All of baseball and the Tampa Bay Rays have until Friday to declare which of their prospects they will add to the 40-man roster, protecting them from the Rule 5 Draft next month at the Winter Meetings in Maryland.
The Rays dilemma with two days until the deadline is that they currently have only four open roster spots available at this time, and have a plethora of top prospects that are highly regarded and need to be protected.
It will be a Catch-22 for some that will be left unprotected and available for selection by the 29 other teams in the Rule 5 Draft.