Christian Walker waived to the D'Back

[wildcard]

That is the O's to the Braves to the Reds to the D'Back.

So who gives him the best chance to play.  Playing behind Chris Davis, Freddy Freeman, Joey Votto or Pual Goldschmidt?

[weams]

13 minutes ago, wildcard said:

That is the O's to the Braves to the Reds to the D'Back.

So who gives him the best chance to play.  Playing behind Chris Davis, Freddy Freeman, Joey Votto or Pual Goldschmidt?

Paul is most likely to be injured. 

[Redskins Rick]

15 minutes ago, weams said:

Paul is most likely to be injured. 

Even if Paul is injured, I honesty don't look for Walker to play much, even if he makes their roster.

Just my own opinion.

[Rene88]

Yep, saw this. If they claimed him at this point, he's staying on the major league roster, at least in the short term.

[Redskins Rick]

5 minutes ago, Rene88 said:

Yep, saw this. If they claimed him at this point, he's staying on the major league roster, at least in the short term.

MLBTR had this to say:

 

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The trouble is, Walker hasn’t quite hit enough to push out an established big leaguer from a first base job. And he is new to the outfield, leaving it unclear just how he’ll fit on a National League roster. While Arizona had previously parted with a similarly hard-to-fit player in Peter O’Brien, the club now evidently felt there was roster space to spare.

 

[25 Nuggets]

[Frobby]

I wish him luck, but I don't think we'll regret letting him go.  

[Barnaby Graves]

Just wanted to drop in and say I love Big Paul Goldschmidt, one of many favorite non-Orioles.  Dude is stupid talented.

Walker is one of those marginal players you hate to lose because his talent and potential makes you think oh, if only we could give this guy the chance to hit 30 Trumbo-Bumbos some year, but he's part of a fraternity of those kinds of players and most of them are Wily Mo Pena or something.  Maybe some of them are good enough to become Jay Gibbons.  Most of them don't.  Sometimes they're Chris Davis.  Fact is he was blocked here and that's that.

[sportsfan8703]

Hopefully Walker gets a chance. If he were to have success it would remind me of the Justin Turner situation. 

[Rene88]

Walker just got waived again, poor kid.

[Why Not?]

Walker will circle back to the Baltimore organization eventually. 

[Can_of_corn]

17 minutes ago, Why Not? said:

Walker will circle back to the Baltimore organization eventually. 

If I were him, I'd rent.

[Crazysilver03]

Arizona managed to get him through waivers and sent him outright to AAA.

[Legend_Of_Joey]

45 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

If I were him, I'd rent.

I did ask him on Twitter if he is getting moving supplies in bulk. His wife liked the comment.

[weams]

On 3/28/2017 at 6:31 PM, Barnaby Graves said:

Just wanted to drop in and say I love Big Paul Goldschmidt, one of many favorite non-Orioles.  Dude is stupid talented.

Walker is one of those marginal players you hate to lose because his talent and potential makes you think oh, if only we could give this guy the chance to hit 30 Trumbo-Bumbos some year, but he's part of a fraternity of those kinds of players and most of them are Wily Mo Pena or something.  Maybe some of them are good enough to become Jay Gibbons.  Most of them don't.  Sometimes they're Chris Davis.  Fact is he was blocked here and that's that.

When they are 6'4 they are Chris Davis. When they are 5'11 they are maybe Steve Pearce.