There are 60 teams needed for the 30 home openers. That means the average number each team plays is 2. Some play 1, some play 3. 4 would be unusual; I wonder if that's ever happened.
There is almost always a scheduled day off on the day following a home opener so the game can be rescheduled if necessary with no loss of ticket revenue.
My wild-@$$ prediction is that Busenitz will be lights out at Rochester and be the call-up when a new reliever is needed due to injury or performance issues.
I'm sure your lifetime ban proposal is well intended, but I'll go to your last paragraph and be devil's advocate. Do you suppose an up-and-coming player would be capable of spiking a rival's food during spring training? Making the penalty more severe for the player who tests positive increases the incentive for something like that.
I remember googling stanozolol when Ervin went down. If you are juicing this is not the drug to take. Apparently it is almost always detected and the test is very specific for that drug.
This is why pitch to contact is the right approach for many pitchers. True power pitchers are excepted, of course, but if you're not able to get a lot of K's you're better off inducing easy grounders and fly balls early in the count.
If Falvine had known a few months ago that we'd get Morrison they'd have traded him then. The best we're going to do now is get a low-level prospect from a team that really wants him because every GM in baseball knows he'll be available in two weeks. The only question is which team will pick him up. Or if he goes to Japan to mash big time for a year or two.