"not worthy of its own thread" offseason thread

[MrCrowesGarden]

[CardsofSTL]

Gotta save those titles for when you need to promote him but keep him in the same job.

[CardsofSTL]

[Farewell Friends]

Mookie Betts rolled a perfect game at the World Series of Bowling.

https://deadspin.com/red-sox-player-has ... 1820394932

[CardsofSTL]

Another round of roster decisions looms for the Cardinals, who have until 7 p.m. CT on Monday to protect eligible players from the Rule 5 Draft by placing them on their 40-man roster.

It's an annual exercise of risk and projection for clubs given the limited number of roster spots they have available. The Cards have five openings on their 40-man roster, though they'll also need some of that roster space for acquisitions this offseason.

Players who signed at the age of 18 or younger become eligible for the Rule 5 Draft after five seasons. Those who were 19 or older have to be protected within four seasons. Any such player left off the roster becomes available to the other 29 teams in the Rule 5 Draft, which, this year, falls on Dec. 14.

While the Cardinals benefited from the Rule 5 Draft two years ago with their selection of right-hander Matt Bowman, they've also recently experienced some losses. The Padres plucked an unprotected Luis Perdomo from the Cards in 2015 and then dipped into St. Louis' system again last year to take Allen Cordoba.

[cardsfantx]

i thought for sure they'd have traded some of these guys that have to be protected before the deadline...not big trades, but at least move some players/gain some space in exchange for a reliever or 2

[MrCrowesGarden]

I don’t get it at all.

[MinorLeagueGuy]

The Yankees are another team that has hard decisions this time, too. But yeah.. They couldn't have done anything at the meetings? Sometimes I wonder if we have enough guys doing enough different things at the different levels of our resource dept. You know, like a guy who's only responsibility was to call Lackey and tell him we were still interested?

[CardsofSTL]

But were we interested in Lackey?

[lukethedrifter]

I don’t get it at all.

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