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40 Man Issues


South Dakota Tom

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As we approach the non-waiver trade deadline, many commenters have discussed the logjam that we are facing in the roster decisions that will need to be made this off-season.

 

While we search for potential catchers, relief pitchers, and other assorted pieces of the puzzle (both this year and next), it would help me greatly if someone could list the names of those we need to add to the roster this offseason or risk losing to Rule 5 or minor league free agency.

 

Whether this is in the form of a proposed trade, or just informational, I would love to see a list of those who need to be added, as well as suggestions of those who will need to be removed in some form or fashion to make room for these prospects.

 

Assuming no major trades (or that a trade only swaps an equivalent number of rostered players for new players) how many need to be added - and trimmed - in the next six months? Who would you add? Who would you remove?

 

Here is a link to the existing 40-man (plus Nolasco makes 41).

 

http://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/team/roster_40man.jsp?c_id=min

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I was going thru my head: Hunter, Pelfrey, Fien, Duensing, Darnell, Wheeler, Tonkin, Fryer, Hermann, Nunez, Robinson, Thompson. Decide about Thielbar and Achter.

 

Only REAL additions would be Duffy, Rogers, Harrison and Walker. You can think about Hicks, Zack Jones and Cole Johnson. You might add Berrios in September, or just say "no" and still wait another season before giving him a spot next summer.

 

Most others you jsut have to shuffle to AA or AAA to keep out of the minor league draft and keep them there, which shouldn't be a problem as pretty much the entire Rochester roster are minor elague free agents.

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With the roster shuffling that's already occurred, I find this list less daunting than I'd feared.  There will always be guys you want to add to the roster but also enough wiggle room to make trades or off-season acquisitions.  Thanks for the link to your previous post (for some reason it didn't appear when I plugged "40 man" into the search tool)....

 

There have been so many theoretical trade threads lately that I thought this list would be a good sideboard to those options.  At least it doesn't appear that any top prospects would be exposed by a too-full cupboard.

 

In an unrelated note, anyone know why all the posts show up in Greenwich Mean Time?  This post, for instance, said it was done at 5:40 a.m. when it is 11:40 p.m. CDT.

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