SB Nation User Blog: Patriot

Dexter Fowler

Patriot — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:11:07 -0000

Are the Rockies going to call him up and add him to the 40 man prior to the Olympics, or just let him go off to Beijing? It seems like if they really do want to compete this year and try to crawl into the playoffs they should let him spark the team since Taveras doesn't look so hot. Not sure how you guys feel about him (I'm not a Rockies fan.). Also, if you guys are really rebuilding and saying F-it, then it also makes sense to whet his big league appetite. I don't really see any reason for him to be in AA still since he hit, what, 370 in June and is hitting .391 in July with an obscenely good BB/SO ratio? Hope he gets the call up to the bigs- look forward to watching this guy play.

Carlos Rosa?

Patriot — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:37:17 -0000

Carlos Rosa?

Where has he gone? He hasn't pitched since July 13th. Is he hurt, or participating in the olympics or something?

Scott Elbert

Patriot — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:24:54 -0000

Hey, I was wondering what the deal with Elbert is?

He has been having some pretty good success in AA- a few more walks than you'd like to see, but I mean he has been coming back from shoulder surgery and that has always been his achilles heel anyway. My question pertained to the fact that he's been basically relieving, which I understand to build up stamina and whatnot, but he did start once and went three innings and now he's back to coming out of the pen his past few appearances. Is this going to be permanent or is this just because the Jacksonville rotation is full or what? I haven't been able to find anything on my own so I'm seeing what you guys know to try to shed some light.. Hope he can get everything on the right path again since he has, or had, so much talent but everything I've read seems pretty positive on him this year, so it looks like he may have regained it again. Just wondering why he's not starting.

Thanks