Royce Lewis is Back, James Outman Designated for Assignment

[karcherd]

9 hours ago, Fatbat said:

Agreed!  The only other thing keeping KC from the everyday SS duties on varsity is Arcia actually hitting a baseball on a regular basis. 

But yet Arcia has been moving around the diamond and not really much at SS.   So move Gray out and put Culpepper in.  

[stringer bell]

54 minutes ago, karcherd said:

But yet Arcia has been moving around the diamond and not really much at SS.   So move Gray out and put Culpepper in.  

Each of Gray, Arcia and Kreidler has made at least a minimal case to stay in the majors. Gray and Kreidler can be optioned, Arcia cannot. It would seem a move to Culpepper would signal that they are not contenders, which I think is evident, but the standings don't say that at this point. 

[karcherd]

4 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

Each of Gray, Arcia and Kreidler has made at least a minimal case to stay in the majors. Gray and Kreidler can be optioned, Arcia cannot. It would seem a move to Culpepper would signal that they are not contenders, which I think is evident, but the standings don't say that at this point. 

Gray is stretched as the everyday shortstop, 16 of his 26 RBI's have come in four games.  He will havesome success, but not consistently, that is the definition of a AAAA player.  It shouldn't really be that difficult to move him to St. Paul  for Culpepper.  And I am not sure it necessarily makes the team worse.

But this team is not really a contending despite what the standings say, I agree with that.  They need to start being honest with where they are at as an organization.  This is why I have started to bang the drum to bring in a senior baseball advisor to help Zoll.  I do not think he is up to the task of being the top baseball  voice especially where this organization is at right now.

[Fatbat]

16 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

Each of Gray, Arcia and Kreidler has made at least a minimal case to stay in the majors. Gray and Kreidler can be optioned, Arcia cannot. It would seem a move to Culpepper would signal that they are not contenders, which I think is evident, but the standings don't say that at this point. 

KC leading off and doing damage in the lineup is what they need. He will be fine defensively so it really shouldn’t matter if they are 5 games down or 15 down in the standings. He can’t possibly be worse than what we currently have on the roster. Play the best players.

[stringer bell]

I like Culpepper’s upside as an offensive player, but I really am at a loss to see that he is being projected as a plus defender at shortstop. He’s been okay from what I’ve seen and read, but nothing more than that.