Two-Way Player Workaround/Loophole

[wiguy94]

Kind of curious to hear people's thoughts on this. Basically Lorenzen's agent is trying to market Lorenzen as someone who can achieve two-way player status as a roster loophole to allow the team to carry 14 pitchers.

I can't see good teams signing Lorenzen and having him play 20 games at DH or in the OF with 3+ PA to get two-way status, but feel like bad/tanking teams could have their pitchers DH to improve their trade value. Example being the White Sox could sign Lorenzen for 2/$20M and have him DH their first 20 games of the season. After 20 games of 3+ PA and 20 IP he would achieve two-way status for all of 2025 and 2026 which theoretically would massively increase his trade value and allow a contender to trade for him and be capable of rostering 14 pitchers.

Should the MLB allow this to happen or isn't it against the spirit of the rule that was created because Ohtani is an anomaly?

 

[SeaBass]

If teams are following the established rules then they should be able to do it and I'd have no problem with it. Same as the Dodgers abusing the deferred payments with Ohtani & others (which I think should be changed to discourage that abuse).

As to whether I'd like it would depend on if it gets to a point where I'd feel it's being abused and I kind of doubt there are enough guys in the league that would see high enough value to qualify where it would matter that much.