In a typical year
...those of us who worry about the Rule 5 draft would be worried about having to expose SOME of these guys to the Rule 5 and possibly losing one or more of them:
Juan Mota - 100+ fastball
Steven Kwan - 300+ hitter at AA/AAA and can catch the ball.
Marcos Gonzalez - 'hidden' as a reserve at AA, he has a good chance to break out this coming year
Jose Fermin - .290 hitter for his career with SS skills and infield versatility, mastered AA.
Adam Scott - lefty who can go multiple innings, way under-the-radar prospect who could fit well for a rebuilding team that plans to use openers and is looking for multiple innings guys to open or bridge to the late inning guys. Think of how highly we think of Cody Morris and maybe (hard to tell yet) the only thing that separates them is that Morris came back sooner from his injury so he could show out more.
Steven Kwan - 300+ hitter at AA/AAA and can catch the ball.
Marcos Gonzalez - 'hidden' as a reserve at AA, he has a good chance to break out this coming year
Jose Fermin - .290 hitter for his career with SS skills and infield versatility, mastered AA.
Adam Scott - lefty who can go multiple innings, way under-the-radar prospect who could fit well for a rebuilding team that plans to use openers and is looking for multiple innings guys to open or bridge to the late inning guys. Think of how highly we think of Cody Morris and maybe (hard to tell yet) the only thing that separates them is that Morris came back sooner from his injury so he could show out more.
I think that this year ALL of these guys will be exposed to the Rule 5 draft and it is likely that all but maybe Gonzalez will be drafted and, potentially lost. That's the key, really, we are looking at 12-13 guys better or with more potential as the above guys. In a normal year there would be 1-3 guys.
...the subsection of the above group who worry about losing 6-year minor league free agents would hardly be worrried about anything. This year if we don't roster Juan Hillman and Oscar Gonzalez we will likely lose them to teams that WILL roster them.
...all fans of the Guardians would be worried about the 26 man roster will look like in 2022. With 9 of our top 30 prospects and 6 of the top 14 having to be rostered this winter, and that doesn't include Oscar Gonzalex, Konnor Pilkington and Juan Hillman, some of us are really worried about what the 40 man will look like this winter.
...all of the fans would be worried about what cheap free agents we might try to sign at the end of the off-season. Some of us are, instead, seeing the writing on the wall as far as the 40 man situation, have started hypothesizing about how we could trade multiple prospects for a young major leaguer to help us in the outfield or second base.
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