The 2025 season is done. It is time to start looking ahead. Hope replaces disappointment. The off-season has not really started yet, although the talking about the off-season is well underway. Lots of people have lots of ideas about how to improve this roster. Of course, the only people who really count in this are Cardinals management, led by new POBO Chaim Bloom. But while we wait for them to act, we can play armchair GM a bit. Not that anyone at VEB would care to do that…

Today, we are going to play a game I call “40-man Roster Roulette”.

One of the first orders of business in the off-season is to prune and reset the 40-man roster. This will happen in the next week or ten days. In this game, I’ll present the roster and its complexities and try to end up with a balanced 40-man roster.

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