It’s been almost 10 days since our last transaction-oriented post and I was expecting to see more releases than this, even if I had been told that extended spring (XST) is quite sizable this year.
I’m no draft expert — longtime readers know that I don’t focus much on it because it’s not my area of enjoyment, much less expertise — but the theory that I’ve referenced in the comments is that XST is much larger this year because the draft is 40 rounds instead of 50. Therefore, I think we’re looking at a situation where guys that might have been released in previous years are being kept on for further evaluation and to ensure they have enough bodies to fill the rosters of Auburn and the GCL. Again, this is just a theory.
Anyway, here’s a breakdown of the moves reported by Baseball America this morning, appended with any reported on MiLB.com:
RELEASED
• RHP Luis Chirinos
• RHP Chad Durbin
• RHP Scott Williams
PLACED ON THE DL
• RHP Adam Carr
• RHP Jeff Fulchino
• RHP Waldis Joaquin
• RHP Taylor Jordan
• RHP Mike Schultz
• RHP Dean Weaver
• LHP Sammy Solis
• C Devin Ivany
Please give our volunteer time to update the Big Board. As for questions on specific players, the working assumption has to be that if you don’t see them above, here or here, they’re in XST. Otherwise, I’ll be periodically checking the transaction pages for each league, and making posts like this on at least a weekly basis.