Another Matter

[moose-and-squirrel]

Church and Antico have spent years earning promotions, and working their way up through the Cardinals system. They finally get to Memphis and are hitting well, especially Church - who is hitting .337 with an OPS of .918 right now. 25 years old.
So a Cardinal outfielder goes down, and who do they bring in? A 30 year old who’s been cut from 2 MLB teams this year and was hitting .167 for both of those teams. Can anyone explain that? What a downer for Cardinal minor leaguers.

Hampson has been with the team about 7 weeks, and has 22PA.

Does he have so little playing time because:

1. He’s bad?
2. Or the org favors other players on the roster getting playing time and Hampson is merely a backup who can play a lot of positions?


The answer is #2.

The org wants to see what the current players on the roster can do. This isn’t Hampson vs Church. It’s Walker/Burleson/etc vs Church. Hampson is merely a more versatile Siani.

agree with this. it's about PT, and Church wouldn't be getting it right now with the big club. especially with the IH in LF experiment