Word is that the wind is blowing out briskly to left, so Sveum has loaded up on the righties to battle southpaw Gio Gonzalez in his NL debut.
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Desmond, SS
Johnson, RF
#Espinosa, 2B
Mather, 3B
Zimmerman, 3B
Castro, SS
*LaRoche, 1B
Soriano, LF
Werth, RF
Baker, 1B
DeRosa, LF
Soto, C
*Bernadina, CF
Byrd, CF
Ramos, C
Barney, 2B
Gonzalez, P
Garza, P
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Rodgrigo Lopez is the first call-up from the minors, so congrats to those that picked it in our prediction contest. It appears Luis Valbuena is going back through waivers in an attempt to option him to Iowa to make room for Lopez.
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