The few days leading up to the start of the season bring a lot of roster shuffling. Many teams will promote a minor league signee or two who had impressed in camp. There are always a few players who are out of options who don’t break camp, meaning they’ll be made available to other clubs.
That movement will continue over the next few days. Players who are designated for assignment will know their fate within a week. That gives teams up to five days to explore trade scenarios. If they don’t line up a deal, they need to place the player on waivers, which take 48 hours to resolve. Rounding up the recent activity around MLB, here are the players currently in DFA limbo.
- Angels: LHP Angel Perdomo, LHP José Quijada
- Astros: C/1B/OF Cooper Hummel
- Blue Jays: RHP Tommy Nance, RHP Zach Pop, RHP Nick Robertson
- Brewers: OF Brewer Hicklen
- Cubs: RHP Cody Poteet
- Diamondbacks: C René Pinto
- Giants: 2B David Villar
- Marlins: RHP Seth Martinez
- Mets: OF José Azocar, OF Alexander Canario
- Padres: 3B/2B Eguy Rosario, SS/OF Tyler Wade
- Phillies: 2B/3B Buddy Kennedy
- Pirates: OF Joshua Palacios, RHP Peter Strzelecki
- Reds: OF Stuart Fairchild
- Rockies: OF Sam Hilliard
- White Sox: OF/1B Oscar Colás, LHP Jake Eder, OF Dominic Fletcher
Welcome to what the roster of the A’s will look like when we get to 32 teams
While none of these names are exciting at all and aren’t going to be every day regulars, Villar and Perdomo are the most intriguing. Best of luck to all of them.
However, Villar is a 3b/1b and does not play 2b as shown on the list.
Villar has played some 2nd base for the Giants.
Surprised Perdomo hasn’t caught on. 6-8 lefty with good stuff, when he keeps it over the plate. Obviously a wildcard coming back from TJ surgery, but he’d be a more intriguing option than bottom of the bullpen options for almost every team outside of the dodgers.
These are players that can make a difference. And I appreciate these otherwise hard to find summary articles from mlbtr
I like Jake Eder, had thought he would make the White Sox rotation eventually. He has the strike out stuff, unsure what is ailing him, but he could make a nice bullpen project if he can’t get it together as a starter, and could still emerge as a nice 2 or 3.
If I were a bad team I would give Jake Eder a LONG look. He’s still only 26 and was one of the best pitching prospects in baseball while in AA a few years ago.
Eder did well in 2021, but he was never a top 100 prospect. Now he’s had consecutive seasons with an ERA over 6.00. I’m sure some team will still give him a chance though.
He was. Top 50 even.
Per what ranking and what year? I can’t find him on any of MLB Pipeline, Baseball America, nor Baseball Prospectus’ top 100 lists. The only one I can find him on is #78 on FanGraphs’ top 100 list for 2023.
Classic seamaholic 2, talking with no substance or facts.
Take Oscar Colás (White Sox) and Eguy Rosario (Padres): Colás hit .282/.349/.462 in AAA last year, with a 117 wRC+, while Rosario’s .267/.341/.467 in AAA screams untapped pop (120 wRC+). Both are 25, pre-arb, and stuck behind crowded depth charts. A savvy team—like the Rays or A’s—could snag them for pennies, plug them into 400 PAs, and squeeze out 2 WAR each. That’s $15M+ in surplus value per player, per Fangraphs’ dollar-per-WAR metric, on guys making league minimum.
yankees can take Eguy Rosario , if peraza or DJ if not good at 3B.
I’d take Rosario over Reyes (more upside).
Neither of those lines are what they had last year, and in fact Colas had an output that was worse than average in AAA.
@casual
Go look at his career stats for the minors, Japanese league, and cuban league.
Perdomo and Fairchild would be interesting for Seattle.
Thats the Jake Burger and Cody Bellinger trades closed in Chicago.
Bellinger was a straight salary dump is it’s understandable that the return was minimal. But the White Sox gave up like six years of control over Jake Burger for nothing.
As a Sox fan, I didn’t like them trading Burger away, but did like the return at the time, thought Eder was going to be get it going and make the rotation. Burger is a really good hitter though and that trade is going to end up as a big loss for the White Sox.
The Pirates will take all 23. That way we can keep Skenes until he prices himself out of Pittsburgh (est. this August), although we may have to DFA some of the former DFAers already on the team.
Canario, colas, and Rosario have the highest upside out of these guys, plus they’re young as well. Hopefully they get signed soon….maybe the white Sox for canario or Rosario?
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While expansion is imminent, there’s no way it will happen in 3 years. I expect it will be somewhere between the 2030-2032 seasons.
When that happens each league will realign. Whether it’s four 4 team divisions in each league or an NBA/NHL style East/West i don’t know. The lines between the AL/NL have mostly blurred to the point of anything being possible
Edgy Rosario is the guy I would grab…he can hit and can play defense. Personally I think the Padres should have kept him
Poteet held it down for us when we needed an emergency arm. Shame he didn’t keep it up elsewhere.
Hector nerris going to make the list
Luv 2 see Oscar colas sign with Pirates we need a good 1B or OF
Roster Resource shows Jake Eder as having two options remaining, he should be assigned to AAA Charlotte.