The Outfield

[Gwreck]

Elster88 wrote: What the f to do when Chavez comes back? He's the odd man out to me. Unless you want to come at me and try and say he's better than Greenie.

This is really only a dilemma for the next 9 days.

The safest thing to do would probably not activate Chavez until September 1 (doing so does not affect his availability for the postseason roster). The other option is to send Anderson down, exposing him to waivers.

[Frayed Knot]

And sending Anderson down (even assuming it could be done without losing him) WOULD affect his availability for post-season and I can't imagine they want to cross him out of the picture at this point.

Either wait to activate Endy or lose Sele to make room for him.
You figure that you can go with one fewer hurler in October anyway and he looks to be the odd man out. Would suck for him getting dropped at this point but he really doesn't have much of a role here and would be much more easily replaceable once Sept 1 rolls around.


Ahhh, it's too early to be talking about October rosters anyway.

[Elster88]

Nymr83 wrote: he can replace Anderson, there'd still be Gotay to backup the middle infield and Conine to backup 1st and 3rd in an emergency.

Most of my thinking here is anecdotal from the past two days, buy you hate to lose Anderson's pinch hitting.

[Elster88]

Frayed Knot wrote: Ahhh, it's too early to be talking about October rosters anyway.

If we've got a thread about the magic number, it's not too early.

[Gwreck]

If Omar isn't thinking about it, then he's not doing his job right.

[seawolf17]

No, it's definitely not too early.

I agree that Sele's not necessary come October, but they're not going to leave themselves without a long man (especially considering the new short role for Sosa) for a week against division foes just to bring Endy Chavez back.

[nymr83]

yeah, keeping him out 9 more days may be the best move.