this year's (and last year's) callups
by morineko on Aug 25, 2009 12:00 PM CDT
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Meanwhile, Macha expects to have "the big talk" in the next day or two with Brewers general manager Doug Melvin regarding which players currently in the Minors will be joining the club on Sept. 1.
"He mentioned that we need to sit down and figure out who will be called up," Macha said. "Last year, a lot of people got called up and some didn't get used. And he's leaning towards not having that happen again. I think that will be a Tuesday conversation."
The situation of last year and this year are reversed. Last year, it was Nashville that had no chance of making the playoffs. Even so, the Brewers chose to call up mostly position players. After Sheets was injured and the team was forced to run Bush, Sabathia and McClung out on short rest for the last weeks of 2008, some more pitchers could have come in handy. DiFelice, Dillard, and Stetter got plenty of work in during September (and waiver claim Coffey also was quite useful.)
This year's Brewers team doesn't seem to have many problems with the bat. It's the pitching that's lacking. Which minor league players do the readers here think would be most helpful, playoff run or no (seriously, no) for the 2009 Brewers this September?
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I would like to see any number of them given some playing time,
if only to see their tools. As far as AAA players, I am not sure why Heether isn’t up already.
Wait,
I thought we were in win now mode?
by Braunstalker on Aug 26, 2009 1:41 PM CDT up reply actions
There's a few guys I'd like to see up for a look-see (Heether, Axford, Butler - heck, even a courtesy promotion for Gulin) but...
none of them are on the 40-man roster, so that’s probably not happening.
I think there were rumblings a while ago about bringing up a third catcher and not much else
I don’t know if the fact Corporan is no longer on the 40-man roster will mess with those plans. I suspect it will be players we’ve seen before: Hardy and Chris Smith on Sept. 1, with Salome, Gamel, and Iribarren later on. Unlike last year, there isn’t much flexibility with the 40-man roster unless they shift McClung to the 60-day DL or try and outright one of the lower-level pitchers.
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that's actually what I was expecting
The 40-man is jammed, yes.
(McClung on the 60-day? Is there something you know that hasn’t been posted here?)
No, pure speculation
I just don’t know when he will be ready to pitch again.
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Apparently Chase Wright was just outrighted to Nashville, opening up a 40-man roster spot
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