Although it's never been officially announced, it's clear that there's some kind of pause on the usual 7-day "DFA limbo" period during the holidays.
For those who don't know, teams who DFA a player have 5 days to work out a trade, and then the process of waiver claims which takes another 2 days.
Noel was DFA'd 8 days ago, and the situation isn't likely to be resolved until a couple days after New Years' at least.
His nickname is famously "Big Christmas". He put up a nice .218/.288/.486 slash line in 2024 for a 115 OPS+ before falling off a cliff in 2025, hitting just .162/.183/.297.
Merry Christmas
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Rip to another exciting guardians prospect who completely floundered once the other team figured they can just throw into the opposing batters box for a free K
I would love for the Cards to give him a shot.
my sister has the biggest crush on him. Was devastated when he got DFA’d
Future KBO goat.
Hope he can make it through this rough period with the $433,000 he made last year.
Loved watching him in Akron. Seemed like he had huge games every day. He looked massive with so much power.
Someone can save christmas right now
I really thought this guy was meant to be a big deal when he hit that home run off of weaver during the 2024 ALCS. Kinda sad for him to be in this situation. Still think we aren’t using nicknames enough
I love the dedication
Weird, my black friends have always called me Honky Noel on christmas
BIG CHRISTMAS HAS TIED IT!!!
He’ll be ready for mall Santa duty (or whatever the equivalent is in a few years) once his playing career wraps up