With Tucker starting to hit that gives us 4 guys (Tucker, Singleton, Gattis, Carter) who are all best suited to DH. Even in the AL having 4 guys like that for 2 positions (and occasional LF) doesn't seem realistic. Carter and Singleton are good enough at 1B, and Tucker is tolerable in LF. Rasmus, Marisnick, and Springer have all earned the right (and are much better suited) to play the OF every day, or at least most days. The whole situation leaves us with a bit of a functionality logjam and I'm not sure what I would do if I were Luhnow. Singleton has earned another look, but theres no guarantee he will succeed so moving a guy with MLB success for a guy who's never shown that is a risk. Carter and Gattis have proven success in the past, but are killing us right now. Based on results good Carter seems due for an appearance, but we may be waiting for a result that never happens and he just continues to suck. On the flip side dropping him at a low is a big risk in itself, he could very well go off and hit 30 HR the rest of the year while we get little for him, and replace him with Singleton who may be terrible. And given what we gave up to get Gattis I can't see him being moved yet either and all of the same caveats with Carter apply to him. Singleton may just have to bide his time for a little while. In a case like this where every option seems to have major risks, sometimes it's best to just stand pat until a good one presents itself.
I dont see how Rasmus has earned jack ****. You play Tucker at DH/LF because it seems like there is a slim chance he hits sub .220 like all these other guys blocking him. Rasmus isnt playing amazing defense or anything either. You need to get rid of one of Gattis/Carter period. Even at their best they are not that valuable and Singleton obviously has more upside and you cant really do worse than they are doing now.
People have strange expectations. Correa has done everything you could want for a 20 year old at AAA by getting on base and scoring runs, but he isn't hitting .400 with an OPS of 1.100 so he must be struggling? Funny.
There is a difference between Correa struggling and a regular minor leaguer. His expectations are different.
His numbers look fine to me through his first 18 abs there. I know I've had gameday up to see a couple of his abs and he's made outs on line drives according to gameday. He'll be fine.
SO much sensitivity in here about the Astros top prospect. I mean it is obvious the guy is going to be one of the top players in baseball in a couple of years. You can tell he lives and breathes ball. I just would like to see him up in the bigs in a few weeks. Don't want a slow start in AAA to give our management and excuse to hold him down.
18 at bats is too small a sample size to really tell anything. He had a couple hits last night and is up to 280 with a good number of walks and runs. If they are going to call him up in a couple weeks, they must not value his AAA statistics much either way.
Then there is the guy NOBODY talks about anymore because of how disappointing he was in his MLB debut. Slashing 403/600/1003 Domingo
Just so I got this straight, even at his best last year when Carter hit .252 with a .338 on base and 18 HR in the second half, he was "not that valuable"? Uh, ok Carter and Gattis have been terrible this year, but what's great about this team is we are winning big time with two big bats struggling. When those two get it going we will just be that much better.
I am guessing they want to make sure he just doesn't get overwhelmed there. If he looks fine then he'll be up here in a month or six weeks or so.
Brian Holmes, a lefty who was drafted in the 13th round in 2012 out of Wake Forest, was promoted to Corpus Christi yesterday. He's 2-1 with a save and a 2.37 ERA in 7 appearances (4 starts) this season. In 30.1 innings, he's allowed 11 runs (8 earned) on 20 hits (1 homer), walked 8, and struck out 45. This might open a spot for another Quad Cities starter. Maybe Dan Mengden?
Are people really complaining about Correa's performance at AAA... after 3-4 games? If anything, he's accumulating some valuable adjustment-making knowledge after basically playing AA with a "cheat" code, and not really being challenged. He's going to be up here in 3 weeks anyways... if he does well or does just "ok" at AAA.
Corpus is trailing Frisco 13-11 in the 7th. The difference here is a 2-run 3rd for Frisco. Other than that, both teams have traded 2 in the 1st, 1 in the 2nd, 2 in the 5th, and 6 in the 6th.
