Originally posted by onejayhawk
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I bumped Simmons up quite a bit since the season started because he's 1) arrived a lot sooner than expected in MLB and 2) he's hit better than most expected him to hit, at least rt away. I thought about knocking him down a bit because of the injury, but it's not supposed to affect him long-term and he's likely to get the starting job back when he returns, so I didnt.
I dont have much more to say about Bogaerts and Lee than I said in the writeups a few months ago. Bogey seems to be progressing more or less as expected (#31 BA mid-season & #11 Sickels mid-season). Lee got off to a bad start but has hit a lot better over the last month or so, so I didnt knock him down too much. I had expected him to get a MLB callup in the 2nd half. His slow start probably has delayed that but the SS situation in Tampa seems so dire that he may merit a callup anyway if he continues to hit. He's still a defensive whiz and speedy and he seemingly could hardly hit worse than who they've had there so far this year.
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