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Cinnamon J. Scudworth · 03-20-2016, 11:27 AM

There's no reason to completely fill your 40 man roster just for the sake of doing so. The only reasons to add a minor league player to your 40-man are to 1) protect him from being taken in the Rule 5 draft and 2) make him playoff-eligible (depending on your settings). You can always add players directly to your active roster if you want to call them up (which adds them to the 40-man at the same time, of course).

So I would evaluate your options with those criteria in mind. If anything, you want to avoid putting minor leaguers on your 40-man if you can, in order to delay having to use up their options. And having a completely full 40-man roster complicates things like picking up players off of waivers or making trades in mid-season.

03-20-2016, 11:27 AM	#2
Cinnamon J. Scudworth All Star Starter Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 1,119	There's no reason to completely fill your 40 man roster just for the sake of doing so. The only reasons to add a minor league player to your 40-man are to 1) protect him from being taken in the Rule 5 draft and 2) make him playoff-eligible (depending on your settings). You can always add players directly to your active roster if you want to call them up (which adds them to the 40-man at the same time, of course). So I would evaluate your options with those criteria in mind. If anything, you want to avoid putting minor leaguers on your 40-man if you can, in order to delay having to use up their options. And having a completely full 40-man roster complicates things like picking up players off of waivers or making trades in mid-season. __________________ "Sometimes, this is like going to a grocery store. You’ve got a list until you get to the check-out stand. And then you start reading People magazine, and all this other [stuff] ends up in the basket." -Sandy Alderson on the MLB offseason Last edited by Cinnamon J. Scudworth; 03-20-2016 at 11:30 AM.