I dont take OD lineups as they are carved in stone. Things change so frequently.
Front Offices do this all the time; keep the guys without options on the OD roster. After a few weeks in the season you would try to sneak them through waivers in hopes that most teams have their roles defined already. Putting them on waivers now or sending them back to their team (ala Rule 5 draft) doesnt help.
Ceciliani, and Venditte had options - Leon and Carrera did not.
Ceciliani is still young and is better off playing more games in AAA than sitting on the bench. Venditte will probably be on this team in a week or so.
This is what i said on the closer's matter;
I think letting Osuna close was the right thing to do short term (this season). Did a lot last year, would send the wrong message to give it to the new guy eventhough you cant go wrong.
But from a business and long term standpoint putting Storen in the closer role makes much more sense. Keeps Osuna's arb numbers down, you can have him take the Dellin Betances role and pitch multiple innings which would giving him more value to us this year and in upcoming seasons to build up his innings to start. Plus it could give Storen some huge save numbers, a big year from Storen (especially on the saves side) could build up his value where we can give him a QO and he would likely decline in hopes of a long term deal (ala Robertson) not often you have non closers rejecting the QO (Miller).
OD rosters dont mean much to me... The season brings so many more changes... closer's job can change tomorrow, nothing is sent in stone.
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Could have over 50M to spend next off-season plus 4 top picks (likely at least 2) when Bautista and EE reject QO and if we extend QOs and have Dickey and Storen reject them.
