If Dickerson Goes on the DL, Who Should the Reds Bring Up?

I voted for McDonald. Kind of like a vote for boobs?

as much as it makes me cringe, i think Old McDonald is the guy they should call up. in all seriousness, he’s made the best of his situation at louisville and has really put together some nice numbers in a pretty short time. his .894 OPS is nothing to be ashamed of, and he’s hitting .354 with RISP.

I know he has just as good of a chance at being called up as anybody, but can anyone honestly say they’d be excited to see McDonald again?

no, i’m not excited to see McDonald. but to weigh it against having Stubbs and Hi-Z thrust into a situation they clearly aren’t ready for, i’d err on the side of caution and go with the guy who has at least some experience at the big league level. i voted for Old McDonald.

and I aint talking no genitalia.

and im a little surprised with myself. i think it comes down to the fact that he’s hitting like a maniac so far this season and perhaps he can just keep on rollin’. Stubbs is more or less a known commodity now. he’ll play great D and OBP around .350. that’s valuable, but not exciting. Heisey could light the team on fire. at least that’s my dream. it’s all i have left.

Stubbs isn’t hitting for power, or an average I would like to see in AAA before coming to the MLB level. I know he is our best defensive outfielder not named Bruce he projects to be better in CF than Jay) and that has a high value, but until he brings up the power or average some, I think you have to leave him at AAA.

Problem is, I think we will get McFlurry.

but Im too lazy to build a FanPost, and honestly, I don’t have 300 words to write about it, but if Selig re-instates Rose, do you think Castellini hires him for an Eric Davis type role, or maybe even to replace Jacoby? I know it would be risky, but this team could sure use his fire right about now. Maybe the game has changed to where he wouldn’t be effective.

But I’m sure that Dickerson will not play for a week before they do something with him, while the outfield of Nix, Tavaras, and Hairston just sets the world on fire……

but it really doesn’t matter. Dusty will play either Stubbs or Heisey about as frequently as he plays Janish. If McDonald gets the call, he’ll play every day.

but I don’t see how Stubbs isn’t a slightly worse hitting, slightly better fielding, and faster (parallelism error!) version of C Dick. As much as I want more havoc, gotta be Heisey right? Arguments against him are basically that he’s come out of nowhere and needs more seasoning, but fuck that. This is a dead season, let’s see what we got in the kid.

Of course, I’m stoked to see McFlurry inevitably starting tomorrow.

If you quit playing Hairston at SS…I’d just call up Sutton, and let him and Janish split SS for awhile…I expect D-Mac to get the call, and although I’m not excited to see him at all, the way the seasons going, I think it may be better to leave the ‘spects on the farm so they don’t end up on the DL. I’d love to see Stubbs come up and show why it’d be just fine to release Willy T this winter, but I doubt it’ll happen. I personally wouldn’t mind seeing Wes Bankston gettin the call…I’m really not sure what the point of having guys like him, Barker, and Lehr at AAA. They’re not prospects, and they’re aging quickly. Why not call them up in times like these? Just a thought…

It doesn’t look like the Reds will acquire Scott Rolen, now that they’re nine games below .500 and in fifth place. A few weeks ago the Reds wanted to trade for Rolen, but asked the Jays to pay half of his $11MM salary next year.

This situation is a good chance to see how Stubbs would fare against MLB pitching. Bring him up and give him the RF job and just let him play. My guess is that he’ll play himself into oblivion a la Paul Jannish. I see Stubbs as a slightly less productive Chris Dickerson and therefore a #4 at best on a contending team. But I’d like to see him get a shot.

Now Dusty could start playing an OF of :
Gomes LF
Wily CF
Nix LF
with Cherry as the back up and if thats the case I’d bring up Darnel and let him sit on the bench as opposed to Stubbs. Hi-Z doesn’t need to be seen until Sept.

Plus it looks like we’ll need another pitcher too,

I’m in favor up blowing this thing up now, trading prospects and MLBers for FA’s or other availabe players now. Why not start the rebuilding prodcess in august instead of April 2010. I know that there are contractual and money issues to be solved but Christ on a ping pong table isn ’t that why Bob brought in big Walt – to make some great deals?

But I think Heisey’s the guy. Bigger bat, and is better suited to take a corner outfield spot. Even though he’s cooled off some, he’s still tearing the cover off the ball. Stubbs would be great too, but I think Heisey’s better right now.

Bring up Heisey. Atleast he has some pop in his bat and doesn’t K that much. This is a no-brainer which proves some on here don’t have a brain.

just something.

which logically means it will be Old McDonald. Because we already have a leadoff hitter! Duh.

and Robert Manuel

So as I surmised Dusty is going with T-Virus, Nix and Gomes
And that’s not terrible offensively.

Do we really need to bring up a outfielder? I know what your saying, where is Barker going to play? My answer is….Pinch-Hitter. We don’t need a starter and if Barker doesn’t play much it’s not like we’re stunting his growth, if he comes up he’ll be the third oldest batter @ 32 years old. Plus we could always throw Votto out in right field for a game if Dusty wants to start Barker @ first. He does have the best OPS on the Bats which is the best stat in baseball.
….and if that’s not enough…..It’s the man’s birthday today!
really yesterday but that doesn’t sound as convincing.)

I voted for Old McDonald