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.