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What a joke that Katin hasn't gotten a shot. After this year, when his contract is up, he can sign with a team that'll actually may good use of him and bring him to hit bombs off the bench. Until then I guess we'll just have to settle for watching him lead the pacific league in ops again.

Katin. The guy can straight up obliterate the ball. He plays in one spring training game and what do you know? Goes deep as usual. Plays again today and gets another hit. Has a strong arm too. At the least he's a nice big bat off the bench and trade bait even if he doesn't pan out with this team. Wait past this year and he could be completely wasted. He's earned a shot.

While the debate around the merits of MLE continue on this thread, let me just remind everyone that Katin continues to rake. HR and 4 RBI today takes him to 25 and 74 for the year.

3 more today for Katin. No call up, might as well trade the guy and get something for him. Moreover, would give him a shot to rake in the majors as he's earned it.

He deserves a shot, that's all I'm saying. http://web.minorleaguebas...recap&fext=.jsp&sid=t556

re: katin - you can't say I haven't been saying it for a while. This kid deserves a shot. I really don't know what else he can do to prove that.

Hammers the ball, having a great year, and has a cannon for an arm. An absolute joke if he isn't given a shot at the major league level just at least to evaluate him for long term plan. Righteously has been criticized for poor plate discipline with high K/BB ratio, but even has that way down this year. Would be a different story if the team was contending and stacked in the outfield and if he was 23. The team is out, the team's outfield could use another big bat, at least off the bench, and a good arm, and he's 27 so why not find out what he can do while he could still do it? At the very least a good showing as a call up would allow for a trade possibility if he remains outside the long term plan. Not much downside here to a call up; good risk/reward if you ask me.

http://www.baseball-refer...layers/r/reynoma01.shtml By the way, Katin is 2/4 with 2 RBI's and a walk tonight. Call the kid up, big bat off the bench, good arm, low risk move.

...and he continues to rake and even draw walks at a decent rate.

Another long ball for Katin tonight. In the top 5 in the Pacific league for OPS and slugging, just saying.

Katin seems to have recovered well from his recent knee troubles. Dude is raking again. Interesting to see if he finally gets a shot as a big bat off the bench.

Another HR for Katin last night. Following this Brewers-Cubs game, man, how badly do this RF squad have to play to warrant a shot?? Gerut 0/3 today with a .143 avg. so far.

Brendan Katin is officially on fire. Yes, it's only 4 games. However, the biggest knock against him, his patience, is looking much improved with 4 BB's already. Obviously his power continues to be ridiculous with a league-leading 3 HR's already, a league-lead in slugging, and 2nd place in OPS. Oh, and he had an outfield assist yesterday too just for kicks. If he can keep his BB's up this guy should finally get his shot with the big boys. Edmonds/Hart/Gerut in RF are arguably the weakest position on the team, Katin could add a threat out there.

Another HR and BB last night. Seems to be getting regular BB's over the last month or so. Wouldn't be surprised to see him moved up for a big bat off the bench or traded for decent value soon.

Agreed - No doubt that he has to continue walking more as he's done lately. That being said, a hanging curve is a hanging curve whether in the triple-A all star game or in the majors. No reason to believe he won't hit it out in the majors the same way he did last night.