6/13 - Rox @ Sox
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Well, technically, Colorado is winning a series on the road against a last year’s pace team, so it’s not that unexpected of a result.
He was DFA'd. Explain to me how he's still in the system. Sincere question, I don't know the answer.
I didn't know that. And the Sox organization has the option of firing him (paying him off, I guess?) and isn't taking it?
All he is due from the team is the salary he will receive for the rest of this season (which is basically pennies for an MLB club), outside of that cutting him is 100% free.
Designated for assignment to Worcester since no one claimed him to pitch for ML since he is all PR risk and no reward
Yup. Mentioned in all the threads here about him. It's a huge error on the part of the Sox and cannot be ignored
I don’t know if a DFA primer runs afoul of absinthe’s edict, but I’m hoping not:
DFA just means “removed from the 40-man and put into limbo.” Once a player is DFA’d the team has seven days to do one of three things:
1.) They can trade him. This is what happened with Matt Barnes a few months ago; he was DFA’d to clear up roster space, and then Bloom was able to flip him to Miami for Bleier.
2.) If there are no trade suitors, the player is placed on waivers. If another team claims him, that team then takes on the player’s contract and adds him to the 40-man.
3.) If no one claims him, the team can either release him or outright him.
- “Release” means they pay the rest of his contract and send him off into the wild. He is then free to sign with another team for the pro-rated MLB minimum; if he does, the amount that he’s paid by his new team is deducted from what the releasing team owes him.
- “Outright” means “the original team keeps him but sends him back to the minors.” He’s no longer on the 40-man; he’s now just another minor league player. A player can only be outrighted once in his career, and he can’t be outrighted if he has more than three years of MLB service time. This is what happened to Dermody.