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From The Athletic:Ĭubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer anticipated this roster crunch when he spoke with reporters before the season opener at Wrigley Field.

Turns out, Cubs President Jed Hoyer was already predicting what this week was going to look like back at the start of the month. And for other organizations, it’s going to mean new opportunities to reshape the roster and/or make moves for the future. The 28-man roster becomes the 26-man roster on Monday, and not every organization has two obvious, fully-optionable players on the roster they can just easy-peasy send down. There is a little more flexibility in which players a team can choose to remove from the roster, thanks to the league punting on the 13-pitcher-limit for another month, but two players are nevertheless gonna have to head out, regardless of role.įor many organizations, that’s going to mean guys without options are waived or traded or released. demote Dom Smith? Deep diving the possibilities with also Jankowski, Davis, Guillorme.

Is it possible the choice will be release Cano vs. By noon Monday (barring injury) the #Mets will have to remove 1 position player from the roster. Ignoring the specifics of the report for the moment (unless you REALLY want to dig deep on the Mets roster), allow this to be a reminder that when rosters around baseball are cut down next Monday, a *LOT* of orgs are going to have tough decisions at the margins: