Ray Olmedo claimed? NOOOOOOOOO!!!

I dunno what they're doing over there in Philadelphia, but they just claimed Ray Olmedo today, which means they've not got Olmedo and Shane Youman over there in their attempts to defend the NL East against the Mets. On the bright side, it's just Ray Olmedo, I mean, come on. On the downside, it now appears that either Josh Wilson or Luis Rivas is a lock for the 25-man roster, which kinda makes me miss Jose K more than a little bit.

In fact, let's take a step back here and look at the roster. If you assume we're going to roll with 12 pitchers in April, that leaves five bench slots behind the eight starters (counting McLouth, Nady, and Paulino as starters right now). Doumit and Nyjer Morgan are pretty much locks for the team, which leaves three spots. It's looking less likely that we're going to waste a spot on an awful backup catcher, so we can give one to Dougie Malphabet (who's making the team because of his relationship with Russell, I don't care what anyone says). Does that mean that Josh Wilson and Chris Gomez get the other two? Ugh, that's a pretty ugly bench, isn't it?