalez, P

 

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Jays' laundry list

With five days left in Florida, here's the Jays' remaining to-do list:

1 Officially confirm Tomo Ohka as their No.4 starter then, presumably after Vic Zambrano's final audition Friday, make a call on either him or Josh Towers for No.5.

2 Assuming the odd-man out between Towers/Zambrano will go to Syracuse to keep starting (likely Zambrano, since that was the plan in the first place), and assuming bullpen spots for B.J. Ryan, Jason Frasor, Scott Downs and Shaun Marcum, fill out the relief corps by picking three of Casey Janssen, Brian Tallet, Jeremy Accardo, Francisco Rosario and Jeremi Gonzalez.

3 Find a place for free-agent John Thomson, maybe the disabled list or somewhere else via trade or, should he clear waivers, getting him to accept an assignment to Triple A.

4 Make the appropriate adjustments to the 40-man roster to clear room for Matt Stairs and whichever of Towers, Zambrano and/or Gonzalez.

5 Pack the bags, leave a nice tip for the clubhouse guys, turn out the lights.

 

[tmlfan4ever]

where did you get the lineups this early and are you leaning jays based on theses lineups? The pitching matchup certainly doesn't favor the jays.

 

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local newspapers,

no plays until next week for me.