Outfielder Ed Kurpiel was called up by the St. Louis Cardinals in September , but did not appear in a game. In September , no fewer than three ballplayers who never played in a major league game served a couple of weeks' time on major league rosters, all of them pitchers: Tom McGough of the Cleveland Indians, Pat Cristelli of the California Angels, and Ed Ricks of the New York Yankees.
Catcher Harry Saferight made it to the Major Leagues with the Pittsburgh Pirates for the last few weeks of September, , but failed to appear in a game. He was the on-deck batter on three different occasions, but all three times the Pirates batter ahead of him made the third out of the inning.
Arm soreness prevented him from pitching early in the season, and he was sent down to Triple-A by mid-April. The Kansas City Royals briefly employed two never-needed catchers to back-up regular backstop John Wathan at different times. Pitcher Mark Leonette was called up by the Chicago Cubs on July 3, and was sent down on July 11 without making an appearance in a game.
He wore 32 while with the club. Pitcher Joe Law spent four days on the active roster of the Oakland A's , but did not appear in a game. Infielder Armando Moreno spent one day, August 5, , on the Pittsburgh Pirates roster and did not appear in the game.
On two consecutive nights, manager Johnny Oates told Dostal he would pinch-run for Harold Baines , if Baines reached base; both times, Baines was retired. A replacement player who had crossed the picket lines during the Major League Baseball strike, Chimelis was unpopular with his Giants teammates as a result of this action even though other replacement players had and would continue to appear in major league games.
After calling a players-only meeting to which Chimelis was not invited, the Giants players threatened to revolt if Chimelis was allowed to play. The Giants management capitulated, and Chimelis was quickly returned to the minors without ever appearing in an MLB game.
Pitcher Billy Percibal was on the active roster of the Baltimore Orioles for 8 days starting September 21, However, the roster move was clearly simply a favour to Percibal — he was recovering from bone spur surgery he had undergone just two days prior, and was not about to pitch in a major league game at that time. Catcher Cesar King was on the active roster of the Kansas City Royals from May 19—23, , but did not appear in a game.
Pitcher Jeff Urban was on the active roster of the San Francisco Giants from April 26—30, and from August 1—2 later that year, but did not appear in a game. Catcher David Parrish, son of Tiger great Lance Parrish , was was on the active roster of the New York Yankees for three days when regular catcher Jorge Posada was hit in the face with a ball during a game, but did not appear in a game.
Kenji Johjima was unavailable for those games and the M's did not want to go without a backup catcher. Pitcher Cory Morris was on the active roster of the Baltimore Orioles from April 9—12, , but did not appear in a game.
Catcher Tim Gradoville was on the active roster of the Philadelphia Phillies 18 days in September, but did not appear in a game. Pitcher Tim Lahey was on the active roster of the Philadelphia Phillies for the first six days of the season. Lahey spent his entire six-year minor league career pitching for the Minnesota Twins organization, but in a five-month period from December to April , he was drafted from the Twins in the Rule V Draft by the Tampa Bay Rays; sold by the Rays to the Chicago Cubs; released by the Cubs; signed by the Phillies; and then returned to the Twins rather than keeping him on the major league roster which was a condition of being a Rule V draft pick.
Lahey managed to do all this without ever throwing a pitch in regular season play. Pitcher Luis Munoz was on the active roster of the Pittsburgh Pirates. General manager Neal Huntington said of his call-up, "I would not anticipate Luis being here for an extended period of time.
The Royals could also call up a bat - Ryan McBroom is 15th among all minor leaguers in home runs with Kyle Isbel struggled in April with the Royals, and did not perform well upon his demotion, but has come on strong to hit.
Lucius Fox is still on the man roster, but the infielder the Royals got from Tampa Bay for Brett Phillips has struggled with the bat this year, hitting under the Mendoza Line. The Royals do have an open spot on the man roster, which could give Dylan Coleman and opportunity.
Gabe Speier has a tremendous strikeout-to-walk ratio of to-8 to go with a 2. Jon Heasley will need to be added to the man roster this winter anyway, so the Royals may give him a taste of big league action after a 3. Carlos Sanabria and Foster Griffin are other possibilities that have pitched well in Omaha.
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Stories Schedule Roster Stats. Who will get called up when rosters expand? Main Photo: Embed from Getty Images. I am going to miss the 40 man roster but I agree nobody wants to pay full price to watch the minor league players. Also why only expand to 28! Should be at least 30 but no more than Your email address will not be published.
Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Search for:. For Double-A and Triple-A, teams will be limited to 28 active players. For High-A and Low-A the limits are now 30 active players. For the short-season and Rookie-level leagues, player active rosters were long the norm, but teams have been limited to 25 players on an active roster for all four full-season levels before
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