The official rules on postseason eligibility are posted over at the .com site.
Everyone on the team's 40-man roster (and DL/bereavement/etc) is eligible for the postseason, whether or not they were on the Major League roster on Aug 31.
Any other player who is in the organization before Aug 31 may replace an injured player for playoff eligibility. Since almost every team has several players on the DL, this effectively means that every player in the club's organization can be put on the postseason roster if desired.
So someone like Henry Owens or Joe Kelly who is already on the 40-man is playoff eligible without any other actions.
Someone like Yoan Moncada requires replacing someone on the DL, but that's not a real restriction in practic--in the case of the Sox, we have Josh Rutledge, Brandon Workman, Pablo Sandoval, Carson Smith, and Blake Swihart on the 60-day DL, so we could easily shift 5 players who weren't on the 40-man into the postseason roster if we wanted to (which we don't), and more if we used 15-day DL folks.
Also:
Each team may use 25 players in each postseason series. The series roster is set at the beginning of the series and may not be changed mid-series, unless there's an injury that happens after the series starts and the Commissioner approves a replacement be allowed.
Everyone on the team's 40-man roster (and DL/bereavement/etc) is eligible for the postseason, whether or not they were on the Major League roster on Aug 31.
Any other player who is in the organization before Aug 31 may replace an injured player for playoff eligibility. Since almost every team has several players on the DL, this effectively means that every player in the club's organization can be put on the postseason roster if desired.
So someone like Henry Owens or Joe Kelly who is already on the 40-man is playoff eligible without any other actions.
Someone like Yoan Moncada requires replacing someone on the DL, but that's not a real restriction in practic--in the case of the Sox, we have Josh Rutledge, Brandon Workman, Pablo Sandoval, Carson Smith, and Blake Swihart on the 60-day DL, so we could easily shift 5 players who weren't on the 40-man into the postseason roster if we wanted to (which we don't), and more if we used 15-day DL folks.
Also:
Each team may use 25 players in each postseason series. The series roster is set at the beginning of the series and may not be changed mid-series, unless there's an injury that happens after the series starts and the Commissioner approves a replacement be allowed.
Last edited: