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
For real.
NYY is probably looking at that list..
I mean the A’s won’t make the playoffs this year, but their roster is close to Detroit of last year. A lot of up and coming talent that’s starting to gel. And if a couple of these guys take the next step especially in the rotation they’ll be a playoff team by Vegas.
Looks like the hit the bullseye on Jeffrey Springs, had a nice start yesterday.
Na. Once they get to Vegas I suspect they will be a much more competitive team when it comes to spending. I doubt they will be up there with the Dodgers and Mets, but there is a lot of money in Vegas. I’d say they will be top10-15 in spending most years once the money starts rolling in.
People still really think the A’s will eventually make it to Vegas…
Of course they will. Follow the money to easy
It’s a done deal dude. Cope.
Make sure to follow your own advice, seamaholic/seamaholic 2.
I have to disagree. John Fisher has been cheap, is cheap—and will continue to be cheap. A high—income area doesn’t equate to any spending at all, just look at the Twins, Red & White Sox. I really hope you’re right, though.
Las Vegas is a low income area. The average income in Oakland is nearly double that of Las Vegas. Expand that to Alameda county vs Clark county and the disparity is even greater. In Oakland the biggest industries can all be supporters of the team. In Las Vegas the law prohibits them from advertising, being a sponsor of any kind, buying luxury boxes, or even buying tickets to give away.
Besides Poteet & Wade I see no connection to any of these guys with the NYY, so -as any reasonable person would-I lost interest in this article pretty quickly. Ahahahahahaha!
Sounds like you’re using logic and reason applied to optimize business decision-making. In reality, the decision is not pure logical economics but driven by the emotional desires of the team owner with a track record of suboptimal business and management decisions.
Nah I think they’re gonna spend like a mid budget club from here on out-not just to stay in compliance but also thanks to renewed revenue from locals/tourists/tv deals that weren’t happening in Oakland.
They’ll be a $100M to $165M range budget going forward, depending on roster construction/playoff odds year over year, I suspect.
It’s difficult to say. I expect Fisher to sell within 2 years of the MLB ban on selling the team. Who knows how the new owners will spend? Fisher is a money guy, not a baseball guy.
Actually, Fisher is basically just a nepo kid that inherited a fortune, along with a sense of entitlement and arrogance that overwhelms said fortune…
That’s true of basically all team owners
@Seam
Well – many of them, anyway, however Fisher is something of a tall poppy in that field of muck.
I don’t think I’ve seen a bigger fan of this relocation than seamaholic 2.
TV revenue will be smaller in Vegas than in the Bay Area. I think, in the best-case scenario, the A’s have a Miami Marlins-esque 1 or 2-year splurge before the new-stadium novelty wears off and attendance stabilizes.
I’m not sure what you mean by mid budget, but $100M would put them in the bottom sextile of payrolls today, never mind 3-4 years from now. It’s not that teams can’t be competitive in that range, but I really doubt Fisher changes his penny-pinching ways.
The Las Vegas media market is the 40th largest in the nation and has less than 20% of the TV households as the Bay Area market. Chances are that the A’s will have to be broadcast by MLB because no one is going to step in and give them money for that tiny market. There is no NBC Bay Area to save them once they get to Las Vegas. Instead of getting $70 million in Oakland, they will be lucky to get $10 million in Las Vegas. Remember, casinos and the gaming industry cannot even advertise on A’s games because of Nevada gaming law.
Fisher will spend the absolute minimum he can to keep receiving his revenue sharing checks.
*Marlins
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.