Nothing here you don't already know

Well, Furcal is not coming to KC. Jose Guillen better drive in a lot of runs and stay relatively cool in the clubhouse in 2009.

Meanwhile, Gathright signed with the Cubs. And Bale is back with the Royals.

Something's got to give with the lefties in the pen. We've got Mahay, Bale, Gobble and HoRam. And Musser is still on the farm, right? Everybody assumes Gobble will be the one to go, but we think there might yet be a trade involving Mahay.

We think Buck might yet be traded this winter, too.

Then there's still the logjam at 1B. Something's also got to give there. And you know Dayton doesn't want to start the year with Aviles at SS. He wants to get a new SS, shift Aviles to 2B, and use Callaspo off the bench. Which means German would be a goner.

Once Dayton gets a defensive position switch in his head (Dejesus to LF), you can bet it will happen eventually. We just pray that DM doesn't trade Greinke to the Braves in order to acquire his young SS.

Anyway, we pretty much know who the main position players, and pitching staff for that matter, will be. So here's our guess for the bench: Teahen, Gload, Pena (C), Collaspo.

If we could somehow dump gload for a RH OF/IB bat with pop, or just replace him with Shealy, it would look pretty good. We still assume Butler is the DH, but DM has been threatening him with that option to Omaha...

P.S. It might take Dayton another year to get Aviles off SS. In that case, it would be Collaspo at 2B and either German or Tony Pena as the bench MI.