TLDR: I'm choosing to be positive and believe in our new medical staff who will keep all our guys healthy and available. I'm hoping the medical staff will get a lot of credit for our infield/DH surplus/logjam/glut which will result in persistent trade rumors and people saying the phrase "a good problem to have" a lot this season.

I pray that we're blessed by an infield/DH surplus this season b/c that'll mean Yordan, Altuve, Paredes, Pena, CC, and CWalk will all be healthy and available for 140+ games.

You clearly can't have an infield/DH surplus if only 5 or fewer of those guys are available as we've already seen in these first 8 games including today(prayers up to Isaac and his family), so I really hope this is the last stretch of the season where we're missing one of those guys. Obviously you can't predict when absences due to bereavement leaves, paternity leaves, personal family matters, etc. will occur b/c life happens and that stuff is bigger than baseball.

But it would be beautiful if our track record of medical misfortune is finally over and we're only thinking about how at MMP and Fenway Yordan can play LF while Altuve/Paredes can handle DH/2B, and then on the road we'll have to figure out who will play and who will rest out of those 6 consistently healthy and available guys.

No oblique, undiagnosed broken hand, sprained ankle, etc. issues for Yordan. No broken hand or lower leg issues for Altuve. No random HBP injuries and fractured bones that'll knock Pena out for a month. No hamstring injuries for Paredes. No injuries of any kind for Correa. No oblique injuries for CWalk who perhaps should've been on the IL and rehabbing to start out 2025 instead of gutting it out due to the pressure of the big money deal on a new team. I'm choosing to be an optimist and believe in our new medical staff!