Who Will Take the Final Roster Spot?

Coming into Spring Training, I was fairly confident that Juan Yepez would be the St. Louis Cardinals DH this year. I’m sure I wasn’t alone either. After he raked in the minors last year and was added to the Wild Card roster, it seemed like a pretty good guess that the team would have a role for Yepez, and especially his bat. Now it looks like he may not even make the team.

The roster expansion won’t even help Yepez. The Cardinals can keep two extra players on the roster, but those players will almost certainly be pitchers. If this is the case, then Yepez will be left in the cold. Besides the eight starters, Albert Pujols and Corey Dickerson now seem like the starting DH platoon. That gives…