This leaves officials wedged somewhere between yearning to keep rosters manageable and hesitating to cut students who just want to play.
The Mets' only roster decision, General Manager Steve Phillips said Tuesday, was whether to add an 11th pitcher, possibly Pat Mahomes, or to keep the roster as it was for the National League Championship Series.
"The official position is that there is no such official list," he said, but he admitted that security agencies might keep a roster of provocative writers.
(On the other hand, if they keep up roster spaces for their players' less talented brothers, it's pretty easy to predict that they won't).
Meyer said the broadcast deal allowed him to keep a roster of established fighters and to groom up-and-coming ones, "to invest in younger fighters and ensure that they have a proper boxing education".
Whatever mistakes they have made, the Yankees spend enough money to keep their roster stocked with fine players, and they or the Red Sox may still end up in the World Series.
Giants General Manager Ernie Accorsi has vowed not to duplicate the mistakes the team made after its division-winning 1997 season, when the team went overboard trying to keep the roster together and overpaid marginal players.
(Hey, wait, the N.F.L. did not grant you permission to pay attention to anything else, so forget those Olympics!) Penn State would be thrilled if everyone paid attention to something else while it wallows in the N.C.A.A.'s sanctions and Coach Bill O'Brien tries to keep his roster from transferring en masse.
But when we get to the top, we start to feel out what the next music is – then we have to start clearing space …" Lockhart cuts in: "We mustn't say what's next!" Because "destroy and rebuild" isn't just about changes in sound; it's also a ruthless approach to staff turnover to keep the roster of talent fresh.
In this back test he reshuffled every year to keep the roster current.
