He doesn’t make it easy not to. His OPS never seems to breach .750, he strikes out a ton, and he doesn’t show much power. He’s got a nice glove, but man, he needs to hit the ball, and he doesn’t.

Still, my sad face of the day would go to Pete Hissey, who I think might need a DL stint. He seems to be absolutely worn out by the long season at this point, and is in a slide of epic proportions.

As for Caleb Clay, I’m not too encouraged. The guy just doesn’t strike people out, and he hasn’t yet proven to be a particularly great control pitcher yet, either. The ground balls help, but with a 95 MPH fastball you need to miss a few bats.

On the other hand, he’s barely pitched at all. He missed all of 2008 for all intents and purposes, and only started pitching when somebody realized “Hey, this guy can throw REALLY fast.” He’s trying to build up a starter’s repertoire of pitches all together, so maybe even though he’s 21 it’s not fair to expect much more than rookie numbers out of him. You just hope to see it start to come together at such a low level fairly soon.

Likely moves in the near future involve Bates being pushed up to AAA by Reddick’s return.The odd-man out would probably be Jered Stanley leaving Mailman with a lot of DH ABs and a little corner-outfielder. They’ll probably pull off the massive catching shift at the same time, with Wagner, Exposito, and Federowicz all moving up at once.