Rangers (Eovaldi) vs Cubs (Steele): 4/7/25, 6:40pm

[TarzanJoeWallis]

18 minutes ago, squally1313 said:

They went through the whole process of making the trade and then gave him the most PAs in spring training (in which he performed very well) to dump him after 7 PAs? It's arguably hard to stash a rule 5 guy all season, so far it's been pretty easy as Workman has gotten basically a PA every other game. Brujan stuck around because Hoerner was coming back from an injury and you can never rule out another injury to the rest of our middle infield options. Basically Lance Lynn but MIF. But now he's healthy and there's nowhere to put him that upgrades our team, so, you're welcome for the rehab, hope you catch on elsewhere. 

The difference between 2025 Gage Workman and Vidal Brujan is immaterial, and there are a lot of of Vidal Brujan's out there in case you, for some reason, need one. If Gage needs to go for the reasons outlined above by Bertz, fine, sure. But for the dude with the career 50 wRC? 

I agree with this but they didn’t “go through the whole process of making the trade.” They simply selected him in the Rule 5 draft. Teams return Rule 5 guys all the time. 

[squally1313]

29 minutes ago, TarzanJoeWallis said:

I agree with this but they didn’t “go through the whole process of making the trade.” They simply selected him in the Rule 5 draft. Teams return Rule 5 guys all the time. 

Good catch, all the talk of making a trade with the Tigers got this confused in my head. I think the better way to spell that out is like, what are you hoping for out of a rule 5 pick like him that he hasn't given you? You obviously discount spring training results to some extent (see Tucker), but that's 50 PAs of excellent performance. Selecting him in the first place and giving him all those reps to dump him after 7 PAs makes you wonder what the whole point was in the first place.  

[Rcal10]

49 minutes ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

I don't think there's a black and white answer to what they *will* do, but if I had to guess I think Brujan gets DFA'd.  He was added at a minimal cost and before they were able to get Berti signed, so I think you can argue that he's closer to a flyer that they aren't going to be attached to now that they have more info(Berti signed, Workman's ST performance, Brujan's ST performance).  But you can argue similarly for Brujan over Workman so I don't think it's an 80/20 odds of their decision.  

Actually I agree with this. It is closer to a 50/50 decision then some think. Basically that is why I would like to see them work something minor out with Detroit to keep Workman. Whether it is Brujan now or someone else later, I don’t expect Workman to be in the major league roster all year. I am fine with him in the system but don’t feel he would have the job just because they can’t move him around. Figure it out now, go with Brujan on the roster and get Workman playing time in AAA. 

[Stratos]

2 hours ago, Rcal10 said:

Actually I agree with this. It is closer to a 50/50 decision then some think. Basically that is why I would like to see them work something minor out with Detroit to keep Workman. Whether it is Brujan now or someone else later, I don’t expect Workman to be in the major league roster all year. I am fine with him in the system but don’t feel he would have the job just because they can’t move him around. Figure it out now, go with Brujan on the roster and get Workman playing time in AAA. 

Price for Workman from Tigers just went down a bit LOL

[BKHoo]

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