Tyler Nevin up, Waddell optioned

[Legend_Of_Joey]

Nothing from Roch or the rest yet.

If he is, I wonder if it’s for Mancini or Mountcastle?

[Yardball85]

saw this too.  I have no problem with it, though it does concern me about Mancini and Mountcastle.  I wish he could play third or second. 

[Frobby]

31 minutes ago, Legend_Of_Joey said:

Nothing from Roch or the rest yet.

If he is, I wonder if it’s for Mancini or Mountcastle?

Hope it’s Mountcastle.  If this offense is without Mancini for any length of time, things will get even uglier than they are already offensively.   

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

No word on roster move yet.

 

[SteveA]

We tried to trade for his Dad all those years ago and never succeeded.   Now we have his son in an Oriole unifrom.

[Aristotelian]

8 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Hope it’s Mountcastle.  If this offense is without Mancini for any length of time, things will get even uglier than they are already offensively.   

Would not be a bad thing for Mountcastle to have a nice long rehab assignment in AAA where he can reset his plate approach.

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, Aristotelian said:

Would not be a bad thing for Mountcastle to have a nice long rehab assignment in AAA where he can reset his plate approach.

Why?

How is being in the minors going to help his approach against ML pitchers?

By having him faces hitters with worse stuff that he's more likely to barrel when he swings away?

[Sports Guy]

It’s for Waddell

[sportsfan8703]

I’m surprised Waddell wasn’t DFA’d. He might be shortly when Hunter Harvey is activated from the 60 man DL. 
 

Welp Nevin, here is your chance. Seize it. 

[Legend_Of_Joey]

Starting line up.

[Can_of_corn]

4 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:

I’m surprised Waddell wasn’t DFA’d. He might be shortly when Hunter Harvey is activated from the 60 man DL. 
 

Welp Nevin, here is your chance. Seize it. 

A spot has opened up in the bullpen.  He might get to audition tonight.

[yark14]

That was a quick cup of coffee for Waddell.  He must have a firetruck to chase or a flood in Kentucky to stop.

[HowAboutThat]

I find it curious that a team with such a desperate need for pitching would send down a pitcher, Especially one that didn’t throw a single pitch, and leave in place a terribly struggling bat with no defensive value.

So now we have an extra bench guy and we are down one pitcher?

[Explosivo]

12 minutes ago, Philip said:

I find it curious that a team with such a desperate need for pitching would send down a pitcher, Especially one that didn’t throw a single pitch, and leave in place a terribly struggling bat with no defensive value.

So now we have an extra bench guy and we are down one pitcher?

It’s almost like Hyde is a bad manager or something.

[HowAboutThat]

2 minutes ago, Explosivo said:

It’s almost like Hyde is a bad manager or something.

I would really like to be a fly on the wall during a conversation between Mike and Brandon about the roster, it doesn’t take a good manager to know that the roster has problems, but I can’t imagine that Elias would be deliberately sabotaging the team. But as Sherlock Holmes said, “when you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however unlikely, must be the truth.”

That doesn’t completely apply here, because it is impossible to define the impossible, but it remains a meaningful possibility.