The 2020 MLB season is playing with modified roster rules due to the COVID-19/Coronavirus pandemic having first delayed the start of the season, and then resulted in a shortened season with shortened training camps in the run-up to the late-July Opening Day. Teams have an additional 20 man pool of non-roster players that they had to designate today of players who, along with the 40 man roster players, are eligible to be on the major league active roster.
Levi Weaver has gotten some important clarifications from Jon Daniels on the rules regarding adding guys from the “taxi squad,” which helps give some context to how and why the taxi squad roster is constructed.