If they can't find a better use for that 40 man spot over the winter we've hired the wrong people. They aren't responsible for his contract, but at this point what they do with it is on them.
They wouldn't have to "pull off something similar" had they pulled off that exact thing. Every day they wait thins the available pitchers and exposes the current pen to another game.
So Buxton...finally dropped to the bottom of the order. His replacement, who has been worse, in the two hole. That's tough for an amateur like me to understand.
I seriously question some front office moves. There was no reason whatsoever to force another pitcher onto the roster and have a 3 man bench, for example. None. I'll give them a pass on Colon, I guess. You can't put your manager in that position.
Then put Adrianza in left. Or Gimenez. Or Escobar. Or Breslow. Don't care. What I care about is somehow, someway, Rosario needs to stop playing like he's got a guaranteed major league job, no matter how often he ignores what's expected of him.