I’ve been wondering about the Texas Rangers Opening Day roster recently. In particular, I’ve been thinking about the bench alignment, something that probably occupies too much of my thinking anyway, generally speaking.
However...MLB is returning to the 13/13 roster rule for 2022, a rule that was to be implemented in 2020, but which wasn’t due to the whole COVID thing. The rule provides that, with the 26 man rosters in effect, teams must carry at least 13 position players and no more than 13 pitchers.*
* There is talk that there may be 27 or 28 man rosters for a few weeks or a month to start the year, due to the shortened spring training that resulted from the lockout.