This report would be identical, verbatim, if Altuve had been cut in half by an industrial combine harvester.
Impressive day seeing Tucker, Alvarez and Toro hitting consecutively in the order and all with good AB's.
In all seriousness though, MLB does need to get a little bit more transparent in their injury reports... I know the NFL does it mainly because of gambling, but the secrecy of baseball injuries just never ends up helping the team or players as much as they think it does.
I like Toro. He shows up in the box score whenever I look. Do we really want someone playing on the team that has the Texans mascot name? Just a thought.
JB reminds me a bit of Lance Great stuff, struggles to command fastball a bit... Even falls off the same way Let’s hope he is generally healthier than Lance
Screw this. Cba will change in young players favor. Tucker and Alvarez are ready now. Trade White and Kemp. Brantley, Tucker, Alvarez and Reddick get time at dh and outfield. Alvarez and guerriel get time at 1b and dh.Marisnik and Diaz of and infield utility. Roster: of: Springer, Reddick, Brantley, Tucker, Marisnik If: Bregman, Corea, Altuve, Alvarez, Gurriel, Diaz, Chirinos, Stassi Sp: Verlander, Cole, Wiley, McHugh, Peacock Rp: Harris, Rodon, James (when ready), Perez, Devinsky, Presley, Osuna Bring up BK, Billeak, Whitley, Valdez, Martin as needed. We are locked and loaded.
Tucker didn't exactly do anything to force himself onto the roster. They'll have to keep him down for 2 months do delay his service time, so it would be surprising for that to be the real motivation.
His clock has already started though...no? Bregman and Correa (also mid-season callups) started the following season on the roster.
Which is my point. It does stop when in the minors (and not on rehab assignment or 60-day), but they'd have to stop it for 2 solid months and some change to prevent him from accruing service time, which a team competing for a title wouldn't be likely to do. This came up with Mike Trout (who was awful in his first stint) and the Angels sent him to AAA to begin the season and there was so much talk about how long they would leave him down.
This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.
Tucker’s clock has started, but, according to MLB.com, as long as the player didn’t spend 172 days on the MLB roster, he doesn’t get a year of service time. Also, MLB doesn’t add up partial years of service to create full years. Therefore, if he stays in AAA for the first 16 days of the season, he won’t accrue a year this season, either. That means the Astros would get to use him this year, and still have six, full major league seasons of control.
16 days makes more sense... I wasn't sure where people were getting 2 months from. I fully expect that once service time issues are no longer a concern, he's going to be an everyday guy who either sinks or swims. If he had swum better last year (and the team wasn't a contender), he'd have likely not been sent down and already accrued a year (like Bregman and Correa did), and he would be on the opening day roster. See above... He'll likely be up before the end of the first month.
