By my count there are currently one open spot on the 40-man roster. Assuming Williamson is ready before Nomar, he gets the last spot. So somebody will have to be taken off when Garciaparra is ready. FYI, I'm using the 40-man posted on the Cubs website. The position players on the 40-man but not in Chicago are: Mike Fontenot, IF Richard Lewis, IF Ben Grieve, OF Corey Patterson, IF Geovany Soto, C Adam Greenberg, OF (DL) Barring a trade, my guess is Grieve gets cut or Greenberg gets moved to the 60-day DL when Nomar comes back. This also means that if the Cubs want another RH bat for the bench he's either going to come from outside the organization or somebody will get dumped to add another guy (Kelton, McClain, etc.) from the system. As for pitching help for the pen, Van Buren, who a lot of people would like to see in Chicago, is not on the 40-man so somebody would need to go if the Cubs wanted to bring him up. Aardsma is on the 40-man however. Just wondering what people's thoughts are on this.