Perhaps others have thought of this, and Im just slow...
There is an ongoing healthy debate over which present players should be retained and which prospects should be added to the 40 man.
But, at least for me, much of the equation has to do with which prospects are likely to be lost if not rostered. I never considered which present players might NOT be lost if they are DFAd.
When a player is DFAd, he is either traded or claimed on waivers...or his present teams can keep him by outright in him to the minors, unless the player has three years of service time, or has been previously been outrighted.
Most of the debate centers upon...
Zimmer*
Mercado
Chang*
Harold
Bradley
Johnson
Clement
Allen*
Mejia*
Moss
Hill
Hentges*
Nelson
F Perez
Lets focus first on the guys who are out of options. (*)
Any team that would pick them up would be in the same boat as us, having to put them on the active roster instead of protecting a prospect. How many teams out there would do that for Chang?
As for the others, a team that picks any of them has to prefer him to an unprotected prospect.
How many teams would do that for Harold, Hill, Nelson, Perez, Clement, Johnson?
In either case, it only takes one team, in a specific situation.
But the FO has to judge risk/reward for each one of them vs the chance of losing an unrostered prospect. Its similar to a trade in a way. A theoretical case in point...
If the FO judges that Tena would be lost to Rule Five and their choice is Chang or Tena....the question becomes would they trade Tena to acquire Chang with no options left? And part of the equation is whether the FO thinks we would even lose Chang if he were DFAd?
There is an ongoing healthy debate over which present players should be retained and which prospects should be added to the 40 man.
But, at least for me, much of the equation has to do with which prospects are likely to be lost if not rostered. I never considered which present players might NOT be lost if they are DFAd.
When a player is DFAd, he is either traded or claimed on waivers...or his present teams can keep him by outright in him to the minors, unless the player has three years of service time, or has been previously been outrighted.
Most of the debate centers upon...
Zimmer*
Mercado
Chang*
Harold
Bradley
Johnson
Clement
Allen*
Mejia*
Moss
Hill
Hentges*
Nelson
F Perez
Lets focus first on the guys who are out of options. (*)
Any team that would pick them up would be in the same boat as us, having to put them on the active roster instead of protecting a prospect. How many teams out there would do that for Chang?
As for the others, a team that picks any of them has to prefer him to an unprotected prospect.
How many teams would do that for Harold, Hill, Nelson, Perez, Clement, Johnson?
In either case, it only takes one team, in a specific situation.
But the FO has to judge risk/reward for each one of them vs the chance of losing an unrostered prospect. Its similar to a trade in a way. A theoretical case in point...
If the FO judges that Tena would be lost to Rule Five and their choice is Chang or Tena....the question becomes would they trade Tena to acquire Chang with no options left? And part of the equation is whether the FO thinks we would even lose Chang if he were DFAd?
