Saturday Morning Rockpile: Stewart back to the show?

by Rox Girl on May 24, 2008 6:26 AM MDT in Rockpile

Last night's win was encouraging in so many ways with regards to the offense, particularly seeing Garrett Atkins hit his early homer with RISP and Matt Holliday come through twice when we needed him, but losing Clint Barmes -who lately had been one of the few bright spots to the season- could really hurt.

I've received an anonymous tip this morning, and thereby I have no idea how trustworthy the source is, that Ian Stewart will be called up to replace Barmes on the roster by today's game. Since Purple Row is a blog and anonymous tips are what blogs do, I'm going with it, but please take the info with the skepticism that our more lax journalistic standards deserve. How this would work, I presume, is with Q at short, Baker at second, Herrera backing up both, and Stewart becoming Atkins and Helton's sub. It's going to be nice to get his bat another look, but at the expense of one of the better bats we had going for us right now doesn't help much.

Russ and I independently answered five questions about the Rockies for Take the 7 Train's Jessica Bader, and I sent her four questions of my own about the Mets that I'll post before today's game. I also answered some questions for D.J. Short of MetsBlog, but that hasn't been posted yet and I'll get you a link when it does.

Poll

Is this a good time to call up Ian Stewart?

yes

30 votes

no, he needs to be in an everyday lineup

19 votes

no, we should call up Jayson Nix again instead

7 votes

56 votes | Poll has closed

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Sigh...

My fantasy team suffers too, Barmes was my Furcal replacement and now I have to get a sub for the sub just like the Rockies. I think my choices are a bit more broad than O’Dowd’s though, so I don’t envy him.

I was really thinking that my fantasy jinx of having Rockies on my team was going away, too, but apparently not. At least the Rox Girl jinx apparently extends to Dodgers. Furcal’s down and can’t get back up, and Jeff Kent has been brutal this year. I don’t know why it’s not working on Chad Billingsley yet, I’ll try and up my bad mojo on him.

by Rox Girl on May 24, 2008 7:10 AM MDT reply actions

My Rox =

Atkins, Holliday, Corpas, Tulo

5 man league with a draft, you get pretty stacked teams.

by roxintober on May 24, 2008 7:59 AM MDT up reply actions

Further sign of the oddness of this season

We never thought we’d see the day we were bewailing the loss of Clint Barmes. In any case, please get back fast, Barmes.

We're all going to die!

by Silverblood on May 24, 2008 8:48 AM MDT reply actions

Yeah last night I had some very unexpected emotions.

who would have thought Clint would be one of our best players.

The poster formerly known as Blake20th.

by NewMexicanSteven on May 24, 2008 8:57 AM MDT up reply actions

I DID! I CALLED IT!

Note: please don’t look back in my past posts for any confirmation of my claim.

Barmes has been a nice surprise. Great baseball story. Too bad he couldn’t put together more then a month before getting hurt. Hope when he comes back he’ll be better then the “deer meat” injury.

On last nights game: I couldn’t watch it. This team, this year, has been down right painful to watch. I had to take a break from it. So I was spared Barmes injury. Nice to read Holliday had a nice game, that increases his trade value.

I’m all for Stewart coming up….not sure where he’ll play, but like we discussed earlier in the week, he could get regular AB’s by being a regular PT player BABY! (unlike Dickie V, that’s Part Time player, not Prime Time player)

Colorado Rockies: Playing meaningless games in June yet again. What do you think about the execution of your team? In the immortal words of John Mckay, "I'm all for it."

by Redhawk on May 24, 2008 9:07 AM MDT up reply actions

I'm a big fan of Herrara

hopefully gets a lot of playing time in the next couple of weeks. I wonder if its possible that Tulo will be back before Barmes.

by moomacher on May 24, 2008 9:49 AM MDT reply actions

Rox Call Up Seth Smith

From the Denver Post:

Following injuries to infielder Clint Barmes, and outfielders Willy Taveras and Brad Hawpe, the Rockies have called up Triple-A prospect Seth Smith and are prepared to activate Ian Stewart for today’s game against the Mets at Coors Field.

Barmes will go on the disabled list with a sprained right knee, but it’s unclear whom Smith will replace between Taveras, who hurt his knee last night, and Hawpe, who has been bothered for three days by a cramp in his right hamstring.

Stewart and Smith both provided a boost for the Rockies last September and have been the top hitters for the Rockies’ Triple-A affiliate, the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, this season.

Smith is in the starting lineup today.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~ Earl Wilson

by rockhead on May 24, 2008 11:55 AM MDT reply actions