bryan 🌉

How I would manage the 40-man crisis this offseason: Protect Lalane, Gair to put the 40-man at 58 (let Brubaker walk in FA). Cut the following 18: Position players Bader (eat $10M sunk, give young OFs runway) Whitcomb Morgan McCray Harris Basabe Pitchers Marte Hentges Foley Walker Butto Wick Kuhnel Sanmartin Abner Gage Peguero Lonsway Beck This puts the 40-man at the following players by position group: 11 SP Webb Roupp Houser Tidwell McDonald Birdsong Wilkinson Whisenhunt Molina Davitt Lalane 9 RP Rodriguez Harris Smith Winn Perdomo Seymour Roxby Gair Mendez 3 C Susac Cavanaugh Knizner 7 IF Eldridge Mayer Adames Chapman Devers Furman Koss 7 OF Lee Davidson Gilbert Hill Bandura Schmitt 3 UTL Cox Rodriguez Bericoto This was an incredibly difficult exercise, as the glut of medium-warm AAAA bodies is just egregious. It’s not that they’re necessarily bad players, but no other organization has such a skew on their 40-man towards unproven, young talent. And out of the 40 players I selected, moving off any of them will be pretty difficult (veteran under contract or young player you don’t want to give up on yet), so making any additions in the offseason will bring about some difficult decisions. I guess Buster has to start trading