2023 Promotions

I wonder what happens with Lugo and Koss. Need to create playing time somewhere

I don't see much playing time left for Alex Binelas, maybe he even gets demoted

Thoughts on a Yorke promotion in June?

Scott has 329 PA at AA now with a solid .245/.371/.402 line.  He's rule 5 eligible in the offseason, I'd like to see him get a lot of run in AAA to try and earn a spot as next year's third catcher.

So Edwin Diaz to Worcester and Matt Donlan to the dev list are the countermoves. Also, Ryan Zeferjahn is activated by Portland and Skyler Arias to the dev list.

I believe this, but interesting how the conversation differs so much between he and Mayer. Yorke's arguably having a more impressive offensive season (though maybe the batted ball metrics say otherwise) and the jump from AA to AAA (at least in my recollection) is smaller than the one from A+ to AA. Yet people are clamoring to move Mayer up and there's no talk about Yorke.

Though I know Mayer had some A+ run last year too and this is Yorke's first time at the AA level. ADD: And to be clear I'm not advocating for moving either of them up or arguing even that they should be promoted at the same time.

I think one of the main reasons that people are having the conversations about Mayer and not about Yorke is moreso the level, not the player. As Chris and Ian have noted multiple times on the podcasts and on the forums, A/A+ are a little weaker with the removal of short-season ball. Therefore, suggesting that Mayer get promoted to AA from A+ is an implication that he's ready for "the leap" in terms of challenge level, whereas Yorke is probably going to be best challenged by continuing to grow in one role for a season and allowing much more advanced pitchers to become acclimated to him and adjust in order to best try to get him out, forcing Yorke to make adjustments of his own and therefore develop. I also think there's a relatively small gap between AA and being a major league player that there's just less of a need to promote Yorke to AAA to fully realize him as a potential MLB contributor. If Yorke rakes all year in Portland, comes out and hits super well for the first two months in Worcester, and forces his way up to the bigs (a certainly optimistic timeline, but within the realm of possibilities), it's not going to be all that different from if he got a mid-season promotion to Worcester, pretty much regardless of how he hits there, because I don't think there's any situation in which he's genuinely competing for a big league spot out of camp next year. Where as, again, Mayer getting that push up to AA and him possibly proving himself there could fundamentally alter his debut timeline.

I certainly don't think anyone is trying to discredit what Yorke is done (nor do I think that's the accusation you're making here), just different contexts IMO.

Ronald Rosario has had a very strange 43 game career

Mejicano hasn't caught a game this month so maybe he is dinged up and not an option, which would leave Rosario as the only reasonablish choice.

I mean, if you find that exciting, that is certainly your right. I think it is pretty clearly less exciting than the other two options. I'm not going to put him in a box so early in his career, but what you describe (and I'm going to take your word for it on the contact side because striking out 28% in the FCL isn't exactly lighting it up - he was obviously super young but he's going to be super young for Salem so I'd be pretty shocked if it were any better) sounds pretty similar to guys in the Elih Marrero/Jonathan Diaz mold, who are fine guys to have around, but aren't necessarily "prospects", though calling them roster filler is likely too harsh.

Add: maybe you were moreso disagreeing with the placeholder thing (which we can agree to disagree, it's fine), but at the end of the day I don't think it's a particularly hot take to be more excited by the potential promotion over ranked guys than a guy who is unranked, as simplistic as that may be.