Urena isn't thought to be s*** though. He's legitimately a prospect just not one as highly regarded as Torres. The nine month age difference is being weighed heavily. Perhaps too heavily but it's definitely playing a big factor.
Yeah I can think of a few just from the AA era, Emilio Bonifacio, Francisco Cordero, Esmil Rogers, Jeremy Jeffress. Mike Sirotka pretty much takes the cake for worst of all time though.
Yeah nothing to lose by going with Morales. Go with Loup and you flush away 2 million dollars just to give more rope to a guy who hasn't looked that good to begin with.
Sure but you're rather obstinately missing the point. You don't project his future speed based on his stolen base total at his age in these leagues or based on wishful thinking about how his diet and exercise will transform him. You look at his body now and you project quite reasonably that he'll probably be a massive guy and not that fast. No, you don't know that 100% for sure but it's what makes sense based on the data you have now.
If you want to speed up the game, the worst thing you could is suppress defensive strategies like shifts and pitching specialists. Better run prevention makes the game shorter not longer. Focus on eliminating actual dead time instead of penalizing strategic progress.
So crazy what's happened with Gose. With his skills, he should have been able to carve a decent career at a speed and defense CF but he's just the worst. You look at what Kevin Pillar has accomplished with his skills and you just shake your head at Gose.
O.K. I just looked up Loup's Bizaro stat line. 6 IP, 8 K, 0 BB, 5,82 FIP. I have no idea what to make of that but I'm fine with demoting him to get a decent look at Morales.
Kind of seems like overkill to me. You're very unlikely to field a lineup that has both Pompey and Zeke in it so one or the other should always be available to you as a runner if you add Pompey to the active roster.
From what I can tell Morales has options too so it's not a do or die decision. In theory they should be able to option either one unless they made some sort of promise to Morales that they would release him if they weren't going to us him (which I doubt given the guaranteed money he's making anyways). If it IS the later than yeah definitely give him a shot. If nothing else, it gives the team more depth. You wouldn't think having a deep depth chart of LH relief options would matter that much but weirdly it actually became a somewhat significant issue in the playoffs last year.
If all you need is speed off the bench, Pompey could provide that just as easily as Revere and you wouldn't even have to acquire him from another team.
If the shoulder feels better, the OF play might be better. I mean he's not a good fielder but he makes it up for it somewhat when he's making strong throws. It's when he's not that he's really a black hole there.