Just seven days til the first pitch. Seven!

Oh, the drama. We already know Chris Archer will take the mound at the FruitDome against the Blue Jays nest Sunday. But what about the rest of the starting lineup?

Rays reporter Steve Carney was on WDAE-AM 620 this morning talking about how today’s spring scorecard for the Rays likely could be what is rolled out on opening day.

Lineup Sunday vs TOR: Forsythe 2B, Morrison 1B, Longoria 3B, Dickerson DH, Jennings LF, Miller SS, Souza RF, Kiermaier CF, Casali C #Rays

— Steve Carney (@stevecarney) March 27, 2016

Interesting.

What’s certain is Logan Forsythe will be the official leadoff man. Kevin Cash made that clear today.

Joe still celebrates never having to worry about sticking a slumping player in the leadoff spot every other week to snap him out of a funk. Joe wonders whether the stat geeks ever studied how well that really worked.