The most important options Chandler Simpson in Triple-A Durham this afternoon. Which opens up a place on the active list for Jake Mangumwhich has been reinstated from the 10 -day injured list. Mangum is back after an absence of five weeks due to a strain of the left groin.
Simpson returns after a six -week race on the list of large leagues. The Rays selected his contract in mid-April. The screaming Voltiger appeared in 35 games, reaching .285 / .315 / .317 through its first plates appearances. There was no electricity production and a low walking rate, but it maintained its withdrawal rate of less than 11% to display a high average in the stick.
As expected, there was a threat to the basics. Simpson stole 19 bags in 22 attempts, already launching him third in MLB (behind Luis Robert Jr. And Bobby Witt Jr.). These players were in the big leagues all season, of course. No other player has stolen more than 15 bases since the Simpson call on April 18.
It is the same profile that the Georgia Tech product showed throughout his career in the minor league. Simpson is an elite contact striker and among the fastest players in the sport. He is a Baserunner of another world which successively slipped 94 and 104 bases during his first two seasons of complete minor leagues. His 198 combined interceptions led all the players of the minor league of 68 on this section.
The question is how many Simpson value can get out of this approach when it has no power. He hit a professional home run, a parker inside the double-A last season. He collected only four additional strokes during his first MLB look, which were all double. It is the last among MLB strikers (100 minimum appearances of plates) in hard contact rate. Many could be summed up how defensively it develops. Screening reports were not in love with her readings and routes. His speed certainly gives him the potential to be a excavated defender, but he did not note his first 28 MLB heats well between the center and the left field.
Tampa Bay used Kameron Misner In the center with Simpson on the left in the past two weeks. Mangum, who struck .338 / .384 / .397 in 21 games before his injury, is part of taking over as a left field player. Jonny Deluca Also was to appear in a good place this year, but it has been released since the end of March with a tension on the right shoulder. Deluca revealed this week that he had undergone a backhand when he continued to feel pain in his rotator manifier, mainly on the throws (link via Marc Topkin of Tampa Bay Times). There is no surgery suggestion but it was removed from the rehabilitation mission that he started this weekend.
