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The Cub Reporter: Opening Day Roster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | The 25-man Opening Day roster limit and clubs having to cut players the last week of Spring Training to get down to the limit is one of the “Rights of Spring Training,” in some cases the “last rite” (so to speak) for a player. |
 | | If you look back at the Opening Day rosters from that 11-year period, you would note that at least two of the three “extra” players carried during the first month of the season were usually pitchers (and that was before the days of starting pitchers having their workoads limited by arbitrary pitch counts!). |
 | | The current roster limits and a cut-down to 25 players on Opening Day are fairly recent inventions and are totally arbitrary, and could easily be changed in future CBAs (the current one expires on December 19th). |
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