Here's a post that is a BUNCH OF NAMES.
We have an impending 40-man roster crunch coming this December, and so it might make sense to trade some players we are liable to lose to Rule 5 in any case for upgrades to the MLB roster.
This is a good problem to have; it means we have real prospects in the high minors again. While these players will need to be protected by acquiring teams as well, which can dampen their value for some teams, teams with less prospect depth in the high minors will still be interested.
The invaluable SoxProspects.com helpfully maintains a list of players who will need to be protected. Here is that list: I've added the Sox Prospects ranking for players in the top 60 or so, as a way of indexing which players will likely need to be protected: 25+ or unrated? Probably safe. Lower than that? Will need a roster spot. You could totally see the Phillies or whichever team with a bad farm system nabbing ThaddeusWard if he's unprotected, but Politi or Scherff are probably safe just by virtue of not being worth drafting.
Jecorrah Arnold
Brayan Bello (7)
Cole Brannen
Gary Calvo
Marco Cardoso
Pedro Castellanos (38)
Felix Cepeda
Kole Cottam
Kutter Crawford (52)
Ricardo Cubillan
Osvaldo De La Rosa
Tyler Dearden
Jonathan Diaz
Danny Diaz
Jeter Downs (3)
Tyler Esplin
Durbin Feltman (30)
Ryan Fernandez
Ryan Fitzgerald (57)
Antoni Flores
Frank German (32)
Rio Gomez
Devlin Granberg
Gilberto Jimenez (4)
Jose Larez
Dominic LoBrutto
Bryan Lucas
Charlie Madden
Alan Marrero
Elih Marrero
Joan Martinez
Alexander Montero
Oddanier Mosqueda
Brendan Nail
Brett Netzer
Tanner Nishioka
Kaleb Ort (41)
Yusniel Padron-Artiles
Aaron Perry
Antonio Police
AJ Politi (43)
Ceddanne Rafaela
Oscar Rangel
Tyreque Reed
Jesus Rosillo
Yasel Santana
Victor Santos
Zach Schellinger
Alex Scherff (53)
John Schreiber
Gregori Segovia
Chase Shugart
Miguel Suero
Jake Thompson
Thaddeus Ward (20)
Grant Williams
Josh Winckowski (15)
Just the 13 ranked guys, in order by ranking:
Jeter Downs (3)
Gilberto Jimenez (4)
Brayan Bello (7)
Josh Winckowski (15)
Thaddeus Ward (20)
Durbin Feltman (30)
Frank German (32)
Pedro Castellanos (38)
Kaleb Ort (41)
AJ Politi (43)
Kutter Crawford (52)
Alex Scherff (53)
Ryan Fitzgerald (57)
Add these guys to a similar number of prospect-types already on the 40-man, again with SP rankings if they are still eligible:
Jonathan Arauz (25)
Christian Arroyo
Michael Chavis
Franchy Cordero
Bobby Dalbec
Jarren Duran (2)
Jay Groome (10)
Ronaldo Hernandez (22)
Tanner Houck (5)
Bryan Mata (11)
Hudson Potts (26)
Yacksel Rios
Jeisson Rosario (24)
Connor Seabold (6)
Connor Wong (19)
Of those 26 players, we can roster 14 or so, depending on how many are also on the 26-man this winter. There should be a positional distribution — i.e. there need to be some catchers, etc.... The others need to be exposed to Rule V or waivers, or traded.
So that 14 is probably:
C: Wong, Hernandez
IF: Dalbec, Downs, Arroyo
OF: Cordero, Duran, Jimenez
SP: Houck, Seabold, Groome, Mata, Bello, Winckowski
RP: ?!?!?
Guys on the bubble (most likely to be traded): Chavis, Arauz, Potts, Rosario, Ward, Feltman, German, Castellanos
This exercise suggests to me that we will probably be trading some SP prospects by the deadline, which seems a bit bizarre given what we've been through to assemble them.