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It’s 30 at bats Tony.

Like I said a few weeks ago, I was told that the Os FO views Holliday as the most advanced player in the org (at that age)..far beyond where Gunnar was. That combined with his performance is why he was moved quickly. Development isn’t linear. Not everyone needs to be developed in the same manner. Some guys are just too good for their level.

When you say that, are you talking about people in general or athletes? I don’t think you can compare baseball players to other jobs. It’s all mental. If they aren’t mentally strong, they stent making it.

But how does it damage or delay things? What’s the time period for that? Let’s say by Sunday, Holliday is 3-45 and they send him down. He was up here for what, 2 weeks at that point? Was he delayed? Did that hurt his development? Did Cowser’s development get hurt or damaged last year? Did GRod get damaged? Thats the thing. To me, using words like that sound to me that they are career altering. For me, if that occurs, the player wasn’t going to be mentally tough to handle adversity no matter what his development was..that’s a big reason why I don’t believe in “rushed”.

He wasn’t rushed because the org and everyone who saw him felt he was ready. He’s mature, he’s confident and has dominated the minors. So, unless you want to ignore all of that, I don’t see any logical argument that he was rushed.

When people say a player was rushed, it usually means the player has no chance to compete, is in over their heads, confident shot to hell and may not recover. What you are saying isn’t that. You are saying they could use more seasoning iyo. Again, this may be semantics but rushed is usually a negative connotation that comes with ruining a players career. So no, I don’t think that exists unless it’s an example like I said.,going from HS to the majors or something over the top like that..which doesn’t happen.

Did you think Cowser was rushed last year? An advanced 23 y/o college bat with 850ish MiL at bats (at the time of the call up) and a career 900ish OPS in the minors. Was that a player who was rushed?

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No it doesn’t. Needing additional development and being rushed are 2 different things. And btw, that additional development could happen at this level.

1) I’m saying that would be an example of being rushed and to me, it’s basically the only example. 2) I don’t think this has anything to do with being rushed. Rushed is putting a guy in a position where they can’t succeed because they aren’t ready. I don’t believe that happens. Holliday was clearly not rushed. Cowser was clearly not rushed last year. I think sometimes guys just come up and don’t play well…and then they get sent down and barring some dramatic difference in how they approach things (ie switch mechanics, etc..), I think they just come up and just simply play better. There is a fine line between being bad and being good. Lots of factors are involved in that. Rushed isn’t one of them. Rushed is a term people use because it sounds good but it’s a made up thing. Guys don’t get rushed especially with the service time rules being what they are.

He’s definitely not a suspect

And Basallo and maybe Beavers coming.