Jake to make his MLB on field debut today.
- Thread starter patdog
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Made the first put out of the game catching a lazy liner to right.
First AB:
Two fouls
Two balls
One foul
Deep fly out to left.
Gardner Minshew in attendance.
Man, I thought he got that one out. Good at bat though. He doesn’t look out of place. I’m watching the Tampa Bay feed and they were complimentary of him and talked about his time at Mississippi State and how long he was in the minors.
At minimum, he gets bumped up to $760,000 annual salary for the time he is up, on a per game basis. Works out to about $4,700 per game that he is on the active roster. He’d only need to be active for about 10-12 games to make his entire AAA salary for a year, just for reference.
There may be some additional considerations in his contract, like perhaps he still gets MLB salary for X number of days (or Rays games) after getting sent back to AAA, maybe injury considerations / guarantees based on whatever the CBA says, but I’m unsure what those are.
Pretty much guaranteed 10 days since that’s how long Lowe is on DL. I expect worst case he’ll get 2-3 10-days stints in majors this year. And hopefully, he’ll make it impossible for them to send him down & he’ll stay up for several years.
2nd play in the field…played ball off the wall, made a nice throw to 2nd, but not in time to get the runner.
Thanks. Can't find a way to watch it so keeping up with stats on my phone
4th AB: 4-pitch BB…1st time on base in the show!
His walk up song is still “Your Love” by The Outfield.
I was one of those posters. I’m happy to be wrong. Should have known better than to doubt him.
