Could Seattle Mariners Send Colt Emerson Back to Triple-A?
The 21-year-old rookie has made winning plays of late, but the roster situation is about to get complicated.
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This team is better defensively with Cole Emerson here, but if his development is going to be stunted by his offensive struggles, and the team feels the need to sit him at times more regularly in order to cover for those offensive struggles, and the roster issues become kind of tough to navigate because of his presence, I, I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that he just stays here for the entire year.
He certainly could, but in a lot of ways it's cleaner if he's not here, at least from a, from a roster standpoint.
And if he's struggling, maybe it makes everything a little bit easier to send him down.
Again, the Mariners are going to make a move, I believe, for an offensive piece.
It might not be the impact offensive piece that you want.
We've talked about Taylor Ward and Elliot Ramos.
Like, I think those guys are absolutely on the table.
But there's only so many roster spots, and if everybody is healthy here, I mean, run through it again.
Cal Raleigh, Josh Naylor, Cole Young, Colt Emerson, JP Crawford, Randy Arozarena, Julio Rodriguez, Dom Canzone, Luke Raley's nine, and then Brendan Donovan would be 10, Mitch Garver 11, Victor Robles 12.
There is only room for one other guy there, and is that one other guy Weston Wilson, Rob Refsnyder, a Taylor Ward, an Elliot Ramos?
