We try to maintain a pretty good handle on which players have minor league options remaining, and due to Nick Rumbelow spending parts of 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 in both the majors and minors, we had assumed his minor league options had been used up. For those confused (and it is confusing), here’s the definition. The gist is that between being DFA’d after spending 2016 on the DL all year, Rumbelow has somehow eluded using all his options as we’d previously thought. As such, he’s the natural choice to be sent down to AAA to make space for new RHP Connor Sadzeck, which is exactly what is happening.
A brief scouting report on Connor Sadzeck, as Mariners option Nick Rumbelow to AAA
