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jdub220
DFAing an ex-Dback for another ex-Dback.
Watch out Nats fans, Slaten’s coming to town. Duck.
ZoinksScoob91
If I had to guess, Chico has to be DFA’ed for the purpose of securing option waivers, which means even though he has options left, he has enough service time to require being exposed to waivers each time he is optioned to the minors. He remains on the 40-man roster while he passes through waivers, which is weird since usually when someone is DFA’ed, they are removed from the 40-man roster. Obviously, if Chico is claimed, he goes to whatever team claims him. But if he passes through waivers, he will simply be optioned to Syracuse, and remain on the Nats’ 40-man roster.
This happened with Dana Eveland last July in Oakland; there was a press release about it at the time, and I got some clarification from the VERY nice people in their media relations department. Here’s a link to the press release:
oakland.athletics.mlb.com/news/press_releases/pres…