Pena is a "why not?" move -- he's not taking a 40-man roster spot. A guy like Langerhans is already down there as an emergency option, Pena's another one. No harm, no foul.
The lotto pick that intrigues me now is a familiar one. Michael Saunders spent a couple of weeks on the "inactive list" for not-very-clearly defined "personal" time. Nobody really noticed or cared.
Came back and was his usual self for a week, and then got three more days off at the all-star break. Since then he's like a taller version of Ackley:
14 G, 17-for-50, 6 doubles, 2 triples, 1 HR, 17 BB, 16 K
.340/.507/.600
Yeah, yeah, he's teased us before with flashes of brilliance, but I'll take a 24-year-old who never got a chance to consolidate his talent on the way up, and may be finally getting his stuff together, over a 29-year-old who's run through 8 different orgs.
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