Baseball is full of roster rules and regulations that aren’t always the easiest to understand. These are my favorite parts of baseball, so I’m starting a series to explain some of those aspects of the game.
The idea of “Options” is often thrown around by fans.
This is usually mentioned when it comes to roster management. Maybe a player is under performing or a spot on the roster is needed, and whether a player has options remaining comes into play.
In the context of the Major League Rules, they aren’t actually called “options” — an informal term which hides that options are measured in years — but for the sake of this discussion, that is the term we will continue to use.