Castillo hurt. . .Tejada sent down

[Mex17]

OK, here is a test to see if lessons were learned or not.

If Castillo is "day-to-day" for a period approaching or equalling what would have been a stay of the 15-day DL, all the while when we are playing with 24 men and no backup middle infielder (save for Tatis), and with an option on Tejada spent, I would nave to say that there were none.

[Frayed Knot]

Ready ... Fire ... Aim

[Ceetar]

Mex17 wrote: OK, here is a test to see if lessons were learned or not. If Castillo is "day-to-day" for a period approaching or equalling what would have been a stay of the 15-day DL, all the while when we are playing with 24 men and no backup middle infielder (save for Tatis), and with an option on Tejada spent, I would nave to say that there were none.

Does someone have a copy of the 'options' rule I can read? this always confuses me. I didn't think it was a countdown thing, but a time thing and that calling Tejada back up wouldn't actually affect it anymore than keeping him here.

So far the word seems to be that Castillo is fine, especially since he played two games on the 'barking' calf.

Manuel said they sent Tejada to Buffalo right after the game, so this must've been the plan the whole time, I feel like if they were worried they would've waited until today to make the swap.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

My go-to on transaction primers is the BP series of a few years ago. Here's the one on options.

It is more of a time thing, rather than a how-many-trips thing-- he can go "up" and "down" as many times as the team likes during an "option year." Plus, if Castillo's DLed, then he can immediately come back to fill the slot (with no need for heed to the must-stay-down-for-ten-days rule that normally accompanies majors-to-minors moves).


To my mind, if they see Castillo as a key player this year, but think Tejada might be serviceable... unless he's close to 100 percent and ready to go, why keep Castillo activated? DL him retroactive to Thursday, and
give him two weeks to rest/test the calf while seeing what you have in Tejada, mebbe?

Edited April 10, 2010 by Guest

[Guest Edgy DC]

Well, they may see him as close to 100%. And Tejada would end up being mostly a backup while Cora --- who you think sucks --- would be the secondbaseman.

We're over-anticipating.

[smg58]

I see no point on passing judgment on this particular move until it's Wednesday or so and we still have no sign of Castillo. If Castillo is back by then, what's the problem?

In the meantime, I was glad to see Tejada get a hit before being sent down. The Bisons' season started on Thursday and he started twice up here on the two days the Bisons played, so he missed nothing.

PS Cora might give the Mets more with his glove at second base than his bat relative to Castillo would take away.

[Frayed Knot]

Options are on a 'per year' basis, so Tejeda (or someone like him) could be brought up and sent back down multiple times during a year and it burns only one option.
At least part of Omar's thinking in using him this first week is that they figured to likely use him at some point later this year anyway (even if just in September) so "saving" an option year or keeping him off the 40-man so as to save a protected roster spot this coming winter were probably not going to happen anyway.
As far as service time goes, all this week did was add 5 days of ML time so it's not going to make a difference in future arbitration or FA status down the road either.




** Partially cross-posted with above

[ashie62]

Relax, all is well

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy DC wrote: Well, they may see him as close to 100%. And Tejada would end up being mostly a backup while Cora --- who you think sucks --- would be the secondbaseman. We're over-anticipating.

Evidently they do. Either that, or the team will play a man or two short for a little while, and we all know they'd never make that mistake thrice. Again.

And actually-- maybe you can just chalk this up to the endless capacity of human rationalization-- but I don't mind Cora as much at second, as long as he's playing with a DP partner with good-to-superlative range (Reyes or Tejada) and not batting second.