Promotional Problem: Matt Wallner, Alan Roden, and Walker Jenkins Nearing Target Field

[weitz41]

I don't see any promotion issues here at all. Jenkins needs a lot more time in AAA before he needs a promotion. To that, it may be best to keep him off the 40-man roster until there is an actual 2027 season.

Most of us went through the Joey Gallo seasons. Wallner is him without the defense or 1b option. No need for a promotion there.

Roden's numbers are great, but he needs (idk) 20-30 more games at AAA before we get to concerned about how to fit him on the 26-man roster. 2nd or 3rd week of July and still crushing AAA ok...Something or someone has to go. Within a week or two of the trade deadline. Hmm...

[Patzky]

1 hour ago, Saxophone Joe said:

MLB isn't for the sentimental, but I'll still feel bad for the kid if he gets sent down before getting his first hit. He's gotten so close a couple times! 

Fedko gets the start in RF tonight. Please don't ask Shohei for his autograph til the games over!

 

[jmlease1]

Wallner still needs to show he can catch up to not just fastballs but the faster ball. He's punishing mistakes, and hitting lower velocity fastballs, but hasn't shown that he can catch up to stuff in the upper 90's which is where he will get hunted in MLB. 

Martin isn't hitting but has started getting on base again over the last couple of weeks in his reduced role; he might have earned more time. Fedko has played so little since coming up it's hard to say what he deserves or doesn't, but his RH bat helps balance the squad a bit. He's the most likely candidate to get dropped again, but replacing him with Roden does raise some issues of lineup balance and vulnerability to LHP.

Not sure there's that much urgency yet; the offense was humming until the Dodgers shut things down. For, you know, one game.

[Linus]

I have no heartburn at all at sending Martin down. He’s regressed back to a hitter that just doesn’t offer much. He’s gotten better in the outfield but he isn’t special out there. He makes good catches coming in on balls but when he gets to the fence he looks like an infielder. Plus he’s not a “heads up” ball player. He has some speed but doesn’t run the bases that well. And for some reason he throws to the wrong base far too often. 

[tarheeltwinsfan]

Great posts and great discussions of the options here. Thanks to everyone who posted.

[tony&rodney]

For those curious to watch, the Saints are facing Hunter Greene tonight (game in bottom of 1st inning). Jenkins hit a triple in his first at bat back in AAA. 

[mnfireman]

41 minutes ago, tony&rodney said:

For those curious to watch, the Saints are facing Hunter Greene tonight (game in bottom of 1st inning). Jenkins hit a triple in his first at bat back in AAA. 

Looked a bit overmatched in his second AB. He was late on a FB that he fouled off, and was then called out on strikes on a 99.1 MPH FB. 

[IndianaTwin]

I don’t have a preference on them. I’m just enjoying the irony of TD folks arguing that the Twins could use another LH hitting outfielder. 

I don’t have a precise count, but over the past year, it seems there’s been at least several articles or comments arguing, “The Twins have too }#%^*+ many LH OFs. They need to trade one.” 

 

(And by “several,” I mean “several per week.”)