When does Baez get some runway?

[Ozziesfan41]

As soon as Noot is traded.....so in about one week.

That could be the scenario?
I don’t know if Baez is ready or not?
But when he does come up it should be to basically play every day.
Right now you have > Walker/Church/Noot. And they still want to look at Velasquez?
Baez time is coming. Patience.

I've been saying for some time Baez would indeed get the call once Noot was traded.

BUT

His recent struggles has changed my mind.

He may be better off staying at AAA until September call-ups, he even then.

If he's still having issues, then keep him down on the farm.

Could be Rock?
I have never seen him in person only on tape.
I still don’t get why some are so anxious to rush players?
Especially when they concede that we aren’t going anywhere?

Same here

Especially given the Cards issues, why would you want to bring a kid up (re: hitter) when the offense (sans Burly) is in a massive team slump and he's been in a long one too?

Correct
And you can only give a decent “look” to so many guys at a time.
Baez certainly figures to have a higher ceiling than Church/Torres/Velasquez/etc and his time is coming.
As much as I’m excited to see Baez let him progress at his own pace. As others have said he was in AA last year and before that he struggled.
LOL...the same people who want to push his call up are the SAME ones who will then (A female canine animal, especially a dog) if he struggles.
Then complain that he was rushed too soon.

Low bar there, he does indeed have a higher upside than those three.

By recent reports he does need more time.

One thing I learned about C. Bloom when doing my homework on him was he's a firm believer in only calling kids up from the minors when he feels they have the maximum chance to succeed! No panic callups from the new POBO and I like that.

Crooks, Church, Torres and Velazquez are all struggling at the plate. Call-ups from AAA tend to go like that, for a while. Saggese struggled enough to get sent back down. I expect Josh B to struggle also. I just don't understand the urgency in calling him up.

Torres has barely been given a chance. And I'm he limited time be has gotten be has been improving at the plate and doesn't look like he is pressing like he was.


Church is barely a major league player. Torres deserves to get a couple week's of starts in a row. He has the plate discipline to improve dramatically.

If he has one hot week he will be back over .800 OPS.

Church is terrible.

Wasn’t Long ago people were singing praises for church saying he’s the answer for the center field prayers now people are want him replaced.

[Poojols]

Jurrangelo Cijntje (I suggest at least knowing a guys name before wanting to bring him up) has a 5.7 era in Memphis. Baez hasnt hit since Shady got banned.

Woah Shady got banned? How the hell did that happen.

Assuming the mods finally realized it was an AI chatbot.

LOL, no. This ain't it. The guy was a complete moron and could barely type a cohesive sentence. His thought process was that of an 8th grader. There is zero chance it was an AI chatbot.

You mean the incessant, repeated topics?
The fact that it rarely, if ever, responded directly to anything anybody said, and instead just doubled-down on its simplistic, repeated subject matter?
Spoke in patterns and catch phrases?
Often made absolutely zero sense, as if you're not actually talking to a person?

These bots have been around for a few decades at this point; all internet forums and comments sections have some AI-controlled accounts at this point.

I'm sure there's going to be people here who live eternally in denial that they checked in every day for years to argue with a robot, but the Shady account was a bot, dude. Sorry.

I'm not even on the forum that often. So you're not describing me.

Yes, someone programmed a 70 IQ chatbot to only rarely click the quote button. This made me laugh, thank you for that!

70 IQ sounds about right. AI is inherently stupid.

A couple decades ago, sure. You need to keep up with how things are progressing and you won't make these laughable predictions.

[Frivolousz50]

As soon as Noot is traded.....so in about one week.

That could be the scenario?
I don’t know if Baez is ready or not?
But when he does come up it should be to basically play every day.
Right now you have > Walker/Church/Noot. And they still want to look at Velasquez?
Baez time is coming. Patience.

I've been saying for some time Baez would indeed get the call once Noot was traded.

BUT

His recent struggles has changed my mind.

He may be better off staying at AAA until September call-ups, he even then.

If he's still having issues, then keep him down on the farm.

Could be Rock?
I have never seen him in person only on tape.
I still don’t get why some are so anxious to rush players?
Especially when they concede that we aren’t going anywhere?

Same here

Especially given the Cards issues, why would you want to bring a kid up (re: hitter) when the offense (sans Burly) is in a massive team slump and he's been in a long one too?

Correct
And you can only give a decent “look” to so many guys at a time.
Baez certainly figures to have a higher ceiling than Church/Torres/Velasquez/etc and his time is coming.
As much as I’m excited to see Baez let him progress at his own pace. As others have said he was in AA last year and before that he struggled.
LOL...the same people who want to push his call up are the SAME ones who will then (A female canine animal, especially a dog) if he struggles.
Then complain that he was rushed too soon.

