He played in 44 games with us and got 177 PAs.
If he played in all 87 games (highly unlikely even if "fulltime"), he get about 350 PAs. Yes, that would put him over, but in reality, I'm looking at these aspects:
1) He'd have to take a few games in AAA to get back into form.
2) He reportedly rehabbing an injury as we speak.
3) When he gave us those 44 games, it was over our first 50 games. That's 88%. Even if he was signed and added to the ML roster today, and played at the same rate as pre-DFA, he'd only play in about 76 games. In reality, it might be more like 70 tops. At 4.43 PAs per game (pre-DFA rate), he's get about 310 PAs. At less than 68 games played, he'd be under.
In reality, you are right. If he started tomorrow and played at his previous rate, he vest by a few PAs.
Anyways, it's not happening.