Yes, good idea, we still have to wait for 4 more days at Pawtucket before he can get the call.Toe Nash said:I think getting him up NOW and playing him every day may help in avoiding the kind of struggles we're seeing this year from Bogaerts. X played 18 games and some in the playoffs on a first-place team. Betts could get in 40. MLB teams are quick to figure out your weaknesses, but if Betts gets some low-pressure exposure now he has all offseason to work on any holes in his game that arise. Not to mention the position thing. If he wins a starting spot in ST and never looks back, OK, but that seems unlikely.
Put another way, it seems it would be a lot more beneficial to the team to get Betts an extra few weeks of MLB time than the off chance that Kelly Johnson goes on a hot streak and gets trade value, or Holt has another BABIP spike and grows his value, or...anything else I can think of doing with that playing time.
Agree, let's find out now where ML teams attack Mookies' short quick swing, instead of next May.
I'm also curious to see if he has the speed to potentially be a 20-30 SB guy, so hopefully he gets the green light as often as possible. If he fills the role of super utility guy next year, he'd be useful as a late inning/high leverage pinch runner.
*Maybe we can send Kelly Johnson to the Orioles, if Manny goes on the 15 day DL.