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RJ Petit

RP · R/R · age 27 · COL

RULE 5 PICK60-DAY ILOCTOBER: REINSTATE

Roster status
60-DAY IL (Tommy John surgery (internal brace))

Service thru 2025
0+000

Service now / projected
1+000 / 1+000

Option years left (2026)
3

Assignments left this season
5 of 5

Contract (2027)
PRE-ARBITRATION / AUTO-RENEWAL

Acquired
Rule 5 (DET) Dec'25

Outrighted / DFA'd before
0 / 0

Contract
none listed

October: Eligible once reinstated

On the 60-day IL before the cutoff, so he is on the eligibility list. He has served the 60 days (173), so the only step is reinstatement: the club must open a 40-man spot (the 40-man is full, so someone must be traded, outrighted, released or moved to the 60-day IL) and a 26-man spot before the series roster is submitted.

The post-season eligibility list is fixed at noon ET on September 1: everyone on the 40-man, the 60-day IL or the military list at that moment, who then stays there without interruption. Attachment 25 (Major League Rule 40)

What happens if the club…

option him to the minorsBLOCKED: Not while he is on the injured list. He must be healthy and reinstated first; a rehab assignment (20 days, 30 for pitchers, with his consent) is the only way to send him down injured.; Injured players cannot be sent down
designate him for assignment (or put him on outright waivers): The club has 7 days to trade him, pass him through outright waivers, or release him; he is paid at the major-league rate and keeps accruing service in the meantime. On outright waivers any club can claim him for $50,000, worst record first, and the claiming club takes his contract. If he clears, the club can outright him to the minors and he has no say; he stays under club control on a minor-league deal. He would then be Rule 5-eligible and would hold XX-D rights against any future outright. Post-season: an outright after the September 1 cutoff ends his automatic eligibility. He could only return as an approved injury replacement, and only if he accepts the outright and stays on a minor-league reserve list in the organization without interruption; a release makes him ineligible for anyone this October. Because he is on the injured list he cannot be outrighted until he is healthy and reinstated, so a DFA now would have to end in a trade or a release.; Designated for assignment: 7 days · Outright waivers · Article XX-D: the right to walk
release him: Release waivers cost a claiming club $1 but the claimant assumes the whole contract, so expensive players clear. The club owes the full unpaid balance of this season's salary, offset by whatever another club pays him this year. A released player is not post-season eligible for any club this year.; Release waivers and termination pay · Which rate a split contract pays at release
trade himBLOCKED: Not now: players on major-league contracts cannot be traded after the Aug 3 deadline until the day after the World Series.; Trade deadline · 10-and-5 rights · June 15 no-trade for free-agent signees
renew him for next year: Pre-arbitration: the club sets his 2027 salary near the minimum ($780,000 floor) and he has no leverage beyond a non-tender.; Minimum salaries · Tender deadline

What the rules say about him

Option years and the 20-day rule
3 option years left entering 2026.
A season with fewer than 20 days on optional assignment does not count as an option year, and those days count as Major League service. 2022-2026 Basic Agreement, Article XIX(E) and XXI(B), p. 98 (the number itself is in Major League Rule 7(c))
Five optional assignments per season
Optioned 0 times this season that count toward the cap of 5: 5 left.
A player can be optioned at most five times in a season; a sixth trip requires outright waivers. 2022-2026 Basic Agreement, Article XIX(E), p. 98 (the number itself is in Major League Rule 7(c))
Rule 5 selected player
Rule 5 pick (Dec 2025): must stay on the 26-man for 90 active days or be offered back to DET for $50,000; cannot be optioned.
A $100,000 pick is tendered a Major League contract on draft day and must stay on the 26-man for 90 active days (carrying into a second season) or be offered back for $50,000. 2022-2026 Basic Agreement, Attachment 44 and Article IX(D), p. 310 (the number itself is in Major League Rule 5)
60-day IL and the November crunch
On the 60-day IL: not counting against the 40-man now, but must be reinstated by Nov 5 (5th day after the World Series).
A player on the 60-day IL is off the 40-man, but every 60-day IL player must be reinstated after the World Series, healthy or not. 2022-2026 Basic Agreement, Article XIII(C), p. 56 (the number itself is in Major League Rule 2)
Injured players cannot be sent down
On the Major League injured list: cannot be optioned or outrighted until he is healthy and reinstated, so an injured fringe player keeps his roster spot by default.
No assignment to a minor-league club while a player is on a Major League injured list, and an injured player who cannot play cannot be optioned or outrighted. 2022-2026 Basic Agreement, Article XIX(C)(1)-(2), p. 96
Post-season roster eligibility
On the 60-day IL before the cutoff, so he is on the eligibility list. He has served the 60 days (173), so the only step is reinstatement: the club must open a 40-man spot (the 40-man is full, so someone must be traded, outrighted, released or moved to the 60-day IL) and a 26-man spot before the series roster is submitted.
The post-season eligibility list is fixed at noon ET on September 1: everyone on the 40-man, the 60-day IL or the military list at that moment, who then stays there without interruption. 2022-2026 Basic Agreement, Attachment 25, p. 253 (the number itself is in Major League Rule 40)
Rule 5 clock
On a 40-man roster (would first be exposed after 2024 otherwise).

Transaction log

Mar 26, 2026	Status change	Colorado Rockies transferred RHP RJ Petit from the 15-day injured list to the 60-day injured list. Tommy John surgery.
Mar 25, 2026	Status change	Colorado Rockies placed RHP RJ Petit on the 15-day injured list.
Mar 25, 2026	Status change	Colorado Rockies placed RHP RJ Petit on the 15-day injured list. Tommy John surgery.
Dec 10, 2025	Rule 5 pick	Colorado Rockies purchased contract of RHP RJ Petit in the Rule 5 Draft.
Jul 23, 2021	Signed	Detroit Tigers signed RHP RJ Petit.

Service through 2025 per FanGraphs RosterResource; options and this-season service reconstructed from the MLB transaction log (reconstruction; FanGraphs shows n/a). Rule 5 exposure deadline Nov 17, 2026.