With Baker, Pena, Zambrano, Dempster, and R. Johnson coming off the books, there should be a lot of spare money. That is about 40 million freeing up, in addition to the flexibility that we already have. While arbitration raises will eat some of this money up, there should be enough room to add 2 premium free agents. C-Soto /Castillo 1B-Rizzo/LaHair 2B-Barney/Cardenas SS-Castro/Barney 3B-Stewart/Vitters LF-Jackson/LaHair CF-Upton/Jackson/Campana RF-DeJesus/Campana I might be crazy, but that is not bad of an offense. The defense should be phenomenal at pretty much every position. I see plus defense at C, 1B, 2B, and LF for sure. SS, 3B, CF, and RF all could be. Optimistically, there could be plus defense at every single position. Rizzo is supposed to be a good defender, no? SP-Garza SP-A. Sanchez/Hamels/Grienke SP-Samardzija SP-Dempster SP-Wood/Volstad/Maholm If we could get Dempster back on a cheap deal, that is a damn strong 1-4. One of Wood, Volstad, or Maholm should definitely be serviceable in the last spot. I have enough faith in Theo and Jed to be able to put together a bullpen that I am not even going to try. Throw in some more luck, Upton and a premium SP, and some continued development, the 2013 roster should be good enough to compete for a playoff spot. There is certainly a lot of room for projection on that roster.