Unlike previous years, the Dodgers are heading toward a roster crunch, and that includes adding players to the 40-man roster to protect them from the Rule 5 Draft.
The deadline to protect players by adding them to the 40-man roster is Nov. 20.
I took a brief look at this following the World Series.
“There could be as many as seven players listed above who might need to be protected from the Rule 5 Draft. The easy, no doubt protection is Ruiz. Alvarez and Rios seem pretty likely. After that, you could make an argument either way for Beaty, Jackson, Joe and/or Sborz.