Early Season Playing Time Booms & Busts

[revo]

Booms
Jorge Mateo - starting every day at SS
Steven Kwan -- getting on-base and playing LF every day
Josh Lowe - in the lineup every day
Urshela/Arraez
Paul DeJong


Busts
Alec Bohm - off the grid
Akil Baddoo - batting 9th
Rowdy Tellez - splitting time with Hiura?
Rougned Odor
Colin Moran
Gleyber Torres
Ha-Seong Kim
Diego Castillo
Nick Solak - sat the 1st three games
Cavan Biggio - 4 ABs through 4 games

Who else you got?

[umjewman]

I thought Colin Moran was going to get some run with the Reds but he has been on the bench all 3 games.

[Sharky]

Good stuff revo.

Booms
Gio Urshela and Luis Arraez - Miranda sent down

Busts
Rougned Odor (see Mateo)

[revo]

Gleyber Torres appears to be the odd-man out of the Yankees IF mix. He'll get his share of course, but barring an injury, not sure I'd count on anything close to 550 PAs.

Paul DeJong's obit was written prematurely -- he's started every game at SS so far.

[Sharky]

What do you guys make of Marcell Ozuna for 2022?

[mike9289]

Kim in SD looks like the odd man out with Abrams sticking around.

[madducks]

Pirates 2B Diego Castillo was their best hitter in spring training. But he was benched in favor of big-time sluggers Hoy Park and Josh Van Meter the first two games. However, he did get the start on backup day today. So, who knows?

[Sharky]

Love a $1 flyer on Castillo. What to expect from Ozuna?

[revo]

Love a $1 flyer on Castillo. What to expect from Ozuna?

The usual. Why would you expect anything different? He'll start in LF and probably get 550 PAs.

[revo]

What about Jazz Chisholm? Mattingly sat him yesterday and he didn't react well to it, and today he batted 8th.

[Ken]

What about Jazz Chisholm? Mattingly sat him yesterday and he didn't react well to it, and today he batted 8th.

That's an improvement, he was hitting 9th opening day behind Stallings

[Sharky]

The usual. Why would you expect anything different? He'll start in LF and probably get 550 PAs.

Dunno. Does he still have some legal issues hanging over him or were they resolved?

[Sharky]

Also I would add Jeremy Peña to the Boom list. And he looks really good at the moment.

[GwynnInTheHall]

Profar is off to a hot start--he's started 3 of 4 in LF.

[madducks]

Pirates 2B Diego Castillo was their best hitter in spring training. But he was benched in favor of big-time sluggers Hoy Park and Josh Van Meter the first two games. However, he did get the start on backup day today. So, who knows?

Castillo with 3 hits in his first career start today. The Pirates are undefeated with him in the starting lineup and winless when he starts the game on the bench. So, i expect him to be sitting tomorrow.