ARLINGTON, TEXAS - OCTOBER 24: Hunter Renfroe #11 of the Tampa Bay Rays celebrates after hitting a solo home run against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the fifth inning in Game Four of the 2020 MLB World Series at Globe Life Field on October 24, 2020 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
The New York Yankees have an entirely new pool of players to plunder from now that the 40-man roster deadline has passed.
The Yankees luckily got through “Rule 5 Protection Day” without having to make any extremely difficult decisions.
The prospects we anticipated they’d protect got added to the roster (Oswald Peraza and three young pitchers), and they weren’t forced to shove any veterans into the ether in order to make room.