Ben Nicholson-Smith

No one's told me this, but my guess is that it's actually kind of valuable to have that 40-man roster spot as more of a, this is going to sound bad, but more of a churn spot where you have Austin Vothup for a couple days.

He doesn't pitch well.

he's gone and you DFM and then you bring someone new onto the spot.

And then with Chad Dallas, you're not going to churn him off it.

Once he's on the 40 man, you want to keep him on the 40 man.

So at a time that Alejandro Kirk is soon going to have to be activated and within the next 10 days or so, hopefully he is going to take a 40 man spot.

And then that means someone else has to be pushed aside.

So my read is they kind of want to keep that a little bit flexible if possible.

Now that might not be possible.

Chad Dallas might be selected tomorrow.

We'll see, but

I think that that connects to their behavior around that spot.

Oh, I thought you meant as a possibility to get DFA'd.

And I mean.

I know.

I was getting there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, yes.

And I mean, with all due respect, he's probably not going to be on the 40 man in six weeks time.