Roster roulette
Ok, the juggling of the last bench spot the past couple of days is downright weird. I said before that I was surprised to see Bourn instead of Roberson, and within 24 hours that swap happened. Somewhere, I don’t remember where, I saw something indicating that it was due to roster movement rules. That seemed sensible on the face of it, but then I looked and Roberson last went down on the 14th, so he was eligible to come back up when all this started. I’m guessing that there were other potential trades in the pipeline and the Phils were waiting to bring Roberson up until things settled down because they didn’t want to be in the position of having to send him right back down.
In any case, we’re now into the waiver wire dealing part of the season and I’m assuming large numbers of Phillies players have been dumped on the wire. If anyone is foolish enough to put in a claim on Jon Lieber, the Phils really should just let him go. The trades are likely to be salary dumps anyway so really this wouldn’t be any different. Of course I suspect Lieber may be hurt which is a large part of the problem anyway.