Sentences with phrase «roster spot when»

Marc - Andre Fleury better stay sharp, or Crosby might take his roster spot when / if the Lockout ends.

Not exact matches

When I proposed this trade to Bulls fans, they only asked that you take Payne because they hate him and want the roster spot

That was proved last season when the upstart A's, last - place finishers three of the previous four years, battled for the wild - card spot until the final week, winning 87 games with a $ 25 million roster dependent on unwanted retreads (DH John Jaha), obscure rookies (righty starter Tim Hudson) and supposed has - beens (reliever Doug Jones), and with all the stoicism and anxiety of a Cocoa Puffs taste - athon.

I don't get how the loss of a roster spot hurts them when in 4 of the 5 games, that roster spot would have been used on a player who was 99 % unlikely to appear in the game in any capacity and the 5th, depending on the way the schedule shakes out for them, can be fairly easily worked around by shuffling the rotation order..

We should have called him up when we had an open roster spot open against the Pats.

It would be a complete waste of a roster spot to carry another OF when another bullpen arm is going to be a more pressing need.

When he's 35, he's going to be a player who would have to fight for a roster spot without the contract.

He took the designated player roster spot left open when Andrea Pirlo retired.