Tomorrow is September 1, the day major league baseball teams can call up additional players from the 40 man roster to the majors. These players were called turds as in “turd, carry my bags.” “turd, go shag some flies.” because they were considered lower than rookies. It was a great deal for the turds because a September call-up meant doubling their minor league pay in one month.
Up until a few years ago major league teams could call up as many players as they wanted off of the 40 man roster. With the new 26 man roster, they can only have 28 men on the active roster in September. Unless there are a lot of late season injuries, most of the minor leaguers are either not playing after Labor Day or playing post season games without pay.
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