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21 minutes ago, Fiver6565 said:

Why Soto instead of Mayo?  Hell I'd rather see NIco Goodrum for a RH 1B option - and I do NOT want to see NIco Goodrum.  Is that even his first name?  Who cares, I'm not going to bother looking it up.

 

Jesus its like watching a replacement level team now, with Valdez, Soto, Slater, Urias (not really fair to list him here, but lets face it, he wasn't really in the plans).  Holliday still acclimating.  Eloy hitting ground balls every AB.  This position player group is so much worse than it used to be, its ugly

I wish they’d just let Mayo come up and go through the growing pains now and hope he can contribute in a few weeks, instead we’ll watch Eloy be terrible. 

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49 minutes ago, Fiver6565 said:

Why Soto instead of Mayo?  Hell I'd rather see NIco Goodrum for a RH 1B option - and I do NOT want to see NIco Goodrum.  Is that even his first name?  Who cares, I'm not going to bother looking it up.

 

Jesus its like watching a replacement level team now, with Valdez, Soto, Slater, Urias (not really fair to list him here, but lets face it, he wasn't really in the plans).  Holliday still acclimating.  Eloy hitting ground balls every AB.  This position player group is so much worse than it used to be, its ugly

Too bad Eloy can't even play 1B.  Going to get a lot of O'Hearn at 1B?  Going to be some god awful lineups.

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58 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

So they play with a short bench and he ends up on the IL anyway.

That was useful.

Get well soon Ryan.

Sometimes you have to wait a couple of days to see if an injury will resolve.  When your alternative is Livan Soto, there’s no reason to rush the move.  

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19 minutes ago, casadeozo said:

is Mayo being left in AAA along with his very quick demotion, purely a service time ploy? Cant imagine anyone in their right mind thinks Soto and Rivera are better options.

I genuinely don’t think so. 
 

Perhaps they think it’s more valuable to him to play at AAA right now. 

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1 hour ago, Can_of_corn said:

So they play with a short bench and he ends up on the IL anyway.

That was useful.

Get well soon Ryan.

We will still be playing short it isn’t like Soto has played any while on the roster.  Maybe he gets in a game this time.  

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