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Sean S
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Sean S asked in SportsBaseball · 1 decade ago

major and minor league players?

Just wondering why teams are putting old major league players in minors for like i was reading about bret boone and it said the nationals signed him to a minor league contract or like alex cintron and junior spivey who played for arizona are in the minors now

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Actually a great deal of these signings are not to help the major league club - it's that the minor league club is short at certain positions due to major league call ups or injuries of their own. Arizona is a perfect example ... they traded Bonifaco, Hudson gets hurt - you need middle infielders. Byrnes gets hurt, Upton gets hurts - guys like Salazar come up for a longer period of time than was first expected - minor league team now needs an OF. So, it's a little more complicated than just signing up old major leaguers.

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    1 decade ago

    Insurance, mostly. Having an experience player in the minors means that if something happens to that team's starter, they have a ready backup. Usually you'll only see this happen in organizations that lack depth at a certain position.

  • 1 decade ago

    If players get injured they will be on the DL and after they are 100% they will play in the Minors and then come up later.

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    Lv 4
    4 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    Maybe he got hurt or he got older and younger players were better.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    maybe they are struggling a lot or they came back from injurie and they need rehab

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