2012 Opening Day Rosters

Can you name the 2012 Opening Day Rosters?
Wow. This is what we've been working toward, and this is it, my favorite quiz ever. I can't even imagine the amount of effort this took, but it's a fantastic way to kill a day. I hope you don't have a job you want to keep if you want to take it. It's the kind of thing that makes me want to learn flash so I could create a similar quiz for years gone by (the one complaint I have is that there's no mechanism for you to track who you've guessed -- sure you've typed hernandez, but that doesn't mean you know who you got for every team that has a Hernandez, which means you don't know who you're missing).

I made it to 624 after several ages of working on this and charting everything on paper (keeping a second window of the same game open so I could track multiple player last names and check off where they fit on the teams). I was at 24 for the Nationals for ages before I realized I'd just never typed in Strasburg. Whoops.

I also apparently know 24 members of the Chicago White Sox. That's disturbing, especially considering I only got 25 for two teams (the Indians, my favorite team, and the Nationals, which is helped by the fact that I've already gone to 6 of their games this year -- and inadvertently got Brett Carroll, thank you, Minnesota Twins).

I have two gripes -- one, there's some hitch in it with a couple of last names (Perez and possibly Davis, so I had to type them twice to get all the answers to show up) and two, I'm not sure why to go with the post-Japan opening day rosters for the A's/Mariners. Although they allowed the teams to travel with extra players, there were only 25 on the active roster on day 1, so those should be the answers. That said, the A's and Mariners were the teams I knew the least, I'm not so sure it'd have mattered. And...again, awesome.

MLB Rosters by Decade

I'm in the early stages of another daunting series (inspired by jaysee and steelehere's quizzes for teams in the 1970s and 1980s), creating a whole new level of unnecessary depth to MLB obscurities. These quizzes are "name every player to have played in a game for [MLB Team] in a decade". I'm only through a few so far (starting with the usual suspects, of course), but they should prove interesting.
Cincinnati Reds of the:
1970s (by jaysee)
1980s
1990s
2000s


Cleveland Indians of the:
1980s
1990s
2000s

Florida Marlins of the:
1990s


Kansas City Royals of the:
1980s


Los Angeles Dodgers of the:
1970s (by jaysee)
1980s (by steelehere)


Montreal Expos of the:
1980s


New York Yankees of the:
1980s (by steelehere)


Philadelphia Phillies of the:
1980s
1990s
2000s

Some of the quizzes are redundant in part, I learned after posting several that moose2438 had posted quizzes with the same answers for the 1990s, but with a different format (closer to ironsij0287's 200 series that doesn't distinguish positions). So I'll be doing the 1990s last, because while I prefer my format, they are effectively redundant and I don't want to take away from the quality work moose2438 did.
As of May 1, the next quizzes I anticipate in this series are the Orioles, Cubs, Pirates, and Cardinals of the 1980s and the Royals and Pirates of the 2000s (I can't even imagine the trauma associated with those two).