Alex Anthopoulos

Any other questions for Alex on tonight's moves?

Yeah, just someone that he was DFA'd.

A lot of these deals you normally would claim guys on waivers and so on.

He has options.

The numbers at the big league level, obviously, they weren't good.

I'm stating the obvious there.

The numbers in the minor leagues, in a tough league, in the Pacific Coast League, were pretty good.

They're swing and miss.

Former top pick.

Again, you have guys, just for the reasons we talked about, guys with options.

We had moments last year when you're limited to five where we would have optioned someone down four times, and now you're saying, well, if we call this guy up again, we've only got one option left, and they're an out-of-option player.

So...

You run out of options.

Sometimes you have a double header or you use your long guy and he's down for three days.

And you need protection if your starter goes short or he gets hit in the ankle in the first inning.

So having guys with options that have some upside and some stuff...

I think, you know, you just you take a shot at those guys, especially in a cash considerations deal.

So you can wait till they go on outright waivers and see if you get the claim or you can jump the line and do a cash deal if the team's willing to do that and ensure you get the player.

So we're aggressive with that.

You do 100 of these, you get one.