At the end of every season, players on the 60-day DL get activated. As a consequence, they occupy spots on 40-man rosters. And then around the start of every spring training, players get placed on the 60-day DL, as it’s again made available.
Excellent work. I love looking for this article each year as I find it hard to know exactly who does or does not qualify. I generally agree with your choices for protection and the responding comments all make great points.
I ask again for the second year...Why not give us this article before the trade deadline? Doing so would allow us to better know who would perhaps be good ideas to push in the mock trades we all discuss if they will probably not be protected anyway. Just something to consider...
Thanks again for the work put into the article!