Roger Craig Announces Lineups and Rotations

In a phone interview with Roger Craig, whereabouts currently unknown, the former San Francisco Giant manager talked about his team chances.  Beloved by the MLB baseball Giant faithful for bringing them their first pennant in almost 30 years in 1989, he implied that the decision to bat Ross Barnes lead-off was final and that he would 'work with' ownership on their belief Ted Lilly is a number two starter.

"With Mariano Rivera, Joe Neale, and Bruce Sutter it hardly matters how deep Lilly goes anyway", was how Craig closed the subject.  While still tinkering, he projects his main lineup to be:


1: Barnes          2b
2: McVey           cf
3: Brouthers       1b
4: Schmidt         3b
5: Stargell        dh
6: Smith           rf
7: Campanella      c
8: Gonzalez        lf
9: Wright          ss

He also announced a lefty laden rotation of Cole Hamels, Ted Lilly, Scott Stratton, and Andy Pettitte.  Owner Brad P declined to speak with us for this story.