NEW YORK – When and if opening day comes around this year, New York Yankees pitching coach Matt Blake anticipates a brimming bullpen.
Major League Baseball and the players' association have talked about a compressed schedule to get in as many games as possible.
That will set off a call to arms. "I think if you have 15 guys it gives you some depth," Blake said Wednesday. Active rosters were to expand from 25 to 26 from opening day through Aug.
31 in exchange for the limit dropping from 40 to 28 from Sept. 1 on. When a strike delayed the start of the 1995 season until April 25, teams were allowed 28 players through May 15.