Today marks the formal conclusion of Grapefruit League ball.

The weekend marked the formal near conclusion of the 26tham.

Roster, good morning to you.

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Steelers and Penguins in the same place that you've found this. Red Sox

6, Pirates 3 in the Penn Ultimate game yesterday in Bradenton, Florida. Mitch Keller with his

spring finale. Three and two-thirds, a run over three hits. Five K's in a walk. Not a bad way for him to go into the season.

Henry Davis homered.

Speaking of not bad ways to go into the season,

actually took an outside pitch somewhat the other way to right center.

Okay.

Only other real note from the game is that Gregory Soto pitched a scoreless inning gave up a hit, but all three of his outs by strikeout.

Bottom line is that the roster is down to 28, and it needs to be 26. Of course, by game time Thursday in New York.

The position players are set.

There are two extra relievers.

And rather than cherry picking a subject this morning, I want to just basically go around the horn as to who these players are.

It helps a little bit, too, as you get this close to real baseball to visualize the roster, the starting pitchers. And this was completed just yesterday.

Our Mitch, Paul Skeens, Baba Chandler, Braxton Ashcraft, and Carmen Maginski. And I had mentioned

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