The most valuable thing in baseball is the active roster spot. You only get 26 of them for any given game, and it generally represents the 26 best players in your organization at any one time. If you add a player to the roster, someone has to be dropped — Tim Locastro, who might actually be the best base stealer in baseball, was sent to Triple-A for the newly-traded Andrew Benintendi on Wednesday night. The Yankees feel that they net more runs with Benintendi on the roster than Locastro, and I’m inclined to agree.
But once a guy like Benny is on the 26 man, it’s hard to get him off.