Ummmm, you would DFA one of those guys who all have decent salary obligations just to bring up Duran for two weeks before sending him back down? No thanks.

And call up German Duran or Ryan Roberts to take over as UT INF.

What they should do, IMO, is call up Duran, play him there, and DFA Melhuse and call up Salty.

Because not only do you have to replace Hank at third, but you also gotta replace his bat – and there’s nobody except Salty who can come even close to providing the sock Hank does. You think we suck offensively now, wait until Vazquez or Duran is playing 3rd every day – if you lose Hank’s bat, I think you gotta call up Salty to replace at least some of that sock.

Disclaimer: yes, I like Salty. But that has nothing to do with the fact that I’m scared of how bad-off our offense would be if we don’t replace Hank.

He can probably play, but he won’t be at 100% right now… not an ideal situation for a guy to make his major league debut. I say stick with Vasquez and call up Roberts.

...is on the 40…

Edgardo Alfonzo on the farm? If so, he’d be a good callup as we could just DFA him back off the roster when Blalock was back.

Get something out of that wasted pick. Don’t disrupt that chemistry in Oklahoma or taint anyone meaningful with the disease that the Rangers have right now.

He can play the field. Probably not 3rd base but he can play 2nd and possibly short if needed. But really the move should be about ease. To get Duran or Roberts up here would take making a roster move. A move that is unnecessary given it will only be a 15 day stint. With Duran you would be burning up an entire option just for two weeks. If he had started off hot in AAA I could see the argument but he hasn’t and is coming off an injury himself so I don’t think that is ideal. Reality is whoever comes up may play in 2 games during the time so we don’t exactly need a world beater out there. Arias’ status on the 40 man makes him the easiest choice IMO

to see what Atlanta would give up for a reliever right now. Despite Benoit’s showing last night, I still like our bullpen for the year, and the Braves are all about winning this year and have gotten off to a solid start. I wonder if they would send over someone like Gorkys Hernandez (who they acquired from Detroit this offseason) for one of our extra bullpen arms (maybe Frankie?). That clears a spot on the 40 and gives us a very toolsy outfielder to send to Bakersfield to play along side Borbon.

I don’t understand what question you’re answering there but what exactly is the point of building all this depth if we aren’t ever going to do anything with it?