My suggestions was to call him up April 14th.
Had we done that, he'd have debuted on the opening of the new stadium, we'd be no worse record-wise right now, we may even have better attendance due to the excitement of his hair, we'd have an extra year of control, and we may be picking 2nd instead of 5th.
I get it. Albies is our #1 prospect and at AAA. Our MLB team is trash. You want the shiny new toy. But other then to satisfy our need to see him I don't see anything positive about rushing this kid. If this team was contending (like with Heyward, Andruw, etc) that would be a different story. But we aren't close to that timeframe yet.
I was excited to see Swanson, but it was a mistake to call him up. I can admit that. I don't even see how its an argument at this point.
Horsehide Harry (04-19-2017), sturg33 (04-19-2017)
there is no point in bringing him up while Phillips is on the team and performing.
I'm curious how the "disappointing" offense of A. Jones, R. Furcal, and J. Heyward is attributing to their being "rushed".
Jones hit 400 HRs, Furcal was a quality offensive player for a lengthy career, and Hayward certainly didn't begin his career struggling to hit. I'm thinking whatever flaws they had in their offensive game weren't going to be ironed out in another 400 minor league at bats.
MVP!!!!!
One interesting statistic I saw on twitter is that Dansby lead all MLB with 14 lineouts, so while he's been pressing and struggling... he's also had some luck issues. The more impressive thing is that Freeman is second on the club with 10 lineouts... can you say switched on?
Max Fried moves into Pipeline's top 100 with Aaron Judge losing prospect status.
Acuna ends the night 0-5 with 4 Ks after coming in with strikeoutsin 33% of his at bats. Woof.