If you want to know how a baseball team works — what they value and how they think about the game — pay attention to what they do on the margins.
Everyone agrees what a major league star looks like, and wants as many of them as possible. It’s when you get to the 40th and 60th men on a roster that the real information about differences in philosophy between teams really starts to show.
One such nugget was buried in Neil Solondz’s game notes on the Rays Radio blog the other day:
Tampa Bay also added LHP Dietrich Enns to the 60-player pool in Port Charlotte on a minor league deal.