Yes. You can promote any prospect to your roster. It's ok to have non-carded players on your 40-man roster (prospects who you had to promote to hang onto or players from a previous season who have no card this season)
You just can't DRAFT a free agent without a card during the free agent draft.
If he's the only one you are worried about, than you can promote him to your roster and that should put you at 30.
The others are just released. If you want to keep any more, you'll need to drop someone to make room.
If he's the only one you are worried about, than you can promote him to your roster and that should put you at 30.[/quote]
How's this?
Drops: JP Arencibia Maicer Izturis Eduardo Nunez Placido Polanco Jonny Gomes Drew Stubbs Barry Zito Daniel Hudson Francisco Cordero Octavio Dotel Christian Martinez Xavier Paul Zach Duke Logan Forsythe Scott Atchison Lonnie Chisenhall
Prospects: Drew Smyly Tommy Milone Kolten Wong David Dahl
Roster: Yadier Molina Yasm Grandal (promoted) Ryan Howard Mark Trumbo Paul Goldschmidt Brandon Belt (promoted) Lance Berkman Jeff Keppinger Nick Franklin (promoted) Jimmy Rollins Hak Ju Lee (promoted) Wil Middlebrooks (promoted) Josh Willingham Curtis Granderson Roger Bernadina Carlos Gomez Tyler Colvin Ben Revere CC Sabathia Jered Weaver Ryan Dempster Jeff Niemann Jeremy Hellickson Brandon McCarthy Carlos Villanueva Santiago Casilla Mitchell Boggs Neftali Feliz Sean Burnett Jeremy Affeldt