PTBNL

English Noun en baseball en player to be named later an unspecified player, either not yet chosen or named publicly, at the time of a trade between teams. en 1999-02-27 ddr...@imap1.asu.edu Re: Arizona does it again... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/rec.sport.baseball/Y6hFOlj3TMY/XuG47wD8-m8J rec.sport.baseball If the PTBNL is Ben Ford, or if the DBacks plan on signing Womack long-term, then this is definitely a bad trade. As I see it now, I'd say there's a 90% chance the DBacks get the better end (by a tiny tiny margin) and a 10% chance the Pirates get the better end (possibly by a huge margin).