The deadline to add players to the 40-man roster to protect them from the Rule 5 draft was today, so there have been so, so many minor moves as teams scramble to protect prospects they’d prefer not get poached, and outright a bunch of others off the roster in the process. In the near future, I’m sure we’ll see a modest buffet of “which potentially interesting unprotected prospects eligible for Rule 5 selection” are out there, once the dust settles.
Aside from that, some things you may have missed from earlier today:
- The Rangers extended manager Chris Woodward, to prevent the lame duck situation that teams generally avoid with managers.