This time of year, there are always a large number of players that hit waivers as clubs need to open up 40-man roster spots for various guys who are making their club’s Opening Day roster. Moreover, there are always a large number of players in camps on minor league deals who don’t make their club’s Opening Day roster, and have the option of opting out of their minor league deal to sign elsewhere.
In other words, in this final stretch before Opening Day, there’s a bit of a last change to grab a player who might fit your roster well, even if he wasn’t a fit elsewhere.
For the Chicago Cubs, that kind of opportunity will always mean checking in on relief arms they might like – that’s a year-round effort – and also, in this year’s case, checking in on a possible infielder for the bench.
“We still have some balls in the air with the bullpen and then the bench, and it does affect it, which guys are waivers, which guys have out clauses, things like that,” Cubs President Jed Hoyer said, per the Tribune. “The timing is hard because it’s happening sort of as teams are leaving, but you never want the inconvenience of that to hurt making the right decision.”
What Hoyer means there is that it can be tricky to grab a guy who is just finishing up the spring with one organization, intent, perhaps, on heading to live with his family in one city, and then shuffle him over into your organization for Opening Day. These are humans, after all, and the whole point of grabbing a guy at the last minute like this would be so that he could make your team better on Day One. If the process, itself, kinda mucks up that possibility, then there’s no utility in doing it in the first place. So that all has to be a consideration.
That said, you don’t know for sure who will become available, and whether they’ll be a better fit than what you already have. So you play the field as it presents itself, and stand ready to pounce on the right opportunity. I wouldn’t say this is the Cubs feeling like they are short a reliever or short an infielder, but I think it’s been clear as the spring has played out that they wouldn’t hate having another utility player on the bench (and, as I said, they’re always, always, always looking for more pitching).
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