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I would argue claiming he was a frontline starting prospect is close to equivalent of saying he's going to be great.

There is a lot of great return, Frontline starting pitching prospect, sold high on Burger talk in that thread there, I wasn't a fan of trade myself

I don't think Clev"s situation is analogous to calling your boss a slave master

In Dec. 1900, Christy Mathewson was taken in rule 5 draft by the Reds, but subsequently traded back to Giants, then pitched 336 innings in 1901

Makes no sense to add a guy like Jankowski to 40 man while dfa'ing Colas. If they want two defensive specialists who can't hit, why not just go with Jones

Yeah but they dfa'd Colas not one of the thirty somethings.

Jones solves the problem of supposedly needing Taylor to back up CF. Might as well claim Canario if available and cut Taylor while we're at it.

Awfuler than Colas?

No he was listed as NRI, along with Clevinger, as they both still are

I don't think that's the OD roster. That's the same list that's been on mlb.com all spring

Can Slater make it all the way through spring without a hit?

One of these is not like the others

I don't get why they're playing guys who both won't be on roster and aren't prospects so late in ST

I had to look at this post for close to five minutes before I realized pcq misspelled Getz

How do you figure that?

Iriarte, Nastrini, Schuster, Eder, White and Wikelman are the other starters on 40 man at the moment

I seriously doubt there was ever a time a team could force a player into a surgery. That sounds downright barbaric. If there was we would have heard of some Curt Flood of forced surgeries

What's a more positive possible prognosis? Could it be something like just working through some scar tissue

That in itself is an absolute, so you are basically saying you are a sith. I don't believe you though

Yes I know that. The Sox could carry Sosa, Vargas, Rojas, Baldwin, Drury and Meidroth to cover 2b/3b/SS and backup the OF rather than waste a 40 man spot on Slater and Taylor is all I'm saying.

Sure he can. The Sox aren"t winning much more than 50 games either way and Tauchman is solid defensively

Someone will need to dfa'd each time someone is added like Clevinger, Drury, Meidroth, Montgomery, Teel, Quero along with anytime a reliever goes down, unless you want to start throwing starting pitching prospects in the bullpen due to injury. The 14 extra spots on the 40 man have to cover both guys you are protecting and guys you need as AAAA substitutes. It's not a lot of spots when you consider the number of pitchers we're likely to go through. It would be better to use 40 man on someone like Maton who could both cover in event of injury and potentially have use beyond this year

Baldwin and Rojas can cover backing up the corner OF when the starters are off, with Tauchman backing up Robert. The issue of carrying guys like Slater and Taylor have more to do with 40 man roster management issues than active roster. Suppose you have dfa'd Colas and a couple OFers are on IL so you need to add someone like Maton. There's another 40 man cut that needs to be made.

That's what Tauchman and Rojas are for

So we have to keep Benintendi, Robert, Tauchman, Taylor AND Slater on the roster to teach the subsequently nonexistent young outfielders how to win, meanwhile dfa-ing young players the Sox have under control for 5+ years when someone like Teel or Montgomery gets called up. Makes no sense for a team hoping to win 50 games