It should surprise absolutely no one reading this blog that Cam Smith made the Astros opening day roster. It’s been a near-daily topic over the last couple weeks without much debate as he’s clearly too good for minor league baseball right now. So the Astros are calling him up now and starting him in Right Field on Opening Day.
It’s well deserved after going 13-38 with 4 HR and a league average BB rate in his first taste of spring training. It’s also a huge need for the Astros after trading Kyle Tucker to the Cubs and replacing him with no one in free agency. Did they anticipate Cam Smith being good enough to fill that void already? I would hope/guess/wish that’s an emphatic No Fucking Shot but who knows in today’s game. Maybe the computers knew something all along. Maybe Cam Smith’s a first ballot hall of famer. And maybe Kyle Tucker is at the beginning of an sharp abyss?
I don’t know for sure.
What I can say – with certainty – is that bringing the family into the clubhouse like this for the announcement is one of the lamest things I’ve ever witnessed in my life.
Without exaggeration, there’s no crying in baseball. That’s just not accepted at all, anywhere. And you got your top prospect balling his eyes out with mommy in front of the pros?
This ain’t senior day on high school.
You’re in a Major League Clubhouse with your 20-something bleach blonde girlfriend crying about a good spring training. I mean think about that for a second. Really think about Jim Leyland and Bobby Cox and Pete Rose and some of the classic pioneers in this game. And then imagine them throwing a party for a rookie outfielder in front of a clubhouse that very recently won a World Series.
If you made that shit up for fiction, I would say it’s too unbelievable. It’s too unrealistic. It would never happen in a million years. Certainly never in a major league clubhouse over a ROSTER SPOT?
The players union would
probablylike a word.
Personally I think you have to leave the girlfriend at home. All of them… lest she be sized up like a pork shoulder at the county fair.
And of course the grins.
You probably think they’re smiling because they’re happy?
That’s rich.
I see it more like a “I can’t believe we’re witnessing this right now” and I don’t blame them one second.
Somebody just lost a roster spot so crybaby can join an outfield with 2 world series champions? That’s the laugh out loud part and I want to thank the Astros for this moment. Now that I know he cries about good news then I don’t want him anywhere near the Cubs. Good riddance. Go post your 70 career WAR somewhere else buddy because WE DONT NEED IT