Low bar there, he does indeed have a higher upside than those three.

By recent reports he does need more time.

One thing I learned about C. Bloom when doing my homework on him was he's a firm believer in only calling kids up from the minors when he feels they have the maximum chance to succeed! No panic callups from the new POBO and I like that.

Crooks, Church, Torres and Velazquez are all struggling at the plate. Call-ups from AAA tend to go like that, for a while. Saggese struggled enough to get sent back down. I expect Josh B to struggle also. I just don't understand the urgency in calling him up.

Torres has barely been given a chance. And I'm he limited time be has gotten be has been improving at the plate and doesn't look like he is pressing like he was.


Church is barely a major league player. Torres deserves to get a couple week's of starts in a row. He has the plate discipline to improve dramatically.

If he has one hot week he will be back over .800 OPS.

Church is terrible.

Wasn’t Long ago people were singing praises for church saying he’s the answer for the center field prayers now people are want him replaced.

FWIW I have always been a Torres guy. When Church came back. Oli basically has dropped Torres do the last position player spot.

I'm not saying Torres is going to be an all star but he has put up back to back to back dominate all star+ caliber seasons at AA and AAA.

He has the plate discipline and experience to start every game versus right handed starting pitchers.


Oli has moved and perked Torres around since the middle of his second week with the club.

He was slumping a bit during his second week. I think because his first week he was robbed 3 times for hits. One of which would have been a triple.

He started to press and then Church came back and that was it. Torres got 2 starts a week.. a couple weeks only 1 start. He widowed struggled. They had lots of games that Oli pinched hit for Torres and NOT ONE of those pinch hitters were successful. Well move forward to about 10 days ago and Torres started taking pitches with more confidence. And he has been dynamite at the plate since then in very limited time. Which is very impressive.

[NotAFathersDay9871]

Jurrangelo Cijntje (I suggest at least knowing a guys name before wanting to bring him up) has a 5.7 era in Memphis. Baez hasnt hit since Shady got banned.

Woah Shady got banned? How the hell did that happen.

Assuming the mods finally realized it was an AI chatbot.

LOL, no. This ain't it. The guy was a complete moron and could barely type a cohesive sentence. His thought process was that of an 8th grader. There is zero chance it was an AI chatbot.

You mean the incessant, repeated topics?
The fact that it rarely, if ever, responded directly to anything anybody said, and instead just doubled-down on its simplistic, repeated subject matter?
Spoke in patterns and catch phrases?
Often made absolutely zero sense, as if you're not actually talking to a person?

These bots have been around for a few decades at this point; all internet forums and comments sections have some AI-controlled accounts at this point.

I'm sure there's going to be people here who live eternally in denial that they checked in every day for years to argue with a robot, but the Shady account was a bot, dude. Sorry.

I'm not even on the forum that often. So you're not describing me.

Yes, someone programmed a 70 IQ chatbot to only rarely click the quote button. This made me laugh, thank you for that!

70 IQ sounds about right. AI is inherently stupid.

A couple decades ago, sure. You need to keep up with how things are progressing and you won't make these laughable predictions.

Cute.

[Konstantinov]

Tanking teams do not want stud HR hitters.

[ecleme22]

Well, he has struggled a bit.

I wouldn't mind leaving him in Memphis and doing what they did with JJ this year. Shoot for the 2027 OD roster.

[BrockFloodMaris]

Over the last ten games, JB is hitting .226 with 1 HR.

[Ronnie Dobbs]

Over the last ten games, JB is hitting .226 with 1 HR.

Okay.

[BrockFloodMaris]

Over the last ten games, JB is hitting .226 with 1 HR.

Okay.

It is not as if Baez is beating the door down to get a promotion.

[Futuregm2]

Over the last ten games, JB is hitting .226 with 1 HR.

Joshua? He’s hitting .256 with an .897 OPS and 3 HRs over the last 10

[Ronnie Dobbs]

Over the last ten games, JB is hitting .226 with 1 HR.

Okay.

It is not as if Baez is beating the door down to get a promotion.

Wow, sorry. My brain short-ciruited. I thought it said JW and I didn't understand what he had to do with anything.

[TimTheTechies]

His runway is currently in Memphis. In the last 30 days he has .778 OPS there. When he can fly in Memphis , he can land in STL

[Ronnie Dobbs]

His runway is currently in Memphis. In the last 30 days he has .778 OPS there. When he can fly in Memphis , he can land in STL

Yes.

It was nice to see that he had some initial struggles and was able to overcome them. Yes, he hits the ball very hard and very far. That is awesome. But pitchers adjust, and if they can do it at AAA and he struggles like this, then they will certainly do it at the MLB level.