Major and minor league players?

Question

Just wondering why teams are putting old major league players in minors for like i was reading about bret boone and it said the nationals signed him to a minor league contract or like alex cintron and junior spivey who played for arizona are in the minors now

Answer 1

Insurance, mostly.  Having an experience player in the minors means that if something happens to that team's starter, they have a ready backup.  Usually you'll only see this happen in organizations that lack depth at a certain position.

Answer 2

Actually a great deal of these signings are not to help the major league club - it's that the minor league club is short at certain positions due to major league call ups or injuries of their own. Arizona is a perfect example ... they traded Bonifaco, Hudson gets hurt - you need middle infielders. Byrnes gets hurt, Upton gets hurts - guys like Salazar come up for a longer period of time than was first expected - minor league team now needs an OF. So, it's a little more complicated than just signing up old major leaguers.

Answer 3

Maybe he got hurt or he got older and younger players were better.

Answer 4

maybe they are struggling a lot or they came back from injurie and they need rehab

Answer 5

If players get injured they will be on the DL and after they are 100% they will play in the Minors and then come up later.