We are now just a week from the start of the 2015 MLB season, but there is still a lot of work to do as teams make their final and, generally, most difficult decisions to trim their rosters down to 25 players.
That roster crunch always makes for at least a few surprises.
Whether it’s an unexpected non-roster invitee forcing his way onto a team, a deserving player winding up on the outside looking in, a late-spring trade or the outright release of an established veteran, a lot can happen before teams pack up and head north.
Predicting these moves is obviously tricky, but a glance at the projected outlook of each roster can potentially give us some hints.
What follows is a prediction of five surprises from the final week of spring training before the long-awaited arrival of Opening Day.