Opening Day 25 Man Roster

I got on here with the intention of wrapping up the final roster spot selections and giving you a list of what the 25-man roster is going to look like. However, it looks like Brian from Raise The Jolly Roger has beat me to it. I'm gonna do a quick copy and paste job and give you the Opening Day 25 Man Roster, here it is:

Starting position players (8): Andrew McCutchen, Jose Tabata, Neil Walker, Pedro Alvarez, Garrett Jones, Lyle Overbay, Ryan Doumit, Ronny Cedeno

Bench (5): Matt Diaz, Josh Rodriguez, Jason Jaramillo, Steven Pearce, John Bowker

Rotation (5): Kevin Correia, Paul Maholm, James McDonald, Ross Ohlendorf, Charlie Morton

Bullpen (7): Joel Hanrahan (CL), Evan Meek, Garrett Olson, Chris Resop, Jose Veras, Michael Crotta, Jeff Karstens

Read more of Brian's post here.

Jaramillo was able to make the roster because of the news that Chris Snyder will start the season on the DL. Snyder will only be out a couple of weeks, so by the end of April the Pirates will have a decision to make on who to keep between Jaramillo and Bowker. Bowker is out of options, so that will weigh into the decision. We will see how that turns out.

The Pirates play 2 exhibition games in Philadelphia the next two nights before traveling to Wrigley Field for Friday's season opener.

Get pumped.