More roster moves

This evening, the following events happened on our roster. As spring training winds down, there will be a lot more of these. :)
We acquired a non roster infielder named Cody Ransom for “future considerations”. That usually means we won’t have to send much of anything, and if it is it’s not much. Cody was a career minor leaguer with the Giants until this spring. He signed with the Cubs, and then came here today.
Jason Conti, Manny Alexander, & Esteban German were assigned to minor league camp. I don’t think there’s any surprises here. German made some noise this spring, but I think it would have been a major surprise if he was on the 25 man roster.
Additionally, Ricardo Rodriguez was optioned to AAA. This one is a surprise to me, as I was figuring he was going to be one of the starting five. To me, Rodriguez’ optioning probably means that Chan Ho will make the roster. Oh joy. If I had to guess now, I’d say our starting 5 will be Rogers, Drese, Park, Chris Young, and Pedro Astacio.
Any chance Orel will come out of retirement and pitch? :)