Comments on: November 20 Passed; How Does Your 40-Man Roster Look?

By: Toby Hyde

Toby Hyde — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:26:49 +0000

The Mets won’t end up with both if Bostick signs elsewhere as a free agent, as he’s now entitled to do.

By: TheBigStapler

TheBigStapler — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:04:15 +0000

I’m intrigued by Scott Mathieson. High K/9, though recently off injury.

By: NateW

NateW — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:10:03 +0000

Lopez is on it because they claimed him off waivers… they had to add him to take him. They have 4 open spots so there is no reason to take anyone off the roster right now. Why do you want to waive someone when you don’t need to? And someone who serves a purpose in AAA at that…

Bostick as a minor league veteran has the right to leave, the Mets didn’t send him packing. I’d prefer he come back, but he isn’t an indentured servant.

Again, this isn’t a either or option. This isn’t about ‘AAA loogy’ (no such thing anyway) its about two players with different rights and obligations. They should end up with both, until they waive Lopez when they need his roster spot for someone else.

By: NickM

NickM — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:20:18 +0000

And why would you prefer to have Lopez on it? Who cares if he has options or not, hes not worth keeping. Yes if I wanted to keep a AAA LOOGY on the 40-man I would prefer it to be Bostick over Lopez. This could be accomplished by resigning Bostick and waiving the incumbent Lopez.

By: NateW

NateW — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:37:26 +0000

There is no need to have Bostick on the 40 man roster… and why would you want to?

Huh? indeed!

By: NickM

NickM — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:10:44 +0000

Bostick is a minor league free agent; if you resign him to a minor league deal, you can’t add him to the 40-man while hes assigned to AAA? Huh?

By: NateW

NateW — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:52:12 +0000

I don’t see how they relate to each other, they are in different categories.

Bostick cannot be on the 40 man roster unless he is on the 25 man roster because all of his options have been used up. He is the kind of player you invite to spring training so he can try to make the big league bullpen.

Lopez has at least one more year of options remaining, and the 40 man roster isn’t full (yet) so there is no reason to remove him from the 40 man roster for anyone (yet).

Keep Lopez in AAA, and try to bring back Bostick for a ST tryout with AAA as a fallback plan. It isn’t an either or situation at all.

By: NickM

NickM — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:05:18 +0000

Yea but keeping both Lopez AND Bostick on the 40-man doesn’t seem to to wise, IMO. I would have just waived Lopez and resigned Bostick to a MiL deal.

By: NateW

NateW — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:28:17 +0000

They also need at least one bench IF with both Cora and Tatis free agents. They will need more than the 4 spots they have free right now.

But they have nothing blocking them from taking a player in the rule 5 draft. Now when it comes to signing free agents the FO is going to have some interesting choices to make in terms of putting players on waivers, or looking to do some 2 for 1 trades. Picking a player in the rule 5 would just add one more complication, or it could add just the trade chip someone is looking for.

Toby, I don’t know what your argument is about Bostick. I doubt the Mets want him to leave, but I don’t think they should have locked up a 25 man roster spot for him either. He is out of options, so resigning him to a split contract makes the most sense. Hopefully he wants to return as well. Lopez was already on the 40 man roster and has options remaining, so it makes sense to keep him, regardless of what they do with Bostick.

By: Toby Hyde

Toby Hyde — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:57:04 +0000

Right. They won’t sign four FA before the Rule 5 anyway, so that at least postpones some of those decisions.