May be tearing it up in AAA, but TG jr has demonstrated completely cluelessness at the major league level, both in starts and off the bench. Iribarren has been even more of a disappointment, even though I don’t believe he’s seen any starts. For all of his excellence as a baserunner, he managed to get picked off base.

I’m surprised that they didn’t leave things as-is and stick with Nelson for a bit longer. That being said, I didn’t see any pinch hitting situations where I actually liked him, because he had thusfar been hitless. As to Escobar: JJ’s been flashing leather and hasn’t been performing abysmally with the bat (despite a high GIDP rate), so there’s really no room for a pure shortstop on the club right now. And no demotable pitcher has been performing poorly enough to send down to make room for a AAA pitcher. So, really, they made the only move they could.

I think Catalanotto will be called up in the summer at some point. But Gamel will provide a better option than B. Nelson at this point. Someone here at work mentioned today that Gamel will be the DH during interleague play starting next month.

I agree with Pags. There isn’t many other better options.

If they wanted to bring him up for interleague play, why wouldn’t they have just waited a week, and given him more regular at bats?

Maybe Gamel wasn’t called up as much as Nelson was sent down.

Nelson has got to be pressing and maybe he just needs to go back to AAA and get his feet back under him and restore his confidence. If they decided to send him down, it makes sense to just go ahead and call up Gamel a little early.

I think the extra week will give Svuem a little more time to work with him. Its only a week early, I don’t have a problem with it.