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I'm in with Hultzen, if the callup is after the arb deadline. I'm not giving that up for 1 or 2 starts.
What I think I know:
1. Shoppach is mashing.....ala Jaso, last year. Tough to keep him out of the lineup until he frosts over some.
2. Smoak.....sigh. Small sample, I suppose. And I suppose he hit another ball hard last night. But it is nearly as easy to suppose he just isn't going to have a long-term bat. That said, he'll probably go 3-4 with a dinger tonight. That will cement his place in the lineup for 2 more weeks. He will proably follow it up with a 1-13, or some such thing.
3. I'm even more convinced that somebody has messed Ackley up. Every AB, every swing, he just looks like he's trying to hit it to the left of 2B. I hate that. Start denting the RF wall, Dustin. That's my new mantra. C'mon kid.
4. Fatigue? Rest? Balderdash! Morse sits? Uh.....Why? As long as he's doing his M. Mantle imitation, I'm roling him out each and every day. Do cobra's get tired?
5. Everytime a M's thrower misses up it gets hammered. Can we catch a break. That said, Beavan's performance concerned me plenty. He doesn't have Maurer's stuff, he has a very fine line. He isn't very close to it right now. He goes to LR as soon as Hultzen gets that extra year.
6. Our Buster Posey is waiting in Tacoma for his phone call. What to do with Montero is the question in play. DH, demote or deep six? The solution may be to DH-platoon him with Ibanez. Roster issues may complicate that.
7. Eric Thames does not want to be forgotten. Pegs, too.
8. Andino isn't very darn good.
The King is up. Long live the King! Go team. Beat those Texicans.
moe