{"id":368638,"date":"2025-12-25T02:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T02:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/368638\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T02:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T02:51:07","slug":"players-in-dfa-limbo-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/368638\/","title":{"rendered":"Players In DFA Limbo &#8211; MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a team designates a player for assignment, he is removed from that club\u2019s 40-man roster. The team then has a period of time with some ability to impact what is next for that player. This is colloquially referred to as \u201cDFA limbo\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The team can trade the player to another club, unless the trade deadline has passed and the new offseason has not yet begun. The team can also place the player on outright or release waivers. This limbo period can last as long as seven days. The waiver process takes 48 hours, so the team has a maximum of five days to work out a trade.<\/p>\n<p>Or at least that\u2019s the case for most of the year. It\u2019s different around the holidays, with several instances in recent years of players being in DFA limbo for longer than two weeks. For instance, catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/huffsa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sam Huff<\/a> was designated for assignment by the Rangers on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2024\/12\/rangers-sign-shawn-armstrong-to-major-league-deal.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">December 23rd of 2024<\/a>. He stayed in DFA limbo until he was claimed off waivers by the Giants on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/01\/giants-claim-sam-huff-designate-austin-warren.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 8th of 2025<\/a>, 16 days later.<\/p>\n<p>There has never been an official announcement made about what the rules are but it\u2019s clear there\u2019s some sort of freeze on the DFA clock around the holidays in late December and early January.<\/p>\n<p>In this morning\u2019s edition of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/12\/the-opener-corner-infield-market-dfa-resolutions-christmas-eve-transactions.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Opener<\/a>, MLBTR mentioned two players who had been designated for assignment on December 17th, expecting those situations to be resolved today. There have been no updates as of the publication of this post. It\u2019s possible the situations have been resolved but just haven\u2019t been reported publicly because of media\/communications people taking time off for the holidays. It\u2019s also possible that those players have had their DFA clocks frozen and will remain in limbo into January.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a list of players who have been designated for assignment in the past week without resolution, listed chronologically.<\/p>\n<p>December 17th<\/p>\n<p>December 19th<\/p>\n<p>December 20th<\/p>\n<p>December 22nd<\/p>\n<p>December 23rd<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Ken Blaze, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When a team designates a player for assignment, he is removed from that club\u2019s 40-man roster. 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