Now Cortes is the one I want to see from the farm system, he has the stuff to be a stud #1.

Calvin Pickering......he was supposed to be a power hitting 1B for the Orioles before the Royals. What ever happened to him?

There is a fine line between a guy who hit 30 homers in Triple A and a guy who hits .200 in the major leagues.

Kila hit another bomb today...that's 6 is just a couple of weeks. He went 1 for 3 in the first game, 0 for 1 in games 2 with two walks. I guess teams have already decided to pitch around him. He's going to force Dayton to call him up with his performance.

I sure hope so

If Kila could deliver in September, might be smarter than spending 12 million on a first baseman in the offseason.

what happened to calvin pickering? Well, this season he was playing for the T-Bones and they but him because he sucked for them as well... No joke

This guy could be KC's Albert Pujols.....

god i hope so.... but i'm still very, very skeptical.

we need a power bat on first base in the worst way for next season, though

Annnd, another one. #7. 2-3 with a walk, HR and 2 RBI's. The guy's OPS after 13 games is 1.3. For the season, he has 33 HRs, 90 BBs and 52 Ks. Goodness.

Who cares? We can't afford to have Gload or Teahen on the bench.

Give Hillman 25 Gload's and he can win some games.

Since it's only a couple weeks away, I'd give him a couple more weeks in Omaha and just make him another September call up. He's definitely earning it. Although without seeing the guy play, I'm afraid he'll get up here and get a weakness in his game exposed that he's not ready for yet. That stuff was probably a little more obvious with a guy like Calvin Pickering, though.

Bring my boy up!

Sick.

I'm not saying this is what's gonna happen, but sometimes people get way too excited over AAA stuff and want to rush guys to the majors when it's not the best move for anyone, team or player. I mean, hopefully he turns into another Aviles... but we let Aviles beat up on minor league pitching for a while. So there's no reason to rush him up a level while he's doing fine and we're not in a pennant race. Even to "see what we have." Although I think a Sept. callup is fine.

It's easy to forget stuff like this now... but there was a time where a 24 year old hitter with some pop named.... Ross Gload.... got moved up to AAA for the Cubs, and in his first month hit .404, 14 homers and posted a near 1.400 OPS before getting his first callup. Incredible numbers.