[Pelican]

Whatever else happens during the Spring, be ready for that ferocious activity in the last few days before Opening Day. [I am reminding myself to be ready, because it catches me by surprise.]. As IRL, teams are struggling to make those last cuts, dealing with players who have no more minor league options, scrambling to pick up castoffs from other teams - not to mention the Rule V guy that looked so good, and now you have to keep him on the active roster for a year or lose him. It's fun because the need to keep guys on the 40-man roster forces the teams with more talent to either trade or waive their excess players. Which means the bottom-feeders can pick up some decent players for their thinner rosters. Those last few cuts are always the hardest to make. I try to be like a buzzard, waiting pounce on that blue chip prospect some team is trying to sneak past waivers.