For everyone saying Kremer is staying in the rotation....the first 4 starters are clearly Burnes, Bradish, Grod, Means. I suppose you can pick Kremer over Irvin for #5, but Irvin not a bad #5 if you want to move Kremer to the back end, where his stuff would play very nicely IMO.
You would think when Hays comes up, McKenna will go back down, but I think it will be Kjerstad. Otherwise, why would we see things like O'Hearn in RF that we should never see.
I'm not sure what role McKenna fills with a healthy Hays and Mateo on the team. Hays is a better fielder and Mateo is a better pinch runner/base stealer. I wish we saw more of Mateo in CF. I feel like Mateo could be an adequate back up CF, but he's had little chance to prove himself.
I doubt the great vibes hold up with games like that from McKenna. Just looking at Mountcastle's face after the last out kind of said it all, like: "Dude in the outfield, it's a good thing you caught those last two." Which is no doubt projection on my part, but still. I can't imagine Elias being happy seeing that clown show.