Article: Five Prospects The Twins Should Promote

[John Kelsey]

 

Chargois has only pitched 17.2 innings between AA & AAA this season. It seems a bit premature to be anointing him as the savior for the Twins bullpen with so few innings at those levels. He only has 5.2 innings pitched at AAA. If he reaches 20 innings at AAA and still has such great numbers and a K/9 > 9 then he should be called up and given a serious look at replacing Jepsen in the highest leverage situations. But, 17.2 innings isn't enough to say he's MLB ready...

 

What does it matter if he's not?

 

I would totally agree with the points you made if this was a contending team but that couldn't be further from the truth. Most of the Twins bullpen is not "MLB ready" so why not give a guy with some actual upside a shot?

[Mike Sixel]

Here is a list of people saying he's the savior:

 

 

Now that that straw man is dead........the Twins are terrible. They seem to have issues with young players not being ready when they come up. They could start pulling guys up, and see if they are ready or not (those that are close) and also to get them a taste of the majors.......or they can just keep being awful, not gather information on their minor league players this year, and go into next year w/o an idea of which guys are ready.........

[Mr. Brooks]

Chargois has only pitched 17.2 innings between AA & AAA this season. It seems a bit premature to be anointing him as the savior for the Twins bullpen with so few innings at those levels. He only has 5.2 innings pitched at AAA. If he reaches 20 innings at AAA and still has such great numbers and a K/9 > 9 then he should be called up and given a serious look at replacing Jepsen in the highest leverage situations. But, 17.2 innings isn't enough to say he's MLB ready...

Wait , did you just say that he's not mlb ready, but if he pitches 14.1 more innings he should be closing mlb games?

I think you overestimate how much more he can learn in 14 innings.

If he's ready then he's ready now.

If he's not ready now he's not going to be ready in 14 more innings.

[diehardtwinsfan]

 

Wait , did you just say that he's not mlb ready, but if he pitches 14.1 more innings he should be closing mlb games?
I think you overestimate how much more he can learn in 14 innings.
If he's ready then he's ready now.
If he's not ready now he's not going to be ready in 14 more innings.

 

Using that logic, a guy is either always ready or never ready.

 

I think 14 more innings might be a nice litmus test of showing whether or not the guy is ready.  SSS is a real thing.  I don't think there's anything wrong letting Chargois spend a bit more time in AAA to make sure this simply isn't a nice couple of weeks.  He will probably get the call at some point this year and there should be data points on him next year come ST.  That's what we want, right?

[Mr. Brooks]

Using that logic, a guy is either always ready or never ready.

 

I think 14 more innings might be a nice litmus test of showing whether or not the guy is ready. SSS is a real thing. I don't think there's anything wrong letting Chargois spend a bit more time in AAA to make sure this simply isn't a nice couple of weeks. He will probably get the call at some point this year and there should be data points on him next year come ST. That's what we want, right?

Of course SSS is a real thing. That is kind of my point. 14 more innings is still going to be a tiny sample size. That is the life of a reliever. It's going to take an entire career to go beyond SSS as a reliever.

He has mlb stuff. Arms only have so many bullets in them. Frankly, in a lost season, it's laughable that he's not up right now.

There is no downside. He has options, he can be sent back down if he is overwhelmed.