Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Speculation Time


 
And it gets more complex.


The Jays traded for Simeon Woods Richardson (who has no options) but John Schneider says he won't go Thursday (he has the rest but travel and stuff). Trey Yesavage could go on 4 days tomorrow and SWR on Friday, but if not then probably Chad Dallas (on the taxi squad) gets activated tomorrow and that needs a roster spot.

They could DFA Yariel Rodriguez again (no one will claim him) which frees a spot, or demote Juenger and DFA Andrews (no great loss if he's claimed, doesn't have the experience to declare his free agency). In any case, Dallas would yield to SWR no later than Friday.
But this puts another guy you can't option on the depth chart making my previous speculation more complicated. So somewhat revised:
Cease bumps whoever has survived of Rodriguez/Juenger - now both are off of the 26 and there's a 40 man spot available.

Kirk -> Heinemann (on 26 and 40) if I'm wrong, then they'd need to DFA McIver to open a 40 man spot.

Scherzer (or Nance) -> Macko

Nance (or Scherzer) -> if everyone is healthy he'd have to bump Seabold or SWR

Garcia -> if everyone is healthy would have to bump the other one

Barger -> Pinango for the same reason as before - the kid needs to play every day.

At this point your staff is Gaus, Cease, Trey, Max, Corbin and Varland, Rogers, Hoffman, Fisher, Fluharty, Miles, Nance, and Garcia

Remaining on the IL (60) are Bieber, Mantiply and Estrada. When the latter is ready they can activate and send to AAA but that ties up the open 40 man spot.

When Bieber is ready, if everyone is healthy they will probably have to cook up a phantom injury because they don't want to lose any of those guys. Andrews (or someone like Clase) will need to be DFA'd.
Mantiply won't be eligible to come off until after the ASB.

If Seabold or SWR prove themselves indispensable then, well, that will be an interesting day.

Bloss will (if all goes well) be available before the ASB, maybe Tiedemann in a couple of months, but neither MUST affect the 26 man roster so not really relevant here.

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