Great relay by Hays and Gunnar to nail Julien at the plate, and great job by McCann as well to get the ball and get back across the plate for the out. Nice to see the execution on the last game of Spring
That's just the number of options everyone is assigned (of course there are cases where they can be assigned a 4th option year). It gives the team some flexibility while also making sure a team can't keep a player stashed in their minor league system forever.
Once you use the option in a year that counts as one, and the player can be optioned as many times as necessary (after 5 they have to pass through outright assignment waivers). That was used in 2022.
In 2023 he was optioned again, so number two.