Chad Cordero?; Elarton and Donnelly Free Agents

How's your weekend going? Mine? Pretty Good!

I come bearing gifts.

We are now officially opening more roster spots with Free Agents filing for their status.

First it's Brendan Donnelly, who actually is arbitration eligible, but due to an agreement between the Indians and Donnelly when he signed his minor league deal, will skip that and become a free agent.

Donnelly filed for free agency and is now free to talk with the Tribe for a few weeks, but then can explore other options. Donnelly probably won't garner much interest for a long term deal or even a major league spot.

This is actually better for the Indians. They can now bring him back if he chooses on another minor league type deal and see if he can win a spot in Spring Training.

That is if no one else offers him a 40 man roster spot, which is risky given what he's shown coming off his surgery.

Joining him as a Free Agent, but probably not as an option fro the Indians is Scott Elarton.

Elarton too filed for free agency. His spot on the 40 man roster is non-existent because Elarton was on the 60 day disabled list. We all know the situation, but not why. Elarton has personal issues that caused him to leave the team.

He is now a free agent and will probably go somewhere else.

Tony at Indians Prospect Insider has a much more legible and probably much more accurate Rule V chart for the future.

Now we are going to be adding a new name to the list of possible targets.

Looks like Chad Cordero is going to be a free agent.

Now he's recovering from a torn labrum, but wants to be ready for Spring Training.

Well?

What's this guy gonna want?

Torn labrum, he can't be asking for much. In fact I could see him asking for a one year deal so he can prove his value so he can get a bigger deal. He's still very young.

This would be a nice little option for us to keep in the back of our minds.

One year shot for Cordero, one year option for us.. Cheap, insentive laden maybe.

I wouldn't be opposed to it.