The Rays have selected the contract of infielder Brandon Snyder and placed third baseman Matt Duffy on the 10-day disabled list, tweets MLB.com’s Bill Chastain. Kevin Kiermaier, who is undergoing thumb surgery and figures to miss upwards of three months, was moved to the 60-day disabled list to open a 40-man spot for Snyder.
Duffy exited yesterday’s game with discomfort in his hamstring. The infielder told reporters that the injury isn’t serious, and it seems as if he expects to return after a minimal stay on the disabled list (Twitter link via Greg Auman of the Tampa Bay Times). Snyder and Daniel Robertson could pick up the bulk of the at-bats at the hot corner in his absence.
Snyder, 31, will get the call to the big leagues over some potential longer-term options for the Rays — most notably Christian Arroyo, whom the team acquired in the offseason Evan Longoria trade with the Giants. Arroyo hasn’t exactly come out of the gates and forced his way into big league consideration, posting just a .499 OPS through the season’s first few games.
Snyder will be stepping onto a big league field for the first time since 2016, when he made 47 plate appearances for the rebuilding Braves. The former Orioles prospect was the 13th overall pick back in the 2005 draft but has yet to tally even 70 plate appearances in a single big league season. He’s a career .242/.279/.459 hitter with nine homers in just 205 big league plate appearances and a .259/.326/.426 hitter in 2353 Triple-A plate appearances.
Duffy is on the DL again already?!! I’m seeing a pattern here.
Maybe they didn’t call up Arroyo because he’s on the DL? Do a little research next time before you question why he didn’t get called up
author also states Snyder was a draft pick in 2015…uh huh, when he was 28, he was made a high draft pick. So much for proofreading and editing…
Man, you guys are petty. This is free website that updates dozens of times a day. It’s an incredibly ambitious endeavor – and they even have a phone app. You aren’t required to be here. Quibbling over a few minor errors in an article about a scrub who will be released next week seems a little trivial.
Brandon Snyder? lol Good thing the Rays don’t have any good players on the farm!
I hope Matt Duffy is paying rent there, cuz he sure spends a lot of time on the DL.
2005 draft but yeah he was one of many 1st round disappointments in B-More
Think the Daniel Robertson link is the wrong one. The one he means is in his 20s and an IF in the Rays organization
I wouldn’t be surprised if Snyder picks up a few extra base hits before he gets released again. He definitely shouldn’t be a candidate for a starting position with anyone, but he has a solid enough stick to provide power off the bench. A few decades ago a similar type player would have been considered a real asset (now bullpens have expanded and bench spots normally go to more versatile defensive players). The game, and roster configuration, has changed significantly since the 70’s and 80’s.
Yep. The 13-man pitching staffs have left some teams with occasionally only three bench players – the backup catcher who is never going to be used in-game, a utility infielder and a backup outfielder. Even teams like the Padres, who opened the season with 6 bench players, are down to just 5 now. Most teams just carry 4. It does eliminate a lot of things that are unique about the game – platoons, pinch-runners, pure pinch-hitters. It hurts late-inning matchup possibities, which makes bullpens even more dominant.
Baseball could fix this fairly easily. Expand to, say, 28-man rosters with three players inactive every day, along with a cap on the number of pitchers on a roster. Theoretically, teams would carry three extra hitters and the inactives each game would just be starting pitchers who aren’t starting that game. I think it’s something that caould be discussed in the next CBA; it would be beneficial to the union to create 90 extra MLB jobs, basically, and would make late-and-close games a lot more interesting. I mean, I like watching relievers strike everyone out too, but it can get a ittle monotonous after a while.
I think that there should be a 12 man limit on pitchers which would lessen the potential number of pitching changes and lower the average time of these games.My guess is that they are 20-30 minutes longer now than they were in the 70’s and 80’s.
Why does everybody want the game to be shorter ? I don’t get it. It doesn’t have a game clock , so why does it matter ?
Most people do not appreciate the nuances like you and I and the rest of us on this forum so this is I believe one of the main reasons that it has lost in popularity over the last 30 years.I wish it were still the National pastime but unfortunately it does not seem to be.The constant changing of pitchers seems to be one of the main reasons for the longer average game time.There is a fair amount of inaction inherent anyway but this change only adds to it as dead time.
I think that if the average time were closer to what it used to be that the casual fan may have more of a chance to become an ardent one.
I see your point.But the games do now quite often drag on with extended periods of inaction with all the pitching changes.Since the game is not continuous action it only serves to make it worse.