Coming into the season, the plan for rosters this summer was for them to gradually decrease as the year went on. We started with 30-man rosters coming out of camp as a way to help pitchers and other players in general more easily get themselves ready for the season after a condensed ramp up period. After two weeks of that, the plan was for things to go down to 28 players before decreasing again to 26 after another two weeks. It would then stay at 26 for the rest of the year. The first deadline for that cut down to 28 was supposed to be this Thursday.
Cutting the Red Sox roster down to 28
