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Image credit: (Photo by Diamond Images via Getty Images) By 6 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Nov. 18, all 30 MLB teams must set their 40-man rosters in advance of the Rule 5 draft, which is scheduled for Dec. 10. For Rule 5 protection purposes, most international and high school draftees from 2021 are first-time eligible this year, while college draftees from 2022 are also eligible for the first time. The…

Edwin Arroyo Photo: Angelina Alcantar/News Sentinel/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images We’re less than a month from the Winter Meetings and the Rule 5 Draft, which means it’s a good time to evaluate every team’s 40-man roster situation. This is the time of year when teams have one final chance to protect Rule 5 eligible players by placing them on the 40-man. Eligibility is determined by a mix of…

Name Position Age Team FV Joe Elbis SP 22.2 ARI 40 Tim Tawa 1B 25.6 ARI 35+ Elbis is likely to spend a developmental year on the 40-man the way Cristian Mena did in 2023. Tawa’s carrying trait is his defensive versatility, which is a great fit on an Arizona 40-man currently thin on the infield. Name Position Age Team FV Denzel Clarke CF 24.6 ATH 45+ Gunnar Hoglund SP 24.9 ATH 35+ Ryan…

© Angela Piazza/Caller-Times/USA TODAY NETWORK This week’s 40-man roster deadline was less eventful than usual (we only had one trade on deadline day), but as always, a number of young players became big leaguers in a certain sense, and teams had no choice but to indicate what they think of lots of fringe prospects who they either did or did not choose to roster. This day of clerical activity is…

Cubs Officially Adds Jason Kipnis to 40-Man Roster and “Gets” Their Relief Trevor Megill

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Today Roster moves for puppies.In another thing that appears to have been a lifetime ago, the Cubs took the huge relief Trevor Megill in the San Diego Padres’ Rule 5 Draft. He had had some success in the upper levels of the minors and the puppies wanted to take him to their Pitch Lab to see what they could do. Even going back to when Rule 5 was drafted, though, we always said that it was…