Today, the teams had to add some prospects to their roster of 40 players. Why? Because some prospects were going to become eligible to be selected at the Rule 5 Draft, a repechage that serves to allocate talent.
This means that some clubs have moved en masse. From the lot? The Rays.
But the Blue Jays also moved. They needed to add several prospects to the 40-player roster and they had to release three guys to make room.
Raimel Tapia, Bradley Zimmer and pitcher Foster Griffin are therefore out of the 40-player roster.
The pitcher had to sign somewhere other than MLB anyway. Zimmer was clearly a candidate for release.
But Tapia? It’s a bit more of a surprise.
Sure, his projected salary of just over $5 million didn’t help his cause, but still: he was an excellent fourth outfielder who did a good job.
So I’m a bit surprised, in the end.
The depth in the field took it for the cold with Jackie Bradley Jr. who is free and the two outfielders who are no longer there. You will have to look elsewhere – and at a lower price, surely.
What happened today was, in the short term, a necessary evil.
