Carrillo/Russell swapped

by toonsterwu on Aug 5, 2008 1:46 PM CDT Comment 9 comments

Just noticed that those two were swapped, with Marco going to AA and James going back to Daytona.

Carrillo's promotion is deserving. He's strung together a superb year at age 21. He's still more a mid-end of the rotation type if he makes it up, but he deserved the bump.

Russell's bump to AA seemed quick. Everyone hoped this was a Shark case, where the organization felt like they saw something, but it always was possible that they acted too quickly. Reminds me of when Marshall was bumped up to AA too quick. Here's the tougher question - is James a starter? Some projections out of college had him as a pen arm.

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I was just thinking

that Russell needed to be sent back down. His numbers looked good earlier in the season, I just don’t know what happened to him.

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by thecoolest on Aug 5, 2008 2:53 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

My guess at what happened

He still really lacks a decent third pitch. After awhile, opposing teams might simply have just caught on.

by toonsterwu on Aug 5, 2008 3:11 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Russell doesn't have much pro experience

It was a pretty quick jump for him to AA in the first place, no?

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by AceCubbie on Aug 5, 2008 8:06 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

by cwyers on Aug 5, 2008 10:05 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

He seems well suited to that role now, doesn't he?

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by Al on Aug 6, 2008 3:50 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

i wonder who I'm thinking of

i thought it was marshall … hmm maybe i’m thinking of someone else. I know Nolasco was up at AAA before coming down. It was in Marshall’s time period coming up … h,mm.

by toonsterwu on Aug 6, 2008 2:31 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs