Its time to promote Chris Parmelee (Activated, Chen to Frederick)

[mdbdotcom]

Roch Kubatko.

They probably want to take a firsthand look at him during practice today before cutting ties with someone else.

[Satyr3206]

I'll venture a guess. I think either Young or Snider is gone. But it's just a guess.

[Norfolk orioles]

Young has done absolutely nothing to keep is spot on this team other than batting right handed.

He is one of the worst hitters on the team right now, possibly the worst fielder as well and is not showing any sort of improvement at the plate.

He pinch hit for paredes yesterday and struck out on three straight fastballs blown by him.

I just don't see why he should keep getting a pass when Alvarez and Reimold could easily do the job he is doing right now with a much higher ceiling.

I know Buck loves his vets but come on. I will always appreciate Young for the playoffs last year but the same goes for Miller, at some point, you have to move on.

[LookitsPuck]

Can't see them cutting Snider or Young. Would have to be a trade. Lough has a lot of value defensively unless they would rather dig from the minors for someone like Borbon.

[mdbdotcom]

Maybe they are auditioning Snider for the Phillies tonight. If all goes well, they give us Hamels for him, straight up.

Or.... not.

[LookitsPuck]

Young has done absolutely nothing to keep is spot on this team other than batting right handed.

He is one of the worst hitters on the team right now, possibly the worst fielder as well and is not showing any sort of improvement at the plate.

He pinch hit for paredes yesterday and struck out on three straight fastballs blown by him.

I just don't see why he should keep getting a pass when Alvarez and Reimold could easily do the job he is doing right now with a much higher ceiling.

I know Buck loves his vets but come on. I will always appreciate Young for the playoffs last year but the same goes for Miller, at some point, you have to move on.

0.6 WAR, RHB off the bench that can play the corner OF. Batting near 300. You don't just dump those guys. You trade them.

[DrungoHazewood]

I just don't see why he should keep getting a pass when Alvarez and Reimold could easily do the job he is doing right now with a much higher ceiling.

I'm no fan of Young, especially outside of his niche role of DH vs. lefties. But Alvarez and Reimold have a much higher ceiling? Alvarez might, I guess, but after a hot streak his career AAA OPS at age 26 is .739. Reimold's last decent half of a MLB season was in 2011, he's 31, and Delmon played about as well last year as Reimold did in '11. I'm not sure I have a great reason to favor any of them, except I don't have much evidence Alvarez is as good as the other two.

No, Delmon isn't hitting this year. But we shouldn't expect him to, given that 2/3rds of his PAs are against RHPs. And he can't hit RHPs.

[wildcard]

I see Pearce and Young as safe. The both play vs lefties. Paredes will only DH vs righties.

Its between lefties Lough, Snider and Parmelee as to who goes. Dan is burning up the phone lines looking for a trade for a lefthanded reliever IMO. Whichever of the three brings one back is traded.

[mdbdotcom]

I see Pearce and Young as safe. The both play vs lefties. Paredes will only DH vs righties.

Its between lefties Lough, Snider and Parmelee as to who goes. Dan is burning up the phone lines looking for a trade for a lefthanded reliever IMO. Whichever of the three brings one back is traded.

Can we send Matusz with him?

[mdbdotcom]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Buck joked about keeping 26 players with Parmelee: "Since they kind of stuck it to us with the 24 they're going to let us go 26 for a while"</p>— Roch Kubatko (@masnRoch) <a href="

">June 15, 2015</a></blockquote>

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[weams]

Parmelee, who could have opted out of his minor league contract later today. He's taking batting practice today and will be added to the 25- and 40-man rosters on Tuesday. Space must be created on both rosters.

There you go. According to Roch.

[LookitsPuck]

Young isn't going anywhere.

Snider is redundant with guys like Parmelee. Snider since May 1st: .238/.304/.274 .578 OPS with a 308 BABIP. Since June: .214/.267/.214 - .481 OPS

I'm guessing w/ Pearce (2B, Corner OF, PH), Reimold (Corner OF, PH), Lough (All OF, PR), Young (Corner OF, PH against LHP) and Parmelee (Corner OF, 1B, PH against RHP), Snider is redundant.

[weams]

Young isn't going anywhere.

Snider is redundant with guys like Parmelee. Snider since May 1st: .238/.304/.274 .578 OPS with a 308 BABIP. Since June: .214/.267/.214 - .481 OPS

I'm guessing w/ Pearce (2B, Corner OF, PH), Reimold (Corner OF, PH), Lough (All OF, PR), Young (Corner OF, PH against LHP) and Parmelee (Corner OF, 1B, PH against RHP), Snider is redundant.

I'm guessing that it is Tyler Wilson on the 25 and Schoop to the 60 day DL.

[LookitsPuck]

They're going to roll with a bench of Young, Pearce, Lough, Joseph and Parmelee? A 5 man bench? Starting lineup would be Reimold, Jones, Snider, Machado, Hardy, Flaherty, Davis, Paredes, Wieters.

That'd mean we'd have a 6 man bullpen (Britton, O'Day, Hunter, Matusz, Brach and Roe)? No long men?

[mdbdotcom]

I'm guessing that it is Tyler Wilson on the 25 and Schoop to the 60 day DL.

I'm guessing they trade Snider back to the Pirates, the team that knows and loves him. They are in the hunt and their reserve outfielders have not been producing.