Chinny, We Hardly Hu Ye

[G-Fafif]

Hu and Iggy to Buffalo. Wright to DL. Beato back. Tejada up. Evans coming.

[Gwreck]

Good and good. Scott Hairston, you're on notice too.

[Guest attgig]

iggy was going to happen sooner or later whenever beato was ready. tonight just made it worse.
hu... yeah. that was long overdue. he was not playing well at all. he'll need at least a few months of good AAA play for anyone else to have any confidence in him.

i'm guessing evans will be platooning with harris?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Hard not to like all three of these moves. Leaves them thin on the infield for a bit (Harris is the backup shorstop!), but I bet the on-notice thing is clear for them all --- Harris, Hairston, Evans, and Fartinez. Produce and survive. Really seems like they mean to be running a ballclub.

Dark day at The Asian Times, though.

[Gwreck]

attgig wrote: i'm guessing evans will be platooning with harris?

Lennon thinks it will be Murphy, Tejada and Turner starting regularly at 1B, 2B and 3B respectively.

[G-Fafif]

David not yet officially DL'd -- but based on his usage Monday night, it's Wright accompli.

Perhaps Niese can fill in at short. Only guy on that bench in whom I have faith right now.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: Hard not to like all three of these moves. Leaves them thin on the infield for a bit (Harris is the backup shorstop!), but I bet the on-notice thing is clear for them all --- Harris, Hairston, Evans, and Fartinez. Produce and survive. Really seems like they mean to be running a ballclub. Dark day at The Asian Times, though.

I'm not finding it hard to dislike Wright for Evans actually. Sandy works fast, I wasn't even home yet and Iggy and Hu were already in Buffalo.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Of course, I slept through the word Tejada, and he's clearly the infield depth.

[Guest Edgy DC]

"I completely understand the decision," Igarashi said through an interpreter. "I've given up a lot of walks recently and I've given up some runs, so I understand the decision."

Sometimes I want to come up with some too-easy catchall reason that the team tends to field talented but hapless Asian players. I've recently arrived at the notion that coaches struggle to bridge the language gap and, with limiited time in a roomful of responsibilities, ultimately stop trying, leaving the players alienated, indifferently coached, and adrift.

That's too easy, right?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Maybe most of the best Asian players stay in Asia, and those who come to America are more likely to be hapless?

[Ceetar]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Maybe most of the best Asian players stay in Asia, and those who come to America are more likely to be hapless?

People talk about all the glamor of the big leagues versus the minors and riding buses and whatnot. Must be even worse when you're not even the one playing the baseball. Poor interpreter.

[seawolf17]

I think it's a little of both, and I wonder about that, especially in crucial situations like last night. I don't know nothing from nothing, but does Igarashi understand enough English when Warthen comes out there to say "THIS IS THE FUCKING PITCHER JUST THROW SOME FUCKING STRIKES AND CUT IT WITH THE NIBBLY SHIT"? I don't know.

[Ceetar]

seawolf17 wrote: I think it's a little of both, and I wonder about that, especially in crucial situations like last night. I don't know nothing from nothing, but does Igarashi understand enough English when Warthen comes out there to say "THIS IS THE FUCKING PITCHER JUST THROW SOME FUCKING STRIKES AND CUT IT WITH THE NIBBLY SHIT"? I don't know.

Actually Collins went out there and told Iggy the guy could hit. boggling.

[ashie62]

I'm ready to start Evans at third everyday and play Fartinez rotating at all three OF spots everyday.

When Bay got back to the dugout bunting he looked pissed when Collins said something to him.

Bay is untradeable now. He will be standing at Citifield in LF for the rest of his life.

[Benjamin Grimm]

That's assuming that Bay dies before the end of the 2013 season.

He's definitely untradeable. Perhaps he'll play himself to tradeability, but perhaps not.

I guess Evans is more likely to hit than Tejada is, but if not, they could play Turner at third, Murphy at first, and Tejada at second.

I really hope Ike Davis comes back on May 26.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

On the plus side, Tejada's looked good at Buffalo so far, with significant upticks in walk rate (from 5.7% to 9.0%) and slugging (.344 to .407, w/as many extra-base hits in 167 PA this time around as he had in 244 last year). He might deserve an upgrade from "lineup black hole" to "lineup hole."

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I kinda like Tejada. He had a way about him that suggested "I belong in the big leagues" -- body language that spoke louder than most AAA callups (excluding Ike Davis who seemed to have arrived as a fully formed veteran).

[Valadius]

Asian lady must be apoplectic today.

[ashie62]

So, until Ike Davis returns Tejada will play 2B ahead of Justin Turner?

[Gwreck]

Yes, because Turner will be playing third.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Gwreck wrote: Yes, because Turner will be playing third.

Is that official, or conjecture? Either way, I approve.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

One of the writers twatted that Tejada was starting at 2B today.

[Ceetar]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: One of the writers twatted that Tejada was starting at 2B today.

lineup's out if someone wants to make an IGT. Turner at third, Tejada at second batting 8th.

[Guest themetfairy]

Here's Hu, trying to bunt for a hit on Opening Day.




He was out at first....