Yeah, guys like Park, Tucker, Marisnik, etc are simply warm bodies. I get the reason they're in there for the first 4-6 weeks. But Tucker has shown nothing. Absolutely nothing new at the plate. He's had numerous chances. I get it, he's a former 1st round pick. That's a multi million dollar investment you're trying to save but the kid simply can't hit MLB pitching.
Mitchell provides solid defense, and a bat that can't possibly be any worse than a 3-500 OPS player, short or long term. I'm not saying Mitchell will be an every day starter, let alone star, but he's off to a very hot start in the highest level of minor league play and the corner OF spots are nowhere near locked down moving forward. I'd like to see this happen within the next 2 weeks, sort of a setup to the eventual June call ups of Cruz (providing he doesn't continue sucking) and Contreras.
Suwinski is repeating (and tearing) AA so we need to create room for him in Indy soon enough and let him test out against the final level and see whether or not he's a late summer/Sept call up as well.
Mason Martin should be an easy call up if he continues producing. I would like to see him do it a bit longer than Mitchell given his struggles with K's and hot/colds streaks. He's an easy replacement for Yoshi or Vogel, whomever is moved in dead of summer.
My hope is that non capable players we've seen already are somewhat forced off the roster and players like Mitchell, Martin, Bae, etc are given the 2nd half of the year so we can at least get some idea of what they're capable of at the MLB level.
I do not trust Shelton to trot out a relatively stationary lineup, even with new (better) bodies, but at least we can rid the temptation for throwing out AAAA players like we're getting nightly.
And look, Mitchell/Martin/Bae, etc may all flop as well. But they're next in line in the hopper and producing.
