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More than one season of at bats, that's for sure. Players can improve year over year.

Kind of like giving him more of a chance before declaring him an awful player.

And Burke.

How many days was he out? I know it was the 10 day IL but it can be longer.

Do you really believe he's injured? Rule 5 guy can't be sent down.

These situations suck. I've had to do CPR on fans and a couple of falls. It's that one's you don't expect that you feel and remember the most. Hope for the best.

Interesting listening to the baseball america podcast. They identified that his issue is almost exclusively swing decisions. How it's gotten real bad year over years His ev, launch angles and others have improved. Their suggestion was that is fixable but he would probably need a drastic measure like going to Arizona to get out of game and work on getting the decision making back.

I was wondering if having bonemer there lighting it up knocked hom down a few pegs.

Its pretty obvious that the one thing this FO doesn't like is swing and miss players. Look at their drafts and signings. I don't think Elko will ever get much of a chance with the sox due to his huge swing and miss stats.

Agreed. Needs to get out of the pressure and back to himself.

I dont think bonemer will go to ws until late in the season. He is only 19 and this is first season in full season ball.

Could be but having it done right now puts it at the good timing to be ready for next season. If they wait too much longer, he may not be ready.

Explains why they wouldn't let him throw and only DH. Explains the timing as well. 10 months to spring training so he'll have no issues hitting full time and be ready to throw by the season.

Stress reactions take 4-6 weeks just like a fracture. They are stable compared to fractures so players can play with them. Just depends on the pain tolerance and what the player is willing to deal with.

Agreed. I think the stats someone quoted were that last year Detroit ran the 12 package 33% of the time, the largest in the league. With the quality of Kmet that's probably even higher this year.

That would do it. It sounds right too. He could hit and only DH so it's probably a labrum or possibly rotator cuff issue. He could hit with a small injury to either of these but not throw. The question would be is that would surgery or healing in the off season allow him time to recover for spring training. Is it worth the htting development to only DH the whole year. After a few weeks of testing it the answer seems to be no.

True but I definitely think the plan is to stretch him out eventually.

Think the plan is to limit him to 3 innings for the first half at least.

Nah, JR is too cheap to offer anyone a good deal.

Could be the Twins where even the Ishbias don't want you.

Have you gone to the highest seats on the west side of Soldier Field? The only good thing there is you can see Michigan with a good set of binoculars.

Piece of cake. Had it 2 years ago. Do the PT and you're good.

Dang. I like his potential

I think that's his game. Good stuff all around the zone with weak contact.

Yep. Schultz and Smith for Birmingham today.