The 2022 trade deadline has come and gone. We've got some new players here, and others that are newly departed:
At the end of this season, we'll either re-sign the following players, or lose them to free agency:
Spotrac Red Sox 2023 Unrestricted Free Agents
And we have these players that are already signed to the Major League team for next year: Spotrac 2023 Red Sox Payroll
However, the real impetus for me to start this thread is that we also have a great number of players in the minors who are eligible to be selected by other teams in the December Rule 5 draft, and we just net-acquired another Rule 5 eligible player (in the Hosmer trade):
Sox Prospects Rule 5 Eligibility
As many of you are likely aware, players in the minor league system that are signed after the age of 18, and have been in the minor league system for 5 years, must be elevated to the team's 40-man roster or risk being scooped up by a different team that has room on their 40-man roster (to wit, how we acquired a certain Garrett Whitlock). I'm not super familiar with the players in our minor league system, and am dependent on the excellent reports from the likes of Cesar Crespo and others. But, there's definitely some names on that list that I recognize as being various folks' binkies, and I'm curious how folks would suggest that Bloom consider managing his 40-man roster to protect some of these players, and which players you would choose to protect. I've seen some discussion of this topic in other threads, but not all in one place, and figure it merits conversation. Thanks all! *Apologies if the spoiler doesn't format correctly, I was kind of curious how this function would work.*
So far:
Added to MLB team:
Pham
McGuire
Hosmer
Subtracted from MLB team:
Vazquez
Diekman
Added to farm:
PTBNL from White Sox
Enmanuel Valdez (LoL note: Rule 5 eligible)
Wilyer Abreu. (LoL note: Rule 5 eligible)
Max Ferguson
Corey Rosier
Subtracted from farm:
Groome (LoL note: Rule 5 eligible)
PTBNL to Reds
Did I forget anything?
At the end of this season, we'll either re-sign the following players, or lose them to free agency:
Spotrac Red Sox 2023 Unrestricted Free Agents
And we have these players that are already signed to the Major League team for next year: Spotrac 2023 Red Sox Payroll
However, the real impetus for me to start this thread is that we also have a great number of players in the minors who are eligible to be selected by other teams in the December Rule 5 draft, and we just net-acquired another Rule 5 eligible player (in the Hosmer trade):
Sox Prospects Rule 5 Eligibility
As many of you are likely aware, players in the minor league system that are signed after the age of 18, and have been in the minor league system for 5 years, must be elevated to the team's 40-man roster or risk being scooped up by a different team that has room on their 40-man roster (to wit, how we acquired a certain Garrett Whitlock). I'm not super familiar with the players in our minor league system, and am dependent on the excellent reports from the likes of Cesar Crespo and others. But, there's definitely some names on that list that I recognize as being various folks' binkies, and I'm curious how folks would suggest that Bloom consider managing his 40-man roster to protect some of these players, and which players you would choose to protect. I've seen some discussion of this topic in other threads, but not all in one place, and figure it merits conversation. Thanks all! *Apologies if the spoiler doesn't format correctly, I was kind of curious how this function would work.*