they were also curious as to whether Soria could be banged up. He definitely was unavailable again last night, and Hillman said he was “getting better” and Soria would not comment. Hopefully it’s nothing but if it is, we are just screwed…...even more.

Tomko is a disaster whenever he comes into games with a lead. He is a disaster in tied games. He deserved his walking papers. As for Rosa? All I’ve heard is good. Is it too early to call him up? Only time will tell. Can’t judge this move until he pitches.

Bukaty is reporting from Kaufman this hour, I’m sure he will talk about the move and Lavebvre, amongst other things.

That is too early

and I don’t like it at all.

I like bringing young players up earlier, just to give them a taste. I think just getting a few big league innings and going back to the minors is good for development so Rosa himself will kinda know where he stands.

I think Tomko is the right guy to drop, if we keep him, still have veteran depth, but luckily, with his contract (only a half a season now), someone takes the money off our hands.

Gload would be hard to dump like that, no one else will take his contract, we would just be stuck with an expensive AAA player

I probably wouldn’t have given up on Tomko so quickly, but he has been surprisingly awful. As far as Rosa goes, I probably wouldn’t have called him up so soon, but we don’t really know if it is rushing him. He is 23. It’s not like that age is too young, per se. And he’s shown good stuff and control at both AA and AAA. We’ll see how he handles it.

We get rid of Mrs. Tomko:

Playboy model Julia Schultz

but I probably would have called up Duckworth or Musser. I know we don’t need another lefter but Musser could be a 2 inning stopgap type of guy. All that considered this team isn’t going anywhere and giving Rosa a extended look in the bullpen will be alot funner to watch than Tomko’s gopher balls flying out of the K. If Banny struggles tonight I hope they dont let Rosa get his feet wet against Texas’s offense. That could be a rude awakening.

Tomko was a joke and in my opinion, there was nothing down in AAA except Rosa.
Lets keep the youth movement going.

would it really hurt to put Rosa in AAA for a good 3 months? No? Any good he’ll do in MLB bullpen, not really. Tomko has hardly been our worst pitcher, we can do a lot worse than him. Now if somebody takes his full salary that’s one thing, but if he have to pay him in AAA it doesn’t make one lick of sense, I somehow doubt Rosa would be much of an upgrade over the real Tomko(not his current ERA) and if he is, do you keep him in the bullpen? The Joba/Soria argument all over again. This is pointless, would rather see Gload DFAed and Butler up

It’s hard to call him rushed, but it makes me nervous.

Tomko, sadly, just doesn’t look as if he still has major league stuff/command. Happy trails, Brett.

That was the most worthless pick up that GMDM made this season. He should have been gone when they moved him out of the rotation. I am anxious to see what Rosa can do. He is has looked good at every stop since ST so give him a shot. He is 24 and probably starting in the bullpen is a good thing right now. I would like to see Musser brought up too. Why isn’t Gload on the DL for a hangnail or something. Give Maier a shot it worked Aviles. The way this team is playing now why not give some of the young guys a shot.

Tomko is done. While the readiness of Rosa could be debated, we really have little to lose here. If he does poorly, we send him back down to regain some confidence. If he does well, we have a nice bonus. We all know what Duckworth brings – no need to try him out.

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