Firstly, Rowdy is not ready. As Brad Barker astutely noted on Tuesday’s Jeff Blair show, Rowdy Tellez has a tendency for opposite field power, which is obviously not a bad thing, but if you’re not able to hit pull side homers, especially as a projected lefty power bat, you’re not ready for the show. Barker followed that up though by saying essentially that the issue was nothing that couldn’t be corrected on the farm after a campaign, or less.
It is becoming almost a fait accompli that Justin Smoak is nothing more than a place filler at first for Tellez, in the fans’ eyes.