SUNDAY: Dubon’s officially up. Amazingly, Arcia dodged a significant injury and should be fine to return after the All-Star break, per Rosiak. Because Arcia’s not going on the IL, the Brewers optioned righty Burch Smith to make room for Dubon.
SATURDAY: The Brewers are set to call up shortstop prospect Mauricio Dubon, Robert Murray of The Athletic tweets. Dubon, who’s already on the Brewers’ 40-man roster, will make his major league debut.
The Dubon call-up comes on the heels of a potentially serious injury for shortstop Orlando Arcia. The 24-year-old had to be carted off the field during the Brewers’ loss to the Pirates on Saturday after a collision with second baseman Keston Hiura. Arcia “was holding his left arm and shoulder” as he exited the field, Todd Rosiak of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel writes.
Dubon, also 24, suffered a major injury of his own – a torn left ACL – just a year ago. The righty-swinging Dubon has come back this season to slash .306/.343/.467 (99 wRC+) with 14 home runs and eight stolen bases in 357 plate appearances with the Brewers’ Triple-A affiliate in San Antonio.
Dubon originally joined the Brewers in a December 2016 trade with the Red Sox that centered on reliever Tyler Thornburg and third baseman Travis Shaw. Although Dubon was only a 26th-round pick in 2013, he evolved into one of Boston’s top prospects before it dealt him. He’s among the Brewers’ best farmhands nowadays. MLB.com and FanGraphs each place Dubon fifth in Milwaukee’s system. He could become “a low-end” starting shortstop in the majors, Kiley McDaniel and Eric Longenhagen of FanGraphs write.
Arcia is gonna be out awhile. Looks like a collarbone the way he landed
Glad to be wrong
That collision looked pretty bad tonight. Wish Arcia a speedy recovery.
wrong, Gerald Young (centerfielder) was the first honduran to play in MLB. in july 1987
Dubon was the first born and raised in Honduras.
nice to see a fellow catracho make it to the majors
Eight stolen bases with six caught stealing at AAA San Antonio…..
Thank God I was worried they were going to recall Shaw. I gotta believe Smith will be DFA’D too it may be time to send Peralta down. The only thing is who they call up now, might even dip into AA Biloux. Should try some of these guys Derby, Barker, Griep, Oslzack, Brown, Williams boys or even Barnes. Think that Houser should be moved back to bullpen. I suppose Smyly, Hart and Jackson could be considered too
Any other ideas?
Maybe a couple of trades too
Hahaha
I don’t think they have anyone in the minors that will help at this point. need gio back badly. I’m glad to see dubon come up but in this fashion sure does suck.
Exactly right re Gio. They keep giving starts to guys who have been sharp in relief (Burnes, Peralta, Houser, etc) and watching them blow up. Meanwhile the bullpen itself getting overused because of the short starts.
If your hope is Gio than good luck with that.
Lets face it. They don’t have the depth to trade for starting pitching, and Brewer pitching will not get them to the playoffs. This is the contract year for Grandal, Moose, and Thames. There are absolutely no hitters in the minors to replace any of them. As ridiculous as it sounds the Brewers either need to sign Moose and Grandal to extensions or fire sale and start a rebuild. Yelich, Woodruff and Hader are not enough to get to the playoffs in future years
I really don’t think they should be buyers or sellers at this time. Other teams are to strong and they don’t have much to trade. Agree with trying to sign those guys to longer contracts, and just giving some of the younger ones a chance to develop at the major league level. Obviously Hirua, Dubon, and Potentially Grisham in left. Hopefully Shaw can get his head together and he can platoon with Braun at first base next year. Plus getting Corey back next year would help. Hopefully then in the off-season they will be able to just concentrate on pitching.
Do we have any stat on how many people born in Honduras have played in the MLB?
just him and Gerald Young
Chito Martinez… he is listed as being born in Belize in 1965… It was part of Honduras then. It was renamed Belize in 1973.
I’m a History nerd.
hmm, that’s pretty neat. nice catch there.
it was called british honduras but not the same as the country of Honduras
Do we have a stat for how many people give a sh$t?
You need a hug or somethin?
go F yourself
Cindy how is that possible?
Hopefully this is the beginning with Dubon as our everyday SS from here on out. Was never impressed with Arica.
Brewers are a huge disappointment after last season. The list of underachievers and poor performers is long and their minor league system doesn’t have good depth anymore.
They either pick up a quality starter and another professional contact hitter or they will not be making the playoffs. Their inconsistency is troubling. Very disappointing season.
Are the underachieving, or just not overachieving like last year?
You didn’t watch last years six-week miracle run objectively. All the planets aligned a year ago…and they still lost. 0-50.
They need to work with Hiura about looking and listening for his teammates on balls in play.
The night before he got very close to Lorenzo Cain on a fly ball before going to the ground, which distracted Cain (no excuses for him, he should have had it) and he dropped the ball. He glared at Hiura after the play.
Same with the Pirates starting SS for 8 minutes, Erik Gonzalez. He ran into or got way too close to running into a few teammates before the collision with Marte that put him out for months.
Watching the video, Arcia should have been the one to back off, Hiura had the easier play. Maybe he needs to be better about calling people off
Yeah it was Arcias fault. Didn’t want him hurt but glad we have a better hitting short stop
Brewers are desperate
Stick a fork in them, they are done! Your Chi town rivals could maybe help you……… We can give you Schwarber for Yelich!