I'm in agreement with that assessment. Unfortunately none of those positions grow on trees.

One of the traps this team fell into last year was relying on great pitching too long. We had great pitching to start the year and it fizzled. Lack of run support hurts pitchers because they get into a mindset that they need to be perfect to win games. Then they make mistakes and the hitting can't carry them and they wind up frustrated. We want to avoid that trap this year.

Player wise we may have a catcher (Tony Sanchez) in the minors. He was the fourth overall pick a few years back. Unfortunately a SS and 1B are going to have to come from outside the organization because we just don't have any talent brewing.