A major league baseball regular season lasts 186 days, and sometimes longer like when a team starts the season overseas, for instance. Add in spring training, there are seven and a half months during which
teams are always looking for ways to upgrade their roster.
Not every transaction ends up notable, but rather represent a moment in time during which someone was available at an exact time a team had a need, or just needed some available depth at the time.
CJ Alexander played parts of the last two seasons in the majors, totaling 25 at-bats with the Royals (2024) and A’s (2025). In both the majors and minors he’s moved around in various corner positions, mostly third base and first base, but also left field and right field at times.
Alexander’s time in the majors with the A’s lasted 12 days and he got into six games before getting optioned. On June 8, Alexander was claimed off waivers by the Yankees and he spent three weeks in Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
He hit the waiver wire again and the Dodgers pounced, claiming Alexander on July 3. This was the day after Max Muncy suffered a bone bruise in his left knee that would knock him out for four weeks. Kiké Hernández was nursing an elbow injury that within a week would land him on the injured list and would later require surgery in November. The Dodgers needed some available bodies who could play the infield, if needed.
To make room for Alexander, the Dodgers designated Steward Berroa for assignment, an outfielder who spent just over seven weeks on the 40-man roster but never got the call to Los Angeles. Alexander’s time on the 40-man roster was even shorter, just four days, as he was DFA’d to make room for Julian Fernández, who pitched in one game in his one day active for the Dodgers in 2025.
That’s how it goes over a long season, especially one in which the Dodgers used a franchise-record 62 different players. That’s not even including Alexander, who cleared waivers and was sent outright to Triple-A, and he remained in Oklahoma City for the rest of the season.
2025 particulars
Age: 28
Stats: .269/.332/.457, 97 wRC+, 25 extra-base hits in 52 games with Triple-A Oklahoma City
Salary: unknown
Game of the year
During his time in the Dodgers organization, we’ll go with August 8 for Alexander, who singled twice, homered, doubled, and walked, and scored four runs in a Comets road win at El Paso. His four hits and four runs each tied a professional career high, and reaching base five times tied a season high.
Roster status
Alexander is a minor league free agent.
