Smoak Sent Down

[NWinAZ]

42s[/ame] Smoak optioned to Tacoma [URL="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Mariners?src=hash"]#Mariners

 

[Logicallylethal]

Traded or a demotion?

 

[cezero]

is this to bring up montero, or to bring up a pitcher for wed, i wonder?

 

[NWinAZ]

Demoted. They have to bring up Ramirez for tomorrow so someone had to go, but interesting it is Smoak. Not disagreeing with the move, but old days he gets 1000 chances to prove his worth...lessness.

 

[Mondo Jay]

He is not good. At all.

 

[cezero]

oops, didn't realize they hadn't already made a move to call up erasmo

wondering if any other moves might come tomorrow.

 

[NWinAZ]

Price.....lol

 

[Podunkparte]

He is not good. At all.

Thanks

 

[cezero]

Price.....lol

haha

 

[blstoker]

42s Smoak optioned to Tacoma #Mariners

???? Just wondering about the timing, 4-10 in last 3 games, but I guess he was the one to send.

 

[Podunkparte]

???? Just wondering about the timing, 4-10 in last 3 games, but I guess he was the one to send.

Two of those hits combined went about 150 feet down the 3B line. He wasn't exactly crushing anything.

 

[blstoker]

Two of those hits combined went about 150 feet down the 3B line. He wasn't exactly crushing anything.

Actually, I posted that while watching the replay and so didn't know he went 0-3 today anyway.

 

[NWinAZ]

???? Just wondering about the timing, 4-10 in last 3 games, but I guess he was the one to send.

From Lloyd:

Smoak went 0-for-3 on Monday night and is batting .208 on the season. He hit .200 (4-for-20) since being recalled from Tacoma on July 11.


"Listen, it's tough. We got three first basemen," manager Lloyd McClendon said, noting Logan Morrison and Corey Hart play there as well as utility man Willie Bloomquist. "Right now, it's just the way it is, it's tough. The numbers just don't add up. I told him just go down, play well, and hopefully he'll be back here."

 

[Msfann]

The problem is these guys rake in AAA then suck in the majors, they have been doing it over and over.

Smoak could hit .600 for the rest of the year in AAA then come to the majors and get 5 hits in 2 weeks.

 

[mcnabb7542]

From Lloyd:

Smoak went 0-for-3 on Monday night and is batting .208 on the season. He hit .200 (4-for-20) since being recalled from Tacoma on July 11.


"Listen, it's tough. We got three first basemen," manager Lloyd McClendon said, noting Logan Morrison and Corey Hart play there as well as utility man Willie Bloomquist. "Right now, it's just the way it is, it's tough. The numbers just don't add up. I told him just go down, play well, and hopefully he'll be back here."

So instead of just releasing Hart and his outstanding bat, they send Smoak down? Makes total sense

 

[cezero]

So instead of just releasing Hart and his outstanding bat, they send Smoak down? Makes total sense

releasing anybody to keep smoak from going to AAA doesn't make any sense