H&J 154 - Rising Royals

We'll start in Chicago where the Cubs have sent designated hitter Moises Ballesteros to AAA after really a lackluster month or so of production.

Scott, are there any Cubs right now that are worthy of a roster spot, or are we just going to wait until they turn things around as a team?

I mean, there's a couple worth rostering, of course.

You know, Pete Crow Armstrong is setting the world on fire, but I think the guy who's sort of...

I mean, no real playing time changes with the loss of Moises Balesteros because he was playing really poorly.

I mean, no one was really rostering him.

He was playing really poorly.

He had like a little flash early in the season, and then it all kind of just faded away.

A couple guys have been up and down.

I think...

Two guys right now not named Pete Crow Armstrong that might be on your wire at some point might be somewhat interesting.

So Carson Kelly's this really streaky catcher who literally plays every other day.

This is always the way it's been.

Doesn't matter how hot he gets.

He and Miguel Amaya play like every other day.

It's just how it goes.

So if you need a streaming catcher and you don't mind the fact he will sit half like every other day and it's not a platoon thing.

It's literally like every other day.

Um, he'll almost never play two game, two games in a row.

Uh, he's someone you could stream a catcher.

And then of course there's Dansby Swanson who had about a million RBI in this last series.

Uh, he had been, you know, he had a really good April.

Then was absolutely dreadful for all of may absolutely dreadful for the last several weeks really.

And then just in his last six games has four home runs and God knows how many RBI, uh, 18, 18 RBI in his last six games.

So it's absolutely wild.