The Rays announced a roster move today, optioning Taylor Walls to Triple-A and recalling right-hander Sean Poppen from Triple-A, per the team. After the recent Rich Hill trade, Poppen provides an extra arm right away for the Rays to lean on, while Walls may have been subject to a demotion when Manuel Margot returns from the injured list later this week anyhow, suggests Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times (via Twitter).
The Rays have also added southpaw Ryan Sherriff to the taxi squad, per Topkin, presuming that Sherriff will soon take the roster spot of whoever on the roster gets used in today’s ballgame. Let’s check in on some other roster moves happening around the game right now…
- The Orioles have selected the contract of Conner Greene from Triple-A, per the team. Greene takes the place of Tyler Wells, who was placed on the injured list yesterday, though he’s expected back shortly. Greene is a 26-year-old right-hander who has yet to make his big league debut.
- The Reds have placed right-hander R.J. Alaniz on the 10-day injured list with a left calf strain, the team announced. Infielder Max Schrock has been recalled to take his roster spot. Alaniz, 30, made three appearances for the Reds, tossing 2 2/3 innings, allowing one run on a solo homer, walking three and striking out three.
happy that Greene is getting a chance, but confused why it isn’t Dusten Knight. Greene hasn’t been too good so far for Norfolk
Thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery.
Didn’t want to start the service clock this year probably
Wow. I thought Walls would be ss going forward–great defense.
I never know what those Rays will do next!
It had to be either Walls or Franco and apparently they are not ready to demote Franco yet
Nice to see the Rays give Sherriff a shot, but they didn’t shoot the deputy
That reference is so strained you may need some Preperation-H now.
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Have fun with Poppen, because so far in his career he has been anything but poppin’. Then again, this is the Rays we’re talking about…
Who the hell did Honeywell piss off? We wait 3 years for him to be healthy, he finally is but instead of him comming up we get Head, Poppen, Sheriff, ect. He will be a minor league free agent after this year and will be gone…. and i see Mckay following the same path
Injuries suck and Honeywell just hasn’t looked as good now as he did before multiple elbow surgeries and years away from pitching. Head, Poppen and Sheriff have all pitched much better than Honeywell has in Durham. At this point no one should be counting on Honeywell for any important innings with the Rays.
Tyler Wells and Taylor Walls in the same post.
Bump Wills’ middle name is Taylor; there should be news about him today.
Vernon Wells too
Bob Wills is still the king
Conner Greene! The actor? Then who’s playing third, Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the DH!
About 5/6 years ago I had hopes that Greene and Sean Reid-Foley were going to become rotation pieces for the Jays when they were coming up together in the system. Obviously it never worked out, but good for Greene getting a shot in the Majors. A little surprising that he is though based on his numbers. Like Reid-Foley, he’s never really been able to rein those walks in.